Comrade Betty? McCollum in running for Club for Growth big-gov prize
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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On Monday, supply-siders at the Club for Growth will reveal the first winner of the “Comrade of the Month” award, which highlights individuals who embody “the policies of big-government redistribution and restrictions on economic freedom.” Never shy about painting opponents as pinkos, the small-government group calls out Minnesota Rep. Betty McCollum along with Republican Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida and Democrats Richard Daley, Chicago mayor; Rep. Barney Frank; and Fox News pundit Bob Beckel. (Curiously, Fox’s bio for Beckel — who managed the 1984 presidential campaign for Walter Mondale — no longer appears at FoxNews.com; Google’s cache shows that it was there earlier today [screengrab], however.)
A club member nominated McCollum for daring to suggest health care is a right:
I’d like to nominate Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota’s 4th District. Fortunately she’s not my Congressman, but last week she introduced H.J. Res. 4, which proposes a Constitutional Amendment decreeing health care is a Constitutional right. It’s clear that McCollum doesn’t understand economic liberty. Nothing can be considered a “right” when obtaining that right strips the rights from someone else. The text of her resolution can be found here.
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Comment posted January 30, 2009 @ 10:07 pm
Apparently the Club for Growth still favors slavery. As I recall, slave owners considered slaves to be their property. The US Supreme Court agreed in Dred Scott. The 14th amendment “stripped those rights” from slave owners. Ergo, the Fourteenth Amendment did not grant any rights (of due process, equal rights, privileges and immunities.). It further follows that the members of the Club for Growth must each be deemed a wanker of extraordinary merit.
Comment posted January 30, 2009 @ 10:42 pm
Congresswoman McCollum is not this person’s congressman, well, because she is not a man. But I digress. I am in her district, and we will continuously and proudly re-elect her by huge margins. This award rom the club for growth is probably a good thing for her in our district.
As a side note, the only redistribution of wealth going on for the last 30 years has been from the middle class that created the wealth to the bankers who manage the wealth. Supply side economics is entirely about redistribution of wealth, but these guys cannot understand that at all.
Comment posted January 31, 2009 @ 9:13 am
Is this the same Club for growth that supported policies of “Big Government Redistribution of Wealth to the Wealthy and Restrictions of Economic Opportunity for the Middle Class” while everyone was supposed to be looking elsewhere? Gee whiz! That’s clever!
Comment posted January 31, 2009 @ 10:55 am
Guess I’ll have to add McCollum to my volunteer door knocking schedule in 2010. Betty – How Cool Thou Art!!
Comment posted January 31, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
There is a certain perversion of language in the United States these day when there is a call for health care as a constitutional right. Basic human rights are not restricted by borders. The constitution was written to address basic human rights which never came with a monetary price. If the economy ever falls completely apart, logically, a constitutional guarentee for health care will compel health care providers to give their labor away free. Human rights are note restricted to the United States, and it will be interesting to see supporters of this concept fight for the rights to health care for citizens for all the world, when rights the rights of undocumented workers are not yet protected here. Congress should start addressing the human rights of undocumented workers who live amongst us before moving on to grant health care as a basic human right.
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