Hurry Up and Wait – Excellent Observation
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal makes a great statement about the hypocrisy of the President Oppressor [my new title, not Taranto's] demanding that we the people be patient with his HealthScare legislation. The PO came to Maine on April Fools’ Day to lecture us about patience.
Excerpt from PO:
“Every day since I signed reform into law, there’s another poll or headline that says, ‘Nation still divided on health reform, no great surge in public support.’ … “Before we find out if people like health care reform, maybe we should wait until it actually happens.”
Taranto sets things right in response:
For the past year, Obama has been demanding that Congress enact his so-called reform immediately. Last July, it had to be done before the August recess. Then, after Democrats suffered big losses at the polls in November, it had to be done by the end of the year. It was so urgent that the House stayed in session late into Saturday night after Election Day, and the Senate actually voted on Christmas Eve. “Slow down!” shouted the voters of Massachusetts….
The president charged ahead anyway, declaring that the time for debate was over. His allies in Congress bribed, bullied and cajoled their way to a razor-thin one-party majority in the House, and in the Senate they found a procedural work-around to render Massachusetts voters irrelevant. Last month, in a process as ugly as it was heedless of public opinion, Obama got what he wanted. Two weeks ago the time for debate was over.
Now the president is still talking ObamaCare, trying to sell the public on what he and congressional Democrats have already imposed upon us. And he’s insisting that the public owes it to him to be patient.
