Posted on 10/27/2009 3:51:45 PM PDT by Starman417
What is it with Democrats always denying who they are and what they're peddling? Liberalism has a negative stigma attached to it in conservative America; so Democrats now prefer you call them "progressives". The word "socialist" is the new "N" word, but it describes President Obama's instinctual gravitations and political inclinations. Why deny it? Why hide from the description? Democrats who revel in communist/Marxist/socialist doctrine should come out of the closet and bask in the transparency of who they are. Be proud! Don't hide! Don't obfuscate.
Yet the reason they have an aversion to such "labels", no matter how descriptively accurate, is because in order to sell any of their bill of goods to the American public, they have to engage in deception. Can you say "stealth socialism"?
"Public option" is now politically damaged goods; so let's give it a makeover, says Nancy Pelosi, even though poop by any other name still smells like poop:
A government-sponsored "public option" for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as "the consumer option." Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi's side and used the term "competitive option."
Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors.
"You'll hear everyone say, 'There's got to be a better name for this,'" Pelosi said. "When people think of the public option, public is being misrepresented, that this is being paid for with their public dollars."
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Ah yes, the lure of the free lunch.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
You opt it in, you opt it out, then you shake it all about-that’s what Obamacare is all about!!
It’s COMMUNISM, plain and simple. If we adopt Obamacare, we’ll be a year or two away from gulags and five-year plans.
I used to tell my kids they had to get shots. Then I changed it to immunizations. Once they realized what that was I changed it to vaccinations. They hated it no matter what I called it.
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