Posted on 07/26/2013 8:20:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Leading Republicans appear to be nerving themselves up for another round of attempted fiscal blackmail. With the end of the fiscal year looming, they arent offering the kinds of compromises that might produce a deal and avoid a government shutdown; instead, theyre drafting extremist legislation bills that would, for example, cut clean-water grants by 83 percent that has no chance of becoming law. Furthermore, theyre threatening, once again, to block any rise in the debt ceiling, a move that would damage the U.S. economy and possibly provoke a world financial crisis.
Yet even as Republican politicians seem ready to go on the offensive, theres a palpable sense of anxiety, even despair, among conservative pundits and analysts. Better-informed people on the right seem, finally, to be facing up to a horrible truth: Health care reform, President Obamas signature policy achievement, is probably going to work.
And the good news about Obamacare is, Id argue, whats driving the Republican Partys intensified extremism. Successful health reform wouldnt just be a victory for a president conservatives loathe, it would be an object demonstration of the falseness of right-wing ideology. So Republicans are being driven into a last, desperate effort to head this thing off at the pass.
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The Feds have never intended to "fix" medicine .... only to dominate it, which has been the Left's dream since, well, Fabians and Communists shook hands on a commitment to taking medicine out of the hands of doctors, and statalizing it.
We are still in the destruction phase. Obama and Pelosi had no intention, ever, of "creating" or "fixing" anything. They are true Frankfurt School wreckers and de-civilizers.
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