Posted by
Patrick Henry on Monday, December 07, 2009 8:09:30 PM
After polls showed across the board that a majority of Americans opposed it, it was nauseating to
watch the House Democrats standing and applauding themselves for passing their version of healthcare reform
anyway, by the narrowest of margins and with a significant group of their own jumping ship in embarrassment.
It begs the question. Just who do the Democrats represent? Who they DON'T represent is obvious.
Democrats don't represent American seniors. They've voted to strip billions out of Medicare, and
did they use it to make the struggling program more solvent? Of course not! They used it to fund their
shiny new entitlement giveaway. They voted as a party to scrap Medicare Advantage, and voted against
the Gregg amendment in the Senate that would have forbidden the use of Medicare fuding for non-
Medicare purposes by a 56-43 margin with only three Democrats joining Republicans to protect Medicare
from the rape and pillage Democrats propose. They argue, of course, that they're going to do it by cutting
waste and fraud (which they should have been doing already). But are they going to wait until they see
if they can actually find $500B in waste and fraud before they spend it? Of course not! So let's just say,
for the sake of argument, that they can find only $300B in waste and fraud. But they've already spent the
other $200B. So what's going to heppen? Since instead of cutting the fraud and waste first, they've guesstimated
it and if they're wrong who's going to eat the other $200B? Doctors? Hospitals? Pharmaceutical companies?
Sure, when pigs fly! Seniors are going to eat it in higher co-[ays, deductibles, rationed care and increased prmiums.
It's as obvious as can be, only the Democrats don't care. They're going to have their healthcare giveaway come
hell or high water. But make so mistake. Democrats don't represent seniors in America. Not even a little
bit. And anyone 55 or older that votes for them has been drinking too much Kool-Aid.
Democrats don't represent small business. Ronald Regan said that government's motto is "if it moves, tax
it, if it slows down, regulate it, and if it stops, subsidize it." The Democrats heartily agree, and are doing all
three with great vigor. In a recession featuring double digit unemployment the Democrats propose hitting
small businesses with a triple whammy. First, their "tax the rich" scam will hit small businmess owners
hard. This is the Dems' idea of wealth re-distribution. Then, they'll force them to provide health insurance
for all their rmployees or pay a fine equal to 8% of their payroll. Then, to finish off the few that are left,
they intend to either pass cap-and-trade legislation or impose Draconian EPA regulations to limit carbon
emissions, thereby guaranteeing heavy retro-fitting costs for already sinking businesses. Should there be any
left after that, there's always the union card check legislation to drive small businesses into the same success
pool as Chrysler and General Motors. (Or is that just a cesspool)? Fewer than 3% of Obama's cabinet and
high government appointees have any experience in the real world of business. They're all Ivy league
theoreticians or Chicago crooks. Barack Obama and the Democratic party are the biggest enemies that
small businesspersons have. If you are one (and I feel sorry for you), remember that voting Dem is voting
dumb!
Finally, it's crystal clear that Democrats don't represent the innocent unborn. At this very moment they are
waxing eloquent in the Senate chambers arguing that taxpayer money should be allowed to fund abortions.
Obama, now widely know as the "Abortion President" has already removed prohibitions to government
funding for clinics that perform abortions abroad. His chief political advisor, David Axelrod, has said that
Obama "cannot bide" the language of the Hyde prohibition being put in the healthcare bill. Democrats argue
that it's a health bill, not an abortion bill. But when they stripped out the Hyde language they MADE it an
abortion bill. We'll see of the few pro-life Democrats have the guts to vote against the bill if it has no such
prohibition. The day this bill passes will be a very bad day to be a defenseless fetus!
One could go on about all the different groups of Americans the Democrats do not and never will represent.
If you take a close look at the groups the Dems do not represent, an appalling pattern becomes clear. With
AARP in the administration's pocket (and they are) seniors have no lobby with which to fight back. Small business
cannot match the large campaign contributions of Wall Street giants and the unions, so the Dems once again
choose to supposrt the big and powerful over the small and weak. Not content with spewing their ravages on
those already in the world, the Democrats take joy in empowering those who wish to kill babies. Babies, small
businesses, the elderly. Do you get it yet? Barack Obama lied when he said that no public funds would be used
to fund abortions, he lied when he said no public funds would subsidize insurance for illegals, he lied when he
told seniors that if they liked their health plans they could keep them and he's lying through his teeth when he
says this "heathcare reform" bill will not increase the deficit. Stop and think about who you really want running
the country.