The Transparent Trap

A year and some change ago, Barrack Obama took his charge as newly elected president to start working on his campaign promises. A few days after taking office, he signed an executive order to close Gitmo. The left cheered. Civil rights activists were having online orgasms of joy and the world would now “take us seriously” again.

Well, that’s been about it since he took office. I mean, cash for clunkers and maybe that extra stimulus bill that Bush started right before Obama took office. Still, not much from a president who once things got rough, he starts bitching that he inherited it all. You knew that going into it and claimed you had a plan for it ya posturing fruitcake!

So now he’s been touring around the country “buying” up votes to get this health care form bill passed so he can remain president for another six years. I wonder if Rep. Dennis Kucinich saw another UFO when he was on Air Force One and that was how he was beamed up into the wonderful world of Obamacare?

Look, I have a high faith in the American people. I wouldn’t have put my life on hold and on the line for them if I thought otherwise. Sure, they’re sometimes simpletons who’d rather spend time with their kids than pay attention to politics. They’ve got soccer meetings, baseball clubs, band camps, and other associated things going on with both theirs and their kid’s lives. There isn’t time in the day for all the extra worry the mainstream media is giving us to fret about. So the reality of this situation pours into the heart and soul of every single American that this issue will affect, and that is really: How does it work for me?

The million dollar question right there ladies and gentlemen. This is the question that Bret Baier was trying to get the President to answer the other day during an interview. However, the president seemed to sound irritated by the continued prodding by Baier because he kept up with the talking points and called Bret out on the constant interruptions.

Look, Sir, I like the interruptions. The reason is that it got you out of your Daily KOS bingo sheet and back onto the ball with what this is all about. Here’s that fear thing again. Baier kept asking Obama about the "ugly process," reading a reader letter capitalizing it: "If the bill is so good for all of us, why all the intimidation, arm twisting, seedy deals, and parliamentary trickery necessary to pass a bill, when you have an overwhelming majority in both houses and the presidency?"

The dude has a point, Mr. President. How many payoffs are included in this thing? You don’t know because you don’t know what’s in it. If you’ve spent a year and some change involved in putting this thing together, who would know what’s in it? Pelosi said, “We have to pass it to see what’s in it” I can’t stand this dodgery. This is akin to asking a code monkey (computer programmer for the layman) what his code does and him saying, “Well…as you can see, it’ll work when it’s completed.”

I don’t have to villanize these leaders, people. They have done that to themselves. I don’t have to speak about the ills of what this health care form bill brings because they can’t tell me what is in that will make it work for me. We’ve been told countless times what President Obama wants, but that’s not what the Senate bill is about either.

Its one big LOLfest, folks, with not just your dollars at risk, but your kid’s too. You will be taxed the moment it passes. You won’t see it start working until 2014. That’s four years of you being taxed without any changes. Talk about the biggest layover program ever. Yet again, I feel the need to mention the level of distrust and misinformation that is constantly being funneled out by the government. What are they going to do with that money when they get it? Save it? Exactly.

No folks, this is age old political theater. That’s the reason Obama and friends are pushing it. Much like the patriot act was at stealing away your freedoms for safety; this health care reform bill is designed as a stepping stone for the next agenda. Don’t believe me? The leaders are not hiding it.

Tom Harkin: “Think of it as a starter home.” “At some point in the near future, and I don’t know exactly how long it is going to be, we are going to have some sort of a public option out there,” he said. “We might not get it in this bill, but it will come in as the years go by and as people begin to look at insurance companies and how much they are charging. I have no doubt in my mind that we are going to have to go to some kind of a public option, some type of a single-payer type system to bring the costs down. When the administrative costs of Medicare is somewhere around the 3 percent range, but the administrative costs of the private insurance companies are in the 15 percent range, there is a lot of money that can be saved by going to a better system such as a single-payer or a public option-type system.”

http://iowaindependent.com/23933/harkin-think-of-health-care-reform-as-a-starter-home

Nancy Pelosi: "It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503742.html

Joe Biden: “Well, I yes. Some of them I say they say, well, Joe, look, man, I mean, you know, you guys haven't messaged this very well. And, you know, this thing has gone on so long, I don't know. And my response is, hey, man, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. I'm telling you, you know, pre-existing, they're going to be covered. You know we're going to control the insurance companies. “

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/03/exclusive-vice-president-biden-says-obamas-cancelled-trip-not-a-bad-sign-for-health-care-bills-prosp.html

And if all this isn’t what you think it’s enough, I’ll give you this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk

Now, I know it’s a youtube video. I also understand it’s not just Obama. But it’s definitely Barrack Obama back in the day, and now. You can’t just change ideologies overnight folks. Straight from the horse’s mouth, he wants to see us at a single payer government run health program. What does that even mean? I think with all the rhetoric and yelling from both sides of the issue, the common layman doesn’t know what it means for either side. There has to be pros and cons for each of this, or people wouldn’t be so passionate about it.

They don’t even have to “vote” on it to pass it with these schemes and their Dance Dance Revolution: Potomac two-steps version. Doesn’t that concern you?! There isn’t accountability in Washington anymore. They want to vote it in without putting their names on it. The only one that seems to be doing any accountability is Tom Coburn who said he’d make it hell for them to get any legislation passed if these people “sold their vote”. “But beware”, said Sen. Coburn, “If you voted no [then] and you vote yes [now], and you lose your election, and you think any nomination to a federal position isn’t going to be held in the Senate, I’ve got news for you: It’s going to be held.”

http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/19/tom-coburn-a-profile-in-courage/

This bill is supposed to be able to be seen by us, but they are planning to vote on it on Sunday and that’s the reason Obama postponed his Australia trip. How are we going to read some 2,000 pages if it’s not done yet and the vote is on Sunday? I don’t know about you, but I don’t even finish 400 page books in a weekend and I’m a decent reader.

Obama tried to explain that if we didn’t pass this legislation, we were accepting status quo. As if we can’t come up with a new way to reform things without all the congressman buyouts?! And herein lies the problem I have with people that attack these things, but bring nothing else to the table. While it’s great to show the demerits of the reform bill, where are the counter-points being made? How can we come to the table and actually fix this system? But wait…I can’t point out what I would do differently if I don’t know what’s going in the bill now. This is exactly what is wrong with the system. They simply don’t know what’s in it.

I don’t think Obama is hell bent on our destruction. Rather, he’s hell bent on his agenda. This is fine, if I knew what that agenda was intended to do. Everyone has an idea of how the world around them should work; the beauty of our system of government is that I know what my government can’t do for me. The sad part is that these people don’t want their agendas known. This is the part that clearly bothers me. He claims to be transparent, yet that only thing that I can clearly see with Ackbar-like vision is the trap laid out in front of me. What’s after healthcare? What government takeover is next? Google? Microsoft? Cell Phone companies?

Let’s face it folks, this is one hell of a political gamble the president is taking. If I was in Congress, I would have to face the music that this bill isn’t what the American people want, nor is this the direction that 48% of the country wants to tread down.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/126809/Obama-Approval-Rating-Lowest-Yet-Congress-Declines.aspx

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Healthcare was never one of these rights. Why? Simple. How do you guarantee someone’s health? The truth of it folks is that you can’t. So what can you do if you’re one of the 30 million without healthcare INSURANCE? Well, you have a few options. You a) get health care coverage b) don’t get healthcare coverage and carry a card in your wallet that says you don’t wish to be treated since you can’t pay for it or c) don’t get healthcare coverage and live your life like each day would be your last and if you’re involved in an accident, and you live. You thank your doctors and nurses that saved your life and you move on with it, by paying your bill anyway you can. 30 years of payments for 30 more years of life is a goddamn bargain when you compare it to cancer kids and abortions.

Good luck ladies and gents, this weekend is paramount. The proof, as Biden said, is in the pudding…to which I’ll add…of American backbone.

/end rant

~Warrior Poet