That is going to look fantastic on a grave stone.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/21/2009 4:31:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Democrats have lost the health care debate.
For months now, polls have been showing that Americans don't want the massive new government controls, regulations, taxes, and spending that Democrats are pushing.
Latest Gallup polling shows 60 percent saying that President Barack Obama's proposal will not expand health coverage without raising taxes on middle class Americans and without affecting the current quality of health care.
Forty three percent approve of how Obama is handling health care and 52 percent disapprove.
You would be hard pressed to find a Democrat or Republican who does not agree that we can improve how we deliver health care.
So the logical conclusion we'd expect now from well intentioned people would be that we go back to square one. We do what Obama promised but never did -- have a truly open, bi-partisan discussion, with all ideas are on the table, to generate the best possible product for the American people.
Why is this not happening? Because it's not about healthcare. It's about ideology.
Despite claims from our Democrat administration that it wants civility, it does not. It wants control.
This nation is already torn apart ideologically. In the last four month,s we've witnessed two cold-blooded ideologically motivated murders. An abortion doctor shot in a church and a pro-life demonstrator murdered in a drive-by shooting in front of a school.
There are fewer and fewer "self evident truths" about which we all agree.
The current charade to paint ideological differences with our president as racially motivated dangerously pours gasoline on the burning embers of our differences.
But this is what Democrats want. They have lost the health-care debate on substance, so they want to make it emotional. They want to intimidate. And nothing intimidates and polarizes like race.
Months ago they started the process of getting socialized medicine -- taking over one sixth of the American economy -- passed in a few short weeks. The deadlines and breathlessness were because they knew that if Americans got a chance to understand what they were trying to do there would be push back. Exactly what has happened.
When the President spoke recently before the joint session of Congress, he finished by asking that we replace "acrimony with civility." But in this same speech he characterized his opposition as fomenting a "partisan spectacle," of "scare tactics" and of "wild claims about a government takeover of health care."
Our smooth talking President reduced those who disagree with him to a bunch of clowns, incorporated not a single major reform idea coming from the opposition, and then accused Republicans of stifling "honest debate."
Is it any wonder that every freedom loving American is at wits end? And that Congressman Joe Wilson lost it when he yelled out "You lie."
To demonstrate the Obama team's interest in civility, immediately after the speech, Rahm Emanuel, Obama's foul-mouthed, take-no-prisoners chief of staff, "charged over to three Republicans," as reported by the Wall St. Journal, "demanding in a profanity-laced tirade that they force Mr. Wilson to apologize."
Cong. Jim Clyburn, third ranking House Democrat, and black caucus member, took the lead in getting a House vote to formally reprimand Wilson. According to Clyburn, "This is about the rules of the House."
But what rules does Clyburn really care about?
When asked in an interview where the Constitution gives the federal government authority to regulate health care delivery, Clyburn replied, "There's nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do."
Finally an honest Democrat. Clyburn pulled no punches that our Constitution, which is the basis of his authority, is irrelevant to him. That it's all about political thuggery.
Which is why we're now talking about race instead of health care.
Judeo-Christian values. The hell with race.
Latest Gallup polling shows 60 percent saying that President Barack Obama's proposal will not expand health coverage without raising taxes on middle class Americans and without affecting the current quality of health care. Forty three percent approve of how Obama is handling health care and 52 percent disapprove.How can 60% say the proposal is no good and only 52% disapprove of Obama's handling of this issue? People are stupid.
The only ones in his corner at this point are those who wouldn't criticize him under any circumstances. There might still be a few that are on the fence, but his performance in office has demonstrated pretty convincingly his ultimate goal. And of course there are also those still supporting him who think they can get something for their support. As usual we are in a contest for the thirty percent or so that consider themselves ‘moderates’. One third will support him regardless, the other third will not support him regardless. That ‘moderate’ third is up for grabs. Right now he appears to be doing more to alienate them than befriend them.
As painful as all of this is it really does serve a purpose. Americans seem to be a people who have to learn for themselves, usually the hard way. Look at what the Founding Fathers put up with before a third of the country decided enough was enough, in fact too much.
Dubya was important because he laid to rest the myth that working with the liberals would solve the problem. He did, and it didn't. He went to Washington determined to be the most bipartisan, I hate that word, and reached across the isle time and again, only to draw back a stub, his hand having been torn off by the libs.
The Left lied through their teeth and blamed all the caustic relations on Bush, even though it was the direct effect of their behavior.
Then, along comes Barrack, promising a new atmosphere in DC. And the sheeple bought it, at least enough of them to get him elected.
And he's teaching the reluctant learners that he isn't the man for the time, and doesn't have the answers.
When Bambi’s Sunday news program blitz is highlighted by an argument with sycophant Stephenopolis (say that quickly), over Websters definition of “tax”, you know he has lost the high ground.
Probably because it’s has and always will be, a sensitive subject.
Ballgame.
The race card might as well be a white flag.
Oh, the irony.
Racism being used by a half-black/half-white guy, to try and raise a RED FLAG.
Someone addressed the "partisan" bleat not too many years ago, when liberals were pointing at Newt and Rush, and showed that the current acrimony in the Congress dates back to the seating of the Democrat "Class of '74", a.k.a. the "Watergate Class".
Ann Coulter shows in Treason how the liberals launched very long, bitter vendettas against both Joe McCarthy and Richard M. Nixon over their exposure and bearding of Democrats who'd sheltered and cossetted Soviet spies like Alger Hiss.
Watergate was a vendetta campaign against Nixon for having done things that did not arouse a scintilla of complaint when done by, ee.g., Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. She recalls things done by those presidents that were exactly analogical to Nixon's "plumbers", wiretaps, and tape recordings. Roosevelt had taped people all the time, but hell wouldn't hold the presstitutes' phony indignation when they discovered Nixon had done the same.
The Democrats seated in 1974 and 1976 proceeded, in 1977-8, to shut off many "collegial" processes that involved Republicans. They reduced the number of Republicans on key committees and adopted a high-handed, hectoring tone toward GOP congressmen, while they proceeded to blacken the CIA and Defense Department in the Church hearings and various other Leftist propaganda orgies aimed at debilitating the wellsprings of American resistance to the Soviet Empire.
Newt revolted against that maltreatment when Bob Michel and other GOP congressional leaders would not, and started throwing grenades at the Democrats. That is the "incivility" the 'Rats now complain about and blame on Newt.
They started all that crap, but they won't own it if we don't make them eat it.
That is going to look fantastic on a grave stone.
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