Category: Politics

Sarah Palin isn’t one to mince words, it has become apparent.  Yesterday she postulated that Democrats’ health care reform proposals could lead to the formation of government-run “death panels”: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of…

El Marco was at the Stout Street Clinic in downtown Denver where Nancy Pelosi was supposed to come to bolster the pro-reform troops with her presence yesterday.  Not long before Pelosi had gone on-record saying that the anti-legislation crowds that have been reprimanding Congress were anti-American bullies: ‘I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge….

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial up that explains in crystal-clear language why the health care agenda item that President Obama and Democrats in Congress are pushing needs to be killed.  Highly recommended – read it all. One key excerpt has to do with Democrats’ feeling of legislative entitlement.  “We can do whatever…

A new poll from Quinnipiac University once again demonstrates the softening of public support for health care reform: American voters, by a 55 – 35 percent margin, are more worried that Congress will spend too much money and add to the deficit than it will not act to overhaul the health care system, according to…

There are those who believe that when radical environmentalists run amok it’s acceptable, even laudable – because it’s for a worthy cause. But when citizens of the United States attempt to exercise their Constitutional right to control their government by demanding that the left’s massive takeover of health care in this country actually be paid for, those same people are suddenly for shutting up and toeing the government line.

The entire Republican leadership has been fanning the flames with persistent lies claiming the Democrats want to force euthanasia on old people, abortions on the unwilling and have Obamacrats tell your doctor how or whether to treat you. We’ve seen months of pernicious lies, and they’re having the predictable effect in scaring the elderly and inciting the gullible to vent their anger at anyone they can associate with Obama or health reform.

Maybe I’ve been living up under a rock, but I haven’t been exposed to months worth of “pernicious lies” or heard about forced abortions as a result of the new plans. 

What I have heard, repeatedly, is that people who work hard for a living and who have good-quality healthcare available to them as a result of that effort do not want the government to take that away from them.  That’s why the poll numbers calling the American system good or excellent have suddenly shot up – people are convinced that the new plan will make things worse for most of us.

Maybe Nancy Pelosi had a bad encounter with her auto insurance company recently. Admittedly I don’t know the speaker’s motivations, but that’s as good a way as any to explain her spastic attack on health insurance companies earlier today:

“It’s almost immoral what they are doing,” Pelosi said to reporters, referring to insurance companies. “Of course they’ve been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure,” she said, adding, “They are the villains. They have been part of the problem in a major way.”

Health care companies have been the villain in more than one end-of-life scenario in recent years. That’s not news. But are medical providers truly immoral organizations, corporations whose very existence demands that the government act to drive them out of business?