Posted on 08/24/2009 4:30:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
What if a health care bill actually passes in the Congress, and President Obama signs it into law?
Given the ways in which his hope and change are being embraced across the nation right now, such a legislative victory for Mr. Obama could be the worst thing, politically, for his presidency and his party.
Earlier this year, I contemplated here in this column how Obamas behavior tends to be woefully inconsistent with his rhetoric, and how our President has a propensity for doing the opposite of what he says. For example, as a candidate Obama insisted that he is not a big government advocate, but then as President proposed a federal budget in excess of $3.5 trillion (Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is now asking Congress to raise the federal debt ceiling above $12 trillion for fear that there wont be money to fund Obamas budget after October of this year). As a candidate Obama decried the petty distractions and partisan politics as usual that stifle honest dialog, and prevent people from focusing on the real important issues. Yet from the White House Obama unleashed an intentional and strategic game of publicly demonizing talk show host Rush Limbaugh earlier this year; it appeared that members of his Administration organized their friends to demonstrate in front of the private homes of AIG Executives to harrass them for having earned bonuses from their employer last Spring; and last week Obama himself told participants in a faith-based organizing conference call that he needed their help to sell his health care take-over plans, admonishing that I need you to knock on doors, talk to neighbors, spread the facts and speak the truth (great community organizing, but not particularly presidential).
But just as President Obama has established a clear pattern of ignoring many of his campaign promises and doing the opposite in so many areas of his presidency, it is also true that on many economic matters, Obama is essentially in lock-step with what he promised on the campaign trail. He campaigned as an economic redistributionist. As President, he has most certainly been a redistributionist, and has displayed little comprehension or respect for the free-market economy.
As a candidate he expressed all-out disdain for business, and repeatedly promised to dramatically increases taxes and regulations on corporations, expressed anger and outrage when corporations reported profits that were too big, and promised to give back corporate profits to the American people.
So for those who have been paying attention, Obamacare should be no surprise. The candidate promised a single payer health insurance plan, and even once lamented that it may take ten to fifteen years to get private insurance companies out of the health insurance market entirely. When single-payer proposals began emerging in Congress and were met with staunch opposition from American citizens, President Obama changed his position on single-payer insurance, insisting that all he wanted was an option of government funded insurance.
And now it appears that Congress, owing to Obamas community organizer instincts, is about to begin demonizing health insurance company executives, trashing their lavish lifestyles and portraying them as perpetrators (you thought the treatment of the AIG folks was rough? Stay tuned).
So what if some form of Obamacare actually comes to pass? It will likely be woefully unpopular, it could cost the Democrats dearly in the 2010 election, and could set-off an uprising far greater than anything weve seen in this summers congressional townhall meetings. Yet such a reform plan would likely be consistent with President Obamas big-government, centrally-controlled economic sensibilities, complete with governmental conrols over what procedures physicians will perform, and how much money they will be compensated for performing them.
If Obamacare comes to pass, it will be a significant fulfillment of President Obamas vision of a transformed America. But it will not be what Americans want.
Um, that's called being dishonest.
We beat the h*ll out of the democrats next year.
We revolt against every little decision he makes from this moment forward.
ObamaCare happens...
No happening. It’s over.
Just what makes you think there WILL BE another election?
Think ACORN!
Less care..
Underground healthcare networks...frequent border crossings to Mexico for real treatment...and an American “resistance” front.
Nope...those 12% are very weak when the giant is awake.
ACORN will have to change it’s name to be accepted now. They are exposed now...they will run out of town if they attempt to pull their crap again.
Not supposed to go into effect before 2013. O thinks he’ll be safely re-elected by then.
I’m afraid that we’re about to see an implementation of the old saying, “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.”
Mark
What if a health care bill actually passes in the Congress, and President Obama signs it into law? BANKRUPTCY.
Let’s see what should happen.
1. RATs and RINOs voted out in 2010 and 2012 and this is repealed.
2. If 1. does not happen, states like OK, TX, AZ, etc tell the Feds to go pound salt
3. Feds then get snarky with these states and hold back all Fed money
4. These states stand up to the Feds, and collect all Fed taxes due from their states and give the Feds only what the State chooses to give them
5. Feds escalate further
6. These states get a divorce, divide up the jointly held assets and liabilites, and everyone goes their separate ways.
I can dream, can’t I?
Why do you think that?
Almost half of the voting population is on the public dole and will not vote themselves off it.
We have two generations of public educated kids never knowing true liberty and have been socialized in school.
So how exactly do you plan to beat them?
Secession or Revolution.
We just CANNOT and will NOT submit to this.
A bill will pass this year.
Well, if it passes, I would hope for a thorough housecleaning of Congress in the next election followed by the repeal of the new law and possible impeachment proceedings against Obama.
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