Alice, in Alice in Wonderland, had an argument with the Red Queen who made an absurd comment which Alice declared 'impossible". The Red Queen, queen that she was, said she made a point of believing six things that were impossible every day before breakfast. This was funny, in the book Alice in Wonderland, but it is not very funny when Barack Obama, of legendary intelligence, behaves more like the Red Queen than the leader of the free world. The following quote by Peggy Noonan, a presumed conservative, asserts,

"The administration is full of people who are so bright, and led by one who is very bright, and yet they have a signal failure: They do not know what time it is. They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it."


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Who, other than those committed to believing the impossible, believe that ObamaCare will expand coverage for the uninsurable, e.g. people who are very sick, snuff out waste and fraud from Medicare without restricting coverage at the same moment in time when 10,000 new retirees are joining Medicare ranks, without adding one dime to the federal deficit?!? When social security was signed into law there were17 workers for every retiree; today there are three. Piling new entitlements onto this system on the verge of collapse is not "intelligent" - it requires only basic math taught in the fourth grade to conclude that this new entitlement is "impossible".

Noonan's point is that there is a growing divide in this country between "those in the cart and those pulling the cart". This health care bill has metaphorically filled the divide with fire and barbed wire and Molotov cocktails - the gap is a minefield and cannot be bridged. Why is that? Because the people pulling the cart are angry as more people climbing into the cart make it ever harder to pull. The people who favor the massive expansion of entitlement programs, Barrack Obama for example, have decided that writing legislation and creating a legal right to something, health care, is equivalent to a constitutional right, freedom to practice the religion of one's beliefs. Entitlements and constitutional rights are not comparable because an entitlement can only be bestowed on a person by the coercion of the people funding the entitlement. Hence the anger and the rage and the Tea Parties, all of which by the way are protected by the Constitution. Leading me back to Noonan's concession that the administration, bursting with the best and the brightest, does not know the temperature and how it is that they have managed to raise it. I offer a counter explanation, the administration is full of Red Queens, who apparently wake up every day looking for six new impossible things to believe before breakfast.