The hubris, arrogance and deceit of President Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership are breathtaking. In their maniacal frenzy to assume control over every aspect of our lives through socialized medicine, they are behaving like the thuggish autocrats they have proved themselves to be.
<p> The jig is up on their designs, evidenced by the very contents
of the health bill they're promoting. As increasing public awareness has
translated into increasing grass-roots opposition to the bill, the Democrats
have ratcheted up their bullying tactics and deceit.
<p> Our self-styled bipartisan president is telling his critics to
shut up, while his partners in crime, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her
colleagues, are calling them un-American and Nazis.
<p> Understand this: The people who are showing up in droves with
righteous anger befitting a body politic steeped in a unique liberty
tradition are exercising the very type of bottom-up citizen protest and
government watchdogging our Founding Fathers envisioned. They are not the
artificially driven "AstroTurf" phonies the Democrats are depicting them to
be. No, such activities are the province of Alinsky/Obama-type "street
organizers" and union thugs enlisted by the administration to discredit
these legitimate protests.
<p>It wasn't enough for Pelosi to call us Nazis. She also co-wrote,
with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, an op-ed in USA Today calling us
un-American and projecting her own nefarious tactics onto her opposition.
<p>Pelosi and Hoyer accuse the protesters of engaging in "an ugly
campaign ... not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform
legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress
and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue."
<p>They say: "The first fact is that health insurance reform will
mean more patient choice. It will allow every American who likes his or her
current plan to keep it. And it will free doctors and patients to make the
health decisions that make the most sense, not the most profits for
insurance companies."
<p>How can these government propaganda ministers sleep at night?
They are the ones misrepresenting the legislation and closing their meetings
to genuine dissent.
<p>In the first place, it is not "health insurance reform." It is
an effort to fundamentally transform the entire health care industry and how
decisions are made. Their recent move to euphemize this monstrosity as
"insurance reform" is part of their strategy to demonize insurance companies
in their ruthless quest to shove this down our throats.
<p>The bill would not allow Americans to keep their plans. It would
crowd out and eventually eliminate private care; enormously reduce choice,
as well as the quantity and quality of care; and be a fiscal nightmare, as
verified by Congressional Budget Office projections. Worst of all, it would
further destroy our liberties.
<p>And by Obama's own words, it would decrease doctors'
prerogatives over the type of care they provide. He admits he'd control
doctors by making their "bundled payments" conditional on their meeting
quality standards imposed by an omniscient, omnipotent government, not
doctors and their patients.
<p>Pelosi and Hoyer's most laughable claim is that their plan "will
stand up to any and all critics."
<p>If that's so, why don't they tell the truth about what's in the
bill and truly answer legitimate questions and concerns about it instead of
resorting to name-calling and intimidation? If that's so, why is Obama
sending out his hired mouthpiece, Linda Douglass, to deny what Obama most
clearly said? She protests that his statements promoting a single-payer
system were taken out of context and then gives us absolutely no evidence
they were. We are just supposed to disbelieve our lying eyes and ears.
<p>It's also disingenuous to argue that in any event, Obama's
earlier statements are irrelevant because he says he does not favor a
single-payer system today and would protect our right to private care.
Again, we have the bill itself, which would phase out private care --
mandatorily -- so the denials are self-evident lies.
<p>Obama isn't delegating all the dirty work to his surrogates. Our
pseudo-cool leader himself has become conspicuously unglued. About opponents
of his outlandishly reckless agenda, he said that he doesn't "want the folks
who created the mess to do a lot of talking"; he wants "them just to get out
of the way so (Democrats) can clean up the mess." He went on, "I don't mind
cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."
<p>He obviously thinks that he has the unilateral right as
president, with 53 percent of the vote, to use our money to impoverish and
enslave us and destroy our health care and that we have no right even to
object. We only get to speak every two years.
<p>Well, this president -- with a faux-messianic wind boomeranging
in his face -- has now met his match: an increasingly informed, vigilant,
politically engaged and liberty-loving citizenry. And none too soon.
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