Monday, August 17th, 2009
Just call him “Judas” Obama
Please tell me this isn’t true:
PHOENIX — The White House, facing increasing skepticism over President Obama’s call for a public insurance plan to compete with the private sector, signaled Sunday that it was willing to compromise and would consider a proposal for a nonprofit health cooperative being developed in the Senate.
The “public option,” a new government insurance program akin to Medicare, has been a central component of Mr. Obama’s agenda for overhauling the health care system, but it has also emerged as a flashpoint for anger and opposition. Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, said the public option was “not the essential element” for reform and raised the idea of the co-op during an interview on CNN.
Mr. Obama himself sought to play down the significance of the public option at a town-hall-style meeting on Saturday in Grand Junction, Colo., when a university student challenged him on how private insurers could compete with the government.
Seriously, Mr. President, if you and the Congressional Dems pull a France in this fight and surrender without a shot being fired, you deserve to lose in 2010 and 2012. We are dangerously close to losing this country to the fascists, and the health care reform battle is probably the make or break point. This is how Germany slid into fascism: a weak government all too willing to make concessions to an opposition that would be satisfied with nothing less than the utter destruction of the ruling party.
We are in the river, Mr. President, and the scorpion is rearing back to strike. Do the right thing. If you fail, I will be watching the death of the America I was raised to love and defend from north of 49th parallel.
