BARRY, YOU’RE ON THE WRONG ROAD! STOP THIS CAR RIGHT NOW AND TURN AROUND.
When you were a kid, did your father ever make a wrong turn on a long trip and just travel for miles thinking his decision would somehow just “work itself out,” and all the while, refusing to stop and ask for directions? Welcome to the Obama Administration.
From Big Government by Heather Higgins …
Ignoring the signs can get you in deep trouble.
The sensible Democrats know they are in trouble. They know the American people have lost confidence that the Administration and Congress share their priorities.
While polls consistently show that Americans are increasingly concerned about jobs, reviving the economy, and managing our deficits, the Democrats fixate on health care, a relatively low priority for most Americans and anathema for many in this form. The reforms the Democrats push are themselves unpopular, and for good reason. Americans know that a government takeover of health care will diminish the quality of care, reduce our ability to control our treatment options, and drive up the premium costs for many Americans. It’s not just the health care system that will suffer, but proposed reforms will also cripple one of the few sectors that have been creating jobs during the recession, create multiple new taxes and penalties, and further hamper the economy by creating massive new debt and entitlements.
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What can save the Democrats? Not much. They no longer have a shrewd and sensible leader like Bill Clinton, who would listen to a Dick Morris and understand the need to move to the middle, manage the party’s extremist elements, control government and deficits, and genuinely encourage private sector growth.
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Who can save the Democrats and prevent legislation that is so out of line with what America wants? Only the American people. Big business won’t do it – they’re in bed with the administration on these efforts, or at best in keeping their heads down and hoping someone else will have more courage than they … If Americans produce one final push to show that it’s not over, that the intensity today is greater than ever, that indeed the American people are paying attention, will hold policymakers to account, and are willing to speak loudly to defend their basic rights, then that would embolden enough votes that we could stop the insanity, defeat this monstrosity of a bill, and get a chance to pursue genuine reforms that might instead actually improve the health care system without hurting jobs, the economy, or our children’s futures.
Preach it sister!
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