RANDOM THOUGHTS ON OBAMACARE

Madam Speaker, Lead From the Front!

Nancy Pelosi recently told he caucus that they were not in office to stay in office. She urges them to vote for Socialized Medicine even if they knew that vote would cost them their seat in the House as well as access to the subsidized cafeteria, the free gym membership, a junket or two each year and a staff of lackeys. Ms. Pelosi knows there are better odds for snowballs in hell then her losing her next election. The dozens of 2006 Democrats who live political life in more perilous environments must realize she’s nuts. They know, and Pelosi knows, this is the classic liberal tactic of reforming other peoples’ lives. There is a simple way for Nancy to prove she meant what she said. She needs to lead from the front by announcing today that she will resign from government the day the House passes Socialized Medicine and that she will comfort herself with the knowledge that she had accomplished the work she was meant to do. Harry Reid and Dickie Durbin can follow suit in the Senate.

 

Harry Smith’s Colonoscopy.

I saw my own intestinal roller coaster, Harry, thank you very much! So Harry was willing to let us all enter his anal aperture for ratings. What a guy! That’s a revolutionary re-definition of public access television. Harry, didn’t your producer tell you that the  government is claiming that unnecessary colonoscopies are driving up medical costs? That’s why they want to rewrite the guidelines to have the test only if there are symptoms. Forget that by the time a colon cancer patient feels symptoms, if he or she even knows how to recognize them, he or she is facing radical surgery, rounds of chemotherapy and the risk that the cancer has moved to the liver. Oh, since Obamacare is designed to eliminate – over twenty five or thirty years –medical specialists in the United States by fining doctors who refer patients to them, all the Gen X’ers who think O-care is a wonderful idea need to look at mortality rates for colon cancer in the UK and across Europe to see their future. There won’t be any gastro enterologists to do colonoscopies, so those happy little liberals will just do the right thing and die.

 

Nancy, Call the Question

Geez, the O-care debate is worse than reading War and Peace. Does it ever end? You have the votes or you don’t have the votes!   By now you have offered every bribe you have to offer aside from parceling out stuff from the Smithsonian. Hint: Sheila Jackson Lee will vote with you, even with no public option, if she gets Judy Garland’s red shoes from Oz.

Anyway, just hold the vote. If you win, enjoy the glow until November and the inevitable repeal. If you lose, move on to legalizing all the illegals so you can prove you have a political death wish.

 

“Waiting for Godot” Starring Barack Obama

“Godot, I want you here by Labor Day, uh or by Christmas, uh or by Ground Hog Day, uh or Mardi Gras, uh or by the time I go to Australia and apologize for not drinking Fosters! I don’t care what the doctor said about my drinking! The time for waiting is over!”

 

 

“Mirror, Mirror On the Wall”

If it weren’t so delicious to watch, Obama’s recent PR campaign to push Socialized Medicine would be pitiful. A narcissist who reads well appears before hand – picked audiences in closed venues to bloviate and beat a dead horse; and thinks all the cheers represent what the world thinks about him. He knows Socialized Medicine is probably dead, but he needs the cheers to continue his delusion that he can never lose a debate or contest.

 

Deductible, uh, what deductible?

One of the Socialized Medicine satraps – Obama or Pelosi – recently demonized low cost / high deductible major medical policies that are affordable to average people. The argument was that the high deductible would keep people from using the policies. OK, then why not eliminate the IRS imposed 7.5% of Adjusted Gross Income for claiming medical expenses on form 1040? For a family of four with an AGI of $70K that is $5220!

That’s what they have to spend out of pocket before the loving and caring socialists let them get back 28% of what they spend over that amount! What they pay out of pocket before getting any benefit is a deductible !!!!!! And Obama has the gall to accuse insurance companies of being money hungry!

 

Does the House Hate Pelosi, or What?

The Wicked Witch of the West must be Nancy Pelosi. Here she is trying to pass the crown jewel of the socialist agenda, and with the invaluable aid of Rahm Emmanuel, and suddenly she sees the sheep running the shepherdess off a cliff. It may be wrong, but not rash, to believe that Socialized Medicine died with the 402 – 1 vote to investigate House Leadership’s role ( translation: Pelosi, Hoyer and Bawney Fwank) in covering up Massa’s frolics with young gay staffers. Nancy is in a two front war now and she may not win either.