Legislative offal.

The health care legislation about to pass is outrageous.

1. It's outrageous for the failure of its proponents to present to the people a non-sound-bite analysis of the problems that allegedly exist with our present health care “system.”
2. It's outrageous for the failure of its proponents to present arguments how legislation can and should address any such problems.
3. It's outrageous for the failure of its proponents to present arguments why a “comprehensive” solution is required.
4. It’s outrageous for its scope.
5. It’s outrageous for what it reveals about the stupidity, arrogance and mendacity of its proponents.
6. It’s outrageous for its perversion of the concept of insurance.
7. It’s outrageous for its destructive purpose.
8. It’s outrageous for its destructive effect on small business.
9. It’s outrageous for its attack on innovation.
10. It’s outrageous for its creation of a massive new bureaucracy.
11. It’s outrageous for its great costs that its proponents falsely claim will be costs savings.
12. It's outrageous for its accounting gimmickry.
13. It’s outrageous for its ignoring of constitutional limits on congressional power.
14. It's outrageous for it failure to provide that Congress will be under the same health system that it mandates for the rest of us.
15. It’s outrageous for its not having been debated in the last election.
16. It’s outrageous for its being against the present clear expressions of the will of the people.
17. It’s outrageous for the burdens it creates on present and future generations.
18. It’s outrageous for its coverage extended to illegal immigrants.
19. It’s outrageous for the transfer of care decisions to bureaucrats.
20. It’s outrageous for utterly ignoring the record of socialized medicine at home and elsewhere.
21. It's outrageous for having advanced so far with the tacit support of the legacy media.
22. It's outrageous for its assault on our liberty.

Let it be said as well that the Republicans are outrageous for their sappy collegiality and flaccid opposition. The phrase "fire in the belly" does not come immediately to mind.

Earlier in the year, Mark Levin said of the Iranian nuclear menace (sic ad astra) that Obama is precisely the wrong man to be president to deal with this problem. Talk about a true statement!

So, too, is this legislation precisely the wrong focus for our nation.

Here are a few problems that strike me as serious:

• high and increasing levels of unemployment;
• the second highest corporate tax rates in the world;
• the off shoring of significant manufacturing capacity;
• the outsourcing of technical jobs;
• a mendacious and puerile approach to problems of the black underclass and black radicalism;
• an academic establishment riven with cowardice, political correctness, and fidelity to the ideals of every failed communist experiment in history;
• a governing class dishonestly unwilling to come to grips with the crimes of communism and the economic and human costs of socialism;
• disproportionate and ignored black-on-white violent crime rates;
• the completely unaddressed problems of Muslim presence, Muslim immigration, and the utter philosophical and political incompatibility of Islam with western political, social, religious, and economic institutions;
• the Saudi (hence wahhabi) financing of 80% of the mosque construction in the U.S.;
• Saudi support for sinecures for Foreign Service whores compliant during their active service;
• Islamic proselytizing in our prisons;
• the continued existence of legal discrimination against white people;
• bankrupt state governments;
• the failure to protect our borders and consequent rampant illegal immigration and all that that means for illegals' job competition with American citizens, crime, and public burden;
• amnesty initiatives that make a mockery of citizenship;
• open-ended active U.S. military operations in two countries for which victory is not a consideration;
• Islamic piracy off Somalia;
• a declining dollar and rumblings around the world about alternative reserve currencies;
• refusal to do anything about energy production and reliance on commercially insignificant "green" enegy;
• massive deficits;
• wasteful and untransparent “stimulus” spending that is nothing but payoff money for political allies;
• unprecedented government ownership of business;
• corruption of the ballot process;
• huge amounts of public money directed to a vast private organization, ACORN, intimately associated with the Service Employees International Union;
• Obama’s unconstitutional system of “czars”;
• the nation’s supine acceptance of the Supreme Court’s deliberate misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause and Due Process Clause, among others;
• the existence of “hate” speech laws and indications that planned attacks on talk radio through backdoor reimplementation of the “fairness” doctrine;
• unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Medicaid;
• foreign ownership of our debt;
• the prosecution of a drug war that enriches only the traffickers and those they suborn in our law enforcement and political establishments and which guarantees the presence on our streets of large quantities of expensive and impure narcotics and lucrative job opportunities for enterprising youth and imported criminal gangs; and
• no jail time for the oxygen thieves who champion the fraud of anthropogenic global warming climate change.

With all this, the last thing anyone in government needs to be doing now is spending massive amounts of time and effort in order to screw up the finest health care in the world.

But, friends, that is exactly what Congress, at this very moment, is dedicated to accomplishing, heedless of other critical problems.

What historical precedent is there, exactly, for this gross failure to distinguish between real dangers and fanciful ones? To distinguish between major and minor problems? WWI? Christendom's failure to come to the aid of Constantinople? The west's failure to depose the Bolsheviks when their power was unconsolidated? Allowing slavery to take hold in the American colonies? Voting for the income tax amendment to the Constitution? The one providing for the direct election of senators? The west's failure to stop Hitler early? The 18th-century French aristocracy's failure to see the ground shifting from under them? The German people's support for the National Socialists and fascism (whose incipient variant we can see before our eyes, albeit with the presidential ambition for a national civilian "defense corps" as yet unrealized)?

The Colonel’s misspent life is, in comparison to the current approach, evidently one of probity, restraint, and godly service to others and the cause of reason rather than the one dedicated to hedonism, tabloid journalism, T&A movies, power naps, job hopping, and alcohol research that he’s always thought it was.