Obama’s Healthcare Speech: Same Old, Same Old

The Stiletto Blog ^ | September 10, 2009 | The Stiletto

[theothercheek]

Skipping over all the flowery bits at the beginning and end of President Barack Hussein Obama’s 48-minute long address to a joint session of Congress on healthcare, what's left is:

* Disingenuousness (“We spend one-and-a-half times more per person on health care than any other country, but we aren't any healthier for it” and “The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally”);

* Obfuscation “The public insurance option would have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it collects,” “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits” and “The plan … will cost around $900 billion over ten years”;

* Partisanship (“Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics” and “ … bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost”);

* And - most maddeningly, at this stage - vagueness “There remain some significant details to be ironed out” and “If you come to me with a serious set of proposals, I will be there to listen. My door is always open”).

In other words, other words, nothing new. Obama has clearly turned a deaf ear to the thousands of Americans who attended town hall meetings last month and tried to communicate their concerns – sometimes at the top of their lungs.

NOTE: It is a copyright violation to copy and paste the entire post, so I only posted the opening paragraphs.