To: Katelew who wrote (406030 ) 1/23/2011 9:00:26 AM From: briskit 1 Recommendation Respond to So there is always an adequate narrative other than Obama is a product of the radical left, which is defined as more and bigger federal control of everything that exists. (Taking title to, as you seem to define socialism, is not necessary for socialism in practice.) Government control comes at the expense of individual liberty and the American constitutional experiment of a limited central government. Remember, the feds already controlled 50% of health care. As an entity that advocates its own interests, is it surprising that they say the problem with health care is that they don't control the other 50%? That's not surprising to me. It is always the argument of the left and anti-liberty. Why would they advocate giving up any control to the market and the public? No, they want more, and the problem is how to get it. So they take it by legislative or regulative and judicial fiat. It's the same pattern that we saw in the oil and gas industry. Here's my guiding premise: One either gets what he/she wants--in this case what they constitution allows, or she gets something else with a story. The story is about why what they got was O.K., understandable, etc. What we are getting right now is as much of leftist "soft totalitarianism" as we'll stomach. And the media carries the story about why what we got makes sense, and don't have liberty and limited government. "No, this is not socialist leftism. See how pragmatic Obama is (now that the majority of voters are running from the scene of the train wreck). Why he's moving to the center where we knew all along he was in his heart." Obama and his wing of democrats are not practical at all. They pushed on a health care package that should have had much more open and public debate with both parties involved. And they did it at a time when, if they were practical, they would have been focusing on the economy. What they wanted was the control, which is leftism. And they took it in the end by "deeming it passed," without even a final vote.
