Lies, Spies and Hypnotyze; The Real Obama Plan.

Well, the "Agitator in Chief" has felt the need to roll up his sleeves and show the hapless liberal Democrats is congress just how to schmooze and wow the crowd. He is, at long last, leading by example. Showing them just how to steamroller and bamboozle all the lowly serfs that are turning out at Town Hall meetings across the country. Using his cult of personality along with intense focus groups and hand picked attendees to his so called public town hall meetings, and of course liberal coverage by the Pop-Tart media he has attempted to quell the growing tide of public revolt against the plethora of bad legislation that has recently slithered out of the halls of Congress.

But lets take a look at the real facts here compared against what the President claimed yesterday. The President has said repeatedly that you can keep your current insurance and doctors if you are happy with them, but the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that up to as many as 10 million people would loose their employer based coverage and be forced into the public option plan. (And that is most likely a very conservative number, the true number may be as high as 83 million as estimated by The Heritage Foundation).

The President said that "Insurance companies basically get $177 Billion of taxpayer money to provide services that Medicare already provides". But according to Robert Zirkelbach at America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade association, about 10.2 million Medicare recipients are in Medicare Advantage. Under that program, the government pays insurers a set amount per Medicare beneficiary. Obama ridiculed it as costly and redundant, but the plan provides benefits such as vision, dental, and hearing to seniors and helps coordinate health care for those with chronic conditions.

The President asserts that there is no death panels, but the fact is that the house bill (HR3200) would require that Medicare pay for end-of-life counseling sessions for seniors every five years starting at age 65 (read the bill section 1233). It would not require anyone to act, but this is a macabre and repulsive section in the legislation that counsels the vulnerable elderly, many of whom already feel as if they are a burden to remaining family members. The very idea that one would push them towards a Kevorkian decision with "counseling" is absolutely abhorrent to anyone who has a conscience.

The President has also asserted that the AARP has endorsed the plan. The AARP has issued a press release to make it clear that it has not endorsed any particular health care proposal. "Indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate".

So you see, the Community Organizer in Chief is himself, agitated at the fact that he is losing the PR battle here over his massive power grab, his socialistic agenda, his baby. In the words of an unknown soldier, "He has chosen this hill to die on" and he is fighting for his political life. He may well take the Democratic Party with him to the grave. And we can only hope so because of something that Norman Mattoon Thomas said in 1944. Norman was a leading American Socialist and a six-time Presidential Candidate. While campaigning in 1944 he stated that; "The American People will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." he went on to say that, "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."

Friends, let me be clear here, the people have read the bill, they do not like it because it is characteristically un-American in nature. And the demonizing and name calling from the left is not helping their cause here. There is no Democracy without public dissent. Public dissent can not be parsed from passionate emotions. This is a representative democracy, what is also known more accurately as a republic. This public unrest that you are witnessing is the normal state of our republic as it was designed by the founding fathers who framed the Constitution which guarantees each individual the right to voice their concerns. Intimidation against such is what is un-American.

The left is worried because they have underestimated the willingness to become involved, the intelligence, passions and depth of engagement of the public. The backlash that they are witnessing is organic, not organized. This is personal to each and everyone involved, just as the topic of abolition was years ago. And we all know what happened with that issue; it divided the country into north and south, Yankees and Rebels, and ultimately resulted in a very bloody civil war to end slavery in this country. Over 620,000 men lost their lives in those four years.

Now to combat what it deems as "misinformation", the Administration plans to collect email addresses and names from volunteer spies, so that it can target and harass citizens who dared to read the bill and voice their concerns about it! John Solas, who confronted Congressman John Dingle at the Town Hall Meeting while pushing his 39 year old son who has Downs Syndrome in his wheelchair, was visited by Obama's union thugs in the middle of the night at his home in Milan Michigan that very night! Friends, this is not about health care, it is about power and money, and they do not care who they step on or maim in the process of the acquisition of it! This is just bad legislation, bad politics, and very un-American behavior from the radical leftist liberal Democrats now in power. They must be defeated in 2010. They must be routed from office, before they can inflict any more damage on our precious republic. Act now, decide to vote them out as soon as possible. Go to a town hall meeting and voice your concerns; Beat back their rhetoric with truth and sound reasoning, send out emails, make phone calls. Become an involved and engaged American; be Patriotic. The time to act is now!