Dogs can be needy for attention and/or toys. Beware, lest you become a victim.
“Perrito de compañía. Dog to keep company.”
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Political End Runs. Thomas Sowell at Townhall. On legislators’ intent on ramming down their agenda onto the people, in spite of blatant disapproval.
Bills passed too fast for anyone to read them are blatant examples of these end runs. But last week, another of these end runs appeared in a different institution when the medical “end of life consultations” rejected by Congress were quietly enacted through bureaucratic fiat by administrators of Medicare.
Although Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Senator Jay Rockefeller had led an effort by a group of fellow Democrats in Congress to pass Section 1233 of pending Medicare legislation, which would have paid doctors to include “end of life” counselling in their patients’ physical checkups, the Congress as a whole voted to delete that provision.
Whatever the merits or demerits of the proposed provision in Medicare legislation, the Constitution of the United States makes the elected representatives of “we the people” the ones authorized to make such decisions. But when proposals explicitly rejected by a vote in Congress are resurrected and stealthily made the law of the land by bureaucratic fiat, there has been an end run around both the people and the Constitution.
The people have spoken about not wanting death panels or anything associated with end-of-life planning by government. The 2010 mid-term elections booted incumbents associated with this “do as I say” mentality that forced their end-of-life planning anyway, and elected people to represent their constituents for a change. Lets hope the still nascent 112th Congress is able to wield the will of the poeple in line with the Consitution.
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“Happy New Year.”
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