Posted by
David A. Jared on Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:01:09 PM
Flash! The "Government Option" touted by Obama and Company is eventually going to be all that's available to ordinary Americans...and you can take THAT to the bank. Even Obama admitted it when speaking to a union group early on in the 2008 campaign. What he (and other liberal Democrats) dearly want to see is a "Single-Payor" system of health care--with some yet-to-be-organized federal bureaucracy acting as the "single-payor." In other words, socialized health care much like that currently in France, England, Cuba and Canada. Oh, I know he's now saying that he's "never advocated a government-run system," but we've got him on tape saying precisely that.
Ever wonder why Democrats (and even some Republicans) find it so easy and convenient to lie to the American people? So do I. If I told as many out-and-out lies as these people tell almost daily (hourly?), I'd never get any sleep at night but these people do it effortlessly and with a straight face (more or less.) Oh, I'm fully aware that the government MUST tell a few lies from time to time. Our national security depends on it sometimes. What I don't understand is lying even when the truth would serve us all better. President Bush lied when he said (or had his minions say) that the outgoing Clinton staffers had NOT trashed some of the offices, stolen the "W" keys from many of the office computers and stolen some of the essential office equipment and other things such as cups and saucers to keep for themselves as "souveniers." They had done ALL of those things. Even the Clintons themselves had stolen furniture, paintings and other White House furnishings that belong to the people--not the Clinton's personally. Why then did Bush lie about it? I believe that his heart was telling him something that was simply wrong-headed. He wanted the first 6 months of his Presidency to be about HIS Presidency...not recriminations and stories about the dishonesty of his predecessors such as had dominated the news for the previous 8 years, so he simply tried to quell the controversies about the Clinton bunch's dishonest and dishonorable behavior by denying it ever happened. That was the wrong thing to do. The American people DESERVE the truth about that crowd and the MSM had given us damned little truth for most of those 8 years. As a consequence, President Bush got NO credit for covering for them and the MSM merely continued on their campaign to make him seem the incompetent fool instead of covering the scandal that WAS the Clinton administration and the Clinton's only had to point to Bush's "denial" as "proof" that they'd done nothing wrong if anyone had the temerity to bring the subject up.
With Repubicans themselves covering up Democrat lies and distortions and illegal activities, it's no wonder that many people who get the preponderence of their information through the MSM STILL believe that the Clinton's are lilly-white innocents, victims of a far-right attack machine and are prone to blame Republicans for what is wrought BY those very Democrats. The short answer, then, is that Democrats lie and distort because they can get away with it. Republicans won't hold them accountable and neither will the mainstream media (the MSM) which instead acts as the Democrats' spin machine.
In these Townhall meetings going on all over the country, the Democrats are continuing with their habit of distorting and lying about what's in the bill. They're having a much tougher time of it because a few angry Americans are making those meetings, carryinig actual pages of the bill, and asking questions based on what the bill actually contains. When they try to lie or profess ignorance, they're being called on the carpet of public outrage. Outrage that we the people know more about the bill than those who are intending to vote on it. Outrage that 99% of Congress hasn't even bothered to READ the thing and really don't know what's in it and outrage that despite that, these Democrats are trying to argue in favor of a bill that they don't understand, haven't read and don't even INTEND to read.
One Congresscritter, for example, tried to argue today that there ARE no mandates in the bill that require "end of life" counselling for some seniors, when the provision in the bill that does mandate it was read, verbatim, to him right from the bill itself! The word "mandate" is NOT in the bill. The bill refers to them as "incentives" for such counselling...essentially, the same thing...so one can imagine this congresscritter claiming that he was absolutely truthful. That sort of doublespeak is common in politics, I guess, but exasperating nevertheless.
The one, true test of just how good this bill is for America is the FACT that Congress, The President and certain federal bureaucrats are EXEMPT from its provisions and are going to be able to continue their gold-plated, tax-payer-funded coverage for the rest of their lives. If it's so "good," why not opt for it yourselves, Congress???