Political Lipskip

The Progressive Democrats Are Growing Desperate

Can you feel it? The Progressives are growing increasingly desperate in their march for social change. They recognize that support for their radical social initiatives like Cap and Tax and health care reform is eroding. So what are they doing? Rushing to get something, anything, passed before Congress goes on vacation.

The President is making heavy-handed calls to Republican governors like Jan Brewer of Arizona. Seems the Senator of Arizona, Jon Kyl, suggested they cancel the rest of the “stimulus plan”. That kind of talk irritates our Commander-in-Chief. He’s not ready to admit that it was a failure and will continue to go down fighting for his progressive pork goody bag. The proof is in the job numbers. They continue to rise despite the Progressives insistence that they wouldn’t if we hurried and got the stimulus out. Now Obama is saying we need to give him time to let it work. It was poorly conceived and was never going to help our economy, which the Progressives don’t care about anyway.

Hence the reason they are continuing to try to ram through Cap and Tax and health care reform, despite the trillions it will cost us going forward. Why do you suppose they are in such a rush to get this passed? Because the majority of Americans do not support anymore spending. And every day fewer people support this administration’s policies.

Exactly why the urgency to spend a trillion dollars? Is that really the right thing to do anytime if we can’t afford it, much less during a recession. The deficit is already over one trillion dollars and we are only half through the year. The debt is over 12 trillion dollars. The debt. The amount we owe. Unbelievable.

I find much amusement in watching Pelosi and Obama scramble to hurry up and get this passed. Like they have to do it NOW before the American people wake from their Obama fairy dust. I think it is despicable to rush this through particularly as us folks are just now understanding what it will cost both in terms of money and in quality of our care, in the case of health care reform. It seems like people are finally blanching at government control as well. It’s about damn time.

See I don’t get reforming our health care plan to a system that will be (most likely) worse than what we have. It might be cheaper for some, and it is probably gratifying that the Progressives can redistribute the weathy’s money to those that aren’t insured, but how exactly is this going to give us better care? If we “reform” something shouldn’t that be because we want it better? I haven’t heard much in terms of what benefit I will get. I have insurance. How will “health care reform” make things better? All I hear is that it will be cheaper. Cheaper doesn’t mean better. Will my company be able to offer cheaper insurance or simply say to hell with it and make the employees get on the public plan? Having government insurance won’t be better. But this whole plan was never about improving health care. It is about wealth redistribution. I have questions. You have questions. Yet they are trying to ram something down the pipe without anybody really having a chance to study and debate it. Why? Because their plan sucks and folks are going to quickly see what this whole sham is about: Wealth redistribution and government control. Nobody but a far left zealot wants that shit. So they have to hurry up before America wakes from the Obama drug.

All the while the folks at home are vocally concerned about all this radical shit, the White House is sending out threats to vocal Republicans voicing their concern that the stimulus is crap. Obama and his minions do not like dissent. And they certainly do not want to be proven wrong. And they are also prodding the moderate Democrats to get behind their spending spree on health care. Thankfully these people actually care how we are going to pay for this mess and are not convinced that punishing small businesses and the “rich” is the way to do it.

I’ve been amused at Obama saying that it is not OK to simply do nothing. That you can’t simply be a party of NO. That the Republicans have no ideas and simply want to block everything. To that I say good. No government is good government. If the government is doing nothing then they aren’t spending and getting us further into debt. They aren’t expanding and trying to gain more control of my life.

The Progressives are racing as fast as they can in their narrow window of opportunity. Can people who want smaller government and less control shut that window? I realize that the Progressives do not care for the Constitution. They do not care for capitalism. They prefer to spread the wealth around. These are ideologies I do not care for. I hope the window gets shut.