We have not talked about health care for a while on this site. But this I cannot ignore. We have said it for a long time and this time I am being echoed by Governor (Dr.) Howard Dean months later : No public option; Kill the Bill!

In a segment with the ever so boring Dylan Ratigan, Governor Howard Dean basically threatened to stop sending in money to the respective Democratic committees in Congress if they do not have a bill in it that has a public option.

Looking back, we know that not nominating him is the biggest mistake that the Democrats ever made. They overlooked a governor that is a proven success and a person that is well informed in 2004, and they picked a long-jaw douche-bag named Senator John Kerry. So not only are the politicians pathetic, their far left voting base in the primaries are pathetic too.

Coming back to health care, I stress that this is the most important part of health care reform : the public option. The biggest problem with the health care cost in our country is cost. That should be the primary objective. And yet, our politicians came up with just one solution to curb costs : public option. (For Republican readers, I would explain in paragraphs below why their idea of buying across state lines would not work.)

Without the public option, there would be a mandate for the public to have health insurance to drive up demand and there is no other counter measure to keep the cost down. Therefore, we are literally throwing our money to the insurance companies with the Bill.

With the public option, there would be pressure to keep the price of the insurance down. If the insurance companies charge us too much, people would switch their plans to the public option which is non profit. It is not very difficult to understand the public option actually.

The Republican proposal of allowing customers to buy across state lines would not work. For it to work, there need to be national rules and guidelines. For example, in football, the rules in Saint Louis is the same as that in Dallas. If you cannot spit at the referee in Dallas, you cannot do it anywhere else.
The rules need to be the same, else you would have all the companies flocking to the state with the lowest amount of regulation. That is the case for the Credit Card companies.

So why can’t there be a national rule: The tenth amendment which guarantees states rights. With that, the federal government cannot force local governments to conform with other states on these issues. Even if our politicians want it, it would be very tricky. I also do not want it to go down that path as I think states rights are very important in our country.

A way around the Republican proposal is the idea that we in ST put up months ago. Allow the foreigners to flood the market. If the Japanese can make cars here, they can also sell their insurance, which is much more cheaper than ours, here. If Indian companies can create for us computer programs, they should also sell their insurances over here. Then let the competition begin!

Though, I hate it when politicians make threats when they can, in this case I am with Governor Dean. The Democrats should not receive any party donations if they cannot fulfill what the people want. A health care bill without the public option would wreck our country and make our lives much tougher than it already is.

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Governor Sarah Palin has just resigned from her position as Governor of Alaska. Reasons are brewing up so fast and reactions are so mixed. Is she going to be a Senator? Is she going because she has to? Should the Democrats be celebrating? Should the Republicans be awaiting her as a 2012 nominee?


Governor Palin said that “…I choose for my state and for my family, more freedom to progress all the way around so that Alaska can progress. I would not seek re-election as Governor…” Yes, her English is very damn difficult to decipher.

From that weird statement, I am making a wild assumption that it is her kids that cannot take her spot-light shining on them. From fighting with David Letterman to Senator John Kerry joking that the wrong politician went missing, all this could have impacted her younger kids.

Many believe that she could run as a Senator or Representative in 2010 and there are more that want her to run for President in 2012. I think that she would be one of the forerunners amongst the Republicans should that happen.

Democrats official response is : what a bizarre reaction? They are trying to make her up to me a person that is full of bizarre actions. I got one thing to say to them: Under-estimate her again and you would pay the price! I think she can beat half of the Democrats in Congress easily.

There are aides though that claim that she was forced out of office. Not only does she have enemies within her own party in Alaska, it was the Democrats plan to out and out plan to take her out by any means necessary that pushed it. There were more and more inquiries on her and it could incriminate her in the future.

I am not a fan of her at all. For one, her lack of knowledge is appalling. She has no idea what the meaning of socialism is. She insinuated that President Obama was “palling around with terrorists, I would have replied that she was married to a separatist!

I would never want to see an American leader that winks her way through a Vice Presidential debate and make no sense in it. She would be a huge embarrassment for America. She became the butt of all jokes all over the world. It was not that the respected Senator McCain that received that treatment, it was her.

Saying that, I hope that she stays away from politics and never return. Leave the Republican Party to capable people like General Colin Powell, Senator Chuck Hagel and Senator John McCain and be gone!

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