End of liberal government?

By Jim Killebrew

[November 19, 2013]  ^"If this goes down ... if health care, the Affordable Care Act, is deemed a failure, this is the end, I really mean it, of liberal government." —  Mark Shields, noted liberal commentator

Interesting comment from a liberal commentator. For months the president promised that if we liked our policy we could keep it. If we liked our doctor, we could continue with our choice. Insurance through the Affordable Care Act will be much cheaper. All these promises from a president running for re-election making promises that he knew at the time were false. Now, usurping the power of Congress by changing the law by presidential edict, trying to give private insurance companies the suggestion to undo what the Affordable Care Act required them to do, and all for just another year? Is that what Mr. Shields believes will be the end of "liberal" government?

So it has finally reached a level of proportions that now a liberal commentator is afraid it might cause the end of liberal government? What about things like Mexican gunrunning; the outing of SEAL Team 6; the State Department lying about Benghazi; voter fraud; the military not getting their votes counted; the NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else; the use of drones in our own country without the benefit of the law; giving 123 Technologies $300 million and right after that declaring bankruptcy and being sold to the Chinese; the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood; the IRS targeting conservatives; the DOJ spying on the press; Ms. Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives; giving Solyndra $500 million, just to see them three months later declare bankruptcy and then see the Chinese purchasing it; the president's ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester; the president's threat to impose gun control by executive order in order to bypass Congress; the president's repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February, and going four years without a budget; the president's unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate's advice-and-consent role; the State Department interfering with an inspector general investigation on departmental sexual misconduct; and finally, Ms. Clinton, the IRS, Mr. Clapper and Mr. Holder all lying to Congress.

I wonder, Mr. Shields, would not those things have been a clue to you the liberal government might not be working for us? Where were you then? Perhaps the Affordable Care Act is affecting you personally, as it is with millions of other Americans, with higher premium costs or higher deductibles, so this is the Waterloo of liberal government?

The problem is that it has taken you this long to discern the improbability of liberal government after all this; what will it take for the rest of the liberal commentators to come to that same conclusion?

[By JIM KILLEBREW]