Quote of the Day, August 12, 2009
I just don’t get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in three weeks? And why such an abject failure by the Obama administration to present the issues to the public in a rational, detailed, informational way? The U.S. is gigantic; many of our states are bigger than whole European nations. The bureaucracy required to institute and manage a nationalized health system here would… vampirically absorb whatever savings Obama thinks could be made. And the transition period would be a nightmare of red tape and mammoth screw-ups, which we can ill afford with a faltering economy….
How is it possible that Democrats, through their own clumsiness and arrogance, have sabotaged healthcare reform yet again? Blaming obstructionist Republicans is nonsensical because Democrats control all three branches of government. It isn’t conservative rumors or lies that are stopping healthcare legislation; it’s the justifiable alarm of an electorate that has been cut out of the loop and is watching its representatives construct a tangled labyrinth for others but not for themselves. No, the airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan — it’s the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves…
The ethical collapse of the left was nowhere more evident than in the near total silence of liberal media and Web sites at the Obama administration’s outrageous solicitation to private citizens to report unacceptable “casual conversations” to the White House. If Republicans had done this, there would have been an angry explosion by Democrats from coast to coast. I was stunned at the failure of liberals to see the blatant totalitarianism in this incident, which the president should have immediately denounced. His failure to do so implicates him in it.
~Camille Paglia, libertarian columnist and Obama supporter, Salon, August 12
Dang…now, even his supporters are calling him on his lies and disinformation.
Yes, but the disturbing thing is, apparently they don’t really CARE. I mean, why would you still support such a person even when they are doing something you obviously know is definitely wrong?
Paglia makes a very good point about the size of the United States relative to that of Europe. A simpler, more straightforward approach to reform would be much more manageable. The current proposals with their lack of freedom for doctors to provide the care they wish (in some circumstances) are a disincentive for men and women to enter the medical field. Fewer doctors will mean rationing and poorer care, and recruiting doctors from other parts of the world. It’s not a road we want to go down.
…”why would you still support such a person even when they are doing something you obviously know is definitely wrong?”
Posted by: xalisae at August 12, 2009 3:08 PM
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Why would U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to a life time appointment on the United States Supreme Court after he had identified her as an activist judge who has little regard for the intent of the framers of the constitution?
“They are times in polictics when men must rise above the partisan fray and set principle aside.”
“Are you going to believe me, or your lyin’ eyes?”
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