Talking Cure, Again

President Obama began his speech tonight by noting that liberals have been trying to foist “comprehensive health reform” on this nation for nearly seven decades. (He did not use these exact words.) These decades of failure have not led liberals to reconsider their basic assumptions about the proper role of government in American health care. It was thus overly optimistic to expect a few difficult months to make Obama rethink his health-care initiative.

Neither the government-heavy substance nor the dishonest and demagogic tactics have changed. The president denounced “scare tactics” — in a speech that warned that failure to go along with his plans would cause people to die. He pretended that preventive care will “save money,” even though this claim has been authoritatively and repeatedly debunked. He claimed, in defiance of every independent assessment, that the legislation before Congress will reduce costs. He denied that the legislation he supports will spend federal dollars on abortion, which can be true only if he has some private and novel definition of “federal dollars.” He denied that it will cover illegal immigrants, even though Democratic congressmen have specifically voted not to require verification of legal residence.
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President Obama said that “the time for bickering is over” and that he will not “waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it.” You would not guess it from his speech, but it is possible sincerely to believe that it is better policy to scrap this plan and start over. If by “bickering” Obama means opposition in principle to his plan to vastly expand the federal role in health care, then there has never been a better time for it

“...denounced “scare tactics” — in a speech that warned that failure to go along with his plans would cause people to die...”

...denounced partisanship, even as he gave one of the most partisan speeches ever made by a president before congress.

These glaring inconsistencies/hypocrisies are so stark as to smack one in the face.

Does he really think his eloquence glosses over is prevarication and disingenuous words? Does he really think he is a teleprompter-god?

". . . noting that liberals have been trying to foist “comprehensive health reform” on this nation for nearly seven decades."

Now, why hasn't someone put it that way before?

The next logical question is: why?

Can it be documented by factual evidence that this segment of the population (liberal) is more caring, more compassionate, more generous than the rest of the population who oppose having government responsible for health care?

If documentation that politicians and other self-described "liberals" or "progressives" are not more compassionate and, therefore, generous with their own money through caring acts on behalf of others, then what might account for their decades-long battle to make it mandatory that the coercive power of government be used in this manner?

Could it possibly be that those politicians use the "promise" of improving health care (a need for every human being) as a means of buying votes which put them in places of power in Washington, and then use that same "issue" (health care) to accrue even more coercive power (and wealth) to themselves and their special interest hangers-on?

We heard open admissions of "redistributing wealth" during the last campaign. Perhaps it's time to begin a discussion of what is really going on in the current fight. Is it not about "redistributing power"--from individuals and the states to Washington?

America's Founders believed that it should be the other way around, and they intended their Constitution to protect against a concentration of powers in elected representatives in Washington. Jefferson said the intention was "to bind them down by the chains of the Constitution."

Perhaps the Tea Partiers can convey that message on the 12th.

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