Democrats’ Discord Is Showing
It isn’t a stretch to say that Democrats are in disarray on the health care issue. I wrote about their disarray in this post. That’s why I’m skeptical when the duncely duo of Harry Reid and Speaker Pelosi said that they have the votes to pass sweeping health care reform.
The Democrats’ factions are already fighting with each other. There’s a mini-feud between President Obama and Speaker Pelosi. There’s an outright brawl between Speaker Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. That’s before we talk about the fight between Blue Dog Democrats and the Progressive Caucus. Now there’s rumors that Howard Dean might mount a primary challenge to President Obama in 2012.
I don’t doubt that the circular firing squads are forming as we speak. That’s the next thing to watch for during the Democrats’ downward spiral.
Even Dear Leader is losing his poise. Taking a shot at Sarah Palin isn’t smart for anyone. Taking a shot at Sarah Palin during a nationally televised speech is downright foolish. Here’s Sarah Palin’s reply:
In his speech the President directly responded to concerns I’ve raised about unelected bureaucrats being given power to make decisions affecting life or death health care matters. He called these concerns “bogus,” “irresponsible,” and “a lie”, so much for civility. After all the name-calling, though, what he did not do is respond to the arguments we’ve made, arguments even some of his own supporters have agreed have merit.
In fact, after promising to “make sure that no government bureaucrat…gets between you and the health care you need,” the President repeated his call for an Independent Medicare Advisory Council, an unelected, largely unaccountable group of bureaucrats charged with containing Medicare costs. He did not disavow his own statement that such a group, working outside of “normal political channels,” should guide decisions regarding that “huge driver of cost…the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives…” He did not disavow the statements of his health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, and continuing to pay his salary with taxpayer dollars proves a commitment to his beliefs. The President can keep making unsupported assertions, but until he directly responds to the arguments I’ve made, I’m going to call him out too.
The inescapable truth is that the IMAC, if created, would be unaccountable to people. They’d have the authority to ration care. Rationed care would inevitably lead to people dying of breast cancer or other or heart disease or other life-ending diseases.
The other inescapable truth in all this is that Sarah Palin has gotten under President Obama’s skin. She keeps exposing his empty rhetoric and he keeps getting irritated by her rebuttals.
Make no mistake about it, either. She’s staying after him like a pitbull on this issue. I suspect that it’ll stay that way until President Obama and Speaker Pelosi break. I suspect that there won’t be health care reform until they take Sarah Palin’s and the House Republicans’ proposals seriously.
That might be a while. By that time, the Democrats might really be in disarray.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 10th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Sarahcuda has that name for a reason, and Obama is now finding out personally why. Now, even his tactics of deflection and obfuscation aren’t working.
This is a good thing.
I wonder what would happen if the jackasses (starting with Duh-1 and Nazi Pelousy) were honest about what they really want to do with health care? Couldn’t be any worse for them than it already is.
But of course that will never happen. That takes honesty, an almost absent commodity in D.C.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Sara gets it, thats why the leftist media from Maher to Blitzer are villifying her.
But, Chairman Obama has another problem swimming at snorkel depth:
ACORN and the puke rotten sewer gthey live in.
I wont go off topic here, just see Matt Drudge and Glenn Beck.
September 11th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Sarah nailed him to the proverbial wall. Nuff Said.
I had a consult/appointment with a urologist yesterday. It was for a Renal Mass on the left kidney. It had been found on a CT scan a week prior. I had the scan for digestive tract issues. Good news, the kidney is coming out on the 21st. It was caught early enough. Seventeen days from discovery to surgery. Pretty damn good. I am unemployed at present but still have my Tricare coverage. It is one of those things that I earned after 20 years of service. If this had happened under the proposed “obambozocare” I would have been forced to make my peace with my maker. Two things against me in this, Retired from the Armed Forces and I just hit 55 years.
September 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
You got that right AMH1! You know damned well, they’ll be coming after Tricare, like white on paper. That’ll be the first one to fold.
Glad to hear you got it in time!
September 11th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
And the reason they’ll go after it? Because too many people are using it waaaayyy too often and it’s not cost effective and…
Never mind that, by your service, you’ve earned platinum care for life.
Then, when that’s accomplished, they’ll go after Medicare/Medicaid, same reason.
And then, by golly, they’ll just up and decide the insurance companies still aren’t being fair with their customers (which means basically not enough signed up for government lollipops), so they’ll pass a new law saying private insurance is now illegal (except, of course, for Congress’) and Presto! you have a single-payer system and wasn’t that fun, boys and girls?
And, BTW, Rep. Wilson was spot-on with his call-out.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:52 am
USN,
That is the good thing, finding it in time. And basically it was the luck of the draw! A lady I know thinks I’m nuts because I told her having it removed was a good thing. When I told her that the kidney with it’s tumor being gone would keep me around for alot longer, she finally understood. I did have to repeat myself, though. Maybe she wanted me to take the “blue pill?”
Carlos,
Maybe not platinum care but at least decent care. When I was getting ready to leave in September of ‘73, my recruiter, OS1 Woody Harwood, told me one thing that stuck in my mind. He said, stay in for 20 and your country will take care of you. It is just fulfillment of obligations on both party’s parts. And when I went in, I was just going to do one hitch. I had a pretty good time and it beat trying to do anything in my hometown.
The uninitiated have no concept that Tricare as used by retirees is paid for with more than just dollars. We are not a politically correct, properly oppressed group in the view of our current CinC and his crowd. I put the likes of Queen Nancy at the top of my list.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Glenn, it becomes more imperative each election cycle that we get rid of the rot in the framework of our government, rot like Nazi Pelousy, John I-Lied-About-Haditha-But-Don’t-Care Murtha, Dingy Harry Reid and, yes, Duh-1. And the Democrats by no means have a stranglehold on being that rot.
Every cycle rotting vermin like this is left in the seat of power everyone’s authority over government is diminished, our freedoms are eroded and the ability to do anything about it is more constricted than the time before.
Of course, it would help if the vast majority of voters in this country hadn’t been “educated” by the government, for the government. Their inability to think critically and recognize outright lies gives credence to the phrase “suspension of disbelief”, once used by the wife of a former president to describe accusers of her husband (who, it turned out, were in fact correct in their assessment of him).
And finally, yes, the provision of health care was part of the contract between you and the country. It will be interesting to see how His Hollowness justifies the lie that eliminates that contract.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Tricare is, as he says, decent. A career vet has a choice of what level of care he wants for himself and his spouse or dependent; basic, a middle range and Prime, which allows you pretty much pick your own private doctor and local hospital and outpatient care. Few years ago my lovely bride had surgery to remove a benign mass on her finger, she was referred to a surgeon at Scripps La Jolla. I never saw one bill, what her medicare didnt cover, Tricare did.
Bet your sweet ass Ill never see that again, with Obamacare after they wreck the system.