Posted on 03/22/2010 10:04:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Healthcare reform will probably pass this afternoon. Those of us that oppose this legislation have an obligation to step back and consider where we stand on the issue from here. Do we continue to fight this and the various fixes and next steps that will come shortly, or do we support this legislation?
If you think the answer is easy I urge you to reconsider. If we help make bad legislation worse we are contributing to the damage of our healthcare system but if we don’t fight this thing now we may be allowing the change of our national character forever.
The fight over healthcare won’t end today when this bill passes. This is merely another step. The natural next step for health care supporters will be a public option followed by single payer. They’ll push that through as the fix for the cost overruns and bureaucratic bungles this legislation creates. I am not the one saying that this bill is a stepping stone to single payer. That comes from the supporters.
Some other healthcare related rants:
* Cuts to education spending have been a big part of the news these past few weeks. Stated simply, the single source provider of primary and secondary education and the cash for much of college – the government – has failed to provide that service. The same will happen with healthcare someday and we will have few if any options just as is the case with schools now.
* If I had any extra cash available to invest right now I would put it into medical tourism. That is a business with a future.
* How long until we extend coverage to illegal aliens?
* I can’t wait to hear the screaming when a Republican president or Republican dominated congress inherits all of the wonderful vote buying power and patronage Democrats are creating for themselves today. That is what will happen today; they will create a huge trough for patronage and vote buying. Someday a Republican will control that power. Oh to see the looks on liberal faces….
* I will urge readers to vote out the incumbents in November. Not just the Democrats responsible for this. Republicans that were too inept to fight it as well.
* I predict that Republicans will learn nothing from this loss. They will continue to whine about the liberal media all while failing in the fundamentals of communication. They will issue calls for a return to ‘Conservative principles,’ that will substitute gay bashing and hard line opposition to abortion for decisive, principled plans for tax reform, spending cuts, effective Congressional ethics, and vote buying/cronyism/special interests.
* Obama and his supporters will take the wrong lesson from their win. This entire process was an enormous leadership debacle that divided this nation in ways that it has not been divided in generations. They ‘knew’ all along that we were wrong and they were perfectly in the right and we were not only wrong but obviously ignorant slobs. That attitude won’t help fix the damage any more than efforts by conservatives to revise the birther movement would help.
* I am willing to bet that whatever restricitions, cuts, and redtape We the People have to deal with in the future because of the bill that passes today, Congress will exempt itself from, somehow. Meaning, no, members of Congress will not lower themselves to the healthcare they allow us.
* The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan said it best, “it is embarrassing—really, embarrassing to our country—that the president of the United States has again put off a state visit to Australia and Indonesia because he’s having trouble passing a piece of domestic legislation he’s been promising for a year will be passed next week. What an air of chaos this signals to the world.
* Bret Baier of Fox News might deserve some of the criticism he has received for his tough questioning of the President, except that…the criticism should fall 100% on his colleagues in the media, the President and his staff. This was the first time that this president has faced tough questioning. Until now it was unusual for reporters to even ask follow-up questions unless those questions were softballs and the reporters were always willing to just sit back and accept whatever nonsense came out of Obama’s mouth. Obama never should have been able to get through the presidential primaries, the campaign, and a year into his presidency without facing tough questions in this type of interview. In the Baier interview he demonstrated that he was not up to the challenge. Not even close. Doubt me? Folks, go back and review the interview, but this time try and picture Bill Clinton as president sitting in that chair instead of Obama. You can’t? Of course not, because Clinton would have eaten Baier alive. For all that I disagreed with President Clinton about, at least he had substance. But Obama looked Palin-esk.
* Obama told supporters last week that passing healthcare was essential to the remainder of his presidency. That is a disturbing comment coming from the Commander and Chief while we are involved in two wars, on a constant terrorism alert, and trying to keep Iran and North Korea from launching nuclear missiles at one or more of their enemies.
* Now are you reading to consider a third party?
Looking forward to the next three years? Yes, me too.
What?
Elected officials work FOR US. There is no tough question that shouldn't be asked.
Perhaps if at least ONE tough question were asked of obama before the election, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess?
It might be a good time to invest in the funeral business. I am sure the stocks will rise soon.
Another Palin dig? For a private citizen, she really gets under some people's skin. Must be that envy thing again.
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