If you were on I 84 West in CT yesterday and you saw a guy in an old beige Corola driving along screaming at the top of his lungs chances are that was me. Sorry if I frightened you, but it happens some times when I have the radio on.

The first screaming session was in response to a news story. There was a brief audio clip of The One's chief bullshit artist Robert Gibbs talking about the socialized medicine proposal the White House released today. According to Gibbs, the President feels strongly that the healthcare takeover deserves an up or down vote.

Excuse me? Didn't they already have two up or down votes? And if you take into account the Massachussets special election it's had three. The Democrats had a 60 vote majority in the Senate and a commanding majority in the House and they still couldn't get it passed.

The One has had his up or down vote.

Move On.

The second bout of screaming was caused by a campaign ad for Linda Macmahan who is running for the GOP nomination for the Senate.  The ad started well, but ended badly. At least I think it did I couldn't hear the ending.

She started out complaining about the out of control spending in Washington and stated that government spending does not create jobs, citing the statistic that 70% of jobs are created by small business, and thaat we should rely on the free enterprise system. So far so good - and then she proved herself to just another big government idiot with her assertion that the government should provide incentives to create jobs.

News Flash, Linda. In a free enterprise system businesses already have an incentive to succeed and grow. It's called profit. Itis so powerful an incentive that it is often refered to as the "profit motive."

Businesses don't need another incentive from the government what they need is a reduction in government disincentives. In the most basic terms they the government to get the hell out of the way.

The solution to the problem of too much government is never more government just as the solution to a gas fire is not more gasoline and certainly never more ethanol.

This is not the sort of Senator we need more of in Washington. We don't need someone who is campaigning to be part of the problem.

I'm really hoping that the results of the election in CT will make the Scott Brown election look like a minor event. Linda macmahon would bod provide that result.

She just doesn't get it.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 08:08 AM | No Comments | Add Comment