President Obama declared for the first time yesterday that he was prepared to steamroller his troubled health reform legislation through Congress with only Democratic support; a move Republicans denounced as the “nuclear option”.
Signalling that his patience had snapped after a year-long fight, Mr Obama laid the ground for Democrats in Congress to muscle the Bill through using a high-risk legislative manoeuvre known as reconciliation, which overrides a Republican filibuster. Although he did not use the word “reconciliation”, Mr Obama made it clear that that was the route he intended to take.
Democrats will, as a result, be able to get the health reform package through the Senate with a simple majority. Mr Obama’s party ceded their 60-stong majority in the upper chamber after losing the late Teddy Kennedy’s Massachusetts seat in January.
That shock defeat was due, in large part, to growing public hostility to Mr Obama’s health reforms, which many see as too expensive at a time of soaring deficits. Ramming the Bill through Congress is, therefore, a high-risk strategy that Republicans vowed to exploit.
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This isn’t about Health, it’s about control. If it was about Health, they’d simply deal with costs like tort reform as well as dealing with the 15% that aren’t covered (less than 15% actually because some just don’t think they need to be covered).
But Obama and the Democrats are taking the same view that they did with the subprime problem, which was precipitated by the government, their idea of a solution to that financial debacle was even more government intervention and regulation. Ditto with Health, they can’t run Medicare and Medicaid so their solution is? More government intervention.
“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.” -Ronald Reagan
Obama is coming dangerously close to being legitimately labelled an ‘Enemy of the State’. It’s really only a matter of time.
I think Obama is a very dangerous person, for the USA and the world.
Lenin on steroids.