What is it with Democrats always denying who they are and what they’re peddling? Liberalism has a negative stigma attached to it in conservative America; so Democrats now prefer you call them “progressives”. The word “socialist” is the new “N” word, but it describes President Obama’s instinctual gravitations and political inclinations. Why deny it? Why hide from the description? Democrats who revel in communist/Marxist/socialist doctrine should come out of the closet and bask in the transparency of who they are. Be proud! Don’t hide! Don’t obfuscate.
Yet the reason they have an aversion to such “labels”, no matter how descriptively accurate, is because in order to sell any of their bill of goods to the American public, they have to engage in deception. Can you say “stealth socialism”?
“Public option” is now politically damaged goods; so let’s give it a makeover, says Nancy Pelosi, even though poop by any other name still smells like poop:
A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.”
Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors.
“You’ll hear everyone say, ‘There’s got to be a better name for this,'” Pelosi said. “When people think of the public option, public is being misrepresented, that this is being paid for with their public dollars.”
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Ah yes, the lure of the free lunch.
The speaker said the “competitive option” idea emerged during her closed-door roundtable at the Sunrise Senior Center with advocates of seniors and others who work with older populations. Wasserman Schultz suggested the term might be here to stay.
“I think she’s going to go up and test-drive it when she goes back to Washington,” Wasserman Schultz said. “It might stick.”
As for having the votes to pass such a measure, both women said a public option would survive. They wouldn’t get into numbers of congressional supporters, but said it was simply a matter of picking which type of public option to pursue.
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
Attention Congress/Senate/ Obama Czars and Political Appointees:
No Thanks Socialists, I’ll stick with my TRICARE and if You want to screw with that just let me know. I’ll be more than happy to give you an excellent reason to test Your Coverage for Major Medical. I have 28 + years of training and experience at changing attitudes and dealing with petty tyrants, murderers, thieves and terrorists. Some of You meet that specification or several. I’d be happy to explain it to You. I’m not talking Town Hall Tea Party. Tea Parties failed to get your attention.
Now lets talk Tort Reform and looking into Waste Fraud and Abuse of Medicare before You turn it all into a Billion Dollar and change train wreck. Then fully fund the VA and BIA Indian Health Services next as I have a horse in all of those races.
(No Pun Intended.)
And by the way, My Salary was set into Law by You so send Your Punk Pay Czar out to collect litter on the Capitol Mall. The last time I visited it looked like it needed some attention.
Blessed be his name….
Actually, after hearing the ol’ ghost, Harry Reid, give his “public option opt out” press conference designed to save his proverbial elected hide, my first call was to a bud to ask… “just what federal funds do you think the feds are going to hold hostage for opting in?”
ala seat belt and m’cycle helmet laws tied to state road funds. Don’t have a helmet bill? You have to redirect some of your highway funds to “safety” adverts and programs, and not use them for road maintenance or building. It’s punishment, and a way for the feds to get their way using funds as the hostage. This is the precedent of Congress.
My friend’s guess for what federal funds will be held hostage? Medicaid. Mine? Medicaid was also my first thought, but then that would thwart their own mantra to “insure everyone”, wouldn’t it? At least if there was a media quick enough to pick up on it, and wasn’t on the O’prozac.
So the question would be, will the feds demand they divert some of their Medicaid funds into “education” about public option health care, instead of devoting it to actual Medicaid services as “punishment” for not opting in? Inquiring minds want to know….
Debbie Wasserman Schultz reminds me of a presenter on the Home Shopping Network. She’s not the brightest bulb in the drawer.
Hah, they think we are stupid …
Obama voters might be, but Americans aren’t.
As is typical about our government, they hold themselves above the laws they impart on us.
In this case, I am thinking of the Truth in Advertising laws.
What they are proposing is TAXPAYER-FUNDED HEALTHCARE, period.
Unfortunately, because of the taxpayer-funded school-system, the butt-clingers in the media, and apathetic parents, a good many people will be fooled by this newspeak.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz knows nothing. Robert Lowry will be taking her place for Florida’s US Congressional District 20 in 2010. LowryforCongress (dotcom) is the web site. Be gone, Debbie, be gone!