The Left’s New Dress
June 26, 2009 4 Comments
Unemployment at peaks and still going up. Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security a fiscal shambles. Government has taken Fannie and Freddie and pretty much everyone, far as I can tell, onto its balance sheet. No new jobs coming, no pay raises coming, yet tax increases coming. In foreign affairs, Iran escalating its inevitable crackdown (as I predicted, and feared). North Korea has demonstrated nukes presumably up for sale/extortion, China is China, Russia is Russia, partying Europe still on our tit.
And Obama, and half of our insular self-involved country, is still freaking yammering away about “health care”.
Health care health care health care. Waaah we want health care. So the President keeps talking about copays and x-rays. Historic stuff, what? Just historic. 500 years from now everyone will be so impressed that President Obama of the early 21st century spent approximately 98% of his waking hours dedicated to how many catheters should be allocated to 55 year olds and whether womens’ mammogram histories are computerized or on paper charts.
It’s pathetic. It’s almost childlike. Mommy I want my medicine. I want the medicine that tastes like cherry. That’s what we care about. Those are our priorities, as expressed through our man of the moment.
It’s an obsession with all these people. I can’t even listen to these health care monomaniacs anymore. The answer to economic problems? “Health care”. The answer to foreign policy troubles? “Health care”. The answer to the Navier-Stokes equation? Health care. The answer to life, the universe and everything? Health care. What’s the exponential of pi times the square root of minus-one? Health care.
I’m through taking this obsession even remotely seriously.
I’m reminded of an underappreciated little Depeche Mode song called “New Dress”, that I now proceed to borrow from its context/intent:
Sex jibe husband murders wife
Bomb blast victim fights for life
Girl thirteen attacked with knifePrincess Di is wearing a new dress
Jet airliner shot from sky
Famine horror, millions die
Earthquake terror figures risePrincess Di is wearing a new dress
It seems to me that “health care” is the left’s “new dress”. Obama and the left want a new dress. They want their pretty, pretty new dress. So don’t confuse them with anything else.
Nope, it’s not only healthcare. It’s also to the outright disaster if they’ll succeed with it. It’s like these people are hellbend on ruining everything.
oops, incidentally erased the middle of teh comment.
I meant the cap-n-trade tax. The burden on energy production will be enormous – and millions of people wouldn’t be able to pay their power bills.
You’re right. It’s not only health care. The left has a couple of “new dresses” they obsess over. It happened to be health care that was bugging me at the moment, but obviously timing would have been better for a cap-and-trade post.
This is what I get for not really following news closely. See, I’m a bad blogger.
If you’re not following the news closely, imagine what surprise it’ll be for people who don’t read blogs at all. Quite a nasty surprise…but not immediately.
As someone said today @neoneocon: the country will not get what hit it. The habit to be law-obiding agreeable citizen is exactly what will do us all in. Everyone productive will work harder and delude themselves they are saving the planet, all the while the economy wither further and further into 3rd world status and cancer of government grow bigger and bigger.