Common Sense? What a Concept.

As we watch the hurtling train wreck of Health Care "Reform" slam its way through Congress, The View is over-whelmed with a sense of helplessness. How do we stop this juggernaut before we all end up in socialized medicine hell? I could write to my Congressman, but he is high atop the liberal bandwagon, and our Senior Senator is Ted, "Public Health care is Us", Kennedy.

As we clutch for some thread of good news, we happened upon Peggy Noonan's article in the weekend edition of the WSJ. Essentially, Noonan takes a step back from the minutiae of the health care maze and focuses, instead. on a more practical analysis:

I think the plan is being slowed and may well be stopped not by ideology, or even by philosophy in a strict sense, but by simple American common sense. I suspect voters, the past few weeks, have been giving themselves an internal Q-and-A that goes something like this:

Will whatever health care bill is produced by Congress increase the deficit? “Of course.” Will it mean tax increases? “Of course.” Will it mean new fees or fines? “Probably.” Can I afford it right now? “No, I’m already getting clobbered.” Will it make the marketplace freer and better? “Probably not.” Is our health-care system in crisis? “Yeah, it has been for years.” Is it the most pressing crisis right now? “No, the economy is.” Will a health-care bill improve the economy? “I doubt it.”

Read the rest of the article, and give it some thought.

This morning on This Week, George Will described the President of being ubiquitous. We would agree, he is everywhere and into everything. He has taken his election victory and sees it as a carte blanche to involve himself anytime anywhere. At this point, even the Democrats are looking for relief. Witness his chiming in on the Gates flap in Cambridge this week. He may not know the facts, but "Skip" is a friend of his" which means the Cambridge PD must be stupid. One of his staffers might have read the POLICE REPORT before he jumped in. The proposed solution? Gather the participants at the White House for a "beer" Then they can all bump fists and have a photo op. For a guy who is anti-profiling Obama seems quick to generalize that a drink of beer would be appropriate for Sergeant Crowley, an Irish cop. That kind all like beer, right?

Maybe the new Surgeon General should prescribe some Ritalin to her new boss.