National Health Care For You, Not Me

Friday I stepped outside of work for a smoke break and I turned on the TV on my cellphone. Megyn Kelly was interviewing Sen. Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine. If you are not familiar with Sanders let me just say that he is easily the most obnoxious crap weasel I have ever seen interviewed. The self described democratic socialist was on the show to talk about health care but instead ignored Kelly’s questions and used his time to rail against Wall Street.

There was a discussion today in the WSJ about Sen. Tom Coburn’s amendment which would require Congress and their staffs to be covered by the same health care plan as us little people. The amendment made it through committee 12 to 11 but once again, there was Bernie. Seems he refuses to be subject to the health coverage he favors for everyone else.

Here's the video of Sanders making an ass out of himself. Feel free to boo.

McCaskill: Express Yourself And I'll Call The Cops

Should politicians be held accountable to the citizens who have elected them? According to Sen. Claire McCaskill the answer is, “not so much.”

When patriots (or as the Left likes to call them, “right wing terrorists”) showed up at McCaskill’s office to exercise their constitutionally protected right to express an opinion in opposition of socialized medicine, the police were called out.

So who were these scary people?

Geez, they don’t look so threatening to me. Certainly not as frightening as socialized medicine, Cap and Tax, and bankrupting the country.


UPDATE Via Instapundit:

It seems that Rep. Heath Shuler was less than gracious to his employers as well:

It is important to note here that we were not “storming the Bastille.” We were not carrying pitchforks, nor did we arrive announced. Our group called ahead well over a week in advance and requested that someone from Shuler’s office receive our petitions and comments. We were informed that they would not accept our petitions and that Shuler would not be there, but that someone would receive us.

Poitical Spoils

Peruse the Top All-Time Donors 1989-2008 Summary and ask yourself if there is any correlation between campaign donations and this fro Bloomberg:

Unions’ Health Benefits May Avoid Tax Under Proposal

The U.S. Senate proposal to impose taxes for the first time on “gold-plated” health plans may bypass generous employee benefits negotiated by unions.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, the chief congressional advocate of taxing some employer-provided benefits to help pay for an overhaul of the U.S. health system, says any change should exempt perks secured in existing collective- bargaining agreements, which can be in place for as long as five years.

The exception, which could make the proposal more politically palatable to Democrats from heavily unionized states such as Michigan, is adding controversy to an already contentious debate. It would shield the 12.4 percent of American workers who belong to unions from being taxed while exposing some other middle-income workers to the levy.

As the Top Donors chart shows, the Democratic Party owes the unions a mighty debt. If Sen. Baucus gets his way the union’s payback will come out of our pockets. I don’t mean to imply that Nationalized Health Care is at its base a cheap political ploy, but if it walks like a duck…

ABC Tanks

David Westin: I would have thought that a subject as important as the health care received by the American people would rise above this sorry spectacle. Our citizens need and deserve more. We are proud to be making a serious effort to go beyond mere punditry or stylized, bipolar debate; we are proud to work for a network and a company willing to devote valuable airtime to serious consideration of a subject so worthy.

Apparently the American viewing public doesn’t think health care is a subject worthy of wasting an evening on:

The one-hour ABC News special "Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America" (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour (against NBC's "The Philanthropist" debut and a repeat of "CSI: NY" on CBS). The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.

So what did ABC do? From Don Surber:

After a careful analysis of his infomercial on the All Barack Channel last night, ABC’s top experts concluded that he is more awesome than he let on.

Well thank goodness ABC isn't biased!

Unfortunately, just like American’s tuned out last night’s infomercial, the Administration has tuned out the American public.

The Coming Healthcare Nightmare

Please take a look at Megyn Kelly interviewing Socialist Bernie Sanders on nationalized health care:



Note that Sanders is throwing around "46 million uninsured" without any qualifiers. He doesn't mention that included in that figure is upwards to 20 million illegal aliens who do receive health care on the taxpayer's dime at both clinics and emergency rooms throughout the United States. He doesn't mention that his figure may include as many as 10 million people who may be eligible for health care through their employer. And when confronted with the estimated cost of universal health care he feigns ignorance.

The Democrats are trying to ram this through Congress without debate and without regard to taxpayers who have made it quite clear that they do not want government sponsored health care. Democrats are dismissing the very real fear that people will end up with health care that inferior to what they now enjoy.

Taxpayers are being ignored by the elected representatives at every turn. No American should take 'wait and see' attitude about this. Now is the time to speak out.

h/t Gateway Pundit