Thanks, Katie, you’re a peach.

Rasmussen

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.

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Only 16% now believe passage of the plan will lead to lower health care costs. Nearly four times as many (60%) believe the plan will increase health care costs. Most (54%) also believe passage of the plan will hurt the quality of care.

But they’re going to keep trying. If this passes, I will never forget who saddled us with this monstrosity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_health_care_overhaul

The state-run media reports:

WASHINGTON – A wavering centrist Democrat said Friday he’d stand with Senate Democratic leaders on a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill amid indications other moderates would fall in line.

See what they did there? The AP called this “centrist” Democrat wavering. He wasn’t morally opposed, or courageously opposed, or thoughtful, or independent-minded. Nay, he was wavering, timid, fearful, small, weak. For having doubts about the a plan that would bring about the ultimate corruption of the Republic.

At least Mary Landrieu got a $100 million Medicaid grant for Louisiana to buy her vote. That’s right. The bill is SO AWESOME that she required an extra $100 million in wealth redistribution from the rest of the country to convince her to vote for it. Ben Nelson isn’t gonna get squat.

“Deficit-neutral”

As in: “Any health care plan that I sign into law must be deficit-neutral”

This one is *awesome* because when you say it, you sound fiscally conservative, but it allows you to continue on as a free-spending Marxist ideologue.

So what does it mean? Well, the health care bill is expected to cost between $900 billion and $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. How does one go about spending a trillion dollars without adding to the deficit?

1. Cut benefits. Barry says he can do most of this by cutting out the fraud and waste in the current system. It begs the question: why don’t we cut out the fraud and waste anyway, and leave the government tyranny part out and see where that gets us? But that’s a non sequitur when you’re busy hoping and changing.

Another way to lower costs in a health care plan is to stop caring about peoples’ health. For example, get a group of distinguished intellectuals to say that women don’t need to be tested for breast cancer anymore. That will save a lot of money.

2. Raise taxes. Steal property from people who have it and give it to people who don’t, and claim that it’s justified because you’re morally and intellectually superior to everybody else. You know how to “manage” everybody’s life better than they do.

Deficit-neutral is the new, politically convenient way of operating a tax-and-spend scheme without calling it tax-and-spend. To a liberal, it’s “responsible” to pay for their unnecessary, unwanted, illegal programs by raising taxes and rationing access to resources. Backward, bottom-feeding conservatives, on the other hand, think it’s irresponsible to pass unnecessary, unwanted, illegal programs in the first place.

http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=666

The Democrat health care bill includes the public option, the public option requires payment of premiums into the federal treasury, and those funds can be used to pay for abortions.

Therefore, the health care reform bill would permit public money to be used to pay for abortions under the government health care plan. Yay.

As is customary, the byzantine language used in legislation is confusing as hell. Here’s how it works:

Currently, federal money can’t be used to pay for abortions. There is no law against it (as the Obama administration tries to claim). There’s simply an amendment to the federal budget that has to be renewed every year that disallows federal funding for abortions. So all that’s required for the federal government (and for the public option) to permit federal funding for elective abortions is for Congress to decide not to renew that budget amendment.

Can you imagine a possibility where Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack “4th Trimester” Obama might let that amendment lapse?