I Tweeted this out the other day, but I never got around to posting it. Consider that oversight rectified.
Look: we all knew this was a precursor to a single payer system — that ObamaCare Mark I was designed to fail, with that failure then providing the rationalization for removing private sector players from the market at all.
The IRS — perhaps under the caring, benevolent hand of, say, Lois Lerner — will soon dictate your health care options. The Democrats are all but admitting this now.
It’s a “You fucked up, you trusted us!” wink and nod, much like Obama’s famous quip about promised shovel-ready jobs. How droll! Why, it’s delightfully irreverent. Unlike wearing an Obama mask to keep bulls away from rodeo riders. That’s just pure racist evil.
Fortunately now that this admission from the Senate Majority leader is out there, the Republicans will spring into action and be able to use the admission to even further convince an already convinced American electorate, 60 percent of whom wish to see ObamaCare repealed, that ObamaCare was a ruse — that it’s aim was and is to centralize health care records, price-fix health costs, and build an enormous bureaucratic entity that controls you through your health care needs, your financial information, and every other piece of information that can be tucked away on you in some enormous Utah clearing house. And overseeing all that is an expanded federal Leviathan that has, literally, the power of life and death over you.
The very people who abused the IRS to target TEA Party tax exempt status — and who view conservatives as mentally deficient, evil, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynist, ageist, and more dangerous than Muslim extremists — will have the power to determine when you can treatment, or when it’s just time for a bourbon and morphine cocktail and a painless death, so that the money that would have been spent keeping a subhuman alive can be diverted to more noble causes, like foodstamps for illegal aliens, or Cowboy Poetry festivals.
And now that this argument is writing itself, expect the GOP leadership to articulate it forcefully and with an iron will to stand athwart further implementation.
Unless the Democrats say they’ll run with the message that Republicans don’t want 30 million people to have health care, at which point they’ll crumble into a mess of tears and timidity, then roll around in their own piss until happy hour.
God bless ’em.
I’m surprised you haven’t gone 24/7 Missouri State (?) Rodeo rodeo clown wears Obama Mask scandal. But I suppose it is early.
The real scandal? The President of the United States IS a rodeo clown.
. . . run with the message that Republicans don’t want 30 million people to have health care . . .
But left out (inadvertently I’m sure) is an important part of that message, namely, that it’s their “friends“, the Republicans, who don’t want 30 million people to have health care.
For who wouldn’t take up and maintain friendship with those who would want 30 million people to suffer pains and difficulties with their health, and possibly to die in consequence? Only an ogre would forgo such a relationship to engage in so lowly an occupation as othering.
While ObamaCare Mk II might be a “single-payer system”, what about ObamaCare Mk III? Full-on nationalization of doctors, hospitals and clinics along the lines of Cuba or the UK National Health Service?
I suspect we’ll know after the 2014 elections if “For-Profit Healthcare” becomes the next demon du jour
Well, we all know that Cuba is the greatest country ever, because of the free health care.
I don’t know why, at this point, but it still doesn’t fail to amaze me that Republicans can’t figure out how to flip something like that around.
Democrats want to fuck up health care for 300 million Americans by making sure that the 270 million Americans who already have health care coverage, also pay for the 30 million who don’t most by choice.
…Not to mention a small carbon footprint, low obesity rate, all-but-nonexistent gun violence, and a vibrant, dynamic culture unsullied by crass consumerism…
It’s the very model of a future “enlightened” America…
Never underestimate the benefits of totalitarianism, eCurmudgeon.
They also need to explain that it is their intention to get health coverage to 30 Million people which is not the same as delivering on the promise.
One thing I ask friends who are sympathetic to “universal coverage” is even if it is a good idea, why do you want it centralized in Washington DC?
Only because nobody bothered to find out if he was up to the job.
Obama is a rodeo dummy. The clowns work to hard to compare to Obama.
They way the clown was dressed, with the mask and the broom, was as a rodeo dummy.
“GOP Congressman Invites Obama Rodeo Clown to Texas.”
“Thousands starved to death by NHS.”
People are so unbearably stupid. Walk right into the abattoir, folks, it’ll be fine!
Personally I’m annoyed most that no hospitals in Britain were burned down when relatives found out about the starvings. People forget cause and effect *so* easily, it’s how people learn.
If a government can skate away from murdering thousands, it will do it again. Collectives have no conscience.