Health Wars (8/23/09)

Hey, everybody!  Look what David Rivkin and Lee Casey discovered!  BarryCare is totally, utterly, and completely unconstitutional!  We're saved!

And I'm sure that if a conservative group challenges it in court, and manages to find an unblocked path through the Obamunized federal judiciary all the way to Olympus, and none of Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, or Kennedy's righteous twin are forced into "end of life counseling" before they can hear the case, and there are any fragments of the United States Constitution left that aren't either sticking to the presidential backside or already flushed down the Oval Office commode, the single-payer system dropped on America like an anti-matter bomb several years before will be doomed, doomed, doomed, I say!

Really.

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I can’t decide which part [of Red Barry's weekly radio propaganda installment] I like best. The ode to “vigorous debate” from a guy who wanted a bill rammed through Congress before the recess? The tut-tutting about divisive rhetoric from the leader of a party that’s spent the past month demagoguing its opponents as evil-mongering political terrorists? Or the demand from Captain Deficit that we stop putting off until tomorrow the big problems that need solving today?

I, on the other hand, have no difficulties at all identifying my favorite aspect - the fact that since AP screened it first, I don't have to listen to the fricking thing - again.

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Another "Blue Dog" opts for reality:

But as he fended off gnats buzzing through the August humidity after a morning fending off angry constituents at a town hall meeting here, Boyd confided that the depth of the unease spurred by the health care debate had caught him by surprise.

“They may be in a minority, but they are a larger minority than we’ve seen in the twenty-plus years that I’ve been doing this,” said Boyd of the standing-room-only crowds who have been showing up to shout, boo, mutter and, in one case, hand him an actual stack of pink slips since he returned home for recess. “I’ve never seen anything like this.” …

A visit to Florida’s 2nd District also is a bracing case study in the mounting political peril some Blue Dogs like Boyd may be facing. Boyd acknowledged that after coasting to victory in a string of elections, including when a popular President George W. Bush was on top of the ticket in 2004 and national Republicans actively plotted his ouster, he may face a real threat next year at the polls.

And his candor is borne out of his own up-close view from the past three weeks. While some of his colleagues took refuge in constituent-free codels and undisclosed private meetings, Boyd plunged headlong into a series of public forums throughout his district and discovered the sort of public unrest that doesn’t come around very often.

“People are scared,” Boyd said twice, trying to explain what would drive his constituents away from home and work and out into the broiling Florida sun in the middle of the week to see their congressman.

Scared, and pissed.  And as the nutroots of Boyd's party themselves prooved over the course of this decade, mass public anger can be maintained for a long, long time.

In this case, it'll only require another fifteen months.

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Um, getting back to the Comrade Hussein Weekly Propaganda Podcast, he just hadda add this:

“I want to spend a few minutes debunking some of the more outrageous myths circulating on the internet, on cable TV, and repeated at some town halls across this country,” the president said.

He ticked through a series of issues, saying that the proposal will not call for health care for illegal immigrants, will not provide coverage for abortions, and does not include any provision for so-called “death panels.”

“These are phony claims meant to divide us,” the president said.

Bullshit, Barry.  But then, you knew that.  Or would, I guess, if it wasn't above your pay grade.

Bet your "Partner" knows, though.

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Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, Obama spam!

I knew there was a sound reason for not spamming the White House snitch line besides the fact that they'd just delete 'em all - AFTER recording my email address (and that's just for starters).

Gotta admit, the Obamunists are determined; there's not any size or level of sleaze up which they don't have their Criscoed fingers.  And that includes trying to throw their private contractor under the bus now that Spamgate has hit the fan:

Chris Hansen, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union told FOX News that if the White House used the private firm, it’s the same as if it had sent the e-mails.

The White House insists that Govdelivery aggregates nothing and plays no role in the formation of its e-mail list; it is merely an end-product e-mail distributor.

Dudes, if the ACLU is shaking its collectiv[ist] head, don't you people think that maybe, just maybe, you ought to start pondering a strategic retreat - not unlike the one you undertook from the White House snitch line that reaped you this harvest of email addresses in the first place?

You may as well, as Govdelivery is not proving receptive to "the Chicago way":

GovDelivery says that it helps manage data-collection services for its clients (specializing in government agencies) that harvest e-mail addresses, but it doesn’t supply them to the customer, and it doesn’t take e-mail lists from other customers to use for other programs.  The White House contention that the problem was created by its vendor gets quietly but firmly quashed by GovDelivery.

As you do in the smallest things, so shall you do in the biggest.  It should be no surprise that a White House that insists on bumblingly ducking responsibility for petty cyberharassment is breathtakingly botching the promotion of its health care takeover in every conceivable way.

Without doubt Barack Obama's administration is the most extremist, authoritarian regime in American history, and gives its Clintonoid predecessor a run for its money on arrogance and corruption.  But its sheer incompetence is proving to be the most stunning trait of all.

And, God willing, America's saving grace.