Kill the ObamaCare Beast… “Fiscal Gimmicks and Gamesmanship,” Krauthammer’s “Masquerading Travesty” Analysis (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 24, 2010
This is the eve of the Obama “dog-and-pony” health care summit, to be held tomorrow in the President’s Blair House. The horrific, 2,700-page health care bill, clumsily crafted by Team Obama and without ANY mention of tort reform (but the word “taxes” appears 35 times), is available on the Internet at the WhiteHouse.gov website.
If you haven’t yet read it, you must. I know you can’t read it all, but read some of it. Or read the breakdowns written by those who have read it. And then, go to the link for the GOP alternative (which has been on the White House site for months, although the Democrats have disingenuously said they don’t know where it is), and read that.
Knowledge is power. Arm yourself with knowledge.
William A. Jacobson has hit another one out of the ballpark with this short essay on the motivations behind ObamaCare. Here is the opening…
From Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Now is not the time for weakness:
Now is not the time to mince words.
The health care plan put forth by Obama, based on the prior Senate bill, is so destructive on so many levels that it must be opposed without regard to political fallout.
The Obama plan contains fiscal gimmicks and gamesmanship which will lead to crushing deficits and debt; sanctions government intrusion into our lives unlike anything we have seen before; will lead to the destruction of a private insurance system which, while not perfect, delivers coverage to the overwhelming majority of Americans in a satisfactory manner; will result in the demoralization of our most honored profession, reducing medical care to the lowest common denominator in the cause of a false sense of fairness; and reflects the ultimate hubris of ideological, power drunk people who have proven themselves unworthy of our trust and who express, time and again, their disdain for the people they claim to serve.
I have not forgotten Obama’s moment of honesty in San Francisco. In the grandiose, patronizing health care plan, Obama is to his own self being true. Obama thinks he knows better than the rest of us what is best for us, and he is incapable of appreciating why people cannot be convinced otherwise.
And the Democrats in Congress are even worse. Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer notably have expressed disgust and hurled insults at anyone who opposes them, as they grin and smirk their way forward. The latest spin is that Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson are “warming” to budget reconciliation to evade the Senate filibuster rule supposedly due to Republican obstruction. They really must think we are stupid.
Keep calling, faxing, emailing your congressional representatives. Let them know that you do not want this monstrosity of a health care bill. Contact from American voters, voicing their dissent, is working. If it weren’t, ObamaCare would have been passed LAST SUMMER. But because of countless Americans letting Congress know that they want no part of a government-run health mandate, progress has been slowed.
It’s time to kill this beast.
Sagacious commentary, as usual, from Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer on this “ObamaCare 2.0″ health care bill.
FOX: Charles Krauthammer: ObamaCare 2.0 “Is Really a Travesty Masquerading as an Outreach to the Republicans”
Additional reading:
Michelle Malkin: Lights! Cameras! Health care Oba-kabuki!; Update: WH excludes governors, state legislators
Philip Klein, American Spectator, Zogby Poll Shows Americans Unwilling to Pay Higher Taxes to Insure Everybody
Flopping Aces: Obama Continues to Push Health Care When Country Needs Jobs and Old Wine in New Bottles Still Tastes Like Vinegar: Obama Unveils Health Plan!
Kyle-Anne Shiver, Big Government: Hidden Healthcare Reform Objective: Feds Want to Know Your Number
Gateway Pundit: Harry Reid Plays Chicken… Dares Republicans to Oppose Obamacare and Mark Levin: Obama is “Biggest Disaster in American History” (Video) and Top Dem Says House Will Pass Obamacare With More Votes the 2nd Time Around and House Republican Leader John Boehner: Obama’s Health Care Proposal Jeopardizes Summit and Pelosi Aide Admits Bipartisan Health Care Summit Is a Trick and Obama Tells Democrats They Must “Finish the Job” & Ram Health Care Through Congress and Shameless Liar: Actually Those Health Care Talks Really Were on CSPAN (Video) and C-SPAN Asks Dems to Keep Their Word & Open Obamacare Backroom Meetings to American Public and Greta Van Susteren on Obama: He’s a Liar (Video) and 13 Attorney Generals Threaten Lawsuits Over Senate Health Care Bribes and Obama Lashes Out at GOP For Using Filibuster to Stall His Takeover of 1/6 of US Economy
HillBuzz: A Queen Gone Insane
Patterico’s Pontifications: ObamaCare Revealed: Hey, How Does Spending Another Trillion Dollars Grab You? and Can the Democrats Push Through Health Care Using Reconciliation?
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Showdown Time: Obama’s Health Care Plan… Congress, Like It or Lump It… 78% of American Voters Believe Health Costs Will Skyrocket and How Much Are Americans Willing to Pay to Insure Everyone on ObamaCare? Most Popular Poll Response: “ZERO” and Surprise! America, Obama DID Have Health Care on C-SPAN When Congress Was Squabbling, So Zip It with the Criticism That Obama Lied (video) and MIA: Those Obama C-SPAN Health Care “Open Meetings at a Big Table” Promises, Plus Reid’s Outrageous Billion-Dollar Bribes (video) and Sen. Graham Finally Gets It Right: Thuggery of “Seedy Chicago Politics” Runs White House, Outrageous Bribes to Pass ObamaCare (video) and Congress, Are You All Deaf? Polls Climbing Against ObamaCare
Peter Ferrara, American Spectator: Too Many Democrats in Washington
Axis of Right: The Bi-Partisanship Healthcare Summit
Michael Volpe, Big Government: Rep. Brad Miller and Dr. Anna Chacko: The Politicalization of Government Health Care
The Conservative Pup: 51 Kings and Queens
Another Black Conservative: Let the games begin and The Ding-Dongs go for Ping-Pong on health care
Caffeinated Thoughts: What is a Right?
The Hill: Tough talk comes after Obama exits
Motor City Times: Sarah Palin’s Health Care Bill Op-Ed
Don Loos, Big Government: 21.1 Million Reasons Big Labor Pours Money into ObamaCare
Robbing America: Democrats Committing Suicide
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