Transparency, White House style

The Comrade was just on TV delivering a brief sales pitch on socialized medicine. He claims opponents of the bill -- which include about 57% of the US population -- are using scare tactics to defeat socialized medicine. Then he goes on to say that without socialized medicine, families will go without health insurance, businesses won't be able to provide insurance for employees, and Medicare will go bankrupt.... in short, using a bunch of scare tactics to sell socialized medicine.

He says "there's a broad consensus" in favor of the bill -- only the US public doesnt want it, and the senate can't pass it. So where is this consensus, outside the Comrade's own fevered imagination? I suppose the majority of the cabinet supports it, and probably everyone the Comrade talks to. (He doesn't talk to Republicans or the public, mainly only to Andy Stern, head of SEIU, and other radical marxists.)

He says "we invite everyone, including member of the press, to scrutinize the bill." In order to do this, Comrade, you've got to make the bill public, which no one has yet. It was written behind closed doors, and now, with recent changes, apparently resides behind a different set of closed doors while the Congressional Budget Office assesses how much it will cost. This is not exactly transparent, is it? Even Dick(head) Durbin, Senate majority whip, noted that he hadn't been allowed to see it.

The Comrade is such a huge liar. It would be comical except that it promises to destroy us all and the nation. White is black to him, black is white. We're supposed to believe him rather than our own perceptions and logic.

You see, this is where "enlightenment" comes in and living "by your own lights" -- the ability to use your own brain and your own judgment, rather than just blindly following leaders or obeying out of fear of reprisal. It's indispensable to political freedom.

What is increasingly more and more transparent is that the Comrade is a monumental liar. No lie is beneath him. He seems to think that if he says something, everyone will believe him rather than the facts at hand. 'Course, there are no facts at at hand in this case due to the "transparency" of the senate bill so far, so.....

On the plus side, apparently the senate took the government option out of the bill, as well as the promise to entirely destroy Medicare by overburdening a system that's already tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. I think they dropped that provision. I didn't notice the Comrade giving out any facts, just doing his usual socialist-promotion shtick. However, that's what the news people said.

And let's give Joe Lieberman a big hug for not caving under pressure from the White House and the political majority. Though I don't agree with him on a lot of things, Joe Lieberman seems to be an honorable man. A rare and valuable treasure in Washington DC.