Kowabunga

Cheers, Norm

You better watch out
You better not pout
You better not cry
I’m telling you why
ObamaCare is coming to town.

The disastrous takeover of our health insurance system by government is impending, complete with closed-door backroom deals and no bi-partisanship or GOP input. The slow creep to serfdom is going into hyperdrive as Obama and House/Senate leaders bypass the normal joint committees to resolve differences in House and Senate versions of the Health Care “Reform” bill as a means to short-circuit Republican input and rush the process so as to ram it down the throats of the American people before we know which way is up. Ya can’t blame Bush for this disaster.

But I do have someone to blame.

Norm Coleman, former Republican Senator from Minnesota.

Why do I blame Coleman? Simple. He surrendered his seat in the recount proceedings is a maneuver that would make Jean-Luc Piccard proud.

Reason: Going into the recount, Coleman had a narrow (razor thin) lead. When determining how his team would handle the recount, he played a gentlemanly game of softball, ignoring the lesson learned in Washington two years before. Al Franken, on the other hand, took the Washington lesson and applied it in Minnesota, playing hardball and going straight for the jugular. End result, official recount showed Franken with a narrow (razor thin) lead by using loosy-goosy standards on ballots from Ramsey and Hennepin counties while applying tight standards to ballots from pretty much everywhere else. When the process went to the courts, Coleman continued to play softball while Franken beat Coleman’s team like bongo drums.

You can’t when a gun fight when you show up with a pocket knife.

Had Coleman played by the same rules that Franken used in the recount, there is a high probability that Coleman would still be a U.S. Senator and ObamaCare would have been stopped dead in the Senate.

Thanks a lot, Norm.

Tags: Al Franken, Norm Coleman, Obamacare