Arafish dead, Tenncare dead - both good news!

After flirting with the grim reaper and his 72 virgins for three days, Arafish has finally assumed room temperature.

It took French doctors weeks to find answers to the following questions: is he sick? what's he got? is he dead? is he not dead? is he just brain-dead? is that smell of death or the smell of islamofascism? why won't his wife shut up?

Is this the health-care system that the American left has been touting as an example of how great socialized medicine works? You have to assume that Arafish got the best of the best in French health-care and they still couldn't figure out what the hell they were doing. I say we outsource health-care for all American liberals to Arafish's crack French health-care team.

Hundreds of Palestinian mourners are heartbroken because Arafish didn't die as the result of a missile attack in a car, depriving them of another palestinian car swarm.

Tune into CNNABCNPRNBCCBSMSNBCBBC to watch the socialist Old Media wail and gnash their teeth over the death of one of their most hallowed leaders - you won't hear grieving like this again until Castro kicks the bucket.

In related death news, many Tennesseans are celebrating the possible death of TennCare, our state's attempt at implementing socialized medicine.

TennCare was implemented in the early 90's by bloated Democrat Governor Ned McWherter. It was a utopian attempt to provide healthcare for the "needy" in the state, but quickly turned into a vehicle for easy fraud and abuse and is now threatening to bankrupt the state.

Bill Hobbs and Frank Cagle have both been on the forefront of covering TennCare fraud and abuse and are good resources if you want more info.

Former Governor Don Sundquist - the worst governor the state has ever had and a complete piece of crap to boot - did his best to use TennCare's exorbitant costs to justify an implementation of an income tax, but thankfully failed.

Now it looks as if Governor Phil Bredesen will shut the plan down by next week, if Marxist lawyer Gordon Bonnyman and his "Justice Center" do not stand down in their continuing lawsuits and Federal mandates that have hamstrung any real reforms in the system.

Shutting down this black hole is the best thing that could possibly happen for the state, but as Mrs. Holmes pointed out last night, this may simply be a dog-and-pony show cooked up by Bredesen & Bonnyman to create the impression of real reform while merely being a compromise already reached behind the scenes.

She's usually right about these things, but in this case, I hope her intuition is wrong and Bredesen means what he says and TennCare takes a long-needed dirt nap.

UPDATE:

Spineless French President Jacques "The Worm" Chirac has hailed Arafat as a "man of courage".

This shows how absolutely foreign the term courage is to the French. They can't distinguish between courage and blood-thirsty murdering terrorist.