David Broder counts the ways the Republicans are beating the Democrats in the health care debate. Poll after poll shows a public overwhelmingly simpatico with GOP ideas. Obama's latest foray didn't help matters. He looked more like a Chicago ward boss than President of the United States.
The major dem talking point that rankles me is how this multi-trillion spendfest is "deficit neutral." I understand political talking points, but the press used to throw the BS flag at such flagrant abuse of the truth.
The other issue I see getting completely distorted is cost versus availability. This is not Broder's sin, he is merely reporting on the one area where Dems have a slight but eroding advantage:
Another basic difference was highlighted by Obama when he contrasted the 3 million uninsured Americans who might get coverage from the main Republican alternative bill with the 31 million made eligible for insurance by the Democrats. (David Broder - WaPo)I we can make it cost less through market forces, won't that in turn make it available to people who previously could not afford it? Isn't that the goal, to make it affordable so people can be self-sufficient?
The Democratic party and its hordes of supplicant voters reminds me of a dysfunctional relationship between a mama and her grown-up child who can't cut the apron strings.
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The Democrats want nothing to do with self-suffeciency. They want to control everything. Health care is just one of a long line of examples.
where have we gone, health care, housing, welfare, oxygen all of it subsidized by the gov? where are the principles of this politicians and their lack of leadership?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Pennsylvania-helps-jobless-hmoney-3417196184.html?x=0
Anon: Well, at least they're loaning the money, and not just giving it away. It must be noted that Pennsylvania is on the verge of bankruptcy...
The Dems are determined to control every aspect of our lives, and with this horrid healthcare bill they will choose when and how we die. And lest we forget, the pre-born don't have a snowball's chance in hell of surviving this bill.
It is encouraging how more and more people are waking up to the proposition that it's all about power and control.
hey silver~!..a dysfunctional relationship between a mama and her grown-up child who can't cut the apron strings. ..yup and that's being generous!
Well Angel, I always try to be charitable where I can...
POWER and CONTROL is all the progressives in both parties have been about.
If any form of government health care gets passed, with what I am hearing, voting the incumbents out of office should be the least of the governments worries. America is on the verge of blowing up, big time, and if that happens, I fear that we will end up with several factions going after each other, and the government will only have itself to blame.
It just may be that the only hope we have would be to impeach Obama, Pelosi, Reid and remove the entire administration, or if it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Obama was never constitutionally qualified to hold office.
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