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March 24, 2010

Your government does not represent you. (gasp)

Truth delayed is truth denied. Or at least truth was denied until yesterday, when the fig leaf of "health- care reform" was shredded. Finally exposed was the Holy Grail of the ruthless quest.

It was so our Narcissist-In-Chief could claim another notch on history's belt.

Don't think for a second the whole last year was about reducing the deficit or bending the cost curve. Nor was it ever really about helping Americans who need better medical care. A handful of those poor souls were there again yesterday, human props for his show.

As he smugly read the roster of predecessors who tried and failed, from T.R. to Bill and Hillary, there was no pretense of modesty. This was about him.

The imperial trappings of coronation -- of all things, a rock-star introduction of the president at a signing ceremony! The giddy celebration of self and party, the hailing of bureaucrats and congressional hacks as heroes and more odes to the Kennedy clan were as welcome as fingernails on a blackboard.

Yet it was also predictable. A presidency dedicated to the pursuit of glory is a presidency squandered on ceremony.

"You're the reason we're here," Vice President Joe Biden said obsequiously to his boss. Never has a phrase been more pregnant with double meaning.

Yes, Obama is the reason the Democrats were celebrating -- and the reason not a single Republican was with them. Not all Democrats were there, for at least opponents were bipartisan.

Obama is also the reason more than half the country could feel uninvited to the party in the people's house. They made clear every chance they had -- from elections to polls to demonstrations -- that they were voting no.

For their trouble, they were ignored and often demonized. Their government does not represent them.

It represents itself and its advocate acolytes. The party-in-a-hot house is what the Dems have become under Obama.

Their disconnect from the people who pay for their imperial courts is now complete. They acted like children at a birthday party, oblivious to the pain in a nation where perhaps 15 million are out of work.

Obama's the reason they are unbothered. He has reduced the jobless to a statistical annoyance.

A president is elected to lead, and Obama is leading America into a dead end. He could have gone for honest reform by agreeing to important changes that enjoy broad public support.

The chief aim should have been to arrest rising costs. The savings could have been used to expand coverage and ensure health care and the economy were on a stable course.

Instead, he opted for a misguided takeover of 17 percent of the nation's product on the backs of a rented slice of Congress. The new entitlement will create a gusher of red ink and there is a very good chance the world's finest health system will be diminished by longer waits, shoddy care and higher costs.

This is Obamaism. It is sold with claims so false they are odious.

Glib lies repeated daily are means to the end in which the state assumes more power, more money, more control. When he says "we," he means "we the party, we the government."

Sunday night, after the House acted, he crowed that "this is what change looks like."

Indeed it does, at least the change he brings. Washington is now a one-party town, determined to work its will on a nation increasingly united against it.

It is not the change Americans want.

If we are smart and brave, the good change, the change that will rescue the nation, comes in November. Oh, hurry.

19 comments:

LL said...

barack hussein obama, national socialist, and 'leader of the free world' wants to tear down the Republic and I'm sorry to say, he's doing a rather good job at it.

Whether Americans want to let this cur get away with it is something else.

Rhod said...

How old is this scene? A megalomanic promising glory, justice, levelling, prosperity and all the good things of life, without pain, effort or cost.

If you discount the 20th century, where this kind of lunacy ran over and crushed millions, you have to reach back to Napolean to find the right combination of malevolence and egotism that we see in Barack Obama.

This will end in disaster, not because of ObamaCare, although that's bad enough - but because events always outpace the capacities and competence of the grandiose lunatic in charge, and the knee-pad hacks who stroke his vanity.

ObamaCare is a fantasy program based on fantastic projections of stability in an irrational world.
They're tinkering with the rabbit ears for better reception on the lib porn channel while a pack of dangerous unknowns howls outside the door.

I don't know what will happen with ObamaCare because any prediction based on its success or failure is to fall into some economic or historical narrative that will be useless if China's bubble bursts, or the EU implodes, or something else, and it WILL be something else.

Count on it. We're in for a lot of pain and chaos.

Hoping the Blind Will See said...

RHOD - Count on it. We're in for a lot of pain and chaos.

Couldn't agree more!

Unknown said...

The word "bastard" comes to mind...

Anonymous said...

LL, just how lazy or forgetful will this nation be in 2010?

Anonymous said...

"They're tinkering with the rabbit ears for better reception on the lib porn channel..."

Rhod, there are so many times when I am in awe of you.

Anonymous said...

Hoping, hearing that prediction from Rhod chills me to the marrow.

Anonymous said...

Arby... Would that be Bastard(D) or BASTARD(R)?

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

Onward !!! Keep your powder dry.

Anonymous said...

Woody, there's a rumor that Obama may be forced to exempt Christian Scientists from purchasing medical insurance. I predict a growth in their numbers.

Rhod said...

Nick, rabbit ears are from an era when liberalism was late middle-aged. Now it's re-animated.

They're looking for a new Dorothea Lange or Walker Evans to reify their virtue - some still photograph to get the randy sweat pouring at Time Magazine.

Maybe before some child with a visible nightmare illness tugging at on Obama's cuff.

Bloviating Zeppelin said...

I am, with every passing day, convinced that Obaka and his minions exist in order to truly enact the Cloward-Piven Strategy. I honestly believe this and actions, I think, are daily proving me correct.

Each piece is one bit of the puzzle to be assembled, like the boiling frog, over time.

We had our chance to stop him; now the chances are diminishing with rapidity.

BZ

Kid said...

HC will be a Cluster of Ducks... Or something like that. 137 Daily Snafus, followed by 136 apologies and 138 followup snafus repeated to infinity and increased exponentially on a daily basis.

Government managed health care is the same as section 8 housing in every neighborhood.

Government managed health care is asking the reasonable facsimile of the person working for the TSA who handed the woman a pair of pliers so she could remove nipple rings pre-flight - if you can have health care today.

Man, I boarded a flight from Pittsburgh to Phoenix, AZ on Feb 28th, 1979 with a Dan Wesson 357 Magnum w/8 inch barrel in my lone carry on bag. It was inspected by a member of the Pennsylvania State Police pre-flight (who was envious of it), and protested to no avail by the lead stewardess, and placed in the front baggage compartment along with the pilot's carry on. It was unloaded but a box of 50 lay right beside it in the carry on.

Imagine what I think of today's day care world that is anything but.

Velcro said...

Re: pain and chaos - I agree, but I sure as hell hope that conservatives are NOT the only ones who will be feeling it!

Anonymous said...

Zepp, I believe you're spot-on when it comes to understanding President Hussein's motives.

F**cking liberals!

Anonymous said...

Kid, government-run anything is bound to go bad. Unfortunately, we'll be held responsible.

Anonymous said...

Velcro, there will be pain as far as the eye can see... and a lot of it will be ours. Elections have consequences.

Kid said...

Nickloai ! Yes, Mine Comrade. I already did know it was Bush's Fault. Das vidania !

Anonymous said...

I hope er never forget