Good riddance, I say. The world is a better place with one less Klansman in it.

Someone please let me know when these rich Hollywood douchebags start ponying up their own cash to pay for the left-wing policies they claim to support instead of demanding that we pay for it.

You have a very solid majority in the House.
You have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
You have a Democrat in the White House who is pushing hard for healthcare reform, and is thus unlikely to veto any health care reform bill.
And you have a media that is carrying water for you at all levels, even preempting many of their regularly scheduled programs so that the Democratic president can run health care reform infomercials that no one has been watching.

And, the simple fact is, you can pass anything you damned well please, because you do hold such a strong advantage in all levels of the government and in the media.  If you want, you can make gay marriage legal, you can repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and you can most certainly can pass your “health care reform” bill.

Simply put, you don’t need the Republicans to do what you want, so why all the whining?  Pass your bills.  Own them.  Take responsibility for them.  Or, is that the source of the whining?

Could it be that you all know that most Americans (more than 60% on almost all major polls) do not want government-run health care?  Could it be that you need someone upon whom you can place blame when this whole debacle blows up in your collective faces, and that you may find yourselves out of a job come the next election cycle?

Do it.  Pass your bills and face the consequences.  We, the American people to whom you are accountable, dare you.

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”

Granted, I’m not some financial guru or a mathematical prodigy, but I like to think that I have a modicum of common sense as well as a sense of recent history.  This year’s federal budget has a deficit of more than $1,000,000,000,000.  Yes, that number has 12 zeroes at the end.  I used the long form of the number so that one can grasp the enormity of this number.

To put it bluntly, there’s no money left in the bank.  In fact, the bank account is more than a trillion dollars in the hole.  Yet, the esteemed vice president is advocating taking even more money out of that bank (and going deeper into that hole) to stave off bankruptcy.  This type of behavior is what causes bankruptcy, not what prevents it.

Even as Vice President Biden was extolling the virtues of idiocy, Douglas W. Elmendorf, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office was testifying before the Senate Budget Committee.  His testimony was that “the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run.”

If we follow Vice President Biden’s economic advice, then the federal deficit will explode even more than it already has.  What was once called “unsustainable” will give way to imminent financial collapse.

To drive my point home, I’m going to ask a couple of questions:

If you ran a business with the same financial model as the federal government, how long would you expect to remain in business?

If you ran your personal finances with the same financial model as the federal government, how long could you sustain your current lifestyle?

Think about your answer, and then ask yourself why the federal government would be any different.