Obamacare snake oil
Any Republican naive enough to accept Obama's invitation for a "bipartisan" health care summit should not be trusted with sharp objects. Obama knows Americans don't want his socialist snake oil and he needs gullible rubes to share the blame:
The wide, shadowy chasm between Obama and the American people is growing broader, deeper, and gloomier each day. And when it comes to Obamacare being stuffed down their throats, the majority of Americans -- by a wide margin -- want no part of it now or ever.
Yet Obama and the Democrat Congress stubbornly, almost maniacally, persist in bludgeoning the nation with a craftily-concocted, collectivist health care scheme that is diametrically opposed to what the American people want or need. Why?
They are ignoring the real problems of rampant unemployment, business failures, crippling debt, soaring deficits, and out-of-control spending. They have become a government grown so arrogant and elitist that they no longer heed their own constituents or adhere to the Constitution. Why?
Because they know what is coming -- beginning on November 2nd.
Obama needs cover
Obama and the Democrat Congress instinctively know that if they cannot force socialized health care upon us now, when all of the political stars are aligned in a Democrat constellation, then they may not get another chance for a very long time.
But above all others, it is Obama who desperately wants his socialist health care plan in place. He sees it as his crowning achievement, the principle jewel of a hoped-for statist legacy, and his foundational bedrock to fundamentally transform the United States into something toothless and mediocre.
And as always, as the nation is learning to its great sorrow, he will say and do anything to get it. To get Obamacare passed against the will of the people, he has been reduced to seeking out stooges, members of the opposition he can manipulate to his will or at least share in the blame.
Obama needs either willing accomplices from the opposition or scapegoats. Thus he has challenged Republicans to a televised health care "summit" scheduled for February 25th.
Peddling snake oil
He envisions this challenge to Republicans in the same vein as his invitational performance at the GOP House retreat. At the retreat, Obama played the Republicans like a maestro lovingly caressing a Stradivarius. He portrayed the House members as petty, heartless, partisan obstructionists. Golly gee, America, I'm trying but they won't budge! Jeepers, if only they would help me help you!
Obama's disingenuousness was revolting then and it will be again because as before, he will orchestrate and then dominate the tempo, conversation, and visual imagery.
As David Limbaugh so astutely observed, Obama has been as highhanded and dishonest in dealing with Obamacare as he has been with any other, which is quite a mouthful. He has ridiculed Republicans for their alleged obstruction (actually listening to their constituents) and for not offering ideas of their own, when it was Republicans who first called for bipartisan talks last May and who did offer alternative plans, which Obama summarily rejected.
Then how will Obama sell his scam? Certainly not as something the American people want. If he were truly listening to the people, he would hear their rejection of Obamacare and the rest of his socialist agenda. No, he will use the summit as a pulpit to peddle his noxious elixir in trademark Obama fashion -- with rhetorical pandering, highhandedly, and dishonestly.
Just say no
Republicans, beware. Obama is a dedicated disciple of the radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, and was groomed to become a ruthless Chicago politico. Obama truly believes that conciliatory rhetoric is also a ruthless strategy. He considers nothing -- nothing -- to be unethical or immoral so long as he wins.
This summit will be nothing more than a carefully-staged farce. Obama could care less about bipartisan anything. He wants his Obamacare, even at the expense of eviscerating the nation. He wants it now and he wants it without starting over.
Again, beware. With you involved and hamstrung, he believes he'll get it.
Hype and Chains.
background:
Cartoon by Gary Brookins
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