Something smalls fishy ...

… unfortunately, the stench is coming from the federal government. You’re looking for disinformation and expect neighbors to turn in their neighbors, perhaps even their own family members. You need to look inward and discontinue the practice of condemning the people you represent when you make errors in judgment, try to put lipstick on it, and then produce some of the most outrageous lies to ever have erupted from the District. Look at the polls (not the ones you control) and you see you no longer have the support of the American people. It’s because you lie and the growing perception is that you have no idea how to govern. Look at HR3200 in particular, the other healthcare takeover proposals in general. Obama orates about insurance reform and his words bear not the slightest relationship to what is actually contained in the resolutions and bills. Sebelius doesn’t figure it’s her job to know what the government is trying to do to healthcare but wants to blindly “reform.” Specter can’t find the time to read and understand larger bills because they’re moving too fast. Conyers doesn’t understand the material in large bills without calling on lawyers but he hasn’t got the time anyway. Pelosi thinks people who disagree with the government takeover or want honest answers and honest debate are Astroturf. Reid thinks we’re loud and shrill when our government provokes us into protesting and will use trickery to pass a bill, if necessary.

This is a cowardly way to run a government and you should all be ashamed of yourselves. Pay attention—America disapproves of you.

Healthcare Reform or Government Takeover?

I’ve heard that the Kaiser Family Foundation may lean a bit left, if true then that makes a certain amount of sense given the seeming impossibility of reforming healthcare without adding a degree of socialism. However, the tool they’ve designed at:

http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm

appears to do a nonpartisan and nonpolitical comparison of the several options currently being floated in DC. HR3200 (the House Tri-Committee selection) is one that seems to offer the least reform with the greatest cost, not just in dollars but also in degradation of healthcare overall.

But that’s just my opinion.