The True Goals of Healthcare

From the Washington Examiner

GOP on Pelosi: Whose door is she kicking in?

by Byron York

In a conference with left-wing bloggers Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that passing the current Democratic health care bill is the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system. "Once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow," Pelosi said, according to an account by Washington Post reform advocate Ezra Klein.

Democrats have often taken offense when Republicans have accused Pelosi and her fellow Democrats of trying to "ram" the health care bill through Congress. Now that Pelosi herself has used an equally violent term to describe her work, Republicans are left with new questions. "Whose door is the Speaker kicking in?" asks Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for Republican Whip Rep. Eric Cantor. "People tend to prefer a polite knock, and after a year of having their doors bashed and kicked in by Speaker Pelosi, President Obama, and Harry Reid, we'll see how the American people respond this November. Right now, they are trying to reinforce those doors with steel."

"The American people aren't stupid," says Kevin Smith, a spokesman for House GOP Leader Rep. John Boehner. "We know this is just the beginning for Speaker Pelosi and her comrades. Their government takeover of health care is the first step toward a single-payer system, and that's another reason we are doing everything within our power to stop this bill and start over with real reforms that actually lower health care costs."

"She's got a long way to go before she kicks down the door," says Matt Lloyd, a spokesman for House Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Mike Pence, "and if she wants to keep going against the will of the American people, I guess that's her prerogative, but I think folks are going to have long memories."

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Now we Know Why They Don't Get It

From Ace of Spades
Behavior of politicians explained - Botox use produces "cognitive blindness"
—Purple Avenger

Are your politicians tone deaf? Exhibiting a "cognitive blindness"? Displaying an apparent inability to read the emotions of others?

..tamping down a person’s emotions seems to interfere with the ability to read emotions in others. Says study leader David Havas: “Botox [also] induces a kind of mild, temporary cognitive blindness to information in the world, social information about the emotions of other people” ..

Well, this goes a long way towards explaining why much of congress, Hollywood, and the media seem shockingly disconnected from reality. I realize they'd all love to blame Bush for their insensate behavior, but folks, it really is the Botox; you need to back away from the makeovers and reclaim your minds. Do it for the children.

Go here to see Purple Avenger's billboard of Nancy Pelosi.