Nearly Four Million Citizens to Pay Health Insurance Penalty By 2016

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -- Albert Einstein

No, I am not shocked as I know you are not either. However, what does enrage me is that all the ignoramuses that claimed this fascist health care plan would be a descending gift from the heavens REFUSED to read the actual bill.  However, let us look at the picture from a broader perspective:  Who is really to blame for this bill?  Obviously the already dying Republican Party and, more specifically, Mitt Romney. In fact, it was the "limited government, low spending, pro civil liberties" GOP that was responsible for proposing something similar in the 90s.  No wonder their objections this time around were too little, too late.

2010 SRLC: A Narrow Loss for Team Liberty's Starting Quarterback

Ron Paul lost the 2010 SRLC straw poll because of me. I didn't go to cast the deciding vote. I should have bought a plane ticket and sacrificed a weekend in my beloved New York City to be there for my own freedoms, and to be there for Ron Paul, a man who has dedicated his life to restoring liberty for all of us. 

Now that I've acknowledged my own fault in this loss, allow me to examine a few other thoughts of mine on the campaign to unite freedom lovers come the 2012 presidential election. 

Subject: Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson might be one of the best modern day governors I know of. What little I know about him seems to be favorable and we should definitly keep tabs on him for the future.

Wouldn't it be nice if Republicans were ALWAYS like this?

...not just when they're out of power?

Republican Revisionism

Since George W. exited the White House, many Republicans have slowly but surely attempted to rehabilitate the image of their pathetically unconservative party, writes Howard Rich at NetRightNation.  Having the GOP in power, they argue, wasn't "'all that bad' -- and certainly not as bad as the socialist hordes who have ostensibly pushed America to the brink of financial ruin over the last year." 

Indeed, the GOP has attempted to co-opt the fervor of the tea partiers, despite having engaged in exactly the same big government practices which both groups now loudly decry (I'm presently at CPAC, where Mike Pence just said that "Republicans in Congress are back in the fight and they're back in the fight on the right!"  Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it with a GOP majority.  It's easy to be principled when you're the underdog). 

Sadly, their attempts sometimes seem to succeed as tea party protesters quickly forget that the very GOP now courting them was just a few years ago using control of all three branches of the government to...well, to make the government more invasive and overgrown than ever.  As Rich concludes:

Was Bush a better steward of your tax dollars than Obama?

Yes – but that’s the problem. Getting mugged worse the second time around doesn’t absolve the first thief of his culpability.

And the first thief is very guilty indeed.  Republican revisionism and cozying up to those newly angry with the government is to be expected and will frequently be successful.  But in the liberty movement, at least, let's maintain memories more than two years long.  (Hat tip to Adam Bitely.)