The massive government intervention in health care bill, barreling toward passage in the Senate, is a wrecking ball I do not want to accept as any part of our law. With that said, the wrecking ball is slightly less weighty thanks to the loss of a single payer system, public option, and the Medicare compromise that was being floated not long ago. Liberals are outraged with Joe Lieberman, whom the White House and Senator Harry Reid bent over to appease. Soon conservatives will find themselves outraged with Lieberman too, as he will undoubtedly vote for this bill.
The only good to come of this bill, which I strongly believe will help destroy our economy and health system, is that it is also working hard to destroy Obama. Sure, once it is passed, his acolytes will race to call it a triumph. With a non-existent legislative agenda (job killing stimulus aside), year one of his presidency was a waste of time and a lot of money with little to make liberals happy. His escalation of the Afghanistan War and embrace of the Patriot Act haven’t helped. The loss of a public option in any bill and an apparent lack of will to fight at all for it, well, say goodbye to the left.
We now have a health care reform that won’t go very far in reforming health care. A few more people might get covered, yes, but it will be far from universal and far from achieving the liberal goals of a true takeover. Worse, every bit of evidence from the negotiations suggest it is still a massive payout to the very corporations liberals have vilified for years. This is exactly the kind of middle-of-the-road, don’t-really-embrace-a-side, create-yet-another-agency, program we would expect from the Bush administration. Where is the agent of change?
Yes we will have a mandate that every citizen MUST purchase health care. It will be followed by a Supreme Court challenge and HOPEFULLY some states, read Texas, pulling an Andrew Jackson, “Now let [Obama] enforce it!”
While it is guaranteed most of those who are outraged will never go Republican, many will sit home in 2010. Liberals outraged at another Democrat embracing the center, won’t ride the wave of enthusiasm and astronomical expectations they did in 2008. Meanwhile, those on the left like Howard Dean who are expressing their outrage now face the bitter wrath of a White House looking to score a political win.
Democrats can TRY to pass immigration reform in 2010, good luck. They can TRY to move on the environment, good riddance. They can TRY to pass anything resembling a socialist agenda, but the weight of an impending election and Blue Dog Democrats ready to revolt won’t let them.
The shattering of the Democrat Party begins. Welcome to 2005 before the embrace of the Blue Dogs. Same as it ever was!
Republican defeat in 2006 and 2008 had many reasons. The biggest of which was the Party’s embrace of moderation at the expense of principal. The liberal win came from the opposite, the Party’s embrace of conservatism. It was the road Bill Clinton’s 2006 victory was built upon. The reality is this. In America, there are more of us who believe in liberty and values than those who believe in socialism. In 2006 and 2008, the Republicans had embraced socialism while Obama talked vague and the Dems elected DINO’s. The lesson for 2010 & 2012 is simple, death to the RINO, rebirth of America.
I adore Democrats for embracing what they are, big spending, anti-American, anti-Constitution, socialists. Obama knows he can only be what he is for so long before facing defeat. Socialists, welcome to defeat! I know this bill will destroy our Health Care just as I knew the stimulus would kill our economy and jobs. Many will suffer, that is regrettable, but at least most of the Republican Party will make a stand and not vote to support it. We will have a mandate in 2010 and 2012, to do the opposite of what the Democrats and the previous Congress under the Republicans have done. We will have a mandate to get back to our roots, to stop spending, start cutting, and revive the era of Reagan, Jackson, Jefferson, and Washington.
2010 and 2012 can bring our Party back where we belong and send socialism back to Satin’s brain, the place from which it was spawned.
Our Christmas gift is the United States of America as envisioned by the founders, returned to us a little worn and battered, but nowhere near broken. The country is ours again, and we can be optimistic that the best is yet to come. Why? Because we have been here before, we saw under Jimmy Carter what socialism reaped and under the better days of Bill Clinton what a Democrat willing to embrace conservatism can reward. We know, from Ronald Reagan, that the glory of the Republic cannot be stopped, that every War can be won. We know from Jackson that the debt can be paid, from Jefferson that appeasement is never an option, from Washington that intervention at the expense of long-term national prosperity or dignity is not a righteous choice. America is down, but not out, and our mission is clear. We have been handed a gift, the implosion of the Democrat Party and the proof that socialism is always a losing cause.
Thank you socialists, liberals, Marxists and the Democrat Party, for proving as always that if you give a progressive a gun, they will sooner or later shoot themselves in the face. They will take a few down with them, but suicide has always been and will always be the path of the left.
Update:
Obama buddy SEIU leader Andy Stern not happy with Senate bill.
TV leftist nutjob Keith Olbermann also calling for bill to be killed
