Via FOX News:
President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November.
Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas — even ones Democrats don’t like — but they must fit into his framework for a broad health care remake that would cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans.
It’s a gamble for Obama and his party, and it’s far from certain that Democratic congressional leaders can rally their members to muscle a bill through on their own. At stake are Democrats’ political fortunes in the midterm elections and the fate of Obama’s domestic agenda pitted against emboldened Republicans.
“The truth of the matter is that politically speaking, there may not be any reason for Republicans to want to do anything,” Obama said, summing up. “I don’t need a poll to know that most Republican voters are opposed to this bill and might be opposed to the kind of compromise we could craft.
“And if we can’t,” he added, “I think we’ve got to go ahead and some make decisions, and then that’s what elections are for. ”
Obama: The Audacity Of Socialism
Obama knows what the polls are saying, that the majority of Americans do not want this debacle of more regulations and higher taxes. Yet Obama is determined to shove this down our throats no matter what we want. “That’s what elections are for,” says King Obama, meaning if we really don’t like it then we can try to vote him and his buddies out of office in November.
Why would Obama do such a thing? First, he really believes he is smarter than the rest of us. He considers himself a higher being. He believes it when the media refers to him as “The One”.
Second, he has made this the single goal of his 1st term, and if it doesn’t pass then he considers himself to be a failure, even though many of us already consider him a failure.
Third, he’s a Socialist. He genuinely believes that government should take care of all problems, real or imagined, cradle to grave, of us citizens. He believes it is the role, and the goal, of government to get as involved as possible in the minute details of every American’s life. He wants America to become a Nanny State (like Britain is quickly becoming). He is part of the National Elite, while the rest of us are Lowly Peasants. He believes it’s his calling to nurse us at the teat of Mother Government.
Obama certainly drew a line in the sand yesterday. But I don’t know if he understands exactly how big that line might become.
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