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| The Fight Over Fascist ObamaCare Is Only Just Beginning |
| 2009-12-20 |
| Posted by Matthew Vadum on 12.20.09 @ 2:31PM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who may be unaware that he is currently enjoying his final term in the U.S. Senate, claims to have the 60 votes he needs to muscle ObamaCare through his chamber. God help us if he does. The current iteration of ObamaCare is classic Mussolini-style Fascism (i.e. corporatism). It forces Americans at gunpoint to purchase health insurance, a requirement never before imposed on the American people. The big insurance companies and the federal government have combined to subject the public to this tyrannical mandate that Americans overwhelmingly oppose. This is the economic essence of Fascism. Shame on them on all. Nonetheless, William Kristol of the Weekly Standard offers some words of encouragement to the patriotic Americans who still believe in limited government. Keep fighting on health care. Fight for the next few days in the Senate. Fight the conference report in January in the Senate and the House. Start trying to repeal the worst parts of the bill the moment it passes, if it does. After all, never before has so unpopular a piece of major legislation been jammed through on a party-line vote. This week, Rasmussen showed 57% of voters nationwide saying that it would be better to pass no health care reform bill this year instead of passing the plan currently being considered by Congress, with only 34% favoring passing that bill. 54% of Americans now believe they will be worse off if reform passes, while just 25% believe they'll be better off. Making the 2010 elections a referendum on health care should work--if Republicans don't let up in the debate over the next year. Indeed ObamaCare may be the Democrats' undoing. They are betting it all on their healthcare plan, which won't kick in for years to come. A public backlash before then could halt the program in its tracks and kill it, leading to a Bastille Day-like slaughter at the polls for the Democratic powers that be. Of course, it would be better to abort this monstrosity while in the womb, but the beauty of politics is that the fight is never really over. There will be more battles to come. As Kristol writes, "Fight on with respect to health care. Fight on other fronts. And recruit new fighters. In a word: Fight. " Amen. If we quit, they win.... You bet. Keep fighting. And if they manage to jam it through, keep fighting. Americans are going to figure this out. Bambi, Reid and Pelosi will try to keep blaming everything on Bush. We won't let that happen. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #1 "Years to kick in" This is crap. It kicks in the day it is signed. Ya, we might not see socialized meds for a couple years but all that pork and spending start the very second Obama passes it! hell, if he was smart he could pass the bill, take the pork then tell the dumb Americans this bill needs to be redone, thus dolling out even more pork.. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-12-20 21:20 |