Rachel Patron The Sun Sentinel

July 7, 2012

Rachel Patron
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394

RE: An unintended consequence of Obamacare – Some comments on your really fine column in this morning’s Sun Sentinel.

Ms. Patron,

At the very least, a lower case te deum must be raised. Thanks to you, it is all made clear.

Now that the Supreme Court has spoken, ex cathedra if you will, on the Constitutionality of Obamacare I can put the quotidian medical concerns of an aging curmudgeon aside. It may take some time to smooth the edges of having the Post Office take over the scheduling of surgical procedures but Hey, this is America, remember? What better way to start the 3rd Summer of Recovery than to bring your blood work and x-rays to the polite and caring clerks who toil at the Post Office counters for their opinions? They will tell you where to put your records.

As soon as the lovely Michelle sends me the recipe for her justifiably famous skim milk, yogurt, arugula, sweet potato, and tofu milkshake I will shun, as if they were pox-ridden, all Big Macs and sausage pizza.

Absent those chores I will have more time to dwell on important matters. Your column, for instance. It stands with feet planted in cement, wearing a sign that says “Shoot Me First”, squarely in my crosshairs.

Modern American Liberals, particularly those who labor as ink stained wenches, are known for never letting facts interfere with their argument. Their obsession with the Bush/Gore decision of 2000 is O/C.

#1 – The vote affirming Florida’s electoral votes going to Bush was not 5 to 4. It was 7 – 2. The 5 – 4 vote was to accept the case. If it had been 5 - 4 against the lower court ruling would have stood and Alpha Gump would have been President. Having voted against accepting the case 2 Justices confirmed that Bush had won the election.

At this point I must tell you that I was born and raised in Hudson County, NJ and that my wife had many relatives living in Chicago. The counting, overcounting, undercounting, non-counting, mis-counting, and the sure sign that the fix is in, the Court ordered recount are learned at Mother’s breast. And that was long before anyone ever heard of a photo ID. Just to prove that all things were possible I had 6 voter ID cards when Miriam Oliphant was the Broward Election Supervisor

If someone from Bayonne had been in charge of Broward County ballots in 2000 Fidel Castro could have been President.

One irksome fact that no Court could change was that if Gore had carried Tennessee, his home state, he would have been President even if Bush shut him out in Florida.

#2 – Here is an example of God’s mirth. If Robert Bork, the bête-noire of modern American Liberals, had been confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice Vice President Gump would have become President Gump. Bork would have voted against taking the case. In your world the 5 - 4 would have been a win for the good guys. Thumper Gump would have been the First Lady where she would have censored all those nasty hip-hop, East Coast versus West Coast rap songs. The baby Gumpsters would have gamboled on the lawn and no polar bears would have drowned.

It is as good an example of “Man proposes; God clears His throat” as I can find.

#3 – You approve of the Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare. You disapprove of the Supreme Court decision upholding freedom of speech in the Citizens United case.

Thank you for making manifestly clear the cognitive dissonance required of modern American Liberals, particularly those of the aforementioned ink stained wench variety.

Lacking respect, perhaps even knowledge, of the “permanent things, the Court decisions which advance the du jour policy of the purblind Democratic Party “Rainbow Stew” feelings cycle are good. If they don’t they are bad.

I shant shame you by showing what you don’t know about the Constitution.

You need but remember that the body of the Constitution spells out specifically what government can do. They are called “enumerated powers”.

The Bill of Rights spells out what government cannot do. Perhaps it is not too late for you to understand that the first words of the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law…” mean precisely that. “Free men speak with free tongues” was good advice in the agora. It enables George Soros to open his check book to advance ideas that he holds dear. Why would you deny him his right? Incidentally, his right was not given to him by a government. If that were the case it could just as easily be taken away from him. The American Constitution merely confirmed and codified it. It was his at birth, “from beyond the stars”.

The President has a Tuesday Sudden Death List lunch at the White House. He apparently picks and chooses which particular turbaned thug gets the chop from a predator drone. The Constitution specifically grants this right. It’s a small point but it only gives it to Congress. I guess that’s why Nancy Pelosi is a regular.

There is an interesting part in the Constitution that says that the Federal government “shall protect each of them [the states] from invasion”. If someone crossing the United States border with Mexico in Arizona and killing a Federal agent in the process isn’t an “invasion” perhaps you could tell me what is.

I don’t know what Romney’s policy towards Israel will be. I do know that he wouldn’t have sat as dumb and quiet as the church mouse for 20 years while an anti-Semite spewed blood libels out like they were gospel.

Comes now Evelyn Garcia, a protégé of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. She is a Democratic candidate for the Florida Assembly, and an alternate delegate to the Democratic Convention. She wants to wear a birqa when she votes for Lord Barack the Beneficent. She tried to get Yessir Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s nephew, to help write the pro-Palestinian part of the Party’s platform. I can’t confirm, and she won’t deny, that Barbra Streisand was going to welcome the delegates by singing from the Allah Akbar song book. How bad can Fox News get?

You mention that Conservative slogans are lacking in the lifting potential of a good, catchy sound bite. Of course, it is tough to top “I won’t send American boys to fight in foreign wars”, particularly when it was used so successfully 3 times in the 20th century. TWW. FDR. LBJ. Remember?

Knowing that my health care and dietary choices have already been made by people who really care for me makes it easier to get on with the job of getting a “fairer” tax system.

Thanks for helping me “get” it.





Kevin Smith