Like a roaring blaze in the fireplace spitting sparks on a winter’s day, our quest for reverie is shattered every day by busybodies on the Democratic left. Their thirst for agitation is unquenchable, which explains why they are chronically unhappy and conserving conservatives are chronically content.
The largest offending busybody in our town for the past week has been David Lazarus, business columnist for the Los Angeles Titanic. A major warrior for Swish Obama in a ceaseless campaign to punish the successful and reward the deadbeats by redistributing earned wealth to the unearned, Mr. Lazarus has been crusading for months to convince an informed, resisting public Obamacare is not a sham, that everyone should have a piece of this phony rock.
Expectorating into a headwind, de rigueur for essayists at the Titanic, Mr. Lazarus is determined that you and every wretch on your block and mine will swallow Obamacare, no matter how long it takes him to whack you into submission.
Forcefeeding has been a rudimentary principle of Democratic lawmaking doctrine since early in the 19th century. Gassy busybody liberals know what is best for you and me even though they never have heard of you and me. It is called socialism.
You will drink it and you will like it, some moms used to say. Maybe we should start calling Swishie Mommy.
Rising from the Legislative Dead
Last Friday and again yesterday, the cheerleading Mr. Lazarus wrote similarly configured essays freighted with errors and creative assumptions about Obamacare.
Madly waving his “I Love Swish” flag as his white horse galloped up and down the battlelines, Mr. Lazarus kept shouting, “Gotta have it, gotta have it. Especially those who don’t have it and don’t know they need it.”
Reminded me of the latest nutty pronouncement from the obviously bored Mad Michelle, who, first, should make a fashion appointment at Ross Dress for Less or the Salvation Army to learn how a noveau riche lady puts herself together before venturing out in public.
Gunning the engine on her husband’s creepy and creeping government intrusion strategy and her own childhood obesity campaign, she said last week in another craftily prepared statement at a bill signing putting a sneaky school food act into law, obesity is too important to be left up to moms and dads. We will raise your children. Reflect on that. Child-rearing is too serious to be left up to family. Swish and I will show you how. An astonishing, naked daylight claim, even for a lib such as Mad Michelle.
If you are skeptical about the context, here is the full, 1 minute, 27-second heavily rationalized (questionably heartfelt) statement from muscle-flexing Mad, via patterico.com:
“But when our kids spend so much of their time each day in school, and when many children get up to half their daily calories from school meals, it’s clear that we as a nation have a responsibility to meet as well. We can’t just leave it up to the parents. I think that parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won’t be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. I think that our parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.”
These suddenly-empowered amateurs do not recognize boundaries.
Transplanting Little Words
Being a standard-issue liberal, Mr. Lazarus greasily and swiftly misrepresented his thesis in last Friday’s edition, confident Titanic readers never would notice.
Here is what he wrote in his lead, and next time we will discuss his gaping omission:
“What part of the insurance business do opponents of healthcare reform not understand?”
The 98 percent liberal media commonly misrepresents liberal legislation it loves and most Americans don’t. This tactic makes them feel as if they are on the side of the angels.
Two instant samples:
The Dream Act: The sob sisters at the Titanic routinely have been misrepresenting the so-far failed legislation by identifying only the parts of the treacherous bill they agree with. Worse, they characterize those who strongly disagree with the mis-named bill as “opponents of immigration” or “opponents of immigration reform.” Boys, for shame. You left out one crucial word, “opponents of illegal immigration.” Being honest would blow their scenario.
Climate change: Since most people on the left are not religious and, as the commentator Dennis Prager says, since everyone needs a religion, global warming is the lord almighty religious faith of the left. (Don’t remind them they were just as fervent about global cooling in the 1970s.) “Climate change,” its married name now that global warming has been exposed, is destined to be remembered as the first major government scam of this century. Hardline liberals, who love to brand opponents evil, won’t settle for calling disagreers “skeptics.” No, they are “deniers.” These zealots breathe hard. The only other usage of “deniers” I recall is related to the Holocaust, a cleverly intended, sub-rosa, link.
Tomorrow, we shall discuss the contents of Mr. Lazarus’s tilted essays.
