The Best and the Brightest

Thursday, the smartest man on the planet gathered the best and the brightest Democrats and Republicans for American's Health Care Reform Summit for almost 8 hours. We are so doomed. If any one in that room up for election this November returns to Washington to be sworn in January, 2011, we should just roll over, die and leave the insects to inherit the Earth.


This has never been about the uninsured. They are just another sob story like all the other sob stories the Democrats used at the summit. Emotional appeal means the intellectual arsenal is empty. The Democrats have no rational explanation why our health care insurance has to be taken away to insure the uninsured. Neither did the Republicans want to pick out the real lie and expose their own complicity. The government doesn't have enough paper and ink to cover the cost of giving away free, top quality health care. They have to reduce the quality of our health care to a level they can afford.

This is about the survival of a political party. This isn't a grab for power. It is a grasping for straws. To simply call this a grab for power ignores the consequences of failure. The complete financial collapse of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security would bury the Democratic party.

Since FDR and LBJ, the symbol for the Democratic party has become a Halloween costume of a jackass with Social Security as the head and Medicare and Medicaid as the tail. The Democratic party and government giveaways have become synonymous. When doctors stop taking Medicare and Medicaid patients and the Social Security checks bounce, the Democrats will be blamed. They will be exposed as the criminal thugs who set up these Ponzi schemes.

The Democrats have to take over health care to cover their existing Ponzi schemes but a vote for Obama-care could cost them their cushy jobs. The American public is all taxed out and doesn't want to see any new government giveaways.

As Dionysius said to Damocles, "bon appetit."