Hamburger Hill

Interestingly, it’s all about POTUS – and not in the way you’d expect. POTUS, I would bet, does not know what’s in the bill, nor does he care. All he seems to care about is that the bill be passed by a certain date (sometime before the mid-term elections). Obama clearly expects to be basking in the glory of having conquered this ‘Hamburger Hill’.

Why does he want it so badly? Because he sees the health care issue as confirmation of his personal power and efficacy in bringing policy to bear; it represents (in his eyes) the validation of his (self-imposed) mandate to transform our nation to comply with his own alien vision. Those who support him are relatively few in number, but are rabid in their beliefs and extremely well organized. They fall into one of two categories: (1) those who share the president’s Utopian vision; and, (2) those who hate their country so much that they would support anything or anybody who promises to either change it or kill it outright. A third category that had been prominent leading up to the presidential inauguration - but has been rapidly deflating - consists of those who comprise the ranks of Lenin’s ‘useful idiots’.

As I have stated in earlier threads, POTUS' interest in health care reform is confined to targeting two birds with the same stone: (1) It would bankrupt the nation and therefore drive a stake into the heart of the economy; and, (2) It will likely do irreparable damage to representative government in America. By the time this is over, Congress will have divested itself of any shred of credibility, by which the executive branch can only stand to benefit. Imagine any POTUS finding himself no longer fettered by the people’s will!