Posted on 09/27/2013 6:07:09 PM PDT by neverdem
The current campaign to deprive President Obama's health care leviathan of the life-sustaining tax dollars it needs for full bureaucratic metastasis is what left-wingers call a consciousness-raising exercise.
It matters next to nothing if current Republican efforts succeed in immediately defunding Obamacare. That's because this is just the opening round of what promises to be a protracted struggle to restore sanity to the American health care system. A temporary defeat at one juncture on the road to repeal isn't really a defeat at all, provided that it serves a larger purpose. Obamacare, after all, wasn't enacted in a day and it won't be repealed in a day.
Both the Ted Cruz talkathon and the brinksmanship over the stop-gap government funding measure (called a "continuing resolution") epitomize purposeful political theater.
Ignore the blatherskite spewing from GOP establishment talking heads like Karl Rove: there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing political things strictly for public consumption even when there is a less-than-direct or less-than-obvious relationship between the things done and the desired results. It's not somehow dishonest or dishonorable to do this, contrary to the protestations of the pompous pundits who suck up air in the Washington echo chamber.
In this age of instant everything, we tend to forget that politics isn't always about concrete, instantaneous results. It's about symbolism. It's about focusing the attention of people in order to educate them. It's about framing the issues properly, telling stories, and planting memes in public spaces, allowing them to spread like dandelion seeds on a passing breeze. That's how Americans were brainwashed into believing that Republicans are the "party of the rich" and gazillionaire George Soros's Democrats are the caring party of compassion...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants... bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society. Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors. [but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
In this age of instant everything, we tend to forget that politics isn't always about concrete, instantaneous results. It's about symbolism. It's about focusing the attention of people in order to educate them. It's about framing the issues properly, telling stories, and planting memes in public spaces, allowing them to spread like dandelion seeds on a passing breeze. That's how Americans were brainwashed into believing that Republicans are the "party of the rich" and gazillionaire George Soros's Democrats are the caring party of compassion.
Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm’s brother helped write it.....he has EVIL VIEWS about WHO should get health care.
Yeah staffers and lawyers and probably outside consultants, lobbyists, many people and we’ll never know their names, unless they wanna brag about it (lol).
Here’s an idea, cut funding for most Congressional staff. Make Congress actually do the work themselves, the laws would be a lot simpler.
This how the left has driven their agenda. They are masters of incramentalism. It's past time that conservatives learn to employ the same psychology in influencing opinion rather than laying all the cards out on the table and never deviating from them. Time to fight dirty, because that's what it's going to take.
“Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm’s brother helped write it......he has EVIL VIEWS about WHO should get health care.”
Donthca know, only the elites are worthy of healthcare. They’re the ones who do the heavy thinking for us and therefore are entitled to the best there is. (No death panels for them.)
It’s the independent-minded types in flyover country who are expendable. “Ya’ know”, the ones who read the Bible, who love guns, who are racists and homophobes, who are Christians....that kind of neanderthal...those genetically inferior beings who exhale all that dangerous carbon dioxide and ride around in a pick-up trucks.....they’re the most dangerous and the most expendable.
/SARC/
IMHO
When it appeared it seemed like something that had been sitting around for 30 years waiting to hatch, completely unrelated to the workings of the world today.
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I’m pretty sure it was devised by the spirit of Rube Goldberg.
Diseased minds that hate created this anti-freedom bill. Some can be identified...swimmer kennedy, smartest-woman-in-the-world klintoon and so forth. All should be brought to justice.
Everything they do, every single thing, has one objective: to make more people dependent on government. That, in turn, makes them Dem voters, enhancing the power of Dem officials.
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