In the midst of the New York Times’ write up of the FDA strengthening/tax-the-farmers-so-they-can-farm bill, we get this gem:

And in the midst of negotiations, the negotiators — nearly all women — took a field trip to a nearby food market so that a Republican staff member could teach the Democrats how to buy high-quality steaks.

I don’t know which is more ridculous: the fact that this paragraph made it into the article or the fact that Democrats don’t know how to buy their own damned steaks. Are they so damned rich that they don’t deign to go to market themselves? Douchebags!

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Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) has proposed a Senate vote to repeal the 1099 boondoggle imposed on the American people courtesy of Obamacare. The vote is scheduled for tomorrow.

Originally a document to track contract labor, Obamacare–in an effort to be deficit neutral–now compels businesses to issue a 1099 to any company they do business with in excess of $600. Buy a new laptop? Send Apple a 1099. Buy a new company car? Write the dealer a 1099. Despite a gross violation of Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, this domestic spying program is designed to track every dollar in the economy so it can be taxed to pay for the oppressive regulation. (For more information, click here.)

Contrary to conventional wisdom, repealing this confiscatory requirement is not in Senator Johanns’ best interest. By relieving the oppression of the Obama administration’s most prized legislative accomplishment, Senator Johanns accepts the premise that the Obamacare legislation is basically good and simply needs refinement, repealing domestic spying via tax documents being one of the necessary refinements.

But this is an attempt to pick up a turd by the clean end; it simply can’t be done.

It was Democrats that were swept to power in the 2008 Presidential election and it was Democrats that passed the Obamacare legislation. Democrats have their grubby, fecal matter-infested handprints all over this abortion of a law. Trying to salvage any piece of this legislation is a caliber of blunder that borders on treason.

Senator Johanns would do better to wait until the new Congress is installed before pursuing any action on Obamacare at which point he should push for a full repeal. If Democrats want to vote against a full repeal, it will be their heads that will role as the economy comes to a grinding halt. Those Democrats that dare vote to keep in place confiscatory practices will pay the price at the polls in 2012 making the Republican’s pickups in the recent election cycle look minimal compare to the gains they would be guaranteed because of the repulsive yoke about the American people’s neck called Obamacare.

The 1099 oppression in Obamacare fails to be repealed. Another day passes and Democrats still own their abortion.

SHUT UP, SLAVE!

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard: Obama’s Transportation czar wants all Americans to install jamming devices in their vehicles so they can’t text or talk while on the road.

What surprises me most about this column is that Malkin didn’t point out that with such jamming devices in place, there would be no way to contact emergency services in the event of an emergency.

Recently, Huntsville has imposed a texting ban, but it’s so watered down, I don’t think it’s enforced. As far as I know, there hasn’t been a substantial change in crash statistics in town, but then again, depending on local media for cover on this issue post-enactment is an act of insanity. My suspicion is that the stats haven’t changed because there haven’t been stories about motorists getting ticketed for texting while driving, because passing this ordinance was about the political posturing of appearing to do something instead of providing a genuine solution to problem.