Healthcare Nationalization - A Post Mortem

Ok, so what do we know in the wake of the healthcare nationalization vote that took place in the House of Representatives on Sunday?  Here are a few things:

•            We know there is no such thing as a "pro-life" Democrat in Washington anymore.  Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak and a few others in the Democrat caucus like to put up the pretense of caring about unborn children in order to retain their seats representing borderline Republican districts, but at the end of the day, they abandoned their "stand on principle" (as Stupak put it) for a toothless, meaningless executive order that will be thrown out of the first federal court that considers it.

•            We already knew the so-called "moderate" Blue Dog" Democrats were as useless as you-know-whats on a boar hog, and they proved it yet again, happily providing Nancy Pelosi the number of votes she needed to ram this atrocity of a bill through the House.  They have now played this kabuki dance in which the Speaker counts Blue Dog heads until she has the necessary number of votes (they probably draw straws, or play "rock/scissors/paper to see who has to vote with her), and then lets the remainder vote against whatever disgra ce happens to be on the floor at the time for more than a decade now.  It will all come to an end in November, as pretty much all the members of this worthless fake caucus will face defeat in their bids for re-election.  Their constituents have figured out the game.  The nation has never seen a group of politicians more deserving of defeat than this particular bunch of frauds.

•         We know that, at the end of the day, Speaker Pelosi could get 216 votes in favor of a bill that would fill the Potomac River with raw sewage if that became a top priority on President Obama's fascist agenda.

•          We know that the President has no clue what is actually in this bill.  He demonstrated that very clearly in his interview with Fox News Anchor Brett Baier last Wednesday.

•          We know that the Democrats as a Party have no regard for the Constitution of the United States.  Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida stated this loud and clear for all to hear when, during a meeting of the House Rules Committee, he proudly stated "Rules?  There ain't no rules here!  We make 'em up as we go along."  Rep. Hastings, by the way, is one of just six federal judges to have been impeached from office, having been convicted of fraud and bribery charges in the 1980s.  That this criminal now sits as one of the senior Democrats on the House Rules Committee is perhaps the most appropriate committee assignment in congressional history.

And so we go on, a nation forever changed.  The United States of America is now destined to become a socialist welfare state on the model of failing Western European nations like France and Spain.  This has been the goal of socialists/fascists masquerading as Democrats for decades, and Sunday was the biggest leap they have yet take down that road.  They know that, in the long run, a government that controls the people's healthcare decisions controls their lives.  Attaining that goal was, in their view, well worth the electoral Armageddon they will face at the polls this November, and in 2012.

The truly interesting part of this whole process to me is listening to the President and his supporters in congress and the news media speculate about what a political disaster it would be for him and the Democrat Party in general had they failed to implement healthcare nationalization legislation.  I find this whole discussion fascinating, if irrelevant, because the reality is that, for proponents of this stain upon American democracy, the outcome was ultimately of no consequence at all – the damage to their political futures had already been done long before Sunday, and there is no going back.

They have now allowed this corrupt, disgraceful process of bullying, lying and vote purchasing to remain on public display for almost a full year now.  I cannot remember a time in my life when such a high percentage of ordinary Americans were so tuned in and appalled by the machinations of congress.  There will be no recovery from that for leftist Democrats in Washington. 

This November will be a political slaughter.  November 2012 will most likely be more of the same, and Barack Obama will probably be a one-term President as a result.  It's what will inevitably follow as the government steadily gains control of every aspect of our daily lives that should make us all cry for the futures of our children and their children.

American Fascism was born on Sunday.  President Obama and Nancy Pelosi took a giant leap towards their goal of turning this great nation into just another banana republic.  Somewhere, Hugo Chavez is smiling.

A Nation on the Brink of Fascism

So here we sit on Saturday morning, seemingly a day away from President Obama realizing his dream of destroying our constitutional democracy and replacing with a sort of fascist, benevolent strongman banana republic form of government. The President obviously dreams of ruling over America in the same fashion in which Hugo Chavez has ruled over Venezuela for the last decade, putting in place a socialist/fascist utopia without having the suffer the inconvenience of answering to a free and curious news media, or of legitimately moving his policy preferences through a complex and difficult legislative process.


After all, He, Obama, is The One, and The One is right, The One is all-knowing, and The One and should have his way.

Certainly, the President has already achieved his dream of not having to answer to a free and curious news media, as all the major leftist news organs who dominate this nation's media long ago dove into the Obama tank of Kool-aid and have been swimming around in it with blank, timid smiles on their faces ever since.

The lone exception to this happy circumstance for The One came on Thursday, when Fox News anchor Brett Baier conducted the first legitimate media interview the President has ever been subjected to in his entire political life. Baier was everything a real news reporter is supposed to be: He asked tough questions, he followed up when the President obfuscated or tried to shift focus, he interrupted when the President tried to filibuster, he repeated questions Mr. Obama tried to avoid until the President was forced to give something resembling a real answer or admit he had no idea what the answer was.

In other words, unlike every other member of the nation’s news media who has interviewed the President since he became a candidate back in 2007, Baier conducted himself like a real news reporter who had attended a real journalism school. Sadly, he will almost certainly remain the lone exception to rule in today’s lapdog media, and the President will almost certainly never take another interview on the Fox News Channel.

So the major media having long been completely co-opted to tell the Obama tale the way The One wants it told, the President was left only to find a way to circumvent the Constitution and the legislative process it envisions. That desire was satisfied for The One by one Louise Slaughter, the Chairman of the House Rules Committee, who last week presented The One with the now famous “deem and pass” solution to his quandary. This would allow members of the House who are reluctant to vote in favor of the atrocity of a bill the Senate passed last December to “deem” it having passed without having to actually vote on it.

But that wasn’t all – the President and his gang of Chicago thugs helped move the Democrat Party’s fake “deficit hawks” along by strong-arming the Congressional Budget Office to issue a fake score on the bill that pretends to show it actually cuts the deficit! No one really believes that to be the case, of course – I mean, if they did, why not just multiply every provision in the bill by, say 8, and thus cut the deficit 8 times more than it already does? – but the fake score allowed fake “conservative” Democrats to claim to their constituents back home that they voted for the bill on the grounds that it is fiscally responsible. Oh wait, silly me – I just said “voted”. Obviously, that’s wrong, since they’re not “voting” on the bill at all.

See how elegant this all is? The One has, through all this procedural chicanery, essentially installed himself as the nation’s de facto dictator, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid serving as his congressional enablers. If he can get healthcare nationalization done without a real congressional vote, who is to say he can’t do the same with cap and trade, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and anything else on his radical fascist agenda?

Of course, the problem The One now faces is that his term as de facto dictator expires this November, when Republicans will make huge gains in congress as a direct result of the extra-constitutional actions he has taken during his first year in office. That is, of course, unless The One and his gang of Chicago thugs figure out a way to subvert the electoral process in the same way they’ve subverted the legislative process.

Don’t kid yourself into thinking that those efforts are not already underway.

Post-Summit Stuff

Ronald Reagan would have been proud of congressional Republicans yesterday.  The healthcare summit was a draw according to MSNBC, which means the Republicans won, and won big.

Some thoughts, in no particular order:

• The President was petulant, condescending and tense.  His idea of "bi-partisanship" appears to be to tell any given Republican who was speaking "those are all good points", and then to immediately dismiss them and move on.  He diminished his office by playing emcee to the room, and made himself look a little silly by singlehandedly talking longer than all the Democrats combined, and all the Republicans combined.
• The comparisons of President Obama to Ronald Reagan as a "Great Communicator" need to end, and end now.  Obama is very literate, and speaks well.  Reagan was a little less smooth as a speaker, but he was convincing whenever he spoke, and able to persuade others to his point of view.  Obama has zero ability to convince others, which is why he fails whenever he tries.  From last year's trips to Copenhagen to try to win the 2016 Olympics for Chicago, to try to get a deal on global warming, to his campaigning for Democrat candidates in races in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts, Obama is on a losing streak of epic proportions in terms of personal persuasion.  He may be a great talker, but he is far from being a great communicator.
• Harry Reid looked as if he was chewing on a lemon and had a grassburr in the seat of his pants all day.  But then, that's pretty much how he always looks.  Nancy Pelosi is a worthless, lying sack of horse dung, and I literally celebrate every time her party is stupid enough to put her in front of television cameras.
• The Republicans, much to my surprise, showed up well-prepared with factual information and real ideas for real reforms that would actually improve healthcare delivery in the U.S. while lowering costs.  Naturally, each and every one of those ideas were rejected out of hand by the President and the other Democrats in the room, given that their goal here is to create a new, massive dependent class of Americans, not to in any way improve the system.
• Paul Ryan was especially impressive, easily the most serious and best-prepared person in the room.  His critique of the budgetary shenanigans contained in the Democrat plan were utterly understandable to the average person and thus devastating to the Democrat cause.
• It didn't hurt anything at all that the Rs were also able to bring real medical doctors to the table in the form of Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.  These two guys debating nitwits like Turban Durbin and San Fran Nan just is not a fair fight.
• The sad thing about all of this is that there really is a need for real, good faith reforms in the U.S. system of healthcare delivery.  Unfortunately, such reforms cannot happen at the federal level so long as radical leftist ideologues occupy the White House and the majority in congress.  And so we are left with the current stalemate.  Any real reforms must continue to happen at the state level on a piecemeal basis.  Obamacare is dead - Democrats will not be able to force the monstrosity through on a "reconciliation" strategy.

It is dead.  RIP.

Have a great Friday.

The Friday Fix

After November, there will be one less chronic drug abuser in the House of Representatives.  Patrick Kennedy has announced he will not seek re-election.  The fewer Kennedys around abusing everything and everyone in sight, the better.

John Mayer, after bragging in an interview with Playboy Magazine about his "racist penis", and using the vaunted "n-word" in the process, obviously decided a simple apology was not enough , and that crying was in fact required here.  I have to admit I had no idea until this morning that it was even possible for a penis to possess racist thought. Go figure.

The erstwhile liberals over at the Politico assure us that, all the mountain of evidence to the contrary aside, the leftists in the mainstream media love Sarah Palin, they really, really do.  Whew.

As if the poor folks in Haiti didn't have it bad enough, this morning they must frantically hide their women, children and wallets, because Nancy Pelosi is coming to town along with a contingent of her fellow leftist thieves.  God help Haiti.

You know it's getting bad for President Obama when even the fake polls conducted by CBS and the NY Times feel the need to accurately show his public approval rating diving below 50% into the mid-40s.  They dummied it up just enough to keep the 46% approval hovering 1 percentage point above the 45% disapproval, but nobody's really buying that nonsense anymore.  This guy is on a free fall into the high 30s by summer.

Finally, I leave you today with a link to the the coolest of all the cool webites in the Internet: this site chronicles everything that was ever blamed on "global warming".  It's well worth taking a little time to browse through some of the most absurd claims.  Of course, we now know that most of those claims were thrown into the IPCC report without any fact-checking at all.

Have a great Friday, folks.