When we first started talking aboot health care reform, a friend of mine who works for a retail chain express concern aboot what ObamaCare was going to do to his current plan. He falls into the 70+% of America who are happy with what he has, especially in his case where the company picks up for 90%, but knowing what the Democrat party has been planning on doing to the health care industry, he was worried.
Thankfully, our Dear Leader came along to assure us that his plan will benefit everyone who already has health insurance, and also that his plan will not add to the nation’s yawning budget deficit, which makes you wonder how you add a trillion dollars of new entitlement spending without increasing the deficit, but since Congress recently passed a law making it illegal to call the President a liar…we’ll just let it go.
What I find confusing is how this plan manages to not only NOT to what the President says it will, but takes the parts of insurance that people don’t like and injects in with anabolic steroids. From the Wall Street Journal…
It seems that with every day goes by, there’s someone from either side of the isle who finds something they thinks su-diddly-ucks aboot Obamacare (you can call it Max Baucus’s health-care bill, but let’s be serious). Last week it was the revelation that you could face jail time if you chose not to buy health insurance. Today, the anger comes courtesy our fifty Governors and Medicaid.
There are two things that I don’t get aboot politics, a) why it’s too much to expect our elected officials to read the bills before they sign them, and b) what’s wrong aboot – in the name of transparency (you know, like how Dear Leader promised during the campaign) – voters can’t have time to read the bills themselves. Of course, I know the answers to both questions, but still.
“We can’t win if we don’t fight.” - Liz Cheney
Newt Gingrich mentioned three reasons why conservatism is making a comeback, one of which is a foreign policy that shows a “…confusion between fighting in Afghanistan, releasing terrorists, and trying to punish those who have been defending America is beginning to arouse great anger among the national security wing of American life.” An example of this is the recent coup attempt in Honduras.
