He’s had it up to here with outdated concepts like democratic deliberation. Nothing must be allowed to delay his grandiose scheme to destroy the economy:
“The time for talk is through.” — President Obama, talking to liberal bloggers on a conference call Monday night… Nothing goes into effect in any case until 2013–except the tax provisions, which would begin in 2011. Yet President Obama wants everyone to stop debating and deliberating, and act now–because he and he alone has decided “now is the time to go ahead and act.” Congress should assert itself, stand up for the deliberative and democratic process, and defy this presumptuous presidential dictate. The time to debate is now. There’s plenty of time to act later.
For some reason the ABC News White House puff-piece didn’t do much to assuage the public’s concerns. Which is weird because you’d think a professional organization with that much experience would be better at producing effective agitprop.
Maybe it has something to do with the CBO’s most recent scoring. A trillion dollars over the next 10 years sounds like something worth talking about. Or it could be that people are just tired of the Democrats’ brazen fear-mongering:
The democrats aren’t even hiding their intentions anymore:
FOX News analyst: But they’re afraid. Private insurance companies are afraid that they will be put out of business. So why shouldn’t they fight it?
Sen. Sanders: They should be afraid. Let me tell you they should be afraid. I think when they deny people health care because somebody has breast cancer a few years ago, when they throw people off of health insurance because people were sick and ran up a health care bill they have a right to be exposed, a right to be afraid.
Although I suppose it’s better to start the scapegoating early. That way people at least know what they’re in for.
References:
* Kristol: Shut Up, Obama Explained [Weekly Standard]
* ABC to broadcast town hall on health care — from the White House
* Document drop: CBO scores the health care takeover [Malkin]
* Sen. Sanders: Private Insurers SHOULD BE AFRAID Of Going Out of Business (Video) [Gateway Pundit]
* Shh… Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster [MR]
Previously:
* Dems: We’ll Finance Health Care With Cigarette Tax That Will Cause People To Stop Buying Cigarettes
* New Poll: Only 26% Consider Health Reform A Success In Massachusetts
* Stimulus Czar Biden: In Fairness To Me, "Everyone Guessed Wrong" About How Few Jobs Stimulus Would Create
