Keep Big Government away from my defective strollers

Not content with trying to tell private health insurance companies what they can and can't do, the jackbooted thugs of the Obama Administration are now meddling in the most sacred and intimate relationship of all, that between parents and their young children.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is now telling families what kind of strollers they can and can't buy for their children. And, of course, because they hate business and free enterprise, they're trying to tell retailers what kind of strollers they should and shouldn't sell.

This is their first reaction to any imagined "problem" — to find some government "solution." Those of us who care about freedom, unlike Obama and his Democrat Party, realize that so-called problems like this don't need any interference from a meddling nanny-state. If somebody is selling strollers that may occasionally amputate the fingertips of small children, then — duh — people will eventually stop buying those strollers. It's called the free market and it works without the need for some alphabet-soup paternalistic bureaucracy like the CPSC wasting taxpayers' money just because Obama can't resist lecturing parents on what is or isn't "safe" for their children.

The astonishing thing about this massive new government intrusion into the marketplace is that it comes after the special election in Massachusetts in which Scott Brown was elected to the U.S. Senate. That gave Republicans a commanding 41-seat majority and a clear mandate for their agenda of cutting capital gains taxes, not reforming health care, cutting luxury taxes, deregulating Wall Street, cutting top-bracket income taxes, keeping gays from marrying, cutting inheritance taxes and capping damages on liability lawsuits for defective products.

The message is clear: Obama is a lame duck. His party's share of the Senate has shriveled to an inconsequential 59-seat fringe group. These are the last people who should be trying to tell parents how to raise their kids.

Show you're a True Patriot and send Obama a message by buying a Graco stroller today. If you let Big Government interfere in the sacred relationship between parents and their stroller manufacturers, the next thing you know they'll be interfering with the even more sacred relationships between consumers and their HMOs.