DECEPTION, INVEIGLING AND OBFUSCATION CONTINUE

Despite an anemic public opinion standing and growing distrust of presidential "promises," the administration in Washington continues on its merry way,  doing its best to ensnare as many Americans as possible in a growing web of government control.

Concerning the grotesquely  named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the anticipated numbers of young people signing up have not materialized.  With the whole apparatus of O'Care hinging on legions of young and healthy people paying the way for the old and sick, the program is looking shakier and shakier.  Then, too, those who have enrolled are reportedly slow on the draw with payments.  But maybe that's the way this monstrosity was designed in the first place.

If insurance companies are left holding the bag on this scam, certain events will surely follow:

1.  The government will have to bail out the insurance companies.

2.  Taxes will be raised to facilitate the bailout.

3.  The cost of insurance will rise.

4.  Government, through another executive decree, will convert O'Care to a single-payer, government system, and our dear old government will just keep growing.  And, possibly, that was the desired outcome all along.

That's a scary outcome to ponder, isn't it?

From the Department of Justice comes word that a "non-partisan" investigator is set to dig into the IRS efforts to undermine conservative political groups.  The person chosen to carry out the inquiry is Ms. Barbara Bosserman, a DOJ trial attorney.  In addition to working at the DOJ, Ms. Bosserman is well known as an active Democrat, in fact one who has donated $6,500 to the campaigns of one Barack Hussein Obama.

Talk about the foxes guarding the hen-house, this must stand as a prime example.  If the stink of Washington corruption was not strong enough to be detected beyond the Potomac River, the Bosserman appointment will surely succeed in spreading the odor.

News has also finally gotten out that the president knew at the same time as the attack at Benghazi was taking place that the violent action which  was raging was, indeed,  an instance of well-planned terrorism.  Instead of authorizing immediate retaliatory action which might have saved the ill-fated Americans who would die there, the canard of an out-of-control demonstration was conceived. and a cover-up that included the American ambassador to the United Nations spreading the lie on national TV was commenced.  For sure, we have not seen the last of this deceptive episode; and, hopefully, if Congress can resurrect its intestinal fortitude and oppose the presidential assault on its prerogatives, we might have a chance of finally seeing the blame for this tragedy satisfactorily appropriated.

And, finally, as all of the propaganda about income inequality gets going, it might be well to remind our 44th president that a blow against the crony-capitalism that has spread throughout his administration would be a great equalizer as far as income is concerned.  But, apparently, that is not a part of the presidential plan.  A look backward in history reveals that, of those ideologies basing their actions on equalizing social and income status, there were always elites whose standing was in no way affected downward, while the great mass of the population experienced an equality of poverty, drabness, misery and fear.  As Will and Ariel Durant noted in THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION, the main thing that we learn from history is that we do not learn very much from history.

Deo Vindice!

God bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State remain forever red!