More than five months after Democrats rammed Obamacare through Congress, the legislation is more unpopular than ever. It is becoming apparent to more and more people that Obamacare will ration health care while increasing costs and accelerating our march towards national bankruptcy.
Re-education? Where have we heard this before? Oh yes, it was a favorite terms use by Soviet communists who talked about the need to “re-educate” people who did not happily embrace the official ideology. “Re-education” was carried out brutally by hard labor in Siberian concentration camps.
The two top meanings of “re-education” on Wikipedia are:
* A euphemism for Brainwashing, efforts aimed at instilling certain beliefs in people against their will
* Reeducation through labor, also called laojiao, a form of penal detention in China; or the Soviet gulags for “re-education of class enemies” and reintegrating them through labor into the Soviet society
How can a senior Obama administration official be dumb enough to use a terms that has acquired such sinister meaning? Florida Pundit does not expect to be shipped off to a re-education camp where he will be taught to think happy thoughts about Obamacare.
What this blunder by Sibelius shows is how blind Obama and the Democrats are to the fact that voters are in fact quite well informed about Obamacare and are rejecting the goods they have been sold. Obama is so arrogant in his belief that he has the answers to everything that when a majority of people oppose him in his mind they are just not able to keep up with him. He attributes their opposition to fear, most recently in an interview where he was asked about what motivates the hundreds of thousands of Americans who attended Glenn Beck’s rally last weekend.
So, given all those anxieties — and given the fact that, you know, in none of these situations are you going to be fix things overnight. It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country.
We are reminded of Obama’s comments during campaign about those “bitter Americans” who cling to their guns and religion.
Given this arrogance, don’t expect any changes in policy from the president after Democrats are defeated in November. Do expect the rhetoric to continue to be hostile to and dismissive of his opponents. Oh and whatever is wrong with the economy in what hopefully will be the final two years of the Obama administration must surely be the fault of George Bush.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), one of the architects of Obamacare tells his constituents in Montana: “I don’t think you want me to waste my time to read every page of the health care bill.”
He continues to state that only experts in statutory legal language can understand what legislation like Obamacare really says.
The arrogance is not surprising. What is surprising is how tone deaf the Left in Washington still is to make statements like this two months before an election in which they face one of the biggest defeats in US history.
When asked whether he would caucus with Harry Reid’s Democrats or the Republicans if elected to the Senate, Charlie Crist responds: “Who cares?”
American voters care whether the candidate they elect will support the radical agenda of President Obama and his allies in Congress or whether he will support a move back to freedom and the values America has always stood for.
Since Charlie Crist doesn’t care, you should vote for a candidate who cares about the direction the country is headed in. If you oppose the policies of the current administration, vote for Marco Rubio for US Senator from Florida. If you support the Obama agenda to have government play a role in every aspect of your life, then vote for Democrat Kendrick Meek.
Below is one of the first interviews since Tuesday’s Florida primary with Republican candidate for governor Rick Scott. While Florida Pundit wrote frequently about the Florida Senate race and our unqualified support for Marco Rubio, we thought long about taking a position in the governor race, but ultimately chose not to endorse a candidate.
Long-time conservative Florida politician Bill McCollum ran against entrepreneur Rick Scott who positioned himself as the outsider challenging politics as usual. We could see good in both candidates, but didn’t like the negative tone of the race where Scott accused McCollum of being just another typical politician without principles and McCollum accused Scott of unethical behavior specifically as CEO of a hospital chain that was found guilty of Medicare fraud.
Now that Rick Scott is the Republican nominee we hope that he continues to focus on his 7-7-7 plan which lays out seven sensible steps to create 700,000 jobs in Florida over seven years. He will also need to honestly and openly answer questions about his record as a businessman particularly around the HCA Medicare fraud scandal and address the doubts that many who voted for his Republican opponents still have.
In this interview, Scott is effective in explaining the central theme of jobs in his campaign. He rightly condemns Obama’s policies including Obamacare which he fought as the head of Conservatives for Patients Rights, a group he founded.
On the HCA question he makes the case that his company did a lot of good things in terms of providing cost-effective health care to patients. He will need to elaborate his response on the fraud scandal. He rightly takes responsibility for what happened and explains that he and his company weren’t good at interpreting government rules.
We sympathize with the difficulty of dealing with convoluted government bureaucracy, but also recognize that many medical providers ranging from individual physicians to large hospital chains have managed to avoid a conviction of fraud. It is important to understand that Scott was never charged with any wrongdoing. According to Wikipedia Scott “had argued that the company should fight the government’s charges, saying, ‘My belief when I was there was that if we did something wrong, then we would live up to any of our mistakes. If we didn’t do something wrong, we should not settle things.’”
It sounds like Scott honestly believed when he was CEO that his company had done nothing wrong and his fault was in not having enough controls in place to detect the company’s problematic practices. HCA was growing rapidly and anyone who has worked in a fast-growing business knows the challenge of balancing growth with maintaining control of the operation.
Scott should move quickly to explain what happened and be more specific on what he has learned from the experience so that he can focus on his pro-freedom agenda which differs sharply from his Democrat opponent Alex Sink, an ardent supporter of Obamacare and the Obama agenda.
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More than five months after Democrats rammed Obamacare through Congress, the legislation is more unpopular than ever. It is becoming apparent to more and more people that Obamacare will ration health care while increasing costs and accelerating our march towards national bankruptcy.
