NHS Leaves Pregnant Women in a World of Hurt

Imagine being in pain and going without anesthetics, not because of your religious beliefs, not because you’re stoic, but because there aren’t enough doctors to provide you the care you need. You’re probably picturing a Third World nation with doctors who earn $15 a month before they scrape together the cash to defect to the United States.

You’d be wrong.

Hundreds of British women are being denied epidurals to numb the pain of childbirth because there aren’t enough anesthetists to go around, and this has been going on for at least three years. How will the liberal feminist blogs spin this story?

Here’s what we know about one hospital, the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, courtesy of The Daily Mail:

Women planning to give birth at the hospital, which delivers 1,600 babies a year, are told no epidurals are available because of a lack of senior anaesthetists.

They are needed because the procedure involves injecting a drug directly into the spine.

The failure flouts guidance from four Royal Colleges, including the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians, that women should have access to an epidural within 30 minutes of requesting one.

It adds to mounting concern about the quality of NHS maternity care, with midwives in some hospitals expected to attend to three women in labour at the same time due to staff shortages.

Is this the universal health care Obama and his supporters can believe in?

Hat tip: Bookworm Room

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 6, 2008

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Jim DeMint: A Voice of Reason on the Bailout

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) opposes the bailout and voted his conscience in the Senate on Wednesday. DeMint has a solid history of fiscal conservatism that includes leading the charge against pork barrel spending in the Senate. His speech on the Senate floor was a welcome voice of reason amidst the pervasive fear mongering:

I don’t agree with Jim DeMint on some social issues, but on this he’s spot on. Let’s hope he’s working the phones to convince his colleagues in the House that the bailout bill can’t go forward in its current iteration.

Deliberations continue in the House today. Contact as many Representatives as you can to let them know that Americans of all political persuasions oppose the bailout. Michelle Malkin has contact info for every House GOP member who voted “No” on Monday.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 2, 2008

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Click to Support our Soldiers

Squidoo is donating $80,000 to charity, and you can help make sure it goes to a worthy cause by visiting their charity giveaway page and voting for your favorite organization. For each vote, Squidoo will give that organization $2.

Please spare a moment of your day to help fund one of the charities on their list.  My click went to Soldiers’ Angels, the outstanding organization that supports service members, veterans, and their families. This winter they hope to send 180,000 care packages to military personnel deployed overseas.

Help support our troops by voting for Soldiers’ Angels at Squidoo and then spread the word to everyone you can.  Voting ends on October 15th, or when the tally reaches 40,000 votes.

Hat tip: Bookworm Room

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 1, 2008

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Where Do Rabid Liberals Come From?

From New York’s Upper West Side, of course:

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I grew up in New York and went to high school on the Upper West Side, but I don’t know if I can adequately convey how thoroughly the “progressives” in this video typify your average New York liberal. They speak passionately for the fair and humane treatment of terrorists, saving their toxic hatred for centrists and Republicans with political views that differ from their own.

If you’re thinking of moving to New York and you have kids, just remember that these are the people with teaching certificates.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 1, 2008

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VP Debate Mod Will Profit From an Obama Win

The liberal bias in the media has gotten so bad that debate moderators no longer even aim for the appearance of impartiality.

Gwen Ifill is the PBS anchor moderating the Vice Presidential debate this Thursday. Like all of this year’s debate moderators, Ifill is left-leaning, but that alone doesn’t preclude her from performing impartially. No, what calls her objectivity into question is the fact that she is about to publish a book called The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. That’s not a joke.

Michelle Malkin has plenty of details on this travesty. She also has a suggestion for how the debate should begin:

In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same standards as everyone else, Ifill would be required to make a full disclosure at the start of the debate. She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on January 20, 2009 – a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States.

That’s right, a win for Obama means a win for Ifill’s wallet.

Her absurd lack of neutrality is outrageous enough to get me spewing nastiness like a feminist rampaging against Sarah Palin. Such a flagrant assault on even the most lax conflict-of-interest standards was almost unfathomable to me before I read Michelle’s piece.

I know, I’m naive.

At least I can take consolation in my belief that Palin has it in her to take whatever Ifill dishes out and use it to her advantage. The debate will be great as long as we get Palin v 1.0, not the newfangled 2.0 the McCain campaign has been trying to sell.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 1, 2008

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Free to Be Sarah P.

Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican, is out of favor with some conservatives when it comes to Sarah Palin.

But Bill Kristol remembers the Sarah Palin that invigorated the Party not so long ago:

Some in the McCain camp are nervous about Gov. Palin, but they shouldn’t be. They’ve totally mishandled her for the last week or two. Free Sarah Palin! Free Sarah Palin, that’s what I say! They have surrounded her — look, McCain picked her because she is a good governor, a good politician, a good communicator. Let her be a politician! Let her communicate. Put her on TV, put her on radio. Let her relax. Let her go into the debate and try to win the debate!

Mona Charen, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Jean Lopez, and Mark Steyn agree that the McCain campaign needs to free Sarah Palin to be herself, particularly at the debate on Thursday.  I don’t believe she’s done a bad job with her interviews, but there’s certainly something overly packaged about many of her responses, and we’ve had enough with the stump speech lines.

Sarah Palin isn’t just the latest interchangeable kid to be swapped into Menudo because the average age of band members was creeping up.  She’s a bright and gifted politician who dazzles voters with the rarest of political assets: her authenticity.

Bring back Sarah, unleashed, unbound, and authentic.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on September 29, 2008

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