As a New Yorker, much focus has been given recently to New York, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and Bloomberg’s senseless response. New York has recently joined a tough competition with the likes of Oakland, California and other liberal strongholds as to who can better waste the taxpayer dollars handed to them while neglecting and shrinking aid in areas which the taxpayers would benefit most.

New Yorkers are pretty much resigned to the fact that their taxes will continue to increase while basic services will decrease. The MTA is the sample of bureaucracy gone awry. After raising the fares several times within the past few years, eliminating quite a few bus and train lines, and cutting the amount of buses and trains per line, they are once again complaining of a lack of funds.

Their newest solution? Remove all wastebaskets from all subway stations! For those of you scratching your heads in confusion, here’s the explanation. Since the city can’t handle the trash removal of the 468 stations, often leading to overflowing bins, they’ve hit a brainstorm of a solution! Removing all cans will remove all garbage, thus saving them loads of money spent to empty the waste baskets while eliminating the rats who’ve overtaken the subways. They have currently already removed all cansfrom two large stations and will be conducting a two month trial before proceeding across the rest of the city.

Since I bet you couldn’t figure out for yourselves what the results would be, here’s an image at one of the two stations after the removal of the cans.

A complete month has passed since the “Occupy Wall Street” protestors have parked themselves in the midst of Manhattan. Thousands of loonies have set up camp in a park across Wall Street and are adamant to remain there until their unknown demands are met.

Mayor Bloomberg, in his classic graciousness to everyone and anything except for the cities’ residents, proudly welcomed the protestors and proclaimed that they may remain indefinitely as long as they abide all the laws.

Bloomberg’s statement hasn’t come as much of a surprise to the residents of NYC, since the city is one of the centers of liberalism and is led by an environmentalist power-hungry liberal. Its dedication and allegiance is thus solely to the planet, the environment, and the liberal agenda. His failed attempts to appeal to the protestors simply mirrors his past behaviors such as his applause and support for the Ground Zero Mosque or his immediate jump to blame tea partiers when a bomb was discovered in Time Square.

Bloomberg’s statement may at first glance appear to be reasonable and fair, except when one take note of the total lack of action towards the lawlessness amongst the protestors, in a city where minor offenses meet harsh punishments.

In a city where meter maids and traffic cops have replaced many regular cops, additional regulations are passed regarding every step an individual takes, and fines for the slightest offense becomes the norm, Bloomberg’s treatment of the protestors is extremely ironic. Why, for damaging a public tree one can be slapped with a fine of up to $15,000 and/or imprisonment anywhere from 90 days to a complete year. However, apparently defecating, urinating and having sex in public, open drug dealing and many other crimes committed by the protestors aren’t considered criminal enough for it to be considered as not “abiding the laws” although ordinary citizens would’ve long been handcuffed and fined for lesser actions.

The fact that the place has become a public bathroom in addition to a garbage dump hasn’t concerned Bloomberg in the least. This is actually surprising from the mayor who’s notorious for the large fines handed out because of a stray piece of paper the wind has blown over onto your property or even onto the road within 12 inches of the sidewalk. Apparently it wasn’t the cleanliness or lack of it that spurred him to create these laws, but the additional venue to milk some money out of the citizens while promoting a noble cause.

One can thereby understand Bloomberg’s comments in the face of the blatant lawlessness and his apathy towards the protestors’ actions. Since these individuals are obviously broke, and fining them would be a waste of time since it’s guaranteed to never be paid, why not pretend instead that no laws have been broken? Besides, why bother enforcing the laws if those committing the crimes aren’t tax-paying citizens or a part of those dangerous tea party right wingers?

I guess some of these protestors will have to chop down a tree, make a salt and trans-fat party, or commit some other liberal offense for the nanny of the state to realize that not all laws are being abided.

This article has been cross-posted at The Thinking Voter.

Cross-Posted: TobyToons.com (Conservative Political Cartoons)

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When a radical Imam announced his intentions to build a fifteen story mosque near ground zero, refusing offers to build it elsewhere, it proved his intention to build it precisely there because of its proximity to the spot where over three thousand civilians lost their lives. Although Feisal Abdul Rauf claims he wishes to promote peace and tolerance, his actions are as uncaring and intolerant as any act can get.

Obama and the left supported the Imams plans for the mosque, admonishing those who opposed it for their lack of tolerance towards moderate Muslims. Obama disregarded the fact that his support of the mosque was intolerant and showed a total dismissal of the pain and suffering the families and friends who lost their loved ones on 9/11 live with every day.

It is known that the left cringes whenever July Fourth is mentioned since many people tend to associate love of country with the Republican Party, thereby providing them a boost. They therefore do their utmost to avoid reporting anything that stirs feelings of patriotism, while spinning and attacking the right whenever they do so. 9/11 caused the entire nation to respond in unity against the evil perpetrated against their brothers and sisters. Playing images of 9/11 is therefore tantamount to evoking those emotions of solidarity.

Fighting terrorism has become a Republican thing to do. Reminding voters of the left’s cowardly attempts to appease extremists therefore deserves to be slammed by the media and the left.

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In the current race for the upcoming special elections for the congressional seat in NY-9, Bob Turner put out an ad with an image of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and then followed with a replay of his opponent’s support for the mosque as seen below.

The left erupted at Turner for politicizing the tragedy to advance his personal agenda while disregarding the feelings of the families.

Aha! So when Obama uses the death of Osama Bin Laden as self-promotional material while our soldiers are still battling the enemy and endangering their lives, not a peeps is his heard in protest of the left. Nor do they condemn Obama’s sharing military secrets with a private company which will release a video of the raid which captured Osama a month before the 2012 elections. But Turner’s ad which shows an image of the burning twin towers needs to be decried as insensitive to the victims’ families. Why pay attention to the fact that his ad is showing his empathy of their added pain because the planned mosque?

h/t NY1

In the upcoming special election between Bob Turner (R) and David Weprin (D) for Weiner’s former seat NY-9, which will occur September 13th, Turner’s campaign has just received a push forward.

The endorsement from Ed Koch, a former liberal Mayor of NYC, for Bob Turner — the Republican candidate and a true conservative is the latest in a whole lot of other reasons why Turner has a strong chance in winning the election as discussed in my previous article; NY-9: Do you really need David Weprin who used swastikas against his opponent and dumped his religious values to promote himself?

Ed Koch’s endorsement for Turner also changed the election from a mere congress seat to a referendum on Obama and his economic policies. A vote for Turner is a vote against Obama and his entire political machine.

Most of us can’t support him with our votes, but we can show him support through donations to his campaign, which can be done at his website right over here. Anything sent will aid and enable him to fight the Democratic political machine of New York who is out to do their utmost to destroy him.

Bob Turner can also be followed on twitter.

Stay tuned for the latest on this special election, and let’s hope that the right guy wins!

Below is a re-post of my previous article for those of you who’ve missed it.

David Weprin has been announced as the Democratic candidate for Anthony Weiner’s seat in the special elections this September. NY-9 includes parts of Queens and Brooklyn, which has a large Jewish population, so the Democrats hope that a Jewish candidate will be able to coast to victory.

Weprin ran last year for Assembly in a special election against another Jew, Bob Friedrich, who received the Republican nomination and championed for conservative values. Several days before the election, Weprin sent out a mailing to an area with a mostly Jewish population in which the image of a swastika was photo-shopped onto a crime scene, and accused Friedrich as “Extreme” because he “Doesn’t Think Hate Crimes Deserve Special Punishment.”  With the use of the swastika, Weprin attacked Friedrich in a calculated manner, targeting Friedrich’s Jewishness and the Jewishness of the voters to prove his opponent’s supposed nonchalance towards hate crimes.

In truth, Friedrich had said that “all crimes are hate crimes” for whenever a crime is committed there is hatred in the criminal. The decision to label certain hates as eligible for harsher punishments results in leniency for all other hate-based crimes such as hate towards females, towards rich, or towards anything else. Friedrich also argued that “murder comes before hate crime” which is common sense! If one guy punches another person in the face and yells racial slurs while a different guy kills someone without a single word uttered, which one deserves a harsher sentence?

And if two guys assault two different people, one yelling racial slurs while the other remains silent, why should the sentences be different for the same crime? If assaulting someone is a crime, then any individual who assaults any other individual should be dealt with equal severity, no matter what he does or doesn’t yell. In supporting harsher sentencing for so-called hate crimes, one is actually supporting leniency for so-called regular crimes.

Hate crimes were actually invented by liberals in order to provide additional protection to certain groups whose votes are necessary for the left to win an election. Liberals are actually known to be soft on criminals, as seen in their opposition to the death sentence.

The mailing was sent to Friedrich’s house

Last year, when Weprin ran for Assembly, he was interviewed by many prominent Jewish newspapers in which he prided himself as a religious Jew who respects and values the Jewish traditions thereby receiving a large percentage of the Jewish voters

However, just a few weeks ago Weprin voted in the NY Assembly to legalize same-sex marriage, which is contrary to and forbidden according to Jewish law and which religious Jews have protested against. Weprin’s vote in support of the bill now exposed him as a JINO – a Jew In Name Only. As a religious Jewish New Yorker myself, although not in his district, I was appalled at his vote for and support of the gay marriage bill. . The editor of the Hamodia expressed his surprise and shock at Weprin’s false self-portrayal last year, just as Stupak has done to voters in Michigan regarding abortion.

Before the vote took place he actually encouraged others to vote for it and prided himself in voting “yes” even though he’s Jewish. He may be Jewish, but obviously has no respect for the Jewish religion or its people. He then has the gall to claim he respects Judaism while promoting that which it forbids! Additionally, Weprin supports Roe vs. Wade which is also contrary to Jewish law.

Weprin defended his vote on same-sex marriage by referring to it a “civil right issue”, and that it didn’t mandate his Rabbi or others to actually perform such marriages and is therefore unrelated to religion.

How dare he compare it to the backbreaking labor slaves were enforced to endure in the bitter cold and scorching heat day in and day out? How does voting against the legalization of gay marriage compare to forbidding individuals to eat in a restaurant, take their kids to a park, or ride a bus only because of the color of their skin?

Oh, of course the law doesn’t mandate anything, one just got to wait until a Pastor or Rabbi refuses to officiate a gay wedding and is then takes to court for discriminatory charges.

Unfortunately, the Conservative movement is minimal in New York and hasn’t done much last year to fight back to Weprin’s outrageous attacks, or educate the voters especially within the Jewish community the truth regarding Weprin. The district is ranked as +5 Democrat which makes it the second most conservative district of New York. Although most residents share the Conservative ideology specifically regarding foreign affairs and social issues, many are not registered voters, while a considerable percentage that are registered don’t bother voting, because it’s liberal New York and they don’t believe their votes could possibly make a difference.

It is therefore necessary to educate the constituents of the NY-9^th district and the rest of New York about the truth of their candidates and elected officials, such as Weprin’s support for the extension of the millionaires’ tax which negatively affects the state’s economy, an increase on cigarettes tax, as well as his pro-abortion stance which is contrary to Jewish law. Voters must be told not to despair but to unite and fight the politicians who don’t represent the community and the people’s interest, economically, socially, or otherwise.

Fortunately, the Republican Party has nominated an articulate conservative, Bob Turner, to challenge Weprin. Bob Turner is a staunch pro-lifer who promises to fight for federal spending cuts and tax cuts in order to get the economy rolling once again. He’s a retired successful business owner who ran in 2010 against the then popular incumbent, Weiner, because no one else was willing to take Weiner up on his record, and received about 40% of the votes.

Weiner is the second New York representative this year who’s been forced to resign because of immoral conduct, and it’s time for New Yorkers to recognize that they deserve better Representatives who respect their position and share the values of the people At a time when the citizens are disgusted and ashamed with their representatives it is prudent to do all one can to support Bob Turner through donations, volunteering, and spreading the word so that a conservative like Turner should have the ability to fight the Democratic machine and emerge  victorious in the special elections this September.

Abie Rubin blogs at TheThinkingVoter.blogspot.com and can be followed on twitter.

When trying to talk to global warming believers about its falseness, one usually hits a brick wall and deaf ears.

When massive snowstorms and blizzards hit the entire United States during the winter, the scientists changed the name of the game to climate change all the while arguing that the increased heat was actually the cause of colder winters and more snow.

Several summers ago when the heat proved to be pretty mild, that too didn’t indicate anything contrary to global warming.

Without any care whether the weather participates with their studies, the global warming instigators and believers are uninterested in debate or in an honest search for the truth.

The following news, therefore, reported by the Daily Mail last week didn’t come as too great of a surprise. BBC Trust report urges a reduction to the amount of air-time allotted to global warming skeptics and deniers since a consensus has been reached amongst most scientists about the truth of global warming.

Is it possible to cut through the density and explain to liberals that they are falling for one of the greatest hoax and myths of mankind? That in order to squelch the truth scientists must resort to calling those opposing the myth deniers as though they’re denying some evil atrocity?

Perhaps it can be done in the following manner.

The media is constantly dramatically announcing weather-breaking record, as they’ve done this past Friday in New York City. The choking heat measured at 104 degrees which broke all previous records of the city besides for a recording of 106 degrees in 1936. The media and those supporting global warming expect us to be overwhelmed with emotion over the record-breakings and focus at the almost never before experienced heat.

Attention all liberals:

Drop the hype and emotion and use some logic.

In 1936 nuclear energy has not yet invented, cars weren’t as commonplace as today, majority of the houses didn’t have air conditioning, and plane trips were considered a luxury. And the weather hit the never-yet beaten figure of 106 degrees!

So, while the media is enveloped in hysteria over the heat of the moment and its proof that Al Gore is right, it is actually proving the foolishness and nonsense of his theory since it was hotter in 1936 than now without all the cars and other supposed global warming causers.

On what do the scientists blame the previous heats? Why have they decided that we humans are suddenly to blame?

I don’t live in fantasy land and doubt this will convince too many believers since they refuse to listen to anyone that disagrees with them as seen in BBC’s decision to limit debate, but for those undecided it might cause them to step back and think again.

Abie Rubin blogs at TheThinkingVoter.blogspot.com and can be followed on twitter.

Michael Bloomberg is a business magnate who got bored of running his company and decided it would be fun to control NYC and do with it whatever he saw fit. A review on the close to a decade which he’s been mayor highlights how anything and everything part of his personal agenda or appeared to his liking has been implemented and money was never an issue, i.e. environmental friendly regulations which most people opposed. But when it comes to balancing the budget and to prove his business suaveness, fire stations are shut down and police force is slashed, putting the lives and properties of many in danger.

Firstly, who is Mike Bloomberg? A former Democrat, he switched first to Republican in order to win the first election – which came at the heels of the popular Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani — and then switched to Independent in the midst of his second term in order to have a chance in the next election.

Bloomberg overrode and ignored the wants of his constituents who voted twice in the 90’s in support of term limits, and had the city council pass a law to extend term limits. This enabled him to run for a third term as mayor of NYC. Of course, he claimed to be doing it not for himself but for the people, because he’s the only one that can balance the budget and manage the city, because of his business experience. It seems the people didn’t fall for his altruistic claims because he had to spend over 100 million dollars on his campaign to achieve victory, and even then, only by a very small margin. (It’s simple to understand why he’s against campaign financing rules; after all he doesn’t need anyone’s help while most candidates and his opponents’ do.)

Several months after his victory, no longer needing the term limits extended, he reinstated the two-term limit. After all, nobody after him will be that necessary for the city to have to serve more than two terms. Neither was anyone before him, including Giuliani who was the first to take control of the situation after the city was hit with the devastating terror attacks. At that time, there was talk to have Giuliani remain for a third term because of the chaotic times and his reassuring command, (9/11 was three months before the end of his second term) In fact, when a reporter questioned Bloomberg how 2010 is different than after 9/11 he responded that after the attack people “pulled together right away” and we couldn’t show the terrorists that they are taking away our freedom, while the financial crisis is a global long term issue and his expertise is need.

Bloomberg took over NYC in its brightest time with a record low crime rate and booming economy, though somewhat in debt due to 9/11 related expenses. Taxes rates like property, water, sales, and employment were considerably lower than it is today. The NYPD was a powerful force who busted many drug rings and kept crime at an all-time low, and the FDNY response time was the quickest in its history. Enter Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Taxes on just about everything increased, but somehow there still wasn’t enough money for our cops. Thousands of police were laid off only to be replaced with meter maids and traffic cops. (According to Bloomberg more meter maids = more tickets= more revenue for the city, while less police doesn’t mean less safety in the streets.) To everyone’s surprise the crime rates remained at their record low levels. Amazing? Definitely, but only to the uninformed.  Those who had to file police reports were a bit more skeptical and with good reason, since the process was made increasingly difficult. Even many of those who actually got a police report done would never make it onto official record. (Claimants would come back a while later and find their report as nonexistent.) Their skepticism was proven accurate when The Village Voice had gotten and released tapes from an active police member of the 81st precinct in which you hear officers advising cops how to minimize and avoid police reports, while demanding a quota of tickets etc. Lower statistics indeed!

Besides for being ticketed endlessly by the meter maids and traffic cops, the sanitation department joined the cause and it became routine for an entire street block to receive a ticket for dirt in front of their houses, even if it’s a windy day and many had swept. Hey, I want to live in a clean neighborhood and not in a dump yard but to get fined for a stray shopping bag blown onto one’s property by the wind, or the lone tissue or snack bag that a passing kid just dumped in front of someone else’s house? These are but some of the examples of living in Bloomberg land.

Leave it up to Bloomberg to beat the most unbelievable chutzpah you’ve ever heard. The past December he imposed a new tax, that was supposed to start July, that any vehicle that needs the assistance of the fire department. Bloomberg’s “crash tax” would cost $490 if you are injured in an accident, $415 for a vehicle fire, and $365 if FDNY ambulances come and there’s no fire or injury. Luckily, Bloomberg cancelled it in April after the City Council speaker said it’s a basic government function.

Don’t think Bloomberg is some guy without feelings for victims, it simply depends which victims. Bloomberg’s heart is so full of love to all the poor illegals so he invited them all over to join the already overcrowded and failing classrooms of New York City. How about it’s our tax money and it should be used for our safety and to better our needs?

And who does he think he’s fooling by raising property taxes through the roof and then sends back a tiny portion of it? Let me keep my money and I won’t need your change!

After all the tax increases, ticketing and utilizing every ounce of his business expertise, Bloomberg finally figured out how to close the gap in the city’s budget by closing  six Fire stations in 2003, saving the city 8 million dollars of a 3.8 billion dollar deficit. He had wanted to close an additional 20 stations for nights, but after fierce protests it was dropped. Bloomberg’s original reasoning to close fire stations at night: To balance the budget and because there’s less traffic at night the firefighters can travel quicker from a greater distance. Suspected true reason: The fire stations can’t make home inspection to find building violations at night, which brings in money for the government, so why bother keeping it open? Who cares that at most night fires the people trapped in the fire are awakened when the fire is out of control and help is needed quicker than ever?

There were quite a few fatal fires lately in NYC even without these shutdowns but nothing seems to stop him.A few weeks ago the city released its upcoming budget with a list of an additional 20 stations they want to shut down completely, day and night unless some magic money is found to keep them open. Is this some tactic to force citizens into agreement to have their taxes raised again and again and again? Why is our safety the first thing to be slashed? How about saving money by stopping running ads on the danger of salt, cigarettes, and trans fat?

When it comes to environment related expenses or “educating the ignorant people” expenses one would think the city has a surplus of several billion and doesn’t know what to do with it. An endless stream of ads bombard the radios and TV stations against salt, sugar, smoking, trans fat and many additional pet peeves of Bloomberg which should be of no concern to the government. Bloomberg also has plenty of funding to create bike lanes, even in neighborhoods that have vehemently opposed it because it eliminated lots of parking spots in an already overpopulated neighborhood and is a community populated by non-bike riders. When it was pointed out that only .6% from the city use bikes, Bloomberg responded that there was 40% cut in pollution in bike lane area. So it’s not safety he was doing it for, but for the environment.  In Manhattan he put in pedestrian islands on Broadway from Time Square until Herald Square which cut a four lane Avenue down to two, in an already congested area which lead to worsened traffic in the other parts of the city.

He also place pedestrian islands in different areas in the other boroughs without any rhyme or reason, such as Fort Hamilton Pkwy in Brooklyn between 45th -48th streets which is at least a mile away from a highway, and only a 50 foot wide crossing. It created a fury because Maimonides Medical Center’s emergency room is located on Fort Hamilton Pkwy between 48 & 49th streets, and it took away the emergency lane in the center which ambulances used to pass cars or trucks blocking them. It also made the street too narrow for fire trucks and other large trucks to turn onto the Avenue, and if even a single car is blocking, then total chaos and standstill occurs.

The city responded by removing 12 parking spots and making them into fire zones with a 115 dollar fine for stopping even for a few minutes so that the trucks should be able to turn in. This has hurt the businesses on the avenue terribly because people can no longer park in front of the stores so they go shopping elsewhere. The neighborhood has long been struggling with parking because of the nearby hospital and eliminating an additional 12 spots made the situation worse. Additionally, deliveries to stores have become very difficult as they have to stop several blocks away. Cars coming down Fort Hamilton or streets leading to Fort Hamilton are no longer allowed to make any turns because all the cars behind it can no longer pass it. In short, it accomplished absolutely nothing positive but costing the city a million dollars!

They planted trees in the midst of these islands a few weeks ago to make them more environmentally friendly, its cost to the city I haven’t found.  Now there are rumors that the islands will be narrowed down or even totally removed. What a waste of money; First to build it, then to add trees, and then to (hopefully) destroy it all. Is this the liberal way of creating jobs? This could’ve all been prevented if Bloomberg wouldn’t have to act as a know-it-all and do things without asking the community. Other intersections in the neighborhood are much more dangerous crossings than these three blocks. I never felt threatened or in danger when I crossed at my light on Fort Hamilton, while other spots I did. If anything, the lights should’ve been extended for the pedestrians an extra minute.

This is just one of the many islands he’s enacted. Here’s a link to another one in Marine Park which has been the cause of several cars flipping over.

What Bloomberg doesn’t get, is that although he’s mayor he’s not the owner of this city and the city can’t wait for him to go. He doesn’t have the right to try to control every aspect of its people’s lives like his attempts in dictating what we can or can’t eat. Additionally, his wants are not necessarily the wants of the citizens though he’d never take that into consideration. At this point all the city could do is wait for his last 2 ½ years as mayor here to come to an end and I hope we’ll make a smarter choice next time. I’m not getting my hopes to high, though, because it’s liberal NYC after all.

Abie Rubin blogs at TheThinkingVoter.blogspot.com and can be followed on twitter.

Originally posted to Liberty Ink Journal

Agree or disagree with her views, you must admit Michelle Malkin has a way with words.  And her column about the obnoxious and extreme liberal Anthony Weiner and his desire for an ObamaCare waiver is a good example.

First, Obama exempted his big union fatcats and their thugs who do things like damage public property funded by taxpayers in places like, oh, I don’t know, Madison, Wisconsin.  Then he started exempting the supposed enemies of the unions, selected big corporations.  Well, why not?  Like union fatcats, big CEOs such as GE’s Jeffrey Immelt are Obama’s buddies too.  (Shh, don’t tell the left.  They claim the Democrat Party is here to “protect” us from all those big corporate CEOs.  Heck, it’s not like the top elected official in the Democrat Party isn’t buddy buddy with them.)  Then Maine insurers get exemptions from certain provisions of this massive boondoggle.  Nevada and Kentucky line up behind Maine, along with a bunch of other states.

But now Anthony Weiner, ObamaCare champion, wants a waiver for his beloved New York City.  New York City is a heavy voting bloc for Democrats.  This would be the LAST place that should want or deserves to get any kind of waiver from ObamaCare.  They made their bed and all that.

Look, we heard impassioned speeches on the House floor about how wonderful this thing is, and villifying anyone (Republican politician or ordinary American) who dared speak against the Democrat will.  The speechifying finished with the now shellacked EX Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying “Vote my darlings, vote.”  The Democrats chose to ram this mess through on a party line vote without taking the time to hash it out and make sure the provisions were right for people.  It seems like a show of lack of confidence in their work to be handing out waivers like candy at a parade (and what would Michelle Obama, self-appointed czar of “healthy eating” while simultaneously being a fan of barbecue and ribs, think of that??).

The leftist leaning Media Matters tried to do damage control for the Democrats by claiming Weiner merely said the ability to grant waivers shows it’s “flexibility.”    Actually, it just proves further that this is indeed government control over our health care.  Bottom line is that it is an opportunity for the powerful to scratch the backs of their powerful.  What is the process for getting a waiver?  Who must one know to get a waiver?  How much campaign cash must be given to Democrat politicians to get a waiver? How can I get a waiver?  How can you get a waiver? Can’t we all just get waivers if we want them?  Should the law have any meaning or can various well connected groups get a “get out of jail free” card like in the game of Monopoly (Obama edition, of course)?  Do we get to collect $200 as we pass “Go” and have the government take it all away from us?  Oh wait, the system Obama is pushing on us is like all of us being perpetually stuck on Boardwalk with a government owned hotel on it.

The Democrats wanted a one size fits all “solution.”  THE LAW IS THE LAW.  There should be no exemptions, PERIOD.  If this inconveniences unions or causes big corporations to shed more employees, so be it.  This is what the Democrats wanted, this is what they wasted so much energy, time, and money cheerleading for, not to mention destroyed their political careers for in some cases, and they should deal with the consequences like responsible people.  (Wait, I’m talking about entrenched elitist politicians.  Responsibility doesn’t enter into the equation there.)  There should be NO backroom deals to cover up the disastrous effects of ObamaCare.  If jobs are lost or union workers have to pay more as a result of ObamaCare, well, that’s “change we can believe in,” just in time for Obama’s hopefully failing bid for a second term.

By the time this thing is done, it will look like virtual swiss cheese.  We’ve heard the “You might be a <insert something> if…” jokes.  Well, let’s hear everyone’s ideas for “You might get an ObamaCare waiver if…”  Oh and just to clear it up, no government funding for this.  All responses must be the work of the writer’s own mind.  No outsourcing of thinking to some government commission or committee (and heck, one probably already exists for this sort of thing), please…

But I digress.  On another note, couldn’t Weiner have wanted a waiver in Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, or better yet, in Walla Walla, Washington?  Certainly, conservative bloggers could have had even more fun with blog titles for that!