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Sunday, September 20, 2009

The Ongoing Idol Worship

As I write this Obama is in the midst of his sprint through the Sunday talk-show circuit. His plan is to appear on five programs, including Spanish-language Univision. Conveniently for him, he's avoiding Fox News Sunday - the only place where he might be properly challenged on what he's done, and plans to do.
So the big question is - will anybody on any of the shows Obama is performing on this morning actually ask him any tough questions about his policies, programs and political associations (e.g. Acorn, Van Jones, Jeff Jones, SEIU, etc.)? Or will this be a contest in which each talk-show host seeks to prove he loves The One more than all the others?
Unfortunately for our country, I believe the latter is far more likely.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Exactly where - and what - is the plan?

Obama keeps saying, in his seemingly daily (or is it hourly?) speeches about health care, the words "under my plan.....", which are always followed by a string of fabrications and falsehoods that boggle the mind. But if there really is an Obama Health Care Plan, why can't anyone find it and why can't he show it to us so we can read it? And if he already has a plan - why are multiple bills being worked on in Congress? One would think that if Obama already had a plan then Pelosi and Reid could spare the special interest ghostwriters who wrote the stimulus bill the effort of writing health care bills as well.
Perhaps the saddest part of this whole situation is being faced with the reality that there are many Americans who actually believe the nonsense Obama is spewing. Whatever one's ideological disposition, simple logic would tell anyone who takes the time to read more than a bumper sticker about what he and his comrades are working on that it simply won't work. But then again - liberal democrats have never let facts get in their way. And if anyone disagrees - you can always just call them a racist and change the subject.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Proof of Truth

Last night Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina yelled "you lie" at President Obama when Obama claimed that his health care plan would not cover illegal aliens. While the democrats have gotten themselves in high dudgeon over this allegedly horrendous breach of etiquette (forgetting of course that they booed President Bush during a State of the Union address and said things far nastier than "you lie" both to and about him), the real important question is being ignored.
If Obama is telling the truth, where is the proof? Throughout this health care debate it has seemed that every time Obama has made a claim about what is or is not in the plan, that claim is readily refuted by actually reading the proposed legislation. Even if that was happening only half the time it would be enormously concerning. But by my reckoning far more than half of Obama's public claims about what is or is not in the plan have been proven false.
So if it is so easily proven that Obama's rhetoric does not match what is actually being proposed as legislation, one can draw only a couple of possible conclusions about why that would be the case. Either Joe Wilson is right and the President is lying. Or the President is simply profoundly ignorant of the content of legislation. One or the other must be true, but neither leaves me with a good feeling about what Obama and the democrats want to do to "reform" health care.