Most of the people I asked said they had no intention of listening to Obama’s latest version of his Health Care Plan. “Every time it’s billed as a new plan, all it turns out to be is the old plan with new window dressings.” “Every time it’s ‘the last effort’ and it fails again, it gets rehashed and presented again.” “The actual projected cost is as elusive as Obama’s birth certificate.” And, predominantly, “I’m just sick and tired of listening to this bull shit.” "You want reconciliation? You really want reconciliation?" one frustrated California native shouted in anger. “Here, reconcile this!” Up went a clinched fist with a protruding middle finger.
So there Obama was in front of the microphone again, surrounded by human props dressed in rented medical smocks, again. The entire planet, already knocked off its axis by the earthquake in Chile, abruptly stopped its rotation altogether. One little old lady in Scottsdale was knocked off her commode and has already filed for coverage under the new Health Care Plan. Either Pelosi or Reid will be talking about her medical misfortune before the day is over.
Obama couldn’t resist talking down to us, as if we are lowly Astroturf idiots who enjoy getting high on Tea Party leafs and who are going through life like pissants, way, way down beyond the end of his condescending nose. Without describing his plan in any details, he said he was changing only three things of current health care by reigning in the insurance companies with increased regulation.
He also alleged that this “new” proposal is paid for. “In fact, it will save us over $1 trillion over a ten-year period according to the CBO.” There was no mention of CBO’s wanting to know how he can extend the term of Medicare benefits at a cost of $500 billion and provide new programs at a cost of $500 billion and, at the same time, claim thist totals a $1 trillion savings. In fact, it turns out that there are really an included $500 billion in Medicare cuts, $500 billion in new taxes, and still an ultimate cost to the deficit of $2.5 trillion over the next ten years.
What was also missing here was an answer to the government paid abortion question, the mandatory insurance provision, and several other contents of the Democrat bill that have raised hackles on the necks of most Americans. In other words, I guess, no contents of the existing plans have been removed.
In a rebuttal to Obama’s speech a few minutes later, Senator Mitch McConnell said that the American people remain totally against this health care plan and that the Republicans will not participate in Obama’s call for joining them. He said that probably means the Democrats will go ahead with their reconciliation and that they will pay for it in November.
Here we go with another “final vote” on health care reform... Although he has said in the past that he would not sign major legislation that had been passed by a simple majority, he said today that his plan has already passed the House and the Senate and he wants an up or down vote, (reconciliation), within the next two weeks with a simple majority. In that same breath, he said he didn’t really care about the political implications.
I guess he’s willing to throw his radical left political base under the bus as well?
He insisted that more government control is necessary, less is not an option. With darkening, angry eyes he chastised a national cry to start the process over. “We will not start over, we don’t have the time.”
Why does this have to happen in two weeks? Where have his past “emergency” decisions and legislations gotten us? Why all of the double-talk, misinformation and disinformation…AGAIN?
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: This battle is no longer about health care; it has degraded into being a fundamental battle for the control of America… It’s us vs. him.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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