Hey, got to give credit where credit is due. Obama promised to unite the country and it looks like that has now been achieved–at least the left and right are coming together more and more these days. In opposition to Obamacare. But still…
But once again we see that the wonders of ObamaCare seem not so wonderful to liberals. They don’t like the idea of consumers being forced to buy health-insurance policies from big, bad insurance companies. They don’t like the idea of smacking middle-class employees who managed to obtain generous health-care plans from their employers. And you don’t hear too many of them cheering for the massive cuts in Medicare. (Liberals always told us our society was to be judged by how generously we treat the old and sick.) So why did all those Democrats vote for this thing? Ah, it was historic!
Only rare pieces of legislation attract opponents as diverse as does ObamaCare. But this is what comes from passing something, anything, in a mad holiday rush with the purpose of delivering a political “win” for the White House and avoiding a humiliating failure for the Democratic congressional leadership. But as the Left and Right discover what’s in that legislation, there may in fact be a broad consensus building over the need to just start over. There has got to be something that makes more sense than this.
In the words of another famous liberal (Joni Mitchell) “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone…”
Yep, that link to an “ubiased” Website really proves that everyone is united against health care reform. I mean “ObamaCare”…even though presidents from Truman to JFK to Clinton have all been trying to fix this broken system. It is historic.
But why worry about this? Shouldn’t we get back to wondering where “The One” was born or what decorations he has on his Christmas Tree (I didn’t know Muslims even had trees) or stopping him from making speeches to school kids about working hard and giving back?
I really don’t know what you are talking about or reading, Kevin. I mean you set up strawmen like the “birthers” which I’ve never mentioned and those who do are no more credible than Michael Moore and his conspiracy theories.
The “biased” website I linked to was quoting NYTimes columninst Bob Herbet, a liberal.
Probably one of the biggest lefties around, Jane Hamsher, was on FOXNews (Fox News!) opposing Obamacare. She later teamed up with one the most far right people I know of, Grover Norquist, to jointly seek to have the bill killed.
The list of lefties opposed goes on and on, from Howard Dean to the Daily Kos. You can mock all you want (which I suppose is easier than defending this shitty bill), but people from both ends of the political spectrum have united in opposition, and that is truly astounding.
I’m kinda disappointed that you aren’t taking a more serious look at this. The ironic thing is the biggest winners are the health insurance companies and big business.
But as you say, America hasn’t been attacked on Obama’s watch. Ooops, scratch that.
So failed attacks now count as attacks? Attempted attacks count? Yeah, that Christmas day botched blow up goes right up there with 9/11. I guess it is Obama’s fault that Jim DeMint (R) S.C. has blocked his TSA pick because Obama was in too big of a hurry to fill the post. Then DeMint says Obama isn’t doing enough. Politics as usual.
http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2009/12/29/demint-blocks-nomination-of-obama-tsa-pick/
As for health care, I do take it seriously and to be honest I wish the bill had the public option. This isn’t what I had hoped for but it is a start. I don’t think it is perfect by any stretch. And no matter what is done there is going to be heavy opposition. I think in America no one should die because they can’t afford coverage or go broke because they get sick. I don’t like the current system and I am not a huge fan of the new bill. But its a start. It is better than nothing.
The sad thing is that the biggest winners are always the health insurance companies and big business. That isn’t an Obama thing that is a USA thing.
I just don’t understand the constant bashing of Obama by you when you got so hot about anyone bashing Bush.
I never liked Bush. I took shots at his mistakes. I still do. But I never, ever wanted him to fail. He did. That is why Obama and the Democrats have all this power. If they fail and screw it up (and eventually they will, maybe sooner than later-we’ll see) your side will be back in power.
I’m just not buying this whole “Obama is destroying the fabric of America” BS. I’m going to give him the rest of his term and go from there.
There is a middle ground out there. You seem to be going further to the fringe every day. From liberal to NeoCon, the John McCrarey political metamorphosis.
I still love you though. 🙂
Hope you had a Merry Christmas. Miss you.
This ObamaCare bill sucks. I just don’t understand how this happened. Obama promised that the lobbyists would no longer be calling the shots in D.C. Why am I surprised a Chicago politician lied to us, and hired a bunch of back room hacks like Rahm Emmanuel to screw us?