Well, duh. That was my immediate reaction, too.
As in, we need universal coverage, but Hillary will fix it even better.
Yep, even I figured that out. Old Billy boy is trying to insulate the Witch of Benghazi.
Of course he did. As I posted yesterday, if Obama stinks up the joint so badly it affects Hillary’s chances, Clinton will become more and more antagonistic. After all, we’re talking about his chance to become “First Gentleman”, after all!!
The problem is that the "fix" just involves more coercive intrusion on the rights of individuals, on intrusion into and distortion of the insurance marketplace, on the future quality and proliferation of health care providers, and the damaging impact that their own regressive and arrogant assumptions is having on real individual American citizens and their families.
Just who do the Clintons, the Obamas, the Landrieus, the Feinsteins and all "progressives"--no matter how good they believe their intentions are--believe they are? That great intellectual freedom fighter, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and former President may have, inadvertently, identified them in the following quotation:
"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately." —Thomas Jefferson
One other thought: lest the Democrats who laid this oppressive legislation on the nation by their votes now claim that they did it to "help" us and it is just "not working" as they intended, let them consider the words of C. S. Lewis about "moral busybodies" who use the coercive power of government to "do" their good:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
Ted Cruz is shaping up to be a master politician. He’s wedging the issue right between the Liberal / Democratic pack.
This article wasn’t about revealing what was obvious, it was about sowing seeds of discourse and discontent into the DEM ranks.
"I'll have a mocha latte with whip cream on top in a blue cup.
And don't spill any."
"Does anybody else want coffee?"
This was such an obvious snub and put down of Obama, I have to think it was talked about first. I think O’s people were told to expect a little obligatory saber rattling from Bill, starting hrough Nomination Season. It’s almost like big time wrestling. Two radio talkers in my area were remarking on just how wasted and unhealthy Bill Clinton is looking lately. Some say he’s on his way out, but then, I’ve been hearing that same thing for about the last five years. So maybe he’s no more critical than we all are, big picturewise.
And to younger low-info voters, Hillary is the Democrat version of John McCain. Too old to be president and with a total lack of charisma. She reminds old men of their ex-wives, and she reminds young men of their crabby mother-in-law.
Reagan, Palin and Cruz are the only ones to brazenly talk about the 500 pound gorillas that sit in the middle of the room.
I’m sure McCain is wringing his hands over this wacky bird right now.