By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--February 4, 2011
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“A vote in support of this amendment is a vote to raise out-of-pocket healthcare costs for working families and takes away critical consumer protections provided to Americans for the first time,” SEIU urged senators, according to a copy of the e-mail obtained by The Hill.So a group that has gotten the favor of the King and been allowed special waiver treatment is indignant that anyone else would want to find themselves in a similarly favorable position. Ah, the self-righteousness of the favored, greedy and afraid that their special status might be lost. This is the epitome of crony capitalism, the sort that the Obama administration has become expert practitioners. The cronies, you see, benefit from the largess of their patron and in return donate lots of money to causes or funds that the patron favors — if not donating to the patron himself (Obama for president 2008/2012). For his part the patron, always one in a position of political power, grants favors to the rent-seeking crony and happily lowers for his pals the crushing barriers under which everyone else is forced to suffer. But it is an epitome of another thing, too. We call it hypocrisy. Those that have found the favor of the King are jealous of that favor and don’t want the rest of us peons to be so fortunate. This sort of thing has embroiled kings’ courts for time immemorial, haven’t they? It all sounds like the plot of some poor man’s Shakespeare play. Sadly this is no work of fiction. It is Washington DC under Barack Obama.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.