New House members must set terms of debate
The congressional virgins have one last chance to reform Washington the way Barack Obama said he would do but failed at every step when he refudiated his many election pledges. But to maintain their virtue, they need to change the language of the debate. Words matter.
Madam Speaker deserves credit for using the vocabulary of “reform” to force everyone into the maws of Medicare/Medicaid after bankrupting the private insurance competition. When the little old lady on TV talks about her “free” motorized chair via Medicare, someone needs to remind her that the money is being stolen from her grandchildren — who have no voice in the matter.
When President Obama talks about the greedy, overpaid “5 percent” of Americans, someone needs to remind him that they include the average government employee if you include their “Cadillac” health plans.
Jack Adams
Washington
Obamacare should be overturned
Re: “Much of Obama agenda in hands of courts,” Dec. 15
Kudos to U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson, who ruled that requiring the majority of American citizens to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional and beyond the scope of Congress’ constitutional powers. Thanks likewise to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who filed the lawsuit last March.
This case, which is more about an individual’s liberty to opt out of Obamacare without being punished than about health care, should now go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court to be overturned.
Twenty other states have filed similar lawsuits to overturn Obamacare. Unfortunately, the liberal “Free State” of Maryland is not one of them.
Al Eisner
Silver Spring
Matthews should not cast doughnuts at others
Re: “Chris Matthews says Barbour, Christie too fat to be president,” Yeas & Nays, Dec. 10
Chris Matthews thinks fat people should not be president of the United States. I think people on the verge of becoming fat should not be anchormen spouting rubbish on cable TV.
The jowls on Matthew’s face and the girth of his neck indicate that the whispers of obesity are gaining strength on him. All that is needed to push him over the edge into corpulence are a couple of doughnuts here and some cupcakes there, eaten to calm nerves jangled by the Tea Party folks or by his most revered leader signing on to an extension of tax cuts for the rich.
Usha Nellore
Bel Air, Md.
