I was watching this video clip on Breitbart.tv today where Robert Gibbs tried in vain to square what Teleprompter Boy and Sebelius had said about the “public option” (government health insurance plan designed to drive private insurers out of business) not being essential for passage of Obamacare with their pronouncements that the “public option” now, again, IS essential.

And then I saw this similar mental gymnastics performance by the the beady-eyed Bill Burton:

(Both of these guys have always given me the creeps — I would not trust them with anything of mine.)

Obama’s, Sebelius’s, Gibbs’s and Burtons’s repeated lies and determination to foist socialized medicine on the American people caused this realization once again. Our battle with these people simply boils down to this: The Debtocrats simply believe they have the right to use the mechanisms of government to steal money from “the rich” and give it to “the poor.” And the rest of us believe the “silly, outdated” notion that stealing is stealing, whether government does it or whether an individual does it without the government intermediary. And they also believe their noble goal entitles them to do whatever it takes to reach it. As Michael Medved, I think, has explained, if Obamacare was really so great, wouldn’t Obama be sending all of his Debtocrat congresscritters to town hall after town hall after town hall to explain it all to the “little people?” Wouldn’t Teleprompter Boy be going to presser after town hall after national television address to explain how this monstrosity of a bill actually would work? Instead of trying, first, to ram through its enactment before the August recess?

And over the years I’ve had this conversation with quite a few liberals. (Some were likeable people. But they are not “deep thinkers.” At least not with respect to morality and ethics and government, as almost all of them are post-modernists. Their solution to every problem is: let’s use government to fix it. Problem solved.)

I see a man. He’s hungry. I want to help him. But I don’t have a lot of money in my pocket. I know you do. I ask you to give him the money I think he needs. You don’t want to. So I pull out a gun and take your money and give it to the hungry man. Is that okay with you?

Ans.: No.

I see a man. He’s hungry. I want to help him. But I don’t have a lot of money in my pocket. I know you do. I go to the city council and am successful in getting a law passed to tax you to take your money, because you have lots of it (at the point of a gun if necessary, because you’ll be arrested and ultimately go to jail if you don’t pay my compassionate tax), and give it to the hungry man. Is that okay with you?

Ans.: Yes.

Believe it or not, they always say in that case, because a law was passed, the stealing was no longer stealing. It’s just the way they “think.”

Thou shalt not steal. Post-modernist liberals don’t believe in such quaint notions. That would prevent them from being compassionate and “liberal.” With other people’s money.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior