THE DAILY BLADE: The Blob, Um, “Stimulus” Bill
A few days ago, the House of Representatives passed (second item) an $819 billion “stimulus” package without a single Republican vote. More moderate and less partisan lawmakers – like Sens. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-ME) - were expected to take a machete to the monster and hack off some $90 billion. But then – with the Congressional Budget Office panning the plan and voters becoming increasingly skeptical that the bill will help the economy recover - Senators trimmed here and there, but plan to throw in several tax breaks to end up with a $820 billion package. When the conference committee reconciles the House and Senate versions of the "stimulus" package, the final bill that reaches President Obama’s desk may be higher, if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi succeeds in restoring some of the Senate’s cuts.
Editorial Note: Commenting on Obama’s assertion that “a failure to act and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer writes: “So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared 'we have chosen hope over fear.' Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.”
And in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Harvard Business School professor Niall Ferguson makes the case that creating more public debt will turn crisis into catastrophe.
“Botched” Abortion Turns Into Infanticde
On July 17, 2006. Sycloria Williams, 18, checked into a Hialeah, FL, abortion mill and paid $1,200 to have Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique terminate her 23-week pregnancy. After she was given laminaria to dilate her cervix, Renelique - who got his medical training in Haiti - was late in attending to her and she gave birth to a live baby girl who was placed in a plastic medical biohazard bag along with the placenta and afterbirth by Belkis Gonzalez, one of the clinic’s owners, and thrown out, reports The Associated Press:
"I don't care what your politics are, what your morals are, this should not be happening in our community," said Tom Pennekamp, a Miami attorney representing Williams in her lawsuit against Renelique and the clinic owners.
The state Board of Medicine is to hear Renelique's case in Tampa on Friday and determine whether to strip his license. The state attorney's homicide division is investigating, though no charges have been filed. Terry Chavez, a spokeswoman with the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office, said this week that prosecutors were nearing a decision. …
Pennekamp tells AP that his client struggled over her decision to abort a child she did not have the resources or maturity to raise, but when she “came face to face with a human being … that changed everything."
Robert Batey, a professor of criminal law at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, tells AP that prosecutors would have to prove the baby was born alive in order to file murder charges; an autopsy determined that the baby had air in her lungs. Batey predicts that a court will treat this case the same way as a case in which the death of a terminally ill patient is hastened.
Meanwhile, the state’s Board of Medicine has revoked Renelique’s license, finding him in violation of Florida statutes by delegating responsibility to unlicensed personnel, and failing to keep an accurate medical record.
More Money Than G-d
PolitiFact.com double-checked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) math, when he told "Face the Nation" moderator Bob Schieffer "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion" (video). Bottom line: The House's $819 billion dollar “stimulus” package is $85 billion more than the amount you would have spent if you burned through $1 million per day since the birth of Christ. Jeez!
The Stiletto Scoops Reuben Navarette
The Telegraph (London) noted that “[House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, the mother of five children and grandmother to six, did not spell out exactly how fewer babies would help the economy,” but it seems clear enough that she believes in an economic eugenics that suppresses the number of poor and minority babies coming into the world so states have to shell out less for their upkeep – a suggestion Dems once condemned as racist.
- “The 'Do-Nothing' Congress Does The Wrong Thing” (second item), The Stiletto Blog, January 30, 2009
[T]he House speaker was channeling the ghost of Margaret Sanger. The 20th-century birth control advocate is a hero to those who worship at the altar of reproductive freedom. … Sanger also embraced birth control as a means of social engineering. She was a leader in the eugenics movement, which … considered immigrant groups like Jews, Italians and Irish to be inferior genetically, and they felt that these groups were having too many children.
- “Ridiculous Items In Stimulus Plan,” syndicated columnist Reuben Navarette on CNNPolitics.com, February 2, 2009
In Memoriam
Evans-Novak Political Report, c. 1967 – February 5, 2009
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