Amos update, Robertscare

The only thing that could make this more ridiculous is if they added

a can of beer to each side with tubes running down to the wearer's mouth.

Hey, waaaait a minute...that's not a bad idea.

Just how clueless is the king?  Well he put an aviator in charge of an infantry outfit, with predictable results.  The new USMC Commandant’s first brush with greatness came when he chucked principle in favor of folding like a napkin on the question of don’t ask don’t tell.  Then came Famous Amos’s remark that he wanted Marines photographed peeing on a couple of dead Talis “crushed” at courts martial.  Hmm, how much better would the Marine effort in Afghanistan be going if Amos insisted on crushing the Taliban instead of his Marines?  The world wonders.

Now Gen Zoomie Amos is screwing with the Marines’ blue uniform.  He’s being pressured by the White House to adopt a unisex cover (yeah, it’s called a “cover” NOT a hat) for the Marine dress uniform.  The field hates the idea.  The White House loves it.  Wanna guess how Famous is going to vote?  First, Famous has proven to be as malleable as silly putty for the king and his men.  Next, I’m not sure Famous secretly hasn’t been wearing women’s clothes since he first tried on his mother’s slip as a child.  Once the WM’s cover is adopted, no doubt he’ll want to wear the women’s skirt and blouse as well.

It’s ridiculous.  But that’s the perfect legacy for the Marine Corps’ first ridiculous commandant.  Only Marines know how painful it is for me to admit that.

Robertscare
Last week people who wanted to delay the individual mandate were described by the royal media and Lord Harry the roach Reid as terrorists, hostage takers, suicide bombers, holding a gun to the nation’s head etc.  Today, 6 Dopes are in favor of the same plan Republicans advocated a mere week ago.  Has any royal media member asked Joe Manchin why he didn’t support the Republicans a week ago to avoid the shutdown?  Uh, no they haven’t.

Robertscare II
A couple of days ago I caught a segment on Fox where some Dope talking head said that while Robertscare itself was unpopular, individual portions of it are very popular with the American people.  He went on to rattle off a long list of options “that the American people wanted” - birth control, drug rehab, mental illness, pre/post natal care, psychological care, PTSD counseling from your son’s 1-7 little league team’s performance (For you not him.  He had a blast.)  and on and on.  They were all very popular according to polling.

Sure it is.  Why not?  What the poll didn’t rate was how willing Americans were to pay for that care for themselves and more importantly for the 47% of non-contributing members of American society.  It’s like going to an open bar at a wedding.  People who wouldn’t think of ordering anything from the top shelf if they were paying and certainly wouldn’t buy it for a total stranger sitting at the end of the bar, suddenly have a taste for only the finest whiskey.  The bud lite guy turns into a Stagg’s bourbon guy when someone else is buying.

So yeah, why not go first class if someone else is paying.  That’s the problem in America right now.  The “someone else” is us and we’re BROKE.