Obama's Orders Requireth Haste

The American Thinker ^ | September 05, 2009 | Miguel A. Guanipa

[Scanian]

The truth, as they say, is out there. It's just a matter of doing a little research.

But we don't always have a lot of spare time for research. Especially when it comes to things like the massive Health Care bill the Obama administration has been trying to ram through Congress the past few weeks.

Given enough time, the public would eventually become privy to some of the more questionable measures that are lurking in this bill, and give Obama a vote of no confidence, despite the fact that he may already have the votes to subject an uneasy populace to his grand scheme of so called "reform". This is probably the reason why Obama is in such a rush.

A country that prides itself on its virtuous tendency to reserve judgment until all the facts are in is probably now wondering, if Obama's Healthcare plan is so wonderful, why does he appear reluctant to allow more time to have people carefully delve into it, and is instead engaged in a frenzied public relations campaign which chief goal is to achieve a political victory?

To put it another way, if more time were allowed to review the details of what in some circles is being lauded as a transformative bill, would not a better informed public be more inclined to recognize the wonderful qualities of such a matchless piece of legislation, and thus arm Obama, a man of the people, with a more convincing argument when he presents it before an ambivalent Congress?

One would think so, but the opposite appears to be the case.

In fact the more the bill is scrutinized, the more that major flaws emerge, and the more resistance Obama encounters, even from some of his own constituents. This makes all the insistence to muscle it through Congress as quickly as possible all the more suspicious. Especially when reports continue to surface that real crises are being visited upon other countries that have for some time operated under one form of socialized medicine or another, bearing some rather sobering accounts of their own experiences which are nothing short of horrific.

[Dem Guard]

People are always rebuffed by a slimmy salesman trying to push them to buy anything. His credibility is gone after this experience, and anything he tries to do will be particularly scrutinized. No more free rides for this guy. He is going to have a very ruff remaining term....I'm glad he screwed up so fast to minimize his damage.

[erman]

every time the congress and the senate pass these “emergency” or rapid bills the crooks and schemers place their little addendum to hide their crap in 1000’s of pages of legal crappy language... then they can say “wow, I never saw that. We need to correct that and they never do.”

[Nick Danger]

In fact the more the bill is scrutinized, the more that major flaws emerge, and the more resistance Obama encounters

Well, duh. This was always the problem with HealthCareReform™, and it always will be. Nobody wants their own health care reformed. The "Health Care" people want reformed is an abstraction; it's not any actual health care that anyone has. It's like the way people hate "Congress" in the abstract, but continually re-elect their own CongressCritter.

Every time the Democrats go on one of these HealthCareReform™ crusades, everybody cheers. "Yay, health care reform!" people say. The polls show everybody wants it. But what people really want is reform-in-the-abstract of health-care-in-the-abstract. They want to read in the paper that the politicians have done something wonderful, but without messing with them personally, or costing them anything. As soon as people figure out that the politicians might mess with their own health care, or give stuff away and send them the bill, it's "Boo! Hiss! Leave me alone! No Health Care Reform!"

[Scanian]

Americans are famous for supporting things in the abstract but being scared off by the specifics.

Take COngress, for instance. 57% of people polled by Rasmussen want all 545 congresscreeps fired. But how many really want their own stiff gone? Less than half as many, I’d wager. And election results prove it over and over.