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.

Republicans Point the Finger, Need to Get a Grip

Tony Perkins runs a tight ship over at the FRC. I might as well just post his dailies here. Anyway, a little background:

1. I vote for whoever most closely matches my values.
2. I get my values from the Bible.
3. These values are considered by today’s standards extremely Conservative.
4. Republicans are more Conservative than Democrats, in most cases.
5. I hate most politicians, regardless of Party, because they seldom tell the truth for more than 120 seconds.

Ok, with that said, a large number of Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats in my book. Here they show their true colors.

“To listen to some Republicans… you would think that traditional conservatives, the defenders of the unborn and the integrity of marriage… were responsible for two wars gone sour, over-spending at a level to embarrass Lyndon Johnson, the largest expansion of entitlement spending since the Great Society, numerous cases of GOP corruption, betrayal of the public trust… and the miserable results in the presidential and congressional elections…”

Like us, Tracy Mehan of the American Spectator is fed up with the Republicans’ post-election finger-pointing. In his op-ed “Social Conservative as Scapegoats,” he lashes out at the GOP’s centrists for blaming November 4 on “the solid and most loyal” wing of the Reaganite coalition.

To those of us in the pro-family movement, the Establishment’s diatribe is a familiar one. When the GOP succeeds because of social conservatives, our importance is ignored. When the party fails for overlooking us, values voters are somehow to blame. With the exception of Gov. Sarah Palin and some hollow overtures by the Democratic Party, the 20 percent of voters who cited “moral values” as their first or second priority in this election had no real horse in this race.

Maybe that explains why believers were less active in this election cycle. More than four million Americans who go to church more than once a week and voted in 2004 stayed home on November 4. Those voters would have made up half the difference between McCain and Obama. As the members of the Republican party jockey for position in this brave new Congress and sort out their internal leadership, a commitment to life and marriage is non-negotiable.

Without it, the prospects of a Republican revival are bleak. As Karl Rove rightly points out, “These values are often more popular than the GOP itself.”