"Moderates" Toying With "Back Door" to Socialized Medicine

Will Malven
9/08.2009

Well I told you they wouldn't give up on imposing a single-payer health care plan on us and here is more evidence of their intent.

Obama is giving a speech tomorrow before a joint session of Congress to extol the virtues of healthcare reform and attempt to renew the sense of urgency that has gradually evaporated from the health care reform movement as skeptics have dominated the discourse...or course most of that urgency is about trying to save his administration from being labeled a failure...so once more Obama is going back to the well which served him so well during the 2008 campaign, but seems to have failed him miserably in this health care debate.

Obama Readies (Another) Speech As Health Care Picks Up Steam

By MICHAEL SCHERER AND KAREN TUMULTY - WASHINGTON
TIME
9/08/2009

This is what Barack Obama does. Back him into a corner, get the press in a frenzy, send his polls ratings plummeting, and the aging basketball player responds again and again with the same move: he delivers a major speech. And why not? It keeps working. It's the thing that first introduced him to the nation, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It is what extricated him from the Jeremiah Wright mess during the campaign. It has become the central method of his foreign policy push, in Prague, Cairo, Moscow and Accra.

It's also been the method of choice in his push for health-care reform. In just the last two months, he has held six health-care town halls and a prime-time news conference. But public support for his plans has been declining through the summer. So the answer, he believes, is one more speech, Wednesday night in front of a joint session of Congress.

Maybe this technique is failing to rally people to his cause because the voters are far better informed on the proposed health care changes than they were about what a fraud Obama was and because they remain far better informed on the issue of health care reform that either the Democrats in Congress working on the bill or Obama as to what is in the bill.

By the way, only a dedicated liberal news organization, committed to the Democrat Party and the President's health care agenda could claim that in the current climate "Health Care Picks Up Steam."

Folks health care reform is gasping for breath as it struggles to survive in any recognizable form...leave it to liberals to confuse "picking up steam" with "twitching in its death throes."

So as Obama is pimping his next version of "health care reform," look for browbeating and scapegoating of Republicans...again...in spite of the fact that Democrats have sufficient votes in Congress to pass any legislation they wish-without any Republican support as well as exhortations of dire consequences should Congress fail.

All I know is that we are going to be faced with another command performance of the "Empty Suit in Chief...Liar Extraordinaire."

To add insult to injury, some in Congress are attempting to trick the voters by performing a little legislative legerdemain called "the trigger option."

Time/Yahoo are reporting, among other things, that Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME) are ready to sign on to a "deal" that would impose a "public option" only if the insurance companies failed to change their way of doing business; the so called "trigger" option.

Continuing from the above article:

Meanwhile, in the Senate, where a compromise has not yet been reached, there are some signs that agreement time might be upon us. On Sunday, in an interview with CNN, Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson, a longtime opponent of a public-health-insurance option, said he could support a public plan as a "fail-safe" or "backstop" that would be created only if insurance companies did not reform their business practices over the coming years. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, a key swing vote from Maine, has also spoken favorably about a triggered fail-safe.

This so-called trigger is very dangerous for those who oppose any public option for health care. It is the proverbial stalking horse for the later imposition of a public option by the government bureaucracy.

Who is to say when the insurance companies have failed to "reform their business practices?"

Who is to say when this "trigger" kicks in? Who is to say how the resultant "public heath-insurance option" would kick in and who would determine what provisions would be included?

The "trigger" option is nothing but a cowardly means of letting the gutless "moderates" in Congress vote for the public option without being forced to do so overtly. It is nothing but the "stealth option" for socialized medicine.

There is not person more contemptible in Congress than those who lack the courage of their convictions. What really sad is that these very gutless, indecisive "moderates" are held up as models of restraint and polity when in reality they are simply cowards.

Members of Congress like Snowe, Nelson and Collins, to name a few, lack the intestinal fortitude to face their constituents and say where they stand on the issues. They are indecisive and vacillating because they are dullards and easily swayed by arguments full of emotion and completely lacking of merit.

This "trigger" option is very dangerous exactly because it holds the appeal of doing the unthinkable while providing the cover of plausible deniability. It is the perfect option for those gutless "middle of the road" members of Congress who lack the intellect and integrity to make a real decision.

When Congress says "trigger option" people watch your liberty, because they are preparing to take some of it away...via the back door.

Say what you will about those committed liberals in Congress, at least they are courageous enough to say what they want.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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