Scott Brown arrives in Washington driving his famous truck, and he looks like a million dollars — Jimmy Stewart playing Mr. Smith. President Obama polishes his State of the Union Address and suddenly he’s looking discounted to more like a few thousand dollars. The two events are not unrelated.

The president will speak to the joint session of Congress next week as his approval ratings have fallen from a high of 70 percent a year ago to less than 50 percent, proving once more that in politics nothing recedes like success. At this time last year, Obama was President Possibility, with everybody cheering his promises and expectations. This year, he’s President Impractical, exposed as the Pied Piper who suddenly can’t seem to squeeze a note from his dented musical pipe.

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In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.

Addressing an exuberant victory celebration Tuesday night, Brown declared he was “ready to go to Washington without delay” as the crowd chanted, “Seat him now.” Democrats indicated they would, deflating a budding controversy over whether they would try to block Brown long enough to complete congressional passage of the health care plan he has promised to oppose.

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From Scott Brown:

Health Care

I believe that all Americans deserve health care coverage, but I am opposed to the health care legislation that is under consideration in Congress and will vote against it. It will raise taxes, increase government spending and lower the quality of care, especially for elders on Medicare. I support strengthening the existing private market system with policies that will drive down costs and make it easier for people to purchase affordable insurance. In Massachusetts, I support the 2006 healthcare law that was successful in expanding coverage, but I also recognize that the state must now turn its attention to controlling costs.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A….

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

By Senator Tom Coburn

To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, 
    
 It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons: 
 

• The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775.  You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
• Social Security was established in 1935.  You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.  
• Fannie Mae was established in 1938.  You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.   
• War on Poverty started in 1964.  You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.
• Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.  You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
• Freddie Mac was established in 1970.  You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
• The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil.  It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before.  You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure. You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars
   AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT- RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?? 

Okay okay, this is such a bad idea. But how long do you think it will take before people start calling this racist? A racist version of a Chia Pet.

Don’t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul.

A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They’re locked in a battle with liberals, with the fate of President Barack Obama’s signature issue at stake.

If a government plan is part of the deal, “as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

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Let’s hope this does not go through the Senate or we will indeed by a socialized country.

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They’re giving shots during school hours. So now peer pressure has found it’s way into your child’s health care. Since when did public schools become health care facilities? What if you don’t want your child vaccinated?

Public schools should never be involved in mass health care. Sure they should have a school nurse but delivering health care? What do you think?