To Get it or Not to Get it

That is the question.

Whether it ’tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrage voters
Or to take arms against a sea of  Debt,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream (of Ultimate control): ay, there’s the rub;

(apologies to Shakespeare) 🙂

Obama One Year ago: “There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans,” Obama declared. “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them.”

Now will the Democrats feel the ground shifting beneath their feet?

NO.

Why would they.

They would have to acknowledge they were wrong. And when has that ever really happened?

Is the president a Leader or an Ideologue??

“The people of Massachusetts spoke,” Obama said, and Senator-elect Scott Brown has “got to be part of that process.”

So we can ram it through and declare victory after he gets here.

Speaker Pelosi is defiant and says she will pass Health Care in some form regardless. “I heard the candidate in Massachusetts, the Republican candidate, say ‘Let’s go back to the drawing board,'” Pelosi told reporters in California on Monday. “There is no back to the drawing board. . .. We will have health care one way or another.”

The Democrat thinking is that they must have a victory in this year-long obsession of theirs or else they are failures and have nothing to show for their last year. Completely missing the fact that is the obsession with Health Care that GOT them here in the first place.

So let’s pass the deeply unpopular legislation in some form just so we can infect the system with our cancer and let it grow on it’s own.

And that’s Victory to the Democrats.

Yikes!

“Does she stay loyal to the faction who made her speaker? Or will she go the bipartisan path?” (Former Speaker Newt) Gingrich asked. “I suspect she can’t risk the left being mad at her. … [Former House Speaker] Tom Foley would basically tell me, ‘Newt, I can’t bring up that bill — They’d kick me out if I did.’”

And, of course, there’s no guarantee that Republicans, who’ve voted in lock step against reform, would play along now — especially if they’re thinking that they’ll have more seats and more power after November’s midterm elections. (Politico)

I mean there are plenty of left-wing ideologues that firmly believe they lost in Massachusetts because they weren’t FAR-LEFT ENOUGH!

Just watch MSNBC.

Seriously.

And then there’s the faction that even blamed George W. Bush for the defeat!!

Mr. Obama said on ABC, “People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”

Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer trotted out the old blame-the-GOP card — incoherently arguing that GOP candidate Scott Brown’s surge among conservatives, independents and once-reliable rank-and-file Democratic voters in the deep-blue state of Massachusetts was a backlash against Republican obstructionism.(IBD)

IBD: Perhaps it’s because it’s never been about health care. It’s been about nationalizing one-sixth of the economy and making as many people as possible dependent on government. After all, the idea of a health care overhaul began with a lament about the uninsured, whose numbers changed with the political wind, and ended with a 2,000-page, $2.5 trillion hash that would leave millions uninsured.

🙂

And to top it off:

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed allowing the federal government to borrow an additional $1.9 trillion to pay its bills, a record increase that would permit the national debt to reach $14.3 trillion.

But it’s all the Republicans and George W Bush’s fault, remember that. 🙂

Less than a decade ago, $1.9 trillion would have been enough to finance the operations and programs of the federal government for an entire year. Now, it’s only enough to make sure Democrats can avoid another vote before Election Day.

Aaron Zelinsky, Huffington Post:

To put this in familiar terminology of our common cultural touchstone, Star Wars: In 2008, the Democrats made the election all about The New Hope. In 2010, The Republicans turned the Massachusetts election into Return of the Jedi (with Mr. Brown’s pickup truck as a stand-in for the Millennium Falcon). The last thing the Democrats want is for voters to think November 2010 is The Empire Strikes Back.

I would just add The Phantom Menace to come as the Democrats scramble to save their precious Holy Grail and appear to be something their not, Like Emperor Palpatine did.

And that’s the Change you can Believe in. 🙂