Why Are the Democrats Pressing So Hard for ObamaCare?
Tags: Second American Revolution.
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Mark Steyn nails it:
As I wrote back in the summer, “Put not your trust in Blue Dog Democrats.” It was folly to bet the Republic on the likes of Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln and other “moderates” who are, by definition, trimmers and accommodationists.
By contrast, Barney Frank and the more ambitious Dems are thinking long-term. And, if it’s a choice between getting government health care or keeping Ben Nelson, it’s no contest. Not to keep quoting myself ad nauseam, but as I said to Hugh Hewitt a couple of months back:
I think the administration is willing to take the hit. In other words, to get health care, they would be willing to reduce their majority, and perhaps even lose their majority in the House and the Senate, because they know it’s a game changer. Now to sell that to individual Senators and Congressmen, you’ve got to have something up your sleeve for them… There are strange elements in play here. But they’ve factored into the whole business a potential, I think, a potential significant loss in the year 2010, in next year’s elections.
I’ve been saying for a year now, in NR and NRO, that the object for savvy Dems is to get this thing passed in whatever form because, once you do, there’s no going back. Kim Strassel in yesterday’s Journal gets it:
So why the stubborn insistence on passing health reform? Think big. The liberal wing of the party—the Barney Franks, the David Obeys—are focused beyond November 2010, to the long-term political prize. They want a health-care program that inevitably leads to a value-added tax and a permanent welfare state. Big government then becomes fact, and another Ronald Reagan becomes impossible. See Continental Europe.
Just so. And that’s worth whatever hit they have to take in 2010. Every time I make the point, someone says, oh, Jim Webb this or Byron Dorgan that, or have you see Harry Reid’s numbers in Nevada? Oh, please. We’ve just seen what happens when you make Ben Nelson your Maginot Line. The Dems are thinking strategically; the Republicans are all tactics.
Which is why, dear friends, we have to fight it out in 2010 as a People vs Powerful battle. I lay it out a bit over at Nevada News and Views as it relates directly to Nevada and Harry Reid, but the template is what we need around the country – and all the way through 2012.
Democrats are expecting to lose some seats next year. They probably think they’ll keep their majority, but they know it will be rough for them – but it will be roughest for the alleged “blue dogs” who represent GOP districts and who are only in office due to fluke elections in 2006 and 2008. Harry, Nancy and Co fully expect to still have their power in 2011 and, working with Obama, continue to implement more and more of their agenda until it becomes unlikely that the GOP will be able to do a complete repeal – especially if Obama is re-elected in 2012. That happens, then even a GOP Congressional majority won’t help us because Obama would veto any repeal/reform attempts.
We have to think anew and act anew. The people are furious with government and in that fury is our opportunity not just to win a few seats, but to score a historic victory which would prevent the further Obamanization of America not just by ending liberal legislative efforts, but by fearlessly exposing the corruption of DC. This, in turn, would give us the best chance to argue for a complete change in 2012. But to do this we need to offer more than just tax cuts and wonkish programs – we need to offer a revolution.
The left has talked itself in to believing that only a few tens of thousands showed up for the summer’s TEA Party in DC – we know how many really showed up. But imagine, my fellow Americans, if we are swearing in a new GOP House majority in January of 2011 while 2 million TEA Partiers demonstrate in favor of root and branch government reform! That is the sort of vision we need – we need to think in terms of a grand overthrow of the current system – and this means not just the Big Government we especially despise, but the Big Corporation which has become toady to Big Government. We have the materials for a shift in American politics – all we have to do is assemble them in to an unbeatable combination.
The left presses for final and complete control over America’s destiny – we must contest them with as grand a vision and a desire for as permanent a victory. Right now, we’re the people armed with knives at a gun fight and its time we woke up to our peril, and to our opportunity.
UPDATE: The real cost of ObamaCare
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54 Responses to “Why Are the Democrats Pressing So Hard for ObamaCare?”
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Watson,
That was the general premise as I’ve seen it in my own districts, and I’m sure that with a majority of the other states that are blue it’s the same way. Here they vote for the handouts, yet they will vote for a Republican candidate running for President, but they stick with the Liberal Senator who will keep the monthly freebies coming in. Every time. It never fails. As a Republican, I can go to the polls, but it don’t do me a bit of good when the rest of the people who vote for the blasted liberal who provides their living out of the American taxpayers paycheck. It never fails. First of the month, it look like a boom-town, and sometimes you forget and wonder what’s going on at that time of month. And you go to a Go-Mart station nearby and they’re lined up inside getting their 12 and 24 packs of beer, cigarettes, and chewing tobacco.
That’s what’s wrong with America to a greater extent.
As to your taxation question.
Let me say that, the American people never approved this bill, never had the opportunity to vote on it, so it went against the Constitution in that respect, and would be the first count of extortion against it. Regarding taxation, I tend to draw the line around the big tax-and-spend programs, like the cap-n-trade, welfare, education (which has contributed greatly to the many problems that we have in America today since the era of the sixties when big-government libs took it over). Also, putting language in the bill that would seek to take the lives of unborn children and then force those who do not wish to support it, to support it against their will through an extra-tax on their earnings. That is, to say the least, infuriating. It brings out the earth-shaking anger-screams of t-rex.
Christmas, the day we celebrate the birth of the Christ child. We call HIM Wonderful, Savior, and Teacher. And if Jesus wallked the earth today HE would see: Perversions such as slaughtering the innocent preborn, gay sex acts at Gay Pride Parades, disease and pestilence, drugs and alcohol, young people brain dead b/c of gaming, gangs killing each other, churches ignoring GOD’s law and teachings, GOD being called a myth, children having childern, teenagers coming into clinics with 2-3 STDs, politicians forcing their corrupt agenda on the populace, terrorism, uneducated world populace, hate, starvation, theft, moral and ethics laughed at, belief systems laughed at, family unit broken and in decay.
JESUS WEEPS!
Uffy
Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.(Matthew, 24: 3-14)
uffy
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. (2Timothy, 4: 3-4)
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith…. (1Timothy, 4: 1)
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! (2Timothy, 3: 1-5)
But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matthew, 24: 37-39)