There is Nothing Noble about a Nobel Prize

By Mr. Crumudgeon

2010 is turning out to be a bad year for Nobel Prize winners. First, Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted their claim that Himalayan glaciers will disappear in thirty years is a laughable exaggeration. Then Massachusetts voters put a Republican in Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, threatening the legislative health care centerpiece of our Nobel Peace Prize winning “hope and change,” community organizing president. Now, Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is beside himself with grief. Of ObamaCare Krugman laments, “…some Democrats want to just give up on the whole thing.”

In Krugman beats the totalitarian heart that exists in all utopians. “…politics is supposed to be about achieving something more than your own re-election. America desperately needs health care reform; it would be a betrayal of trust if Democrats fold simply because they hope (wrongly) that this would slightly reduce their losses in the midterm elections.” Scott Brown’s election to the United State Senate occurred because Democrats in Congress betrayed the public trust by trying to pass totalitarian health care legislation that ran counter to the public will. Krugman, however, is worried more about Democrats betraying the tyrannical idea that government is most noble when subverting the consent of the governed.

Krugman makes an interesting observation that abandoning ObamaCare “wouldn’t protect Democrats from charges that they voted for ‘socialist’ health care – remember, both houses of Congress have already passed reform.” It is only right that Republican Chairman Michael Steele send Krugman a dozen roses, a box of candy and thank you card for providing a powerful quote for Republican political ads in 2010. “And remember folks,” the ads should say in conclusion, “Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner.”