Next stop, the Twilight Zone

Okay, so like most conservatives right now, I feel I'm living in an Orwellian nightmare. But in the last few weeks, the absurdity has reached a new level. You've probably heard that many of the same people wringing their hands about the AIG bonuses knew about them back in November. Here are a few issues that are just as mind-numbing, and haven't gotten as much press. I've added links to real news outlets so to prove that I didn't get this stuff from rightwingmilitias.com.

THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
Obama thinks that one big reason for the global economic meltdown is that too much influence was concentrated in the hands of a few US and UK executives, and their poor choices started a domino effect that hurt the world economy. To avoid that risk in the future, his solution is to concentrate all the influence on the world economy into the hands of a few bureaucrats on an international Financial Stability Board.

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/06/commentary/op-eds/doc49d9b9e9826c9440084179.txt

US LEGAL SOVEREIGNTY
Harold Koh, Obama's nominee for Legal Advisor to the State Department wants to subjugate the US to international legal norms on issues like the death penalty. The morality of decisions made by the Supreme Court would be reviewed by the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. This makes perfect sense, considering that the Netherlands is also home to that paragon of virtue known as Amsterdam.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/q=MDBhMDk5NzFkZGIwMDI0ZDM3ZDQzYzBjNTk1ODg0YmQ=

HEALTH CARE
Obama's new budget director Peter Orszag has stated that cutting health care costs is one of the best ways to solve our nation's long-term budget problems. I agree with him. The problem is, his boss Obama's plan to save money is to have the government insure 80 million new people, and use that economy of scale to bring costs down. Remember, this is the same government that paid $436 for a hammer. This is the same government that thinks a budget cut means no new increase in spending. This is the same government that underestimated the cost of the Medicare prescription drug program by 60 percent. They're the ones who can cut health care costs?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9328-2005Feb8.html

DISARMAMENT
After North Korea used the pretext of launching a satellite to test a long range missile, Obama responded with a call for the US and other superpowers to scrap their nuclear weapons and bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force. Fewer nukes would make the world a safer place, right?It's similar to the argument that the best way to curb gun violence is to have everyone turn in their firearms. The problem is, the only people who would turn in their guns are the law-abiding citizens, who would then have no way to defend themselves against the criminals who kept their guns. It's sort of like asking the community of nations to disarm. That brilliant plan would only leave the rogue states to have WMD's all to themselves.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040500021.html?hpid=topnews