Stop it - you're killing me!

A joke from President Obama's recent commencement address at Arizona State University:

Now, before I begin, I'd like to clear the air about that little controversy everyone was talking about a few weeks back. I have to tell you, I really thought it was much ado about nothing, although I think we all learned an important lesson. I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket. And your university President and Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.

Once he nationalizes health insurance, he can joke about denying, say, pacemakers or chemotherapy or organ transplants to folks he doesn't like. It'll be a laff riot!

They have a cunning plan

Wyoming Senator John Barrasso gave today's weekly Republican radio address, and in it he proudly claimed that the Republican party is even more socialist than the Democrats:

Republicans support a comprehensive energy plan. A plan that puts Americans to work. A plan that harnesses American resources.

O the glory of the Centralized Plan handed down from Washington.

Just a passing happy thought

One the government controls healthcare, they can use the threat of fines, penalties and punishments to control everything you do that influences your health. And we can expect a celebrated (by the "news" media) increase in physician-assisted suicides. Those will save the government insurance bureaucrats a bundle of money that would have gone toward end-of-life care.