It’s time for another pitbull award. And I proudly present this one to an ordinary American with an extraordinary amount of sense and the good fortune to be able to deliver quite possibly the best line of the whole Obamacare debate to an idiot politician:
“If it’s so good, why doesn’t Congress have to be on it?”
Kudos to Kevin Jackson for his well-deserved pitbull award. You’re an inspiration to those of us who want to reverse this downward spiral.
Actually, a clue big enough to fill their obvious leadership void would probably take more money than I’ll ever have.
What leadership void, you ask? Well, Michael Steele was asked a question about the individual requirement to own health care. He asked what it was. Thank you so much, Captain Clueless. And some people still insist on wondering why I and a lot of other folks aren’t Republican conservatives any longer.
Want to field losers like Steele, RNC? Fine. I’ll just do for myself, and you’re on your own.
More fun from the Obama Administration’s “not going to undermine private insurance” public insurance plan. How about 83 million losing private coverage?
The short version: A bunch called the Lewin Group crunched the numbers. The estimate was that 83.4 million people would shift from private to public insurance. If you believe the government can do things cheaper and better, this is great. If you’re paying attention to how the government actually works with programs like this, not so much.
I saw a commercial last night about how so many people would suffer and lose out on coverage if this didn’t pass. The ad had it backwards. If this bill becomes law, health care rationing will cost people care and coverage. What coverage there will be will be worse than the system we have now. Ask the UK. Ask Canada. Ask anyone in a country that already has socialized medicine.
The pain is coming if this bill becomes law.
No jokes now, folks. It’s zero flak time.
The Tea Parties are out again today, protesting the possible government-takeover destruction of our health care system. I wish I could be with them, but at least I can help spread the word about them fighting the good fight.
Now onto the moderate Democrats.
I don’t know if any of you read this or even know I exist. If you do, let me give you another small taste of the crystal ball…
Health care “reform” has passed. Public “insurance” has forced the hand of a couple of insurers to stop offering private health insurance. Some employers have stopped covering their employees, and the quality and responsiveness of health care in general is going down as the prices rise.
You know this or something like this is going to happen. Furthermore, you know we’re spending massive amounts of money already, and we don’t have any more to pay for this. That means monster tax hikes or inflation as the government prints still more money it should not. But even that’s not the bottom line.
The bottom line was that you were part of the fiasco. Someone bought you off, or intimidated you, and now you get to explain to a bunch of your unhappy constituents why this really isn’t your fault. The only problem? They have a basis for comparison.
We’re not Europe yet. Everyone will remember what the old health care system was, and they’ll know what they have now is worse and deteriorating. That means your opponent has the proverbial 800 pound gorilla of an issue to cost you your seat. And since the suffering increases the longer this lovely public system is around, time won’t dull the memories of your wrong vote.
So, if you would like to take the opportunity to prove that you really are sensible moderates, now is the time. Otherwise, all the rhetoric in the world may not be enough to save you.
