Posted by
flagwaver on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:33:08 AM
Remember right before the "Healthcare Summit" all the people screaming at the GOP not to go to that televised dog-and-pony show? Remember how people were saying it was all a set up by the Democrats? And remember how the GOP went right ahead with it anyway? Well this massive healthcare overhaul is what we get courtesy of the GOP continuing to act as the "Stupid Party".
"Why is that?", you may ask. Well here's how, as I see it. Everyone with half a brain knew that this was part of the Democrat's final push to ram the healthcare plan through, and that the reason they suddenly wanted a televised "summit" was to provide themselves with cover for the vote they were going to take on the issue. The GOP would have been better served to have boycotted the meeting, gone to the press and pointed out that a one day meeting was not going to be conducive to any real bipartisanship, and to have explained that they did not feel that such a meeting was the venue to come to any real compromise. The legacy media would likely have flamed them, but it would have been even more evidence to the people that the media is exactly what Rush has taken to calling them, "the State-contolled media."
By going through with the "summit", the GOP allowed for the Democrats to claim a veneer of bipartisanship and allowed the media to provide the Obama administration with the cover that it had actually tried to reach across the aisle on the issue, when anyone following the issue knew that for the entire debate the GOP had been shut out. By attending the media show staged by Obama and the Democrats, the GOP allowed Obama a national stage to lecture them and burnish his image as a leader on the issue, when we all know that the Congressional Democrats wrote the bill.
So now we have been stuck with this bill of goods the Democrats forced upon us, a bill of goods that erodes our freedoms and enslaves us in future debt. We have a plan that has very few real benefits for the people, but is a net money-maker for the government and certain healthcare participants, such as the drug companies...who strangely managed not to be demonized in this debate as much as insurers, even though most of the major problems in the system are tied to the cost of prescription medications. Funny how that works, huh?
The Stupid Party struck again, and because they didn't listen a real chance to at least expose this for the partisan fraud that it is went by the wayside. I honestly believe that the GOP will take back the House, and possibly the Senate in November. I just wish we could take back the Party from dolts like Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn.