Posted on 03/05/2010 4:09:43 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
Why is he doing this? Why let "health" "care" "reform" stagger on like the rotting husk in a low-grade creature feature who refuses to stay dead no matter how many stakes you pound through his chest?
Because it's worth it. Big time. I've been saying in this space for two years that the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible. In most of the rest of the Western world, there are still nominally "conservative" parties, and they even win elections occasionally, but not to any great effect (Let's not forget that Jacques Chirac was, in French terms, a "conservative").
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Republicans are good at keeping the seat warm. A bigtime GOP consultant was on TV, crowing that Republicans wanted the Dems to pass Obamacare because it's so unpopular it will guarantee a GOP sweep in November.
OK, then what? You'll roll it back – like you've rolled back all those other unsustainable entitlements premised on cobwebbed actuarial tables from 80 years ago? Like you've undone the federal Department of Education and of Energy and all the other nickel'n'dime novelties of even a universally reviled one-term loser like Jimmy Carter?
Look at it from the Dems' point of view. You pass Obamacare. You lose the 2010 election, which gives the GOP co-ownership of an awkward couple of years. And you come back in 2012 to find your health care apparatus is still in place, a fetid behemoth of toxic pustules oozing all over the basement, and, simply through the natural processes of government, already bigger and more expensive and more bureaucratic than it was when you passed it two years earlier. That's a huge prize, and well worth a midterm timeout.
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This is not politics as usual, certainly not like you have in Canada.
I think if this country see’s November elections with blood flowing in the streets will be a miracle.
God, I truly hope I am wrong.
There is not a single person in either party that has my trust, nor the trust of millions of others.
Think about it before you sprout of any other BS
OMG Steyn keeps geeting more and more brilliant!!!!!!
The NAZIs started the whole National Health Care thingy, they saw it as the way to control people. But it quickly cost them too much money. Then came their experiments with Eugenics, which proved too slow to dispose of the undesirables, so they moved on to genocide.
Remember the goal of the NAZIs was to get to the super race.
Perfection of mankind is at the heart of all the two-bit tin pots that have plagued humans through time. And they all have the same ending ... genocide.
who are you ranting about? Steyn is a genious
I should have added that the GOP had BETTER REPEAL it!!!!!
Mark Steyn, poignant and concise as always.
The crap he is talking about will only happen if people like you and me let it.
Are you going too? If not, then where is his genius?
The GOP can not repeal it. Hussein would have to sign it. Ain't no way.
Steyn is nobody’s idiot.
This all depends on who gets to run it. Why do you think McLame was the 2008 chosen to lose candidate?
“I should have added that the GOP had BETTER REPEAL it!!!!! “
But they won`t, that is Steyn`s point. Even Jefferson in hi State of the Union address called for an amendment for a department of education, Congress said no.
What have the GOP repealed ?
Nothing.
The USA moves 2 steps forward, then the GOP gain power and take a baby step back, if that. Nothing is changing except the size of the Centralized State which only gets bigger.
Said it before say it again, time for the Tea Party to coalesce into a truly Classical Liberal/Constitutional party.
Okay, I mean’t the day following this bill comming into law (if) the GOP speaks of nothing else than repeal for the next 2 yrs and wash their hands clean
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Any federal version of health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care. People are not bound to comply with any unconstitutional act by Congress. This is the point people need to hammer home with their Congress critters!
Are you on the thread you think you are on?
Yep, I am sick of people telling me how it is going to be.
Does Mark Know. If then how does he know? If he knows so much, then why not tell us how to stop it, either this time around or the next. But STOP it, turn it around and NOY settle. Becasue if we settle, every life lost fighting for this country was in vain.
[Mark Steyn you are an idiot.]
Au contraire, again Steyn hits nail on head.
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