The Pretender and the Real Deal

So, like most every other  Conservative Blogger on Earth, I watched the ObamaCare is OMG SUPER MEGA KOOL SPEECH tonight.  Let’s review some highlights…

• He lies about saving the economy.  On one hand, the left claims that Porkulus hasn’t had time to take effect yet, now, even though the bleeding hasn’t stopped, they are now saying that the Porkulus has saved the economy?   Which is it folks?
• “The time for games is over…”  Does that mean that you’ll stop playing them?
• Lies about “scare tactics.”  For the left, “scare tactics” consists of quoting the POTUS and members of congress, reading and quoting HR 3200, quoting Ezekiel Emanuel, and so on.
• “nothing in this plan requires you to change your insurance…”  Except the fact that your plan will make it impossible for private insurance companies to compete.  Which, of course, will make it too expensive for employers or  employees to afford it.  Of course, the public option will always be there!
• Tries to spin the young not getting insurance and companies not offering it as being “unfair.”  This of course, is thinly veiled Marxism.   By suggesting that we all pay for that in the end, he turns us against each other, and against liberty.  Are we free to choose or not?
• Do you think that you can use the commerce clause to force people to buy something that they do not want?
• Lies about the “Death Panels.”  Of course he can say they don’t exist…they aren’t called death panels!  If it isn’t about withholding care, why does Ezekiel Emanuel work for you?  He recommends that!
• He lies about single payer.  Do we have to pay all the videos of you, Barney Frank, and the others sir?  You know, the ones where you all claim that the plan is to eliminate private insurance?
• Lies about competition.  Why not open up the market to all companies?  You propose keeping the status quo, with the only addition being your public option.  You say that is Alabama, 90% of people are with one company, why not allow all insurance companies to compete.  There’s over 1500!  Why do you only want your public option as the competition?
• You try to be slick and define capitalism as evil when you don’t openly say it.  Do we need to start talking about the horror stories about government run health care in Canada and Great Britain?  Insurance can be de-emphasized with HSA’s, but you don’t mention that!
• When you say that you want to make insurance companies “accountable,” but you really mean to raise costs so no one can afford them.
• You mention “overhead” like profits and corporate pay as a problem, yet you fail to mention “overhead” like $1oo,ooo,ooo,ooo in waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid.  Did I mention that the monetary figure is a YEARLY figure?  The government has had 40 years to reign that in, but they haven’t been able!
• You lie about it not being tax funded.  The CBO says this is a loser.  How are those shortfalls going to be covered?  After all, the cost projections for Medicare and Medicaid have been spot on…right?
• You throw a bone to the right, albeit reluctantly, with Tort reform.  However, since the trial lawyers give the Democrats enough money to AIR CONDITION HELL, I have a hard time believing your sincerity.
• You lie about tax cuts being spending.  They are not.  I know your economic vision is reality optional, but the Bush tax cuts increased government income.
• He invokes the ghost of Kennedy, transparent and revolting.
• You mention medicare, but fail to mention the cost over-runs and fraud.

Well, those are the lowlights.  My assessment that this is nothing new.  The Tort Reform is a sham.  He’ll try to use it to get the Republicans to go along with the plan.  Once the plan is passed, they’ll either eliminate it or cause it to fail so they can spend the next 15-20 years saying that Tort reform failed, and should therefore never be re-visited.

Well, we went over the speech.  I had to waste an hour of my time on this, and I need some inspiration.  Here’s some Reagan.

Government intervention fails at every level, just as we argue now.  Government growth is a threat to freedom, just as we argue now.  The left was attempting to move to socialism, just as we argue now.  Reagan knew then, we know now.  Will the people respond?