Health Care "Deeming" as Political Adultery
So how could they do their deed and both cover their butts?
Perhaps, after sexy
chit-chat over a few drinks in a bar, she says, “I’m really reluctant to
do this.” But they agree to go up to his place, ostensibly so she can
help him hang his etchings or for some other lame-ass excuse that both
know to be a lie. And she pretty much lets him have his way with her.
If later the husband
finds out, she plays her “I told him ‘No!’ sort of” card. “I only agreed
to drinks and to help decorate his walls!” When the husband sends the
cops to haul the sleazeball off to jail, he argues that he “deemed” that
she had consented and that what he did was perfectly legal. After all,
he explains, she had the drinks with him and went up to his room to see
his artwork, and they were just creating a fiction with which she might
placate her husband. Of course, the two stories contradict one another.
The police would probably rule this to be a case of adultery rather than
rape, and the slutty wife would face a divorce.
This is the scenario
faced by Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Political
sluts?
Some members are
reluctant to give in to the pressure from their sleazy leadership to
support an abomination of a health care bill that they, the members,
know will visit ill on the American people. Even more important to them
since they are politicians, these members know that if they give in,
their outraged constituents will give them a beating and divorce at the
polls. These members want to be able to say, “Honest, honey, I didn’t
consent to that bill! I only voted to improve it.”
The leadership wants
these members to vote for amendments to the Senate bill and “deem” that
because they’re voting on the amendments, that the Senate bill has been
passed. This approach would give reluctant
members some political cover, and it would spare the House Democratic
leadership the necessity of first securing the votes for a bill that so
many House Democrats don’t want to support and then fighting political
battles over amendments for the bill. Do you follow this?
This tortuous approach
is being concocted right before the eyes of outraged voters. Are the
reluctant Democratic House members so deluded that they believe their
constituents will play their part in this charade? Do they believe
voters will say to these members, “Yes, we understand that you really
didn’t support that terrible bill,” while saying to the leadership,
“Yes, we understand that in voting to amend the bill, you deemed it to
be passed and you made it the law of the land”?
Blank-out
The moral failing of
the adulterers and the Democrats, among others, comes from attempts to
be dishonest, to fake reality. But in the case of the Democrats they are
relying on others to play along with them, to do what no cuckolded
spouse would put up with. This should come as no surprise since the
Democrats have been equally dishonest about the substance and effects of
Obamacare all along.
If Obamacare grants 30 million individuals essentially free access to new health care entitlements at a time of doctor shortages and at a time when 45 percent of doctors say they’d consider quitting if Obamacare passes, how will the 30 million new patients be treated? Blank-out.
If Obamacare takes a
half-trillion dollars out of cash-strapped Medicare to pay for the new
entitlements, how will the government be able to avoid making severe
cuts in Medicare? Blank-out.
Watch the face of
President Obama at the health care roundtable discussion with
Republicans when
Moral
meaning
More and more
Americans now understand the dishonesty of the substance of Obamacare. More and more Americans understand that Democrats who
vote for the “deeming” approach are simply trying to cover their butts,
to say, “I didn’t like Obamacare either,” even as their votes make
Obamacare law. More and more Americans understand what they can expect
from a health care system created and overseen by those who can achieve
their policy goals only by refusing to look at the consequences of such
policies and by hiding the consequences from the public.
Let’s hope that more
and more Americans will understand the moral meaning of the whole
Obamacare episode: that they are committing moral treason to themselves
by rejecting responsibility for their own lives and turning their lives
over to dishonest politicians to run for them.
For further
reading:
*Bradley Doucet, “Why on Earth ... Are So Many Americans Uninsured?”
April 24, 2009.
*Judy Kopulos, “Medicare—The Mammoth in the Living Room.”
October 13, 2009.
*Edward Hudgins, “Obamacare as Faith Healing.” December 10, 2009.
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