In Massachussetts, the reds are blue
March 22, 2010Jon Brooks Comments OffIn January, after Massachussetts sent Republican Scott Brown to the Senate, destroying the Democratic supermajority needed to pass the health care overhaul without resorting to the reconciliation process, the plan appeared all but dead.
Now, some view the bill’s success as comparable to the Resurrection, while others liken it more to the return of Jason in Friday the 13th</em. On January 20, after the Massachussetts meltdown by Democrats, we wrote this post about the differing reactions on the sites Blue Mass Group (place for Dems) and Red Mass Group (GOP hangout). Revisiting those sites in light of the turned tables, we see not a lot of hoopla on the left, reflecting liberals’ mixed feelings about the bill, and anger, defiance, and despair on the right.
The day after Brown’s win, posts on Red Mass Group included these:
Happy anniversary Mr. President – with Love, Red Mass Group
And here are some posts today from Red Mass Group:
We have only ourselves to blame. This is what happens when we allow inexperienced community organizers, corrupt unions bosses, and socialists to run our government.
Here is what I see happening over the next 6 to 9 months. Many people will suddenly have a change of heart regarding health care. Where they originally were suspicious of it they will now want to embrace it – everyone wants to associate with the winning side. They will tell touching stories of how poor little Suzie will finally be able to have her operation.
But, at the end of the year their own healthcare statements for 2011 will arrive and everyone will wonder why their premiums went up another 25 to 45 percent. Co-pays will go from $20 to $50. Insurance companies will explain that because they can no longer drop someone’s coverage or deny coverage to someone with a pre-existing condition they have to charge everyone else a lot more.
Within two years – their annual checkup will need to be booked 11 months in advance because many Doctors left the business or they now have 15% more patients. It will be revealed that welfare recipients are having abortions year after year at the public expense. We will find out that sex change operations and cosmetic surgery are covered by the program – both of which will be covered as a pre-existing condition. “I was born the wrong sex – or – I was born with small boobs” people will argue. Health care is now a right so you have to provide those medical services….
Within 4 years fraud will run rampant and billions of dollars will be mishandled and mismanaged. People will hate it like they do every other government run operation. But, once you give people a government handout it can never be stopped. Talk of repealing the program will be a forbidden campaign slogan.
Americans will start to travel elsewhere for medical care. The wealthy will pay cash for care outside their insurance system. Private couture Doctors will surface to offer custom, or immediate, services so people don’t have to wait. Those operations will be shut down by a government that doesn’t want a two class system of medical care. The government will argue that all medical care needs to be under the umbrella of a fair and just government. The total takeover is completed.
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“Dr. Gary Gottlieb, chief executive of Partners Healthcare, a major hospital company whose members include Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General hospitals, echoed Roosevelt, saying the vote was “a remarkable and historic moment.”
I guess if you are the CEO of Partners Healthcare, and pulling in a couple million a year, it might be easy to think that what we have is wonderful, easy and all rosy and such. But if like me, you are starting your second year of unemployment, pay $1,400 per month for COBRA insurance, are looking at a dwindling number of companies that are willing to hire, and now have the joy of picking up someone else’s share of healthcare then things aren’t so great.
But that is the essence of being a f*ckin lib-tard. They get to make the decisions for the rest of us poor slobs that weren’t born with a trust fund and didn’t luck their way into a CEO job.
I wonder if the wonderful Gary Gottlieb will be saying the same thing a year from now when Obama and his liberal Congress start pushing the health care program farther to the left. When Gary starts reporting to some minimally qualified government hack with barely a HS diploma, and probably trained at ACORN headquarters in Chicago, then things will be different. Obama’s little health care ‘overseers’ will run things at Partners Health care. Just you wait and see old Gary-boy.
Don’t think that will be the case? Ask the good folks at GM. They didn’t think it could happen to them either.
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Honestly, after thinking it over, I don’t quite feel the sense of loss I thought I would while I sit here, reflecting on the passage of the “health care” bill. I’m actually excited about the fact that states are attempting to assert their rights. The honest truth, as much as my partisan GOP cheerleader friends don’t want to admit it, is that we’ve been on a slippery slope headed toward socialism anyway, and would’ve gotten there fully eventually – and faster than anyone wanted to admit we would have if McCain were President. Truth be told, we’ve needed something this radical to wake us up. I’d rather this pass and engage in an epic battle over state sovereignty and constitutional limits on government than to let the Republic devolve slowly into a totalitarian cesspool – which is the path we were headed down with a GOP that consistently voted to expand entitlements and engage in deficit spending.
At least now we’re engaged in a serious and active battle over what the true role of government is. Furthermore, it looks like the GOP won’t be able to get away with NOT fighting to repeal this. Even Bailout Boehner had more balls on the House floor tonight than I ever expected; and with an engaged electorate to hold his feet to the fire, maybe we can actually fight for a repeal. I won’t hold my breath – but hell, this kind of resistance is more promising than watching both parties run the country into the ground, feeling helplessly subjected to the creeping socialism that’s been permeating our nation as a result of lackluster opposition to slow but steady increases in government.
Has this radicalism truly awakened a sleeping giant? Can we reverse the trend? The emergence of the Tea Party movement was like the Continental Army defeating the Red Coats at Dorchester, and running them out of Boston. Tonight’s vote is like the epic defeat that the Continental Army experienced in New York City …
So, what comes next? Hell, maybe a win for the good guys. Stranger things have occured, no?
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There is absolutely zero good to be found in this.
Politically it might wake some people up, but its awful for America and its going to be tough as hell to put the brakes on this thing because its a freight train just starting to leave the station.
I could give a damn that more people agree with me on this issue now (its not giving me any warm and fuzzies) nor that Republicans may be poised to make gains, because this is awful for America and its going to be as hard as hell to stop it now.
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After a good night’s sleep, I am sure the Tea Party activists will react with renewed determination, not discouragement.
