For those still harboring any doubt as to the Dear Leader's true intentions re. eventual nationalization of the American HC insurance industry, just take a look at the astounding intransigence coming from Obama/Reid/Pelosi in insisting on some form of "public option" in ObamaCare... regardless of political cost to themselves or fellow Democrats.
They appear simply unwilling or unable to let this unpopular provision go... even though Rasmussen shows that just 23% "strongly favor" the House version of the plan... with 40% "strongly opposed."
And while the Dems cannot politically afford to fail -and not pass a HC reform bill- they're burning every speck of capital they have by insisting on a public option.... making this self-defeating obstinance all the more bewildering. It's hard to believe they'd push it this far as a token gesture to their liberal base... they could have had a reasonable bill passed by now.
The only logical explanation then is that it's a product of these disingenuous statists' need to get a federal foot-in-the-door and grant difficult-to-rescind entitlements. Whether it then takes 5, 10, or 15 years to drive the existing insurance industry out of town, that's irrelevent- we're on the path to socialized medicine, and that's all they ever really cared about.
They like to tell you that it will somehow save us money, but of course that's just a used-car-salesman's line. The truth is that without a public option, there is no step towards a national health care system in the bill- and that's why it's a much higher priority to them than something that would actually save billions of dollars and make sense- like, say, tort reform.
Trouble is, America's lost her appetite for big-spending entitlement programs and sweepingChavez-esque nationalizations... and the expensive power-n-tax-grab that is ObamaCare is in big trouble on Capitol Hill...
Dingy Harry just doesn't have the votes from the now-spooked Blue Dog Dems- and now independent Joe Lieberman is threatening to fillibuster any HC reform bill that contains such a "public option":
Left Coast Rebel weighs-in on the shrill reaction from the Left -here-
And Stop the ACLU also asks what the end-game could possibly be -here-
In a related story, Barney Frank was caught bloviating about the statist Left's true intentions -here-
►Real Clear Politics
►Atlanta Journal-Constitution
►h/t Drudge Report
►Politico
"We're trying to do too much at once," Lieberman said.
“To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt-
I don’t think we need it now."Asked about Lieberman's principled stand, WH spokesman Robert Gibbs said " I think Democrats and Republicans alike will be held accountable by their constituents who want to see health care reform enacted this year." LOL, great- so how does that thinking fit-in with your cramming an unpopular -and entirely unnecessary- P.O. provision down the country's throat, then, Gibsy?
Left Coast Rebel weighs-in on the shrill reaction from the Left -here-
And Stop the ACLU also asks what the end-game could possibly be -here-
In a related story, Barney Frank was caught bloviating about the statist Left's true intentions -here-
►Real Clear Politics
►Atlanta Journal-Constitution
►h/t Drudge Report
►Politico
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