Neal Boortz: Bribes not change we can believe in

By Neal Boortz

For The AJC

Just how bad ... how dishonest ... how hypocritical ... can our hopey-changey president be? Apparently there are no bounds.

No secret, my friends. I’m no fan of Barack Obama. This is a man with no respect for the rule of law, no respect for our Constitution, and no respect for the oath he took when he was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2009. The typical response I will get to these comments from Obama Bots out there will be something like “... well, George Bush blah blah blah blah and blah.”

Know what? You’re right. George Bush had his own set of problems and did his share of damage to our economy. He essentially doubled the size of our Imperial Federal Government and sent our deficit soaring.

But George Bush isn’t the president now; and citing his deficiencies does nothing to heal or ameliorate the damage being done by the current White House resident.

Are you completely aware of the how far The Community Organizer is willing to go to get his government takeover of health care started? How about selling federal judgeships for votes? Would Obama go that far? Well, let’s consider the interesting case of Utah Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson. Matheson has voted against ObamaCare at every opportunity. Now, suddenly, Rep. Matheson is officially “undecided.” He doesn’t really know how he’s going to vote now. His office reports that he’s waiting to see if a “bipartisan consensus” on ObamaCare forms. When asked if a bipartisan consensus would mean Republican votes, the Matheson office was strangely defensive.

Now you’re probably wondering just what happened to cause the honorable Rep. Matheson to change his mind. Simple. Obama bought his vote. You already know about the Cornhusker Kickback with Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson. You’ve heard about the Louisiana Purchase with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu. And how can you forget Obama’s purchase of union ObamaCare support with tax exemptions? Now Obama is working the House of Representatives. The price here is a federal judgeship.

Rep. Matheson, you see, has this brother. His name is Scott. Scott Matheson is a lawyer and law professor who occupies some fancy chair at the University of Utah College of Law. It seems that Barack Obama has now nominated Professor Matheson to an empty seat on the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Now just how transparent is that! Rep. Jim Matheson votes “no” on ObamaCare. Barack Obama nominates his brother to fill an appeals court vacancy. Suddenly Rep. Matheson is “undecided,” which means he’s going to vote “yes.”

So, there you go. Is this how Obama said he would govern if he was elected president? Hardly. I seems to remember Obama talking about an end to “business as usual” in Washington. I guess selling judgeships is the new “business as usual.”

I have a few words left and always another point to make. Hopefully you know now that President Obama has blessed the use of the “reconciliation” process to pass ObamaCare. That means passage of ObamaCare by 50-plus-one votes in the Senate.

Well, here’s an Obama quote from an interview with the Concord Monitor on Oct. 10, 2007. Obama, then in campaign mode, said: “We are not going to pass universal health care with a 50-plus-one strategy.” On Sept. 25, 2007, Obama told the Change to Win Convention: “... We’re going to have to have a 60 percent majority in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk. We’re going to have to have a majority to get a bill to my desk that is not just a 50-plus-one majority.”

That stink in the air? The wonderful stench of hypocrisy.

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