Peggy Noonan Was Right

 

Been sick for the last few days, not much up to anything at all.  Even though I’ve been sick, I still don’t want Obama’s version of health care.

Politico has a column up today, link here, about the still-unknown cost of the bill.  Here is my post there on the story:

“Just a bunch of idiots up there in the White House.  They want to add "billions in new taxes...immediately on insurers, device manufacturers, and drug makers", eliminate pre-existing conditions and remove the lifetime cap on coverage and lower costs at the same time.  I really am beginning to think that our President cannot operate a calculator, let alone manage such a huge part of our economy.

He formulated all of these plans while ensconced squarely in his ivory tower where he could talk about such things ad nauseum with his fellow theoreticians, like a bunch of over-diploma'ed societal geeks building their own fantasy team of public programs.  Health care, cap and trade, "bending the cost curve", "spreading the wealth"; it's all just the mutterings of a man who hasn't got an original thought in his head, he is merely very good at parroting what he heard in the faculty lounge in Chicago.

Peggy Noonan was right, these are cruel children we have elected.

We are screwed and so are our grandchildren.”

OK, fine, I misquoted Noonan, she used the phrase “callous children” but the difference in meaning is slight.  They are not interested in our health, they are interested in consolidating power as the party that “gave” us health care and then daring any other party to take it away.  It would virtually assure their power for decades to come.  Until we go all the way broke, anyway. 

Obama and much of the leftists want us to be more like Europe as far as social programs and seriously, I am OK with that so long as everyone here understands that it means permanently higher unemployment rates, a drop off in business and scientific innovation, loss of vigor in our attitudes towards productivity and an increase in sitting around in sidewalk cafes wearing black, skinny-legged jeans and smoking thin, stinky cigarettes while bloviating about the ennui of modern life.

Here, by the way, is Obama’s default position on all of us; looking down his nose:

We really are hosed.