Bedtime Stories and Other Things That Will Keep You Awake

                It’s as fun as it is frustrating that there is never a shortage of things to write about every week. The hysteria of the left wing media over everything Trump drums up a new topic every other day or so. They are super fun to deconstruct but it becomes such a waste of time boxing their shadows and straw men.

                Somebody is just going to have to wake me up when this Russian fairy tale is over. Like Peter and The Wolf (speaking of Russian fairy tales), the left has cried, “Wolf!” so many times my ears only partially register that they are squawking again.

           
                So now Donald Jr. took a meeting with a Russian lawyer Loretta Lynch let stay in the country for “unknown reasons” after her visa expired. Said lawyer claimed to have dirt on HRC but did not, but the fact DJ would take the meeting proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Russians rigged the election. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

                I’m still way more fascinated by the way we completely ignore Hillary accepting $145 million from Russian-owned Uranium One right before she sold them 20% of our plutonium mining operations than I am in any of the banal stuff they make up every week about the Trumps and their sinister meetings with Boris and Natasha.

                But that’s just me and most of the people between California and New York and we don’t control the press so I guess nobody will investigate anything. Pity.

                Oh, and speaking of smoking guns, it appears another of HRC’s associates who could have done her harm coincidentally committed suicide before he could do it.  Silly Right Wing Conspiracy Theory. There can be such a thing as 68 coincidences all almost exactly the same.

Sure. It is amazing the kind of protection from scrutiny you can buy with 145 million Russian dollars.

                Or we could just talk about repealing and replacing Obamacare a bit, which is also starting to remind me of the Peter and The Wolf story. At least I agree with the left that the current Republican bill is horrible.

                It includes none of the elements President Trump asked for:

1.       New health care legislation must protect and benefit ALL Americans.

2.       Pre-existing conditions should be covered.

3.       Tax credits on a sliding scale and HSA’s made available to all if they so choose.

4.       Medicaid should be all-inclusive and be administered at the state level.

5.       Protect patients and doctors from artificial costs by bringing down inflated drug costs for the former and putting torte limitations in place for the latter.

6.       Allow insurance buy-ins across state lines to bring down the cost of insurance and increase the amount of health care an individual gets for his or her dollar.

None.

                    I had a conversation with a young man this past week who thinks Donald Trump himself is responsible for us not having a healthcare bill and that he is the one who is being bought off by the insurance companies. Sigh.

                So, civics lesson: Congress and the Senate are the only ones who can draft legislation, not the President.  All he can do is sign it into law or veto it. He has said he will sign any law legislators give him that repeals Obamacare and the asshat republicans in D.C. can’t even agree enough to get that done.

                They have completely ignored the President’s proposal outlined above and continue to bicker amongst themselves over which elements are necessary and which elements will hurt their polling numbers and reduce the amount of insurance company money flowing into their campaign coffers, much of which surreptitiously finds its way into their personal bank accounts. Or so I believe.

                Here’s a shocker, I wouldn’t even care if they sent the President a law supporting single-payer insurance.  I think it is an absolutely horrible idea but I think it is a better idea than the albatross we all know and despise that is Obamacare.

                I don’t believe the government can run anything well or efficiently but I do believe a poor plan executed excellently can outperform a brilliant plan executed poorly and I have a glimmer of hope that with a businessman like Donald Trump in the White House there is a slightly better than snowball’s chance in Hell the government could actually execute a plan as if they knew what they were doing.

                I know. Probably not. And don’t mistake that I am not still strongly in favor of a free enterprise solution.  I know as certainly as any AP reporter knows Russians stole the election that if all we did is take down the artificial boundaries between states and forced insurance companies to compete in a free and open market that your insurance rates would come down within 30 days, or whenever your next sign up period is, however that matters.

                So that dead horse is really starting to stink.

                And now I only have a couple hundred words to talk about what I wanted to wreak a thousand exclamations of shock and wonder about: Are we actually upset that the government wants to verify voter registration information?

                It is suspected that between 3.5 and 5.6 million illegal aliens were allowed to vote in the 2016 election—“without evidence” the left wing media is always quick to add. So where is the evidence they didn’t, I would be quick to add.

                I know. Let’s verify the voter registration rolls and make sure we’re playing kosher ball.

                Is there any reason to oppose that unless your side is afraid of what might be discovered?

                The Commission on Election Integrity has requested from all 50 states a record of each voter’s name, address, party affiliation, election participation since 2006, partial Social Security numbers and a voter’s date of birth.

                The most shocking thing to me is that the Feds don’t already know that, but ok. If you’re playing by the rules you have supplied most of that information to your state already. In the state of Colorado I guess we don’t require a date of birth (really????) or a Social Security number to vote so we can't supply those.

                Didn’t we all get our Social Security numbers from the Federal Government? How can they not know that already?

                Well, I guess if you are an illegal alien voting in California you either borrowed some dead guy’s SS# or you don’t have one at all, so maybe that’s the point. Without evidence, of course.

                But as for the rest of it, c’mon. Voting is a sacred right of all legal U.S. citizens not incarcerated for a felony—each and every one of us but no one else. That is also a heck of a privilege and if you don’t believe me ask a North Korean. Do you really think you are entitled to vote if you aren’t willing to provide your name and address and some sort of proof that you are a legal U.S. citizen?

                No one can quite create a tempest in a teacup like what passes for American journalism.

                Colorado’s liberal democrat Sec of State also made an emotional statement that he would not, under any circumstances, surrender Colorado citizen’s driver’s license numbers or email addresses to this Hitlerian commission.

                The Commission on Election Integrity did NOT request driver’s license numbers or email addresses but good for you Secretary Williams.

                You just have to laugh sometimes.