[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Whatever it is, I'm against it

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Whatever it is, I'm against it
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1248312053.shtml


   I've seen a number of ugly, regrettable, and misleading Presidential
   speeches and press conferences over my many years. There was
   "Checkers" and "I'm not a crook!" from Nixon. There was Jimmy Carter's
   malaise and "moral equivalent of war." There was "I did not have sex
   with that woman" from Clinton. Immediately to the top of my list will
   go President Obama's performance tonight. I have never seen such
   outright deception on such a scale. And unlike many of the previous
   speeches I cited where some time went by before we came to know
   better, Obama's prattling tonight is immediately and obviously false.
   The most charitable defense would be that he clearly has no idea what
   he's talking about, that he's too easily talked into concepts like
   these, failed concepts like Socialized Medicine and Keynesian
   Economics. Only I think he does, because every facet of his so-called
   plan funnels power to his Administration. Whatever happened to "Power
   to the People?" - like malpractice reform, Health Savings Accounts,
   even private insurance itself? Strangely absent, just like the funding
   for it all.
   Consider this statement in response to a question:

     "With regulation, there's already going to be some improvement in
     the insurance industry. But having a public plan out there that
     also shows maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe
     if you are reducing some of the administrative cost, that you can
     get an even better deal, that's going to incentivize [sic] the
     private sector to do even better."

   Here you see a little of every trait - arrogance, ignorance,
   confusion, sophistry, contradiction, and of course, deception.
   We learned nothing about health care in general or ObamaCare in
   particular tonight. But whatever it is, Groucho Marx speaks for me:

     I donât know what they have to say,
     It makes no difference anyway --
     Whatever it is, Iâm against it!
     No matter what it is or who commenced it,
     Iâm against it.
     Your proposition may be good
     But letâs have one thing understood --
     Whatever it is, Iâm against it!
     And even when youâve changed it or condensed it,
     Iâm against it.