IT OUGHT TO BE A RIGHT

All of the news this week seems to be about Bill Clinton and his book.  That is exactly as Bill Clinton wanted it.  The Poodle is desperate to make some news of his own, and is barking about health care.  Predictably, Kerry is telling anyone who will listen that health care is a "right."

OK ... let's go through this again.  If you agree with The Souffle; if you claim medical care as a right,  then you are claiming a right to someone's time or property.  In either case, you are making a claim to a portion of that person's life. You cannot obtain medical care without someone either spending time on you or supplying you with some sort of product, be it drugs or medical devices.  If you're claiming a right to a medical practitioner's time, then you are claiming a right to that portion of his life.  If you are claiming a right to some drug or medical equipment, then you are claiming a right to whatever portion of someone's life they spent acquiring or creating that product.  Any way you cut it, your claim of a right to health care is a message to someone else that you own a portion of their very existence.

So, where do we go from here?  Once we accept the idea that one American can claim a right to a portion of another American's life, what's next?  If you have a right to health care, why not a right to a home?  Why not a right to a warm coat in winter?  Why not a right to groceries?  Apparently health care should be a right because you might die without it.  If that's the case, then food should certainly be a right because you're flat-out going to die without it. 

Disagree?  You know the show's phone number.

Actually, this is all quite academic.  Socialized medicine is absolutely inevitable in the United States.  Youngsters dreaming of becoming doctors are dreaming of becoming government employees.  The horror stories from socialized medicine countries ... stories like four-month waits for surgery ... will carry datelines like Cleveland or Houston.

ALL OUR JOBS ARE GOING OVERSEAS

First of all .. once again let me remind you that they're not "your" jobs.  They belong to the employer.  But things obviously aren't as bad as the media has been portraying them.  U.S. Labor Department statistics show that during the first three months of 2004 only 4,600 jobs once performed by U.S. workers were sent overseas.  That accounts for only 2 percent of lost jobs for that period.  That, my friends, is no big deal. So much for the claim that jobs outsourcing is a significant force in our job market.  Looks like the marginally-employed are going to have to find something else to whine about.  Sooner or later they're going to look at the real blame.  Themselves. 

BUSH OUTCLASSES THE LEFT

Yesterday, in a ceremony at The White House, the portraits of Bill and Hillary Clinton were unveiled at The White House.  In attendance were former President Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, along with several administration officials.  Basically, it was a big reunion, though Monica Lewinsky was not invited.

President Bush spoke at the event, praising President Clinton's "energy and joy."  He also said "Over eight years, it was clear Bill Clinton loved the job of the presidency.  He filled this house with energy and joy."  In other words, it was a completely non-political, positive event to honor the hanging of the official presidential portrait. 

Now, understand the setting: here you have George Bush, who ran for office against the Clinton administration promising to restore honor to the White House.  These are ideological opposites.  Yet, Republican President George Bush can set all of that aside and out of respect for the office of the presidency, have this ceremony.

Contrast that with the remarks awhile back of Al Gore, who called on Bush's entire cabinet to resign, and who has accused the president of being a liar and misleading the nation, among other things.  The left loves to demonize Republicans for being hateful, but it sure looks like the other way around these days. 

This is the new face of politics.  The Democrats are the new party of shrill, intolerant, uptight whiners, and there's George Bush praising political rival Clinton while smiling, joking and having a good time. 

Now you tell me just who is mean-spirited?

THE MEANINGLESS TRADE DEFICIT

Here we go again...headlines are trumpeting the "swelling US trade deficit" that is hitting a "record high."  Sounds like a bad thing, doesn't it?  That big, bad, mean trade deficit sure is ominous...will our country survive?  The media isn't so sure.

But guess what?  The trade deficit doesn't matter.  Not one bit.  The media talks about how the trade deficit hit $48.3 billion in April, and how it is a drag on the economy...but it really isn't.  Here's why.

Imagine you decide to buy some imported Turkish rugs.  You pay whatever they cost, they're shipped to you, and you're in fat city with your new and slightly odorous belongings.  But wait...did Turkey buy anything from you in return?  Shame on you...you're now running a trade deficit!  Put another way, you decide to hold a garage sale.  Your neighbors come over and buy everything you have for sale.  Must you now go to each person and buy an equal amount of goods from them as they did you?  Of course not...and that's just how absurd all of this trade deficit nonsense is. 

Every time you see a headline about the trade deficit, just substitute "media hysteria" and get on with your day.

SADDAM AND AL-QAEDA

In a speech yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney said what has been known for a long time:  Saddam Hussein has long-established ties with Al-Qaeda.  Democrats and the media want to ignore this, mainly because it violates the template, which is burying any story that is seen to benefit George Bush.  But the facts don't support their position.

"He was a patron of terrorism," said the Vice President.  "He had long established contacts with Al-Qaeda."  This is true...there is evidence of contacts between Saddam and Al-Qaeda stretching back for years.  Even the interim prime minister says there were Al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq before Saddam's ouster,  Al-Qaeda terrorist al-Zarqawi was known to have been establishing sleeper cells in Baghdad in late 2002. No link huh?  This is the monster that sawed off Nick Berg's head...and was known to have been sheltered by Saddam Hussein.

Just like the weapons of mass destruction, the left will never concede any link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.  To do so would be to admit George Bush was right, and they will never, ever do that, no matter whose life depends on it. The facts will continue to emerge, and the left will continue to ignore those facts.

Oh ... and you do know that weapons of mass destruction have been found, don't you?

PLOT TO BLOW UP SHOPPING MALL FOILED

Think the war on terror is something that is fought in some distant city thousands of miles away?  Think what happened on 9/11 can't happen where you live?  Think the Bush administration is overreacting to the threat?  Well, listen up.

Authorities have charged Somali national and terrorist Nuradin M. Abdi with plotting to blow up a Columbus, Ohio shopping mall in the name of Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden.  And how was this guy caught?   A foreigner tracking system aided in his capture.  These are the kinds of things we need to win World War IV, the war on Islamic terrorism.

Oh, and by the way, how long before Democrats accuse John Ashcroft of just arresting people out of the blue, and manufacturing terrorism charges to make the administration look good?  Shouldn't take very long.

Boortzapalooza presented by ajcjobs.com June 12, 2004

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READING ASSIGNMENTS

The word has gone out from CBS headquarters to CBS news stations ... carry the Bill Clinton book special, or else.

Dick Morris writes of Ron and Bill. One was self-involved, the other had no need for adoring mobs to prop up his ego.  Can you guess which was which?

And now, nine reasons that the world would be a vastly different place if somebody else would have won the 1980 election.  Fred Barnes explains more.

Can The Poodle win the election just by being 'the other guy?'  Maybe...but Sam Dealey says Democrats are getting nervous,

The investigation into the U.N. oil-for-food scam is barely getting off the ground, says William Safire, who calls it the largest financial rip-off in history.

Now that we've just had a week-long celebration of Ronald Reagan and his conservative ideals, it's time to expose The Poodle for what he stands for.  David Limbaugh reports.

Which cable news network is least biased and most objective in its reporting?  Matt Towery looks at the results of a recent survey.  You may be surprised.

More blacks are running as Republicans in the south.  The Congressional Black Caucus must be in crisis mode.

Some parents are putting the brakes on schools that require their kids be drugged with Ritalin.  It's about time.

The media likes to talk about the environmental disaster at Yosemite...but as Thomas Sowell explains, it's not there when you actually visit the park.

Public debate seems to be going the way of the dodo, but John Leo says people should keep arguing, instead of everyone just

getting their way automatically.

The Southern Baptist Convention is is meeting this week and is considering a resolution calling upon parents to withdraw their children from government schools.  Cal Thomas looks at what could be a mass exodus.

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