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Ted Rall Nails It on the Wealthcare Bill

Posted by libhom Monday, April 19, 2010

Ted Rall's syndicated column on Obama out Republicaning the Goppers is one of the best summaries of what has been wrong with this administration to date. The entire column is worth a read, but the comments on the wealthcare bill are of special interest.

Obama's revamp of healthcare, on the other hand, goes too far, perverting the liberal desire to provide healthcare for all Americans into a transfer of wealth from poor to rich that the hard right never dreamed of.

Buying into the classic, flawed, American assumption that a bad system can't get worse (ask the Iraqis and Afghans), ObamaCare entrusts 30 million new customers, to the tune of roughly ten grand a year each, to the tender mercies of private insurance companies.

ObamaCare pours hundreds of billions of dollars, some from taxpayers, the rest from poor people, into the gaping coffers of giant corporations. Once people find themselves paying even more for visits to the same crappy doctors and hospitals they can't afford now, they'll hold the Dems responsible at the polls. If Republicans stopped to think, they'd love it.

And if Democrats stopped to think, they'd hate it.

Some of us have stopped to think, and we do hate it.

The rightist policies of the Obama administration are going to cause some Democrats to vote Green at least some of the time for years. However, that won't be the biggest impact on the party. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and their minions are doing a really effective job in persuading Democratic core constituencies that it doesn't matter much who you vote for. This means lower Democratic turnout and less volunteer time. The couch is a more effective rival than third parties, at least so far, and the DINOs in power are giving the couch a huge electoral advantage.

The Democrats are digging themselves in deeper and deeper, and they are too foolish and too bought to see it.

 

5 comments

  1. GDAEman Says:
  2. Too good not to steal :-) So, I cross posted this at Challenge the Establishment Blog. Hope you don't mind.

    Dems are misreading the tea leaves. No pun intended.

     
  3. libhom Says:
  4. GDANman: Sure as long as you quote and link.

     
  5. Oso Says:
  6. Ted Rall's a great columnist,always has had balls. Not afraid to write the truth.

     
  7. Dave Dubya Says:
  8. Corpo-Dems are as captive to short term greed as the Reich Wing. Our government gives corruption a bad name.

     
  9. yep they are digging themselves deeper --- wait til we see the watered down useless financial reform bill that will look pretty to sign but do nothing to stop abuse

     

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