Something fishy

John F Kennedy once said, "Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive." Claiming there is a lot of "disinformation" circulating, the White House this week asked citizens if they got an email or blog from someone about the health care debate that they thought was "fishy" they should send it to the White House. So, the White House is going to be collecting names, email addresses, IP addresses and private speech of citizens who oppose their massive government takeover of health care. For what purpose? To create an "enemies list"? To target these people for government paid "propaganda" to "educate" them as to the errors or their ways? I can see no other purpose for sending private emails and blogs to the White House on this specific purpose. I'd love to hear a rational explanation, but so far have yet to even hear the White House acknowledge the program. What are we going to have a "TRUTH CZAR"?

Just a quick question, is the disinformation from the Obama White House going to be reported? Despite claims to the contrary, there is video evidence that Barack Obama wants to go to a single payer government health care system. However, he now claims he is opposed to such system. Was he lying then? Or is he lying now? Or has he changed his mind, and if so, why? Sounds fishy to me.....someone ought to report it to the White House.

Besides having serious issues with the policy direction of this administration, the political power grabs are even more disconcerting. Government has taken over large parts of the financial system, the automotive manufacture and is now proposing a health care takeover. More "czars" have been appointed than I think Russia ever had. These shadowy positions bypass the ordinary "checks and balances". There was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the alleged attempts by the Bush administration to consolidate power in the executive branch. Yet the appointment of all these czars and the government takeover of industry and finance is the biggest power grab going.

As I wrote before, there is a disturbing cult of personality rising around Obama. And just one more step in that direction is the White House request for us to "snitch" on our neighbor who disagrees with the President. It is quite frankly getting scarier by the day.