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Dick Cheney made this statement yesterday to Politico:

“As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gets rid of the words, ‘war on terror,’ we won?t be at war.

“But we are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe. Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency — social transformation — the restructuring of American society. President Obama’s first object and his highest responsibility must be to defend us against an enemy that knows we are at war.”

More at HotAir

Obama signed an executive order last week exempting Interpol from constraints that apply to every law enforcement agency in America. Constraints like say, the Constitution, FOIA and other laws and treaties that protect our rights and prevents government agencies from operating in complete secrecy. This is not just about wrecking the health care system, tanking the economy, or making America a laughing stock by the amateurish behavior of its President. This is about our national security and preventing terrorism on American soil. This is about making international criminals out of those who try to protect us from terrorism. It is about giving over our sovereignty to that Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization known as the United Nations and that far left political tool known as the International Criminal Court.

I don’t have the patience to detail it here, but there is no reason for that when you can get the full picture at these sources:

Erick Erickson

Andy McCarthy

Threats Watch

Winchester gets a contract to supply ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) with 200 million rounds of 135 grain hollow points in .40 caliber pistol ammo over the next five years. One nice thing about a government job would be having all the free ammo you can shoot and a private range to do it.

Paco Enterprises says:

Now, in case the entire population of Mexico tries to cross the border over the next five years, this would be enough to shoot everybody twice;

“Yes, sir, I can. Because why did we do– why do we want a public option? We want a public option to do basically three ten– things: create more choice for insurers, create more competition for insurance companies, and to contain costs.”

–House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) when asked on CBS’ Face the Nation if he could back a healthcare bill that did not have a public option.

All the Democrats and Obama are saying the same thing, they want a healthcare plan that creates more choice and competition in insurance and reduces the cost of healthcare. They have to believe that the American people are very stupid to keep repeating this bilge. Any fool can see and knows that whatever hideous mutation of a healthcare bill finally emerges from the sausage factory of the United States Congress is not going to do any of that. The intended unintended consequences of this horrid legislation are going to be less choice and competition not more, and increased cost of insurance, as well as new taxes out the wazoo.

As to the so-called “public option,” that is just a red herring. The entire healthcare bill is a public option. Clyburn essentially admits as much when he states that it doesn’t matter what we call it. No, it doesn’t matter. You can call a dog a cat if you want but it will still be a dog. You can call a government-run healthcare system a potato or an insurance exchange but it will still be a government-run healthcare system with all the inefficiency and bureaucracy of every other government function. And there is never any private sector competition with any government-run entitlement program.