Month: August 2009

There are those who believe that when radical environmentalists run amok it’s acceptable, even laudable – because it’s for a worthy cause. But when citizens of the United States attempt to exercise their Constitutional right to control their government by demanding that the left’s massive takeover of health care in this country actually be paid for, those same people are suddenly for shutting up and toeing the government line.

The entire Republican leadership has been fanning the flames with persistent lies claiming the Democrats want to force euthanasia on old people, abortions on the unwilling and have Obamacrats tell your doctor how or whether to treat you. We’ve seen months of pernicious lies, and they’re having the predictable effect in scaring the elderly and inciting the gullible to vent their anger at anyone they can associate with Obama or health reform.

Maybe I’ve been living up under a rock, but I haven’t been exposed to months worth of “pernicious lies” or heard about forced abortions as a result of the new plans. 

What I have heard, repeatedly, is that people who work hard for a living and who have good-quality healthcare available to them as a result of that effort do not want the government to take that away from them.  That’s why the poll numbers calling the American system good or excellent have suddenly shot up – people are convinced that the new plan will make things worse for most of us.