“Jobs” Bill Passes Senate and (Gasp!) Brown Voted For It!

Drudge is making a big deal of the fact that the U.S. Senate passed a so-called “jobs” bill today and Scott Brown voted for it. Oh no! Whatever will we do with a Republican who votes with the Dems once in awhile. I noticed no one is fussing about the fact that Ben Nelson, the Democrat from Nebraska, voted against the bill. After the way he sold his soul to get the Cornhusker Kickback voting with the minority is a fairly naked ploy to get back in the good graces of his constituents. Do you hear crickets?

Anyway, this “jobs”bill is the least of our worries. The way this administration throws around trillion dollar bills, I’ll gladly settle for a mere $15 billion.

What should bother us is the fact that Obama is now proposing his own health care bill. Would you be surprised if I told you the bill would raise taxes by over $600 billion? Didn’t think so.

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You may have noticed I am not blogging as much the last few weeks. Never fear! There is a great reason for that. I’m working on several posts that will establish a foundation for some of our conversation here about faith and politics. For instance, it’s obvious that some of us hold widely variant views of the world. So, I plan to define some of the perspectives and elaborate on mine especially on some foundational issues like the value and place of Scripture in our lives. So stay tuned. It will be worth waiting for.

In the meantime, check out these articles:

• The New York Times (of all places) has an excellent opinion piece today that wonders “Are There Secular Reasons?” If you have ever wondered why faith and reason seem to be opposites, read this article. When you finish it, you will understand that reason relies on faith in many ways including by “smuggling” in moral concepts. Good read.
• I found this article called “The Progressive Fallacy on Free Speech” in The Week last week. Will Wilkinson does a great job explaining the liberal view of the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court and why they are so outraged by it. If for nothing else, the article is worth the read to get a clear idea of the opposing view. Wilkinson also gives the best explanation I’ve ever read about why that view is just plain wrong.

Happy reading!