By Michael Schaus
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Republicans relish the idea of impoverished people across
the nation dying slow agonizing deaths without access to healthcare. At least,
that’s what our President believes. Holding a press conference right before his
luxurious vacation in Martha’s Vineyard (which I hear is fantastic this time of
year) the President said that “the one unifying principle the Republican Party
has, is making sure that 30 million people don’t have health-care.” The comment
was absurd, disingenuous, and indicative of Liberal’s inability to defend their
ideas.
The comment was made in regards to three conservative
Republicans who are leading an effort to essentially defund the Affordable Care
Act. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio are calling on the GOP
to vote down any continuing resolution (those bills we use to fund the Federal
Government when Harry Reid refuses to pass a budget) that includes funding for
Obamacare. Oh. . . And it turns out that far from being “unifying”, the move is
creating deep rifts within the GOP.
Internal GOP Politics aside, the idea has generated an
impressive amount of angst among top Democrats. But at heart is the President’s
ridiculous assertion that the GOP, represented by these three
anti-establishment members, is motivated by apparent callousness and sadism.
The left routinely employs over-the-top rhetoric to
discredit the messengers rather than the message. To assert that an entire
political party is motivated by the desire to see American citizens without
health insurance should be beneath any President. Animosity toward the
Affordable Care Act resides mostly in the legislation’s uncanny ability to
reduce job growth, add to the Federal Budget, increase taxes, and hike
premiums.
But, according to the President, opponents of the Legislation
simply hate poor people. Our national community organizer, Barack Obama, is not
the only person who believes this. In fact, it is a foundational principle of
Liberalism: Opponents are not merely wrong in their thinking, or misguided in
their efforts, but intrinsically opposed to wide spread prosperity and
betterment of the human condition.
The President’s petty remarks about a handful of GOP
senators is not aimed at encouraging reconciliation or bipartisanship. It is
aimed at portraying his political opposition as cruel and uncaring. An odd
characterization as he heads to vacation while his constituency continues to
struggle in unemployment and an ailing economy. What is so curious about the
President’s moral arrogance, is the fact that little good has ever come from
Progressive ideas. In fact, human suffering, a deterioration of the human
condition, and ultimate devolution of individual liberty are all consequences
of “progressive” concepts. . (Click here to read their atrocious record oncivil rights, as an example.)
Mr. President, your signature piece of legislation has
forced millions from their full time job. It has forced millions more into
increased premiums, ironically making coverage less affordable. Your reform has
increased dependence on the government, diminished individual liberty, reduced
private control of health care decisions, and introduced cold (uncaring)
bureaucracy into the most intimate portion of American’s lives. (And I’m not
even mentioning the HHS’s attempts to force religious organizations and
individuals to act against their conscience.)
Shame on you Mr. President. Under your watch, more
Americans are experiencing hardship than any time in the past decade. If
compassion is the litmus test for reasonable political action, Cruz, Rubio and
Lee should be applauded, as they are fighting for an increase in the only
condition that has ever lead to widespread prosperity: Liberty.
Besides, Obamacare is still expected to leave 20 some-odd
million Americans uninsured. But that’s okay, because the IRS will simply tax
those people. Now that’s compassion.
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