July 25, 2009
Obama gets it wrong, again.

Posted at 2:53 pm, in: Health Care
Tags: Barack Obama

Once again, Obama misconstrues the situation:

President Barack Obama is soldiering on — apparently unfazed by growing dissension within his own party’s ranks over health care reform.

Despite increasing signs that Democrats in Congress will not meet the August 7 deadline originally imposed by Obama for passage of health care reform legislation, Obama is challenging his political opponents to explain their opposition to reforming the nation’s health care system.

“I know there are those who are urging us to delay reform,” Obama says in his weekly address out Saturday. “And some of them have actually admitted that this is a tactic designed to stop any reform at all. Some have even suggested that, regardless of its merits, health care reform should be stopped as a way to inflict political damage on my Administration. I’ll leave it to them to explain that to the American people.”

Not one person has said they want to defeat this health care bill for the sole purpose of hurting Obama’s image. People have acknowledged, however, that the defeat of this bill wouldn’t be good for him politically. That’s not exactly the same thing.

Also, it’s not that people are against reforming the system, they are just against the reform now being offered in this horendous bill that will do nothing but break the private health industry and will eventually result in the socializing of health care in America. Once again, that’s not exactly the same.

I’m all for reforming the health care industry. We all admit that there are problem, but I just don’t think this bill is the way to solve them. The government created the current sitution. We need less government, not more.