Democrats: From Way Back Here, Obamacare Looks Wonderful!
If government-run health care is so very awesome, why are so many Democrats running away from it now?
In districts and states where the overhaul was most controversial, town-hall meetings have been replaced with tightly controlled business roundtables and other gatherings with voters.
In Nevada, first-term Democratic Rep. Dina Titus defended her vote for the health care bill in a newspaper piece she co-wrote and in a meeting with female doctors. Facing a vigorous GOP challenge from a Republican physician, she acknowledged treading carefully.
“It’s more of a teaching tour than a selling tour,” she said of her recent appearances.
Why, I wonder, is there a tour at all? If Rep. Titus wanted to get across to us that she voted for a program her employers do not understand then she is admitting that she has done her job very poorly. No wonder she’s only engaging the public when she can control all the conditions. She might run across one of those pesky voters who still believes that her job is to do what the people want her to do, not to come back home to educate the rubes about the wondrous things she’s done for them without their consent.
However, we should be clear on one thing. Democrats are not trying to sell the voting public on Obamacare. Rep. Titus and her comrades can’t sell us on because they already forced it on us. I’m not sure that the Representative remembers what the act of buying entails, but there there are a few critical elements which didn’t actually happen. We never had the opportunity to haggle over the price or look elsewhere for a better deal because the Democrats ignored competing offers and shut everyone out of the negotiations (including the voters) who didn’t put up cash for their ad campaign. To paraphrase the President, the time for selling was over a long time ago.
What the Democrats are really selling on their “Sssssh! Don’t Tell Anyone I’m Here” Tour are big clouds of the same cotton candy-scented magic unicorn emissions they’ve been floating for well over a year. They are hoping they can buffalo us just long enough for them to slick through one more election before the inevitable big taxes, expensive mandates, doctor shortages, and rationing lands on our heads.
I give Dina Titus credit. At least she’s making a game attempt at running the con for a couple more years. Bart Stupak, the guy who sold his principles (Gee, thanks Dan) for a useless sheet of paper, has decided to make like Sir Robin and run away. I hope he changes when he gets home. That heavy load of fear he’s carrying in his drawers is going to get really nasty in a few hours.
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Category: Health Care Craziness, Our New Democratic Overlords
One really does have to wonder aloud… why is it when we know that the pols are nothing if not self-interested why so many are "jumping ship". What have they gained? I mean, really…
They have gained their progressive dream of a distinctly totalitarian government.
Um do you understand words and what they mean? Like you say:
>If government-run health care is so very awesome, why are so many Democrats running away from it now?
But your proof of this statement is this, in summary:
“It’s more of a teaching tour than a selling tour,” she said of her recent appearances.
So how can she be an example of a Democrat "running away" when it seems like she's going around talking about it? If she were "running away" I would imagine that a more sound tactic would be to not talk about it or to bad mouth it somehow.
>Titus and her comrades can’t sell us on because they already forced it on us.
No, that's not right at all. Obama's Presidential campaign had HCR as a major platform. He made it quite clear if he is elected he was going to socialize medicine like every other Western developed nation in the world. So I'm not sure if a democratically elected President doing what he said he was going to do if elected equals "forced". You do understand that right? The way the American system of representational government works? Hmmm I guess not, you may want to read up on it so you don't say such silly things.
Because she's not. She's holding very carefully choreographed and controlled meetings with small groups so she can say that she's meeting with people about it.
Forced is the correct word per nearly every poll taken when Obamacare was passed. Do you understand numbers and what they mean? I suggest you start with Congress' approval ratings my trolly friend.
>Because she’s not.
Running away? Yes, that's what I said.
>She’s holding very carefully choreographed and controlled meetings with small groups so she can say that she’s meeting with people about it.
The sneak! She's holding meetings with people about HCR and then she's saying she meeting people about HCR?!!? That's like telling the truth! No wonder you're so confused.
>Forced is the correct word per nearly every poll taken when Obamacare was passed.
Huh. I guess I only thought I understood how democracy works, so what you're saying is that a President and Congress can pass laws but if those laws become unpopular then suddenly the election and the power given by it become null and void and those laws must be repealed?
Weird, did this apply when polls were against the invasion of Iraq? When Bush was at 30% should he have been impeached on those grounds?
>Do you understand numbers and what they mean? I suggest you start with Congress’ approval ratings my trolly friend.
I do but I guess I always thought the only polls that counted were the ones on election day.
You do know that Obama mentioned HCR in his Presidential campaign and won right? So what you're saying is that the American majority has changed it's mind? They want Obama to be President they just don't want him to do all the stuff he said he was going to do?
If you're not facing your constituents openly and honestly, you're running away. She's not. She's running away.
No, running away is running away or at the very least distancing with denials or derision and she's doing none of that so no, you are wrong.
And what would be the point of more town hall style meetings like they had before the legislation was passed? So Teabaggers can scream and howl about how Obama is a communist-fascist-secret-Muslim just like Hitler and Stalin some more? Now the meetings have gone to the next level; the people and businesses who will be first impacted by the new laws.
And that's what you call "running away"?
It's actually a logical progression, perhaps that's what confused you then, logic doesn't seem to be something you get.
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