There is only 24 hours in a day:

Friday – January 21, 2011

There is only 24 hours in a day:

I don’t know about you, but I try to pack as much as I can into a 24 hour day. Most of what I do is physical and sometimes I even get to use my brain.

Most of what is supposed to be done in Washington, D.C. is not physical, but is brain power. Maybe this is the problem. In less than 24 hours, since the healthcare debate ensued, once again in Washington the term civil behavior has been taken to new heights. The name calling and slinging of partisan rhetoric once again showed its nasty side.

If we were to follow the Democrats lead and behaved like they did after they won the House we would be saying “we won you lost.” Or we might say, “They can participate but they have to sit in the back seat.” Or we might compare the Democratic Party to the Nazi, Joeseph Goebbels. The Republicans have done none of this. The only thing they have done is to vote to repeal Obama care.

The only thing they have done is to put together a plan to replace Obama care. The brain power they have used is to put together a plan that would – cut cost, waste, fraud and abuse. It would expand insurance coverage, reduce premiums and let people keep the coverage they have and block federal funding for abortions. They would do this by letting people buy insurance coverage across state lines, allow for the creation of insurance associations, create high risk pools and make all cost 100% deductable. Not bad for using the brain power of a party in less than 24 hours.

By now you have all learned that Congressman Steve Cohn, Democrat of Tennessee, has indicted the entire Republican Party as Nazis by his comparison to that of Joseph Goebbels. I find it interesting that in less than 24 hours this comparison has been made and it has been made to scare people into not wanting the repeal of Obama care.

The sorry fact behind this despicable language and behavior of this elected official is this: The only lies that were being told about Obamacare came from the likes of people like Steve Cohn. The truth about all the pitfalls, the death panels (end of life counseling) the cost factors and don’t forget the transparency and transportation of policies came form people who read the 2000 page document and reported on what they found. The people who read the law did not vote on the law. The people who voted on the law did not read the law in fact they said “We will have to pass it to see what is in it.” This quote can be attributed to Nancy Pelosi a crony of Cohn’s. The dirty little secret is this bill has been around for about 60 years and it was authored by the progressives and kept hidden until they could find a way to make it law. This unfortunately is the truth.

With the Presidents plea for civility in discourse we cannot trust that the Democratic Party will act in accordance to the Presidents wishes. Congressman Cohn certainly hasn’t and won’t.

I can’t remember when a Republican acted this way or used the description that Congressman Cohn used. The rudest display that could come close was the comment that was made at the last State of The Union when a republican congressman said in the well of the House “Liar” to the president. Though this is against the rules in the house to show disrespect to the President it was however the truth.

Joeseph Goebbels talked of the big lie in the middle of the 20th century, he said:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

In 1998, on this date, news of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair was published President Clinton vigorously denied all allegations.

I don’t know what the biggest lie of the last century was, the Nazi lie or the impeached Presidents. However, this century should take on a different note, because we should by now be able to recognize tyranny when we see it.

As I see it, in the last 24 hours the Democratic Party is up by one lie over the Republican Party. But who is keeping score? Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Taylor in 1798: “ It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order; and those who have once got an ascendency and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantages.”
Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: This is a message to our legislators, there are 24 hours in a day lets make the best of the time we have and make the best decisions we can for the country and lets not lie about who we are in as much as what we are.