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| Its the Repeal ObamaCare Rant |
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| Written by Jared H. McAndersen |
| Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:12 |
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Watching the aftermath of ObamaCare's passage leaves me wondering which is worse, watching liberals take their hobbling victory lap on this issue, or having to endure the idiocy of their suggesting that conservatives stop acting like sore losers and "get back to work." Even Obama is taunting the the repeal hungry GOP to "go for it" with the wind at their backs of the 55% of us that wanted this thing repealed before the ballpoint pen used to sign the it was even invented. Christians are covered, but if bad presidents needed a messiah....
I wonder if he'll be so smug when similar polls show his chances of reelection as being so optimistic. Its hard to believe that a newly minted president could screw up so much, so fast, and so badly after just a year. And when he says this is the "people's victory," I'm left wondering what he qualifies as a person? Liberals? They're really the only ones happy with this, and I thought we agreed a long time ago they don't count because they're actually from another planet. Also, this notion that the GOP needs to "move on" is an amazing statement coming from the party that is still counting chads in Florida 10 years later. I think it rhymes with "legalizing booze"
What if the anti-prohibition movement "moved on" after alcohol became illegal under the U.S. Constitution in the 1920's? I don't know answer, but I'm pretty sure we know what Ted Kennedy's life's work would've ended up being about. There is no doubt beating ObamaCare back is going to be nearly impossible. Like Nancy Pelosi in a bubbling botox-filled jacuzzi tub, entitlements are impossible to get rid of once they are allowed to enter the scene. Look at countries like Greece, their debt is actually larger than their GDP, but like Pavlov's dogs the bell of socialism has been rung so many times they actually have the nerve to demand that not only do they not have face cutbacks in funding for those programs from their government, but that OTHER COUNTRIES like Germany need to start footing their bill so they can continue showing our Democratic party how the pros get it done. This is the same exact road America is going down, our debt is expected to be 90% of our GDP by 2020...but unlike its New Deal and Great Society ancestors I truly believe this time could be different. Last August I wrote a post pointing out that while Obama has been the most tech-savvy president yet, the rhetoric of the left continues to party like its 1989 saying whatever they want and not realizing that it can and will be held against them. (you can read it here). That technology will be the key to keeping the anger burning, the hope alive, getting the DC Straight Jacket Gang tossed on their asses, and the bill repealed. Before these avenues for national conservative town halls existed liberals knew they could just jam their socialism down the country's throat because conservatives back then were made to feel more marginalized than Rosie O'Donnell standing in a police line up with a bunch of women. It would've been faster to call her Speaker Pelosi
Liberals keep hitting a snag now in that they haven't received the memo about how technology has flattened the world and conservatives have figured out that aren't so crazy after all. Through these media we can complain, commiserate, vent, come together, organize, and vaporize the liberal agenda like a bucket of water on the Wicked Witch of the West. The Democrats KNEW that passing this bill was political suicide. However, they calculated that it was less suicidal to defy the will of the people rather than look incompetent and ineffective. What they didn't realize was that ObamaCare passing was less like V-Day and more like Pearl Harbor for them. As I said before, I'm under no illusions whatsoever that this is an epic uphill battle, and it will take years to finish the job. Yet we have to do as much as we can to dismantle this thing, because if the Democrats truly get away with this sort of defiance of the will of the electorate then they will know there will be absolutely no barrier left to dictatorship in America. |
For crying out loud...Eric Cantor had a BULLET lodged in his office because he opposed ObamaCare!
Between the riots at economic summits, to physically shutting down conservative speakers at college campuses, to improperly using words like "racist" and "violence" to skirt around having to actually grapple with political opposition in an intellectual way....for starters....I really don't think the left should be lecturing anyone on violence unless its to give a lesson in how to administer it.
Congress (the House specifically), not the president, writes the federal budget, and back then the House of Representatives was firmly in Democratic control. The president can only submit what he THINKS the budget should be.
Congress ended up writing a bill that exceeded the spending proposed by Reagan EVERY year but one, 1984. Short of the GOP taking the house, which they never did while Reagan was president, he couldn't do much about the fact that Congress wanted to spend more money than he did.
That notwithstanding tax revenues nearly doubled in the 80's because of the economic boom spurred by the tax cuts to INDIVIDUALS. The left likes to forget that individual tax cuts were reduced while some taxes to business were actually increased.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2003/08/The-Historical-Lessons-of-Lower-Tax-Rates
This is one of the great tragedies of American political debate today....its impossible to get to the truth of matter when an entire side of the argument is preyed upon by its leader who count on the fact their electorate knows nothing about history, economics, or how our system of government even works.
As far as the bill is concerned I wouldn't have passed the damn thing in the first place! There are three things that we can do to lower the cost of medicine and just about none of it involves the formation of yet another government bureaucracy.
1. Tort reform
2. Alleviate the shortage of medical professionals
3. Allow insurance to be sold across state lines
Sorry to be so quick with this...but its a blog comment box so....
Supposedly there are things in the bill that are actually worth keeping and we can, in fact, talk about those things. But this myopic focus on insurance is a red herring that puts the cart before the horse. Insurance costs would drop if steps were taken to make medicine overall less expensive in the first place.
With regard to the health bill: do you want to repeal ALL of it, or just parts? Like the part that covers children with pre-existing conditions? The part that closes the donut hole for medicare part D? The part that allows children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26? Or is it just the "mandate." If it were about the mandate-we could talk about that certainly. I'm not thrilled about the mandate without a public option - but, one day, we will have a public option, and hopefully down the road, single payer.
This bill was far from perfect, but it was a step in the right direction. And the vitriolic, sometimes violent, opposition to this by you on the right is something I will never understand.