Posted by
Bill Crawford on Monday, July 19, 2010 9:05:08 PM
Here's a ripe one from the great health care debate: Obama said many times that "if you like your Doctor, you can keep them". It was never supposed to be an inhibitor of consumer choice. Now, in an effort to stay in business in the face of mandated services (most notably insuring dependent children to age 26 and pre-existing conditions), many insurance companies are looking to follow pieces of the old HMO playbook and give you a Doctor menu to choose from. I guess you can only "keep" the ones they want you to.
Here's another one: the health insurance purchase mandate "is not a new tax". Oh? When the government decrees that I am to purchase something and uses the IRS for enforcement, what exactly is it? I got raked over the coals on this one by quite a few people. Well, the government is being sued over the Constitutionality of said mandate, and in counter argument, they have distilled it down to the concept that is is, indeed, Constitutional because it is a tax, and therefore falls under the Commerce Clause.
I won't even go into the two-faced implications of what this bodes to all the arguments that were dumped on us during last year's holiday season about how all of this "would not add one dime to the deficit". In fact, the claim was that, over it's first ten years, it would actually pay the deficit down.
This is moral relativism at work again, folks. Say what you need to say, and if you have to contradict yourself tomorrow, who gives a crap? You've got to look at the big picture, right?
Obama is an ambulance chaser. What is the old saying? If you have the truth, beat on the truth. If you only have a case, beat on the law. If you have neither, beat on the table. I'm getting tinnitus from all the table stomping.