Posted on 08/16/2009 3:38:18 PM PDT by Maelstorm
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What a disaster this health-care debate is. It strains, stresses and pierces, it unnecessarily agitates and is doomed to be the cause of further agitation. Who doubts the final bill will be something between a pig in a poke and three-card Monte?
Which is too bad, because our health-care system actually needs to be made better. ***
There are smart and experienced people who say whatever the mess right now, the president will get a bill of some sort because he has the brute numeric majority. A rising number say no, this thing has roused such ire he won't get much if anything. I don't know, but this is true: If he wins it, will be a victory not worth having. It will have cost too much. It has lessened the thing an admired president must have from the people, and that is trust.
It is divisive save in one respect. The Obama White House has done the near impossible: It has united the Republican Party. Social conservatives, economic conservatives, libertarians—they're all against the health-care schemes as presented so far. They're shoulder-to-shoulder at the barricade again. ***
The president's town-hall meeting on Tuesday in Portsmouth, N.H., was supposed to be an antidote to the fractious town halls with members of Congress the past weeks. But it was not peaceful, only somnolent. Actually it was a bit of a disaster. It looked utterly stacked, with softball after softball thrown by awed and supportive citizens. When George W. Bush did town halls like that—full of people who'd applaud if he said tomorrow we bring democracy to Saturn—it was considered a mark of manipulation and insecurity. And it was. So was Mr. Obama's.
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Don’t fall for this false sense of security folks. This is the new talking points. Noonan and the beltway conservatives are going to declare Obamacare defeated in which it’ll be passed when nobody’s looking. Remember that Noonan has no credibility. She voted for the Kenyan.
Shut up, Peggy.
We The People DEMAND honest representation, and get neither from the DNC nor the GOP.
Washington DC needs an enema, which includes K Street and all you Beltway elitists with them!!
United the Rep party to do what? Recognize that a collapsing financial system is not compatible with ANY spending program? Agree with Dims that socialist modeled Healthcare Co-ops are viable? Jump on a contrived, false climate change initiative? Only a few Dems and a few more in the Rep party have a clue...they are not in adequate numbers, and a frightened Ob may try to avoid the potential results of a 2010 election season, given the ‘AWAKENING’ by the public.
I think she is pompous. She writes like a woman who is very depressed. I think she is probably over medicated but she is partially right. We are united and more and more people see Obama has just another far left liberal.
DITTO!
She can KMA! I don't care what she says/writes. She is no friend to conservatives. Especially after her attacks on Sarah Palin I don't read anything she writes.
Better watch out, noonan. Your president may find your lack of faith disturbing.
Not only voted but supported odumbo in print many times
Joker touches third rail, is electoracuted.
Ms. Noonan "sleeps" with both.
She is a wordsmith not a political science genius. It’s like a lot of the Packers after Lombardi left, she was great because her great boss gave her direction/discipline.
Noonan is just another skank, propagandist and sometimes whining loud mouth from Washington DC…do you really want me to tell you what I believe.
I agree. Any bill will just be an incremental step towards nationalized healthcare. Some insurance reform, tort reform, Medicare/Medicaid oversite—a few tweeks to the system is all that is needed. NO government involvement in our healthcare! If anything, we need limited government and a dialing down of Federal Government power.
If she thinks Obama united the Republican party, then, perhaps she knows that Obama also united a lot of democrats with republicans against this horrendous bill. This has little to do with uniting the republican party, but everything to do with the potential destruction of the United States, no matter what your political standing is. RINOS will still be RINOS, in most other areas, and that is what’s dividing the party.
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