Posted on 08/06/2009 4:00:17 PM PDT by smoothsailing
RHINOCare: A U.S. Chamber of Horrors
By Lawrence A. Hunter
August 6, 2009
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are back home under siege from angry constituents terrified over the House version of ObamaCare. (View the videos here.) Meanwhile, a few Republican Senators remain huddled with Democrats on Capitol Hill trying to construct a legislative Trojan RHINO with ObamaCare hiding inside disguised as a bipartisan compromise. Call it RHINOCare -- Republican Healthcare In Name Only -- and it is nothing but a ploy to deceive people into inviting government-run healthcare into America.
The thought of the federal government taking over healthcare terrifies people. The revelation that the health bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 3200) would mandate "end-of-life counseling" every five years for every American age 65 and older has galvanized people's opposition to a federal takeover. Although nothing in the bill explicitly requires medical care to be withheld from sick seniors, it is clear that the system being established is designed to control healthcare costs by closing the valve and pinching the flow and supply of care to seniors -- all under the guise of "cost containment."
The President is proposing a "cut-Medicare-first" strategy of cost control, and people have caught on. On top of that, the provision in the bill for mandatory "life counseling" (read "death and dying counseling") is the final straw that convinces seniors that nationalized healthcare will put them out in the cold and into an early grave. The remark of a senior citizen at a recent Gate City, Virginia town hall meeting perfectly expresses the views of many older people: "The federal government just wants me to feel guilty for going on living."
Democrat Rick Boucher who represents Virginia's ninth congressional district is illustrative of the Democrats representing conservative constituents...
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They don’t seem to understand - yet - that a yes vote will result in political suicide.
Hunter is dead on the money.
The Democrat Party is nothing more than a criminal enterprise with a few RINOs included.
How do we make it perfectly clear to these arrogant Elitist politicians that they are TOAST? We promise that they will not be re-elected even to the position of dog catcher. Even Democrats are telling talk show hosts that they, too, will not re-elect these arrogant politicians.
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Great Graphics, Y’all!
Admin moderator, george76 posted that Gun-Shy story about the Thune Amendment a few weeks ago, but I couldn't find it.
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