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Health Care “Reform” and “Willful self-deception”

Robert Samuelson in The Washington Post (h/t Karl Rove) hits health care "reform" as advocated by the Democratic Party hard:

There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs. As we recover slowly from a devastating recession, it's widely agreed that, though deficits should not be cut abruptly (lest the economy resume its slump), a prudent society would embark on long-term policies to control health costs, reduce government spending and curb massive future deficits. The administration estimates these at $9 trillion from 2010 to 2019. The president and all his top economic advisers proclaim the same cautionary message.

So what do they do? Just the opposite. Their far-reaching overhaul of the health-care system -- which Congress is halfway toward enacting -- would almost certainly make matters worse. It would create new, open-ended medical entitlements that threaten higher deficits and would do little to suppress surging health costs. The disconnect between what President Obama says and what he's doing is so glaring that most people could not abide it. The president, his advisers and allies have no trouble. But reconciling blatantly contradictory objectives requires them to engage in willful self-deception, public dishonesty, or both.

There's more at the link - it deserves to be read. It looks like many Democrats are actually believing the self-serving arguments they advance as the truth; it's not hard to see how this happens, it happens to all of us everyday in other ways. One starts by distorting one issue ever so slightly, making other distortions in other issues to compensate, and starts believing the whole system one has set up as exactly. After all, when one believes one is entirely just - shouldn't the richest country in the history of the world procure health care for as many as possible - mere mortal matters like budgets and numbers that add-up tend to be thought irrelevant.

Off-topic, from my blog: Thoughts on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Democrats Scramble to Prevent GOP Victories in Key Races

clipped from www.foxnews.com

In a coup of sorts for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Republican candidate who just dropped out of the race for an upstate New York congressional seat endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday. President Obama also stumped for Gov. Jon Corzine at two New Jersey campaign events.

Is Opposing Fascism Really An Act of Racism?

By JB Williams canadafreepress.com Wednesday, August 5, 2009

jbwilliams-cfp Clearly, if you oppose fascism, Marxism, totalitarianism, socialized medicine, government ownership and control of private industry and a central power rushing to bankrupt the nation by “wasting the labors of the people under the false pretense of taking care of them,” as Thomas Jefferson put it, you are a “racist” according to Obama and his many mindless minions.

But when did opposing policies and principles wholly at odds with founding American ideals become an act of “racism,” much less qualify one as a “potential domestic terrorist,” as suggested by Obama’s Department of Homeland Security?
It happened in November 2008, that’s when...

When America’s biggest “racists” of all time, cast their votes strictly on the basis of Obama’s skin color, in their childish effort to “make history” without realizing that the so-called “black man” has by far more Caucasian and Arab blood in his veins than African blood, that’s the moment at which opposing anti-American policies became an act of “racism.”

From that moment forward, anyone opposed to the anti-American agenda of the hardcore Democratic Socialists in DC, would be labeled a “racist.” MORE