The reason that health care reform has previously never passed, is that the smart Democrats stopped themselves when the political costs of health care reform were weighed against their gains.
But Crusaders do not measure the costs. They fight until they and all around them die.
And the leaders of the Crusaders tell their own — ignore the costs! We must! We must! We must cram it down their throats! This is a moral battle.
So, when Howard Fineman writes that uh, guys, by the way, the uninsured don’t vote, but those who do vote will see health care premium increases, you know that at least some of their own are warning the Democrats of the sacrifices they are making to their health reform God.
The list of their sacrifices to this pagan God is long, here are but a dozen:
1. The Dems will likely lose control of the U.S. House and lose between four and six U.S. Senate seats, mainly because they have enraged the public with their willful refusal to listen. (A public who wants Congress to do nothing, nothing at all on health care;)
2. The Trillion Dollar President’s approval rating will keep tanking, and stay below 50% and its precipitous decline is due to principally only one thing — health care reform;
3. The promise if you like your plan can keep it is another principle sacrificed on the altar of the God, so much so that Democrats don’t even repeat it for fear of ridicule; (The blow-back when employers start dropping coverage and putting people into the government run health care machine will be brutal.)
4. Senior citizens — among the most strongly opposed to this plan — will turn out in very high numbers to vote against the Democrats. Senior citizens will get massive cuts to Medicare to subsidize the uninsured, all while they are sold out by their lobby, the AARP, who sacrificed their own members’ interests to the God of health care reform.
5. Liberal Democrats will have sacrificed their principles for a single-payer system or a Medicare buy-in, in return for a plan that taxes Americans to pay their arch enemy, private health insurers;
6. Liberal Democrats will have sacrificed their principles on their pro-abortion beliefs by restricting access to government funded abortions;
7. Liberal Democrats will have sacrificed their main supporters, their grassroots activists and unions on the alter of health reform — by taxing union health care plans;
8. Liberal Democrats will have sacrificed their support for illegal immigrants receiving health reform benefits on the alter of health reform by passing a bill that bans it;
9. Liberal Democrats will have sacrificed their principles of being opposed to a government mandate to force Americans to buy insurance from private insurers;
10. The Trillion Dollar President has sacrificed his moderate image in the eyes the American public, and convinced them that he is a radical Crusader who is arrogant and who is destroying his party to protect his Presidency. (Think the Joker — self-destructive arrogance.)
11. The Crusade has convinced the public that there are no “moderate” Democrats — Senators Bayh, Webb, Lincoln, Landrieu, Nelson, McCaskill etc. have been exposed as big liberal, tax-and-spend enablers; and
12. Every other initiative that the Democrats care about: Cap and Trade, Immigration Reform, Financial Services Reform are threatened now by the political environment that the Crusaders have put their fellow Democrats in — so that now, any event — like the underwear bomber — causes disruption to an unstable political party and coalition.
Crusaders won’t listen. This we have seen writ large. They are on a mission from God — their pagan health reform God. On second thought, perhaps the Democrats are like health care jihadists — suicide bombers intent on politically killing themselves for their own health care God’s promise of moral purity.
The reason they Dems can’t see this themselves is they just cannot believe that helping the uninsured is causing them to sacrifice so many of their principles. They think — it cannot be true! But it is true.
They are killing off the chances of passing all of their other agenda items, and by sacrificing so many of their principles to the pagan health reform God, they have left their own supporters disgusted and listless.
But to their opponents — the sacrifices made to the Pagan God have resolved them to do everything they in their power to stop these radical, dangerous people who have their hands on the public treasury and who are putting us deeper into debt — and who will not listen. It is a politically toxic combination.
Steve Maley
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Whaddayano. Even the Dems can't control the govt sausage-making siphon machine
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 1:26PM EST (link)Why do lobbyists bend and twist the legislative process with their first amendment rights to petition? As bank robber Willie Sutton understood, “Because that’s where the money is.”
As a lobbyist, I resemble that remark
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:27PM EST (link)n/t
Dan, Thank You AGAIN!
audax (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 1:44PM EST (link)Sure you will keep us updated on what is happening with Obamacare in the Congress when they begin the Jan session. The fireworks should be spectacular!
Audeamus pro audere est facere
I will do my best, but I may be out of the country
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:27PM EST (link)at the end of the month
What are you being run out of town, Dan?
Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:47PM EST (link)I kind wonder about things now. When we get to the point of a Filibuster proof majority in the Senate, I want to have a Steamroller effect just like the other side has. No more mister nice guy and I take back everything I’ve ever said that was good about about weak leadership. If they can work to get what they want, then by all means let nothing stand in our way.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
THAILAND?
audax (Diary) Sunday, January 3rd at 2:34AM EST (link)Phuket? Karon Beach Hilton? See you there!
Audeamus pro audere est facere
5^5!
meepman Saturday, January 2nd at 1:58PM EST (link)Are these ambassadors from Chicago taking a page out of the playbook of two other famous Chicagoians — the Blues Brothers? While they also may be on “a mission frm God,” I don’t think the crash scene at the end will be Ill. State Partol cars, but of all those following this blindly.
I was thinking of the movie
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:28PM EST (link)while I wrote it
Political suicide bombers
ericstenner Saturday, January 2nd at 2:04PM EST (link)That is a good analogy – fits perfectly.
Let’s hope they only set their own pants on fire.
In Obama-speak they would be:
throwback59 Saturday, January 2nd at 8:16PM EST (link)Politically explosive extremists
Humm, pagan or not?
surfjake Saturday, January 2nd at 2:11PM EST (link)while I agree with the premise of your article, i do have issue with your use of “God” vs “god”. Generally “God” is reserved for the big five monotheist religions of the world and “god” is used when describing the pagan pantheon of “gods, or god” as required.
even if you are describing what you believe is the left’s pantheon of deity or deities, one should still reserve and respect the use of “God” for the biggies and not demean the usage of the the word.
Hummm...
audax (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 2:38PM EST (link)… didn’t notice that GOD issue…. must have been too busy being amazed at Dan’s insightful and thought provoking, as usual, other 12 points …..Hummmmmm.
Audeamus pro audere est facere
Make that another Hummmm!
suej (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 5:25PM EST (link)You strain at gnats surfjake.
Strain gnats?
wayneepalmer Tuesday, January 5th at 10:57AM EST (link)More like fiddling while Rome burns at this point.
This is about enslaving the people to the State and finishing the truth of Liberal thought as expressed by John McLaughlin on PBS over the weekend: Freedom is over-rated.
True peace between two enemies has only ever been acheived when one side has utterly defeated the other…if you doubt this truth visit Nagasaki sometime.
Ahh, I will use that formulation from now on
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:29PM EST (link)thanks for the heads up.
What a gracious response
voxoreason Monday, January 4th at 11:43AM EST (link)People can be very sensitive about religious matters.
It appears to matter to you.
God bless.
Agree with voxoreason
itrytobenice (Diary) Tuesday, January 5th at 1:15PM EST (link)Graciousness appreciated.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Dan- you've done a great job describing the gallows
hickorystick (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 2:40PM EST (link)That Democrats still have the oppurtunity to ‘pull their head out’ of.
the recent polling on Sen. Nelson is
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:51PM EST (link)devastating.
Even if he switches his vote, he has killed himself.
Vote for the dead. Why not? The dead vote in Chi-town. nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 9:19PM EST (link)Mel Carnahan RIP served 8 years in Washington
hickorystick (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 9:42PM EST (link)after he died. As Mr. Potter said in It’s a Wonderful Life “George, you’re worth more dead than alive”. No one knows this better than the Carnahan Family.
John Ashcroft, who was defeated by the dead Carnahan, had his revenge by getting chosen as U.S. Attorney General and wrote the beautiful Patriot Act.
"You can't Stop me" said the liberal Democrats
Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 2:55PM EST (link)to all those that apposed them. Unions,Grassroots leftists and whatnot will not be in the way of the steamroller.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Mayo clinic already fired the first shot, posted a diary on it today.
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 3:32PM EST (link)The Mayo clinic in AZ is going to a cash model for those on Medicaid as they can only recoup 50% of the health care cost at that clinic. Part of the Mayo group which Obama praised in 09 for being a model of national health care. Whoops!
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
I read that, too
nolan Saturday, January 2nd at 11:07PM EST (link)and my first thought was how long and how many more refusals by hospitals and Dr.s will it take before a ‘crisis’ is declared and emmanuel & co take more control of the health care system? I don’t think for a second that progressives won’t declare the hospitals and Drs greedy and an impediment to, well, their agenda, no matter what they sell it as!
I’m no conspiracy theorist,(maybe a little) but these folks are too, umm, I’ll say shrewd and savvy (couldn’t say smart!) to think this was an unintended consequence!
Unfortunately, unlinke Richard Mullins, I don’t think conservatives will ever get a filibuster-proof majority. There really will be only one way to preserve the Republic…
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” -Auric Goldfinger
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. — George Bernard Shaw
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Now if we can just find some Republicans
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 3:37PM EST (link)who aren’t interested in “making friends” on the other side of the aisle and “finding bipartisan solutions” maybe we can make some progress.
Well, Senator McConnell
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:52PM EST (link)will get another shot to delay the bill, IF it comes back from the House
I'm not holding my breath on that one Dan. nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:55PM EST (link)The Democrats are convinced that ObamaCare will not be an issue come November
civil truth (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 4:45PM EST (link)They believe that the American public’s attention span is too short such that by November they will have something else on their mind – especially with the help of the media (who will virtually embargo any health care story) and a new crisis that will soak up the new cycle. I suspect foreign affairs +/- buggering the economic numbers to give the appearance of a strong recovery (“revisions” will come after November 2).
But for an administration that constantly generates one crisis after another, whey not do so for the elections – one that will short circuit political debate even as the October credit crisis totally dominated the last election season and swamped foreign policy, etc.
And considering how the “issues” that were dominant a year ago have been supplanted, they think that health care will suffer from overexposure and the public will be tired of discussions on it by November.
And for the true believers, even if they lose some seats in the mid-term elections, with Obama as president for two more years, they assume that the Republican Congressional leadership will play the same losing games they have since 2006 and that as a consequnce the mercurial public will swing back to the Democrats in 2012. In any case, they will have their Federalized health care system and a stranglehold over the economy that will make it impossible to reverse the increasing centralization of power.
And they still plan to take over the judiciary with their continued control of the Senate.
I guess I have less confidence when the time comes to vote, that the American people will vote out their Congress critters over health care – especially when their attention will be focused on something else.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Excellent analysis, by the way, Dan
civil truth (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 4:49PM EST (link)I just think the Democrats are playing by different rules – and having the Congress and the Presidency gives them a number of trump cards to control play.
Not to mention that a world lurching out of control has a significant chance of evoking a crisis that the Democrats will not have engineered.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
ObamaCare will become the dems
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 5:11PM EST (link)ObamaCancer – it will slowly destroy them from the inside out.
They will feel OK for a few months and think after 2010 they did not do so bad. But across America, the dems will lose support at the city & county levels. Soon the base will start giving up hope and will splinter into another party. The ObamaCancer will attack with a vengence by 2012. The dem party will be in the ICU and then ObamaCare will start claiming victims – starting with the head until the entire body stops functioning.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Progressives will not give up...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 6:19PM EST (link)They’ve been nudging for more than 100- years, and they enjoy political and financial support from a lot of foreign investors that share mutual interests across a broad spectrum of domestic and foreign policy issues.
ObamaCancer has a vaccine. It’s been administered to an unsuspecting public for about a generation now, and the federal government is spending $78 Billion this year to fund the vaccine.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
I am counting on the Progressives to
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:58PM EST (link)force their guys to say NO.
I'm not so sure, Dan...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 9:38PM EST (link)The independent advisory board is the key to government-run healthcare. It will unlock the door, and it will control redistribution when fully implemented, Once established, it will be nearly impossible to dismantle. The rest can be “fixed” by a future Democratically-controlled congress.
Congressional Democrats aren’t listening, they’re on a Crusade.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
Yes, it will get even worse
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:56PM EST (link)as they attempt to move it in the House.
I will be amazed if the left don’t seriously pressure their guys to walk away from this disaster.
Usually, voter forget
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:54PM EST (link)but this different, really different.
People are strongly opposed and angry, and it is the only thing that Congress and the White House has been talking about for a year.
It will be the single, number one issue in any Federal election campaign.
Dan, I am with you on the voters not forgetting.
penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 9:22PM EST (link)As you said, this is different, very different. The mood of the country has been strengthening against the Democrats since 1/20/09. By the time we got to April and the continued Tea Parties and Townhalls of August, the people did not forget. They did not forget after the 9/12 March; the election results in NJ and VA and local state races elsewhere, show the people were not forgetting, and the poll numbers for all things Dem reflect that.
The very fact that Congress is going against the peoples’ wishes can only incite them further. Next November the people who will stay home will be those that think they had done all they needed in electing their messiah. The people that will go to the polls will be those of us who understand the damage the Dems have done to this country.
Will miss you if you have to be out of country, but hurry back, and safe travels prayed for you.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills
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Superb commentary!
suej (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 5:29PM EST (link)Fantastic!!
Thanks
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:50PM EST (link)Glad you enjoyed it.
Dan, Yer on fiaaaahhhhhh.
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 7:31PM EST (link)I just do not believe the Ds will come back after this. Even if the masses are focused on other crises a year from now, I do not believe Obama will cease mucking up the country. Not only that, but nobody believes his lies any more.
I agree. They are toast.
Dan Perrin (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 8:55PM EST (link)They have knifed their friends and allies and provoked their enemies to the extreme.
You mean besides Grandma?
jeannieology (Diary) Sunday, January 3rd at 9:55AM EST (link)They want more than her?
Can’t we cash her in like Silver for Seniors like I did my old Chevy?
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Let's not forget the U.S. Constitution
snopercod Sunday, January 3rd at 10:13AM EST (link)The U.S. Constitution was the first to be destroyed by the suicide bombers in the Congress.
Wisdom
i8bugs (Diary) Sunday, January 3rd at 10:18AM EST (link)Isn’t the best wisdom the simplest? Nice comment snoopercod.
Smart is not always wise, and wisdom trumps smart every time.
It's why they are all twitted over Underpantsgate
renny (Diary) Sunday, January 3rd at 10:14AM EST (link)The ungrateful Muslims have fouled up the Great O admin.’s laser-like focus on wrecking more capitalism by destroying med. ins. co.’s, private drs.’ practices and private hospitals (or rebabs, et. al.) in order to control the most intimate aspects of 300,000,000 citizens’ lives.
Of course, it has to be Bush’ fault. But the lie there is the Bush admin. may have started the terror watch lists, but they are NOW administered by Napolitano and the CIA Great O has been trying to gut. Someone at the CIA should find the O birth certificate.
Bork’em. Call Congress daily and tell Dems. them they are done. 202-224/225-3121.
1946
sarge324 Monday, January 4th at 7:31AM EST (link)that year the republicans took control of the house.they lost the next election because they didnt address the american people concerns.let this be a lesson to the republicans.people concerns over party will keep you in office.i will stay mad till i vote the democrates out.the american people will do their job in 2010,you do yours in office.
Pagan gods
m1dsniper Monday, January 4th at 6:19PM EST (link)Very truthful article! however, all gods are small caps except The One True God is always large capped.