It’s interesting to see the contrast between former President George W Bush and President Barrack Obama in the way that they handle crisis. After September 11, 2001 Bush squarely lays the blame at the feet of the terrorists who carried out the attack along with some blamed reserved for the bureaucracy of government.
President Obama lays the blame for this UNSUCCESSFUL terrorist attack not on the terrorists and counties that aided them. No he lays the blame on the intelligence community, the very people who are not allowed to defend themselves. He takes no blame himself, he pins no blame on the bureaucrats he has leading those intelligence agencies.
President Obama is proving constantly what conservatives knew before he was elected. He, and the Democratic Party, are only interested in power and are more concerned in bestowing rights on terrorists than protecting the American People.
It’s been sixteen years since Hillary’s assault on healthcare. That assault led in part to the Republican takeover in 1994 but one has to look at the differences between today and sixteen years ago.
In 1993 Bill Clinton ran on the economy and succeeded in beating George HW Bush on that issue in spite of the fact that Bush had in fact led the country out of the recession by the election. Clinton felt he was invincible so he let his wife take on the issue of healthcare. The thing that Clinton underestimated was that the economy was already rebounding and people were positive on the economic situation. As such people didn’t see healthcare as that big a problem that required a government takeover and as such it went down to defeat.
So we move forward to the last eight years where we have had a drumbeat of Democrats, in congress and the media, telling people just how bad everything was. This in spite of the fact that for much of the George W Bush years the economy has been booming. The media succeeded in talking the economy into recession in late 2008 along with a democrat controlled congress that created the mortgage mess.
We now have the perfect storm for Democrats. They have created circumstances where we have unemployment near 10%, we have healthcare costs through the roof mostly because trial lawyers have driven the cost of malpractice insurance through the roof. We have government takeovers of the auto industry, and the banking industry. We haven’t seen misery like this since the days of Jimmy Carter.
So now there is a narrow window of opportunity for Obama and Democrats to pass socialized medicine. i call it a narrow window because the have to be careful, they have to orchestrate this takeover and spin it so it appears that they are helping everyone. If people perceive this for what it is, another power grab by liberals and Obama then they could see a backlash. People are already weary of the takeovers they’ve seen in the automotive and banking sectors.
The Democrats running congress are talking of big tax increases, the global warming bill isn’t widely supported by voters but congress is beholden to the environuts that elected them. The more they force this stuff down the throats of the American people the greater the consequences in 2010 and 2012.
So in the end it appears that Democrats have created the circumstances under which socialized medicine may be possible. Maybe they learned from 1994 but will the country be better off from the lessons learned? I doubt it.
Joe O’Biden not wanting to be outdone by the likes of amateurs like Al Franken illustrated his own stupidity today with the following statement:
People look at me and say, "What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we’ve got to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" The answer is "Yes,"I’m tellin’ ya.
Yes folks the Vice President says you can spend money to keep from going bankrupt. Where is this in the State Run Media? No where. These are the same people that railed that Bush was an idiot, Dan Quayle was an idiot, Sarah Palin is an idiot, etc…. Every time O’Biden opens his mouth Obama must be holding his breath thinking “what is this mental midget going to say next?”
If these people weren’t so dangerous when they have power it would almost be tolerable for the entertainment value, but these people are running the Banks, the auto industry, and they’re not done yet… They have they’re eyes on healthcare next…
