Gavage

Watching the clip of the president above, you would think what he says is perfectly reasonable. Who would not want the government to provide better health care to more of our people, cheaper than it is now, and with the added bonus of reducing the national expenditure? It almost sounds too good to be true – and it is. The president is lying.

The bill currently before congress will do none of these things. In fact, if enacted, it will do just the opposite. The people know this. They are against it two to one. They know that this administration and this congress are doing them no favors. Come next election, they will remember how this (as of yet still unread) bill was literally shoved down their unwilling throats, greased with old-fashioned Chicago-style bribes, threats, hubris and sheer bloody-mindedness.

The way this health care bill was passed (and, make no mistake, it will be passed. The Dems got their 60 votes for cloture. For final passage they only need 51, along with the president’s signature) was a legislative outrage. It speaks to a larger pattern which is made perhaps even more obvious in the second part of John’s post (above) regarding the climate conference in Copenhagen. The fact that our president went there in an effort to legitimize an obvious farce, and give away money (we don’t have) in the name of ‘social (eco) justice’ – a concept that, if voted on by Americans, would produce no takers – simply begs for an alternative explanation to his publicly stated reasons.

I have often said that I don’t believe that Barack Hussein Obama is stupid. He does not do what he does out of inexperience; that everything he does is part of a plan. By his own words we know he wants to re-do America. That means he wants America to be different from what it has been. It has been pointed out that an overwhelming number of his closest aides, appointments, associations and influences harbor views that are rooted in Marxism. By his actions thus far he has been proven to be no fan of capitalism. On the geo-political spectrum, Obama is most closely aligned with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Brazil’s Lula, both unabashed card-carrying communists.

It is therefore no stretch to assume that BHO intends to impose communism on the United States. In practice, there are two features common to the creation and maintenance of the communist state. One is revolution; the other is strict party discipline, enforced by a dictator (for life). By breaking the bank and destroying the U.S. dollar through reckless spending and accruing unfathomable debt, Obama will have his revolution. By perverting the U.S. Constitution and rendering the whole notion of representative government obsolete, he installs himself as the unopposed leader of his party, the terms of which only he defines.

The Obama-nation will not cease in 2010 or even in 2012. In fact it looks like Obama will win a second term because the opposition vote will be split between Republicans and (independent) Conservatives. By 2016, the opposition will have been silenced altogether. Political struggles will not cease, however. These, as now will simply play out between the Left and the radical Left. The significance of this is that, as now, the American people will no longer have a say.

A Fool's Errant

Evo Morales's climate ambassador may well have let the cat out of the bag and articulated for us what's really at stake. For those whose aim it is to turn the world upside down, 'climate gate' is indeed only a footnote. Whereas 'global warming' is merely a previously effective tool that has worn dull, the thrust toward 'socio-economic justice'; progressivism, i.e. communism and, hence, toward reaching that first inevitable step to its world-wide implementation, remains vibrant and dangerous as ever. ‘Vibrant’, because enough has now been put in place (including a leader, sympathetic to the cause, in the target country); and, ’dangerous’, because what is envisioned has never worked, cannot work, and will never work as advertised.

When Karl Marx wrote “Das Kapital”, the march of ‘fellow travelers’ into that vaunted bloody revolution and beyond was confined to occur within the borders of any given nation state. Since then, the world has grown considerably smaller; boundaries have become blurred. The prize, so desperately sought by the communists has always been that hugely successful bastion of unabridged capitalism, America. It was difficult to turn America against itself, especially on the basis of the economic argument alone. In America, after all, the poor tended to have many more advantages than the richest do in much of the rest of the world. The mission of the communist crusaders needed to be slightly modified. It would become necessary to turn the rest of the world against America.

‘Global warming’ was tailor made to bring this about. Even Americans in significant numbers were recruited to the effort. In fact, so much in resource and emotion was invested in the project, it became too big to fail. So, when the science propping it up proved fraudulent, enough else was already in place as to reduce the potentially explosive University of East Anglica e-mail disclosures to merely a passing mention. Leftist governments (including the U.S.), media, academe and public opinion were all already committed to a fool’s errand. The most powerful people in the world had already placed their bets. It would only become a matter of riding out the squall and pretend nothing had been revealed.

It will be interesting to note how many eyes Bolivia’s representative’s frank talk at the climate summit in Copenhagen will have opened. My guess is none; apart, of course, from eliciting howls from the skeptic choir that already stands excluded, denounced; discredited; ignored.