Obama Pushes Healthcare Takeover Against Public Opinion

This stuff is maddening. There’s never been a large United States program that was later scrapped. If Obama succeeds in pushing the healthcare legislation, that in the most conservative estimates is $1,000,000,000,000, then you can bet our economy will accelerate into a dangerous tailspin.

I have more thoughts, but can’t articulate as well as like Tony Perkins.

President Obama had hoped to celebrate his 48th birthday with a trillion dollar gift from Congress: a final bill authorizing his administration to seize control of the American health care system. Instead, his legislation is dead-locked, the public is outraged, and his team seems to be trying to prevent their liberal foot soldiers from retreating on the biggest domestic policy package in recent memory. Public resistance is a foreign idea for this President, who has managed to coast along for five months without focused opposition. Even his staff seems flustered, unsure how to respond in an increasingly hostile environment.

So far, no one seems to accept the cold, hard reality that the President’s health care plan is wildly unpopular. Instead, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs blames the national protest on an old standby: the vast right-wing conspiracy. He said K Street lobbyists were organizing the raucous town halls, where “angry mobs” are disrupting the “honest” conversations that Democrats are trying to have in their home districts. It’s “manufactured anger,” he told reporters yesterday. The Democratic National Committee echoed the spin, saying, “The Republicans and their allied groups… are inciting… a small number of rabid right-wing extremists…”

When the Left protested the war with graffiti on the Capitol steps, it was “civic engagement.” When conservatives ask questions about what’s included in health care “reform,” it’s orchestrated thuggery. As Michelle Malkin points out, “The DNC’s definition of ‘thoughtful’: Sitting silent about the lack of transparency, deliberation, truth in numbers…on the ObamaCare plan. The DNC definition of incitement: Asking out loud, ‘How can you manage health care when you can’t manage Cash for Clunkers?’” Isn’t inciting the heartland exactly what then-candidate Obama prescribed last September? Blogger Ed Morrissey pulled a quote from his campaign that demonstrates just how disingenuous the administration is. To make a case for his candidacy, Obama told supporters to get aggressive. “I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Obviously the President’s rules of engagement–like his theories on tolerance and speech–are a one-way street, open only to liberals.

The atrocious part is that he’s purposefully lying about the idea than anyone will get to keep their doctors under the government plan. Employers will dump everyone into the government plan because it’ll be cheaper. Rationed healthcare will be just part of the nightmare. Has the government ever done anything efficiently? No.

Bottom line: Government Healthcare = Fewer Choices, Lower Quality, Higher Cost

If it weren’t so scary it’d be hilarious.