Why Democrats Don't Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt by Dennis Prager on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

Great Article by Dennis Prager, explaining the goals of the Far Left and why they don't care about bankrupting the country.


Why Democrats Don't Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt by Dennis Prager on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

In Praise of the Rotation of Power

Great Article!

In Praise of the Rotation of Power

Democrats Put Some Teeth into the Revised Health Care Senate Bill by Craig Covello

The Obama White House has been actively working on reforming our system of health care insurance in this country for over a year now, and I am sure we are all worn out by the prolonged conversation. It's been a juggernaut chronicled by procedural missteps, back-room deals, blatant misrepresentations and special tax exemptions for the unions. All this was topped off with the outrageous proclamation that federal control over our American medical system will allow us to add 30 million new enrollees while reducing costs because of "government efficiency". When Nancy Pelosi failed to get the votes she needed, many thought this health care "reform" being pushed by the Obama administration was dead, but as this web site chronicled on February 22, it was resurrected. Obama has personally taken ownership of the new health care proposal and predictably it will even cost more than it might have under Pelosi's efforts. You may already know the details, but let's just point out a few highlights:

• Despite all the rhetoric regarding the bipartisan health-care summit intentions to introduce new ideas, Democrats have simply dusted off the failed Senate health-care bill and made a few changes. It's essentially the same bill without the "public option" but would increase spending significantly while exercising even more control.

• The new bill will control insurance prices using a seven-member panel instead of letting free market forces control costs and drive innovation. It effectively will turn the medical insurance industry into just another heavily regulated utility. What you may not know is that all 50 states already have their own specific laws requiring insurance companies to justify premium increases, so this is an attempt to concentrate power at the federal level which is consistent with the philosophies of this administration. If you don't like the way this panel administers its policies, there is no place left to go.

• The new bill would eliminate favoritism towards Nebraska. You may remember the hundred million dollar "cornhusker kickback" which was a bribe to buy Sen. Ben Nelson's vote. Nebraska will no longer be favored. Instead, this kickback will be applied to every single state by financing all new Medicaid spending through 2017 using 100% federal funding. Previously, states shared some of the funding responsibility with the federal government. The net result, however, is that the money has to come from the taxpayers regardless of how the funds are administered.

The Obama administration is pushing for use of the reconciliation process to force the bill through Congress. As explained earlier in this column, this process would only require 51 votes instead of the normal 60 votes needed under the Senate rules. Reconciliation was introduced in 1974 in order to limit the debate regarding specific dollar amounts in the federal budget. It was never intended to be used as a vehicle for forcing new legislation. This abuse of power was also exercised by George W. Bush when he used reconciliation to push legislation concerning 2003 tax cuts, the tax increase prevention and reconciliation act of 2005 and the deficit reduction act of 2005. At that time, Democrats were incensed, but now Harry Reid was quoted as saying that Republicans "should stop crying about reconciliations as if it has never been done before". Apparently, he and his fellow Democrats did not always feel this way when it didn't serve their interests. Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmpLVcrOYxk

It is clear that the differences in ideologies between Democrats and Republicans have never been so clearly demonstrated as with health care reform. What may be less clear is the hypocrisy in thinking that liberals represent enlightenment while conservatives are of lesser intelligence. Case in point. When Republican Congressman Eric Cantor brought the 2400 page Senate bill to the health-care summit in order to reinforce his position, the president criticized him for using it as a "prop". Democratic Congressman Louise Slaughter, however, used a prop of her own in order to tell a story of how one constituent actually wore her dead sister's false teeth because she could not afford her own set of dentures. You guessed it. Slaughter brought the borrowed dentures and waived them around for "show and tell". I'm not kidding.

Obama's healthcare plan may have teeth after all, and will probably bite us (you know where).

Details:

http://papundits.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/obamacare-summit-sham-more/

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100222/D9E19OD80.html

© 2010 by Craig Covello All rights reserved. Used with permission.