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When Barack Obama ran his presidential campaign on the theme of “change,” I had no idea he meant the $13 a week the middle class would get in tax relief.  That’s “change,” all right.

(Thanks to Chuck Norris for giving me clarity on this point!)

We’re heading for nationalized health care, right?  Does anybody doubt it? 

Apparently the federal government’s new regulations, the ones that help bureaucrats decide whether to authorize payment for surgeries, drugs, etc., will add “cost efficient” to the usual criteria, “safe and effective.”

How will the government determine whether your surgery or prescription is “cost efficient”?  Apparently they will divide the cost of the medical care by the number of years left in your “life expectancy.”  What could be more scientific, democratic, or humane than that?

Young people will get more and old people will get less.

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

Now that the Congress has passed the economic boondoggle commonly called the economic stimulus package, we can all relax and let it work its magic, right?

Oh, noooooo…

Both President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday, “This is just the beginning…”

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

When King David defeated the Moabites, “he made them lie down on the ground and measured them off with a length of cord.  Every two lengths of them were put to death, and the third length was allowed to live” (II Samuel 8:2).  He knew that they would forever be a threat to his kingdom, so he defeated them utterly.  He knew how to treat enemies of the state.

Turn the page, and David showed mercy to the sole survivor of Saul’s vanquished dynasty, Mephibosheth, for the sake of David’s friendship with Jonathan, the late father of Mephibosheth (II Samuel 9:7).  David knew that he was no threat to his kingdom, so he showed him kindness.  He knew how to treat friends of the state.

So now I understand that we’re going to treat the terrorists imprisoned at Gitmo like American citizens and accord them all of our civil and legal rights, and perhaps even close Gitmo, so that the world will have a better opinion of us.

David knew how to treat friends and enemies.  We, apparently, do not.

Reasons I miss George W. Bush as our president:

1. He tried (not hard enough!) to privatize Social Security.
2. He signed the partial-birth abortion ban. 
3. He refused to sign the devastating global-warming Kyoto Accord.
4. He cut taxes.
5. He appointed Samuel Alito and John Roberts to the Supreme Court.
6. He commuted the sentence of Compean and Ramos.
7. He backed Gen. Petraeus’s troop surge, ensuring victory in Iraq.
8. He prevented another 9-11 type terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Reasons I don’t miss George W. Bush as president:

1. He signed the No Child Left Behind Act, expanding federal meddling in education.
2. He signed the McCain-Feingold law, though it limited freedom of political speech.
3. He vetoed only one single spending bill from Congress in 8 years.
4. He refused to push opening ANWR, though gas prices skyrocketed last summer.
5. He pushed amnesty for illegal aliens and failed to secure our Mexico border.
6. He helped create an exorbitantly expensive Medicare prescription drug program. 
7. He presided over the biggest budget deficits in history.
8. He let the size and cost of government grow even more than Bill Clinton had.

Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been…”

Voters in California, Colorado, and South Dakota voted against various restrictions on abortion.  Not good.

Voters in Maryland approved gambling, in the form of slot machines.  Not good.

Voters in Michigan approved permitting embryonic stem cell research and medical use of marijuana.  Not good.

Voters in Washington approved physician-assisted suicide.  Not good.

Voters in Arizona rejected stiffer penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.  Not good.

Voters in Massachusetts and North Dakota rejected tax-cutting initiatives.  Not good.

Voters in Florida, Arkansas, and California approved bans on same-sex marriage.  Not good, in the sense that Biblical morality shouldn’t even be up for a vote.

God, have mercy on us.