Before he became a turncoat, Benedict Arnold was a gallant warrior and brilliant general who led the colonists to the turning-point victory over the British at Saratoga in our Revolutionary War.
A modern-day turncoat, Ben Nelson, Democratic Senator of Nebraska, didn’t even bother to fight–for his so-called principles or even for common sense. Supposedly against any health care reform that funded abortions, Nelson caved at the expected moment when Harry Reid threw a few million dollars his way to buy votes back home. He’s now one of the happy band of 60 Demo-idiots preparing to rule and ruin American health care from here to eternity.
Michelle Malkin on her blog has a letter from a Nebraska physician to Senator Nelson. It’s a must read. As the author notes, the so-called abortion language that convinced Nelson to vote for health care reform is as illusory as the savings the bill is supposed to wring from the nation’s medical spending.
That’s what you get for when you put Demofiends in power–government by illusion.
Posted by rx | Posted on 19-12-2009
Category : Liberal Antidote
It went little noticed, but shortly after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the first health care reform measure as costing tens and hundreds of billions more rather than saving money, Director Doug Elmendorf was dutifully summoned to the White House, where he was worked over by Obama and his goons.
Since then, every so-called health care reform measure the CBO has weighed has–miraculously, and without basis in fact–saved tens and hundreds of billions over a ten-year period. The latest CBO fabrication guesstimate has the Senate bill, set to pass any day now, as saving $130 billion over ten years.
Cute trick. How you can enroll anywhere from 20 to 50 million people more in health care coverage and save money is a feat of LBJ proportions, and remember, it was Lyndon Baines Johnson who brought us Medicare and Medicaid and created the mess we’re in right now.
One thing is true, however. The measure is front-loaded with new taxes starting immediately while the health coverage doesn’t kick in until after the 2012 election. And if the Demofiends can hold power past that election, look for the public option to rear its ugly head again as soon as the fiends can demonize the insurance companies once the reality of how expensive this plan is going to be is revealed.
Anyway, we’re well on our way to rationed health care, administered by faceless bureaucrats (yes, death panels too), and a huge tax bill the likes of which we haven’t seen since, well, FDR and LBJ.
I thought we realized long ago that you can’t tax and spend yourself anywhere, except into national bankruptcy (like Greece today).
