House of Eratosthenes

Obama’s given 34 or 35 speeches now trying to resurrect His monster of a health care bill. Charles Krauthammer is ready to pull the plug and send Igor back to the graveyard to put the pieces where they came from.

…Obama was reduced to suggesting that his health care reform was indeed popular because when you ask people about individual items (for example, eliminating exclusions for pre-existing conditions or capping individual out-of-pocket payments) they are in favor.

Yet mystifyingly they oppose the whole package. How can that be?

Allow me to demystify. Imagine a bill granting every American a free federally delivered ice cream every Sunday morning. Provision 2: steak on Monday, also home delivered. Provision 3: A dozen red roses every Tuesday. You get the idea. Would each individual provision be popular in the polls? Of course.

However (life is a vale of howevers) suppose these provisions were bundled into a bill that also spelled out how the goodies are to be paid for and managed — say, half a trillion dollars in new taxes, half a trillion in Medicare cuts (cuts not to keep Medicare solvent but to pay for the ice cream, steak and flowers), 118 new boards and commissions to administer the bounty-giving, and government regulation dictating, for example, how your steak was to be cooked. How do you think this would poll?

Perhaps something like 3-1 against, which is what the latest CNN poll shows is the citizenry’s feeling about the current Democratic health care bills.

I heart Charles.

That was great!

As usual.
- philmon | 03/05/2010 @ 08:16
I can’t remember the last time any elected politician (or group of them) was so determined to override the will of the people they purport to represent. I have never seen such suicidal behavior from Washington. It’s almost criminal. If anything, it’s an object lesson on how these socialist elitists view the rest of us.
- cylarz | 03/05/2010 @ 22:31
Architects are apathetic about Medicators, to a fault. When you’re in the thick of really building something, and you want it to work, you don’t give a shit about what other people are doing.

Medicators, however, always want the Architects to convert or die. They’re never happy being individual Medicators, they want a Medicator society. Then once they get it, they want everyone else around the enclave to become a Medicator too.

It’s not very often, nowadays, we hear one of those tearjerker speeches about “Teh Uninsoored” now is it? Been awhile since we’ve seen some sad sack hauled up before the cameras to tell her sob story about having to choose between food for her cat and the eighteen pills she has to take every day for her tennis elbow or what-not. The last one was…oh that’s right, the “Dead Sister’s Teeth” moment. Why do we have to wait weeks and weeks for that? I seem to recall when Hillary was selling this rotgut, we were being plied with these horror stories every goddamn day. This time around they’re out and proud about it: It’s not about sick people, it’s about power.
- mkfreeberg | 03/06/2010 @ 06:26
I’m finishing up (after a bit of a hiatus) “Arguing With Idiots” … which, if you don’t know, is very thoroughly referenced.

It is truly stunning what they’ve done to get the “uninsured” numbers up to 33%… 46% from what he cites in a Blue Cross – Blue Shield document … closer to 3%. I downloaded the pdf last night. I want to take a closer look at it. Again, not that we don’t have problems — we do. But government takeover is a bad, bad answer on 99% of issues.

They want this through because it is, I believe, their key to the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America.”

The medicator/architect analogy is astute.
- philmon | 03/06/2010 @ 07:00

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