Things are not looking good for the Coakley campaign in Massachusetts. Her Republican challenger, Scott Brown, has soared into the lead in most polls. President Obama has stepped in to help the desperate Democrat, telling voters that Martha Coakley’s presence in the Senate is essential for the passage of his health care bill. Liberal commentator Ed Schultz has declared that a Coakley defeat would spell the “end of Hope and Change,” effectively reducing Obama to a lame duck after only one year in office. This would come as welcome news to an increasingly large majority of Americans, but it’s obviously not the ending Obama wanted to write for his “historic” presidency.
Conservatives, meanwhile, have passionately supported the generally moderate Brown, because he can kill the health-care bill before it escapes the bloody ruin of its birth in the mess hall, and finds a nice hiding place in the cargo bay, where it can grow into an unstoppable acid-blooded monster that could devour us all. Both sides agree that Tuesday’s special election may decide the fate of the Democrats’ bid to take over the health-care system.
I have a modest suggestion for the White House: given the stakes, why not simply promise the people of Massachusetts free health insurance for life, if they vote for Coakley?
It’s a perfectly reasonable strategy, given the other special concessions and payoffs that have been needed to drag ObamaCare this far. Non-unionized Americans will be compelled to subsidize lower taxes on the “Cadillac” health care plans of far wealthier union workers. Exactly one state in the union, Nebraska, will receive full Medicaid funding, because that was the dollar value of Senator Ben Nelson’s pro-life beliefs. Hundreds of other payoffs are hidden inside the Senate and House bills, to be periodically discovered by bleary-eyed staffers after the latest two-thousand page printout thuds onto their desks.
The elaborate restrictions and rationing of the final, twisted product of these negotiations will never apply to the ruling class. Top Party officials will never have to stand before the death panels, to be told their cancer treatments are an expensive gamble the state cannot afford. No one will ever tell Michelle Obama that she has to wait for a mammogram. Why not simply extend the Cadillac Escalade SUV benefits of the ruling class to everyone in Massachusetts, if they vote Coakley in? The population of the state is only a little over six million. Toss another hundred billion dollars on the deficit, and it’s all taken care of.
Giving free health care to Massachusetts would be a terrific stimulus for the state’s moribund economy. Doubtless it would attract both new residents eager to cash in on those benefits, and health-care providers hungry for government subsidies and ObamaCare insurance payouts. And once the system inevitably generates to single-payer socialized medicine, and the hard-core rationing kicks in, you’d have tons of shovel-ready projects down at the local cemetary!
If providing free insurance for all the residents of Massachusetts proves too expensive, we could always limit the benefits to people who actually vote for Coakley. Does that seem offensive to the spirit of democracy? Why should it be any more of an outrage than the payoffs needed to get us this far? President Obama says we’re at the “precipice” of health-care reform. This is no time to become faint-hearted, or fussy about silly old documents written by long-dead white slaveholders who absent-mindedly forgot to add medical insurance as an “inalienable right.” If health-care reform is an absolute good that justifies the river of lies and corruption flowing from the Obama White House, surely it can justify one last, juicy slice of pork for the voters of the Commonwealth, to help our great nation get over that precipice.
Will underwriting a few million free health-insurance policies bankrupt our Treasury? Heck, it’s already far beyond bankrupt. The future generations who are already paying for the Obama agenda should be proud to pony up a little more, to get us past Tuesday’s crucial vote. Their teachers will doubtless instruct them on the unthinkable consequences of allowing America’s first black president to go down in history as an epic failure. They’ll ask if adding a few more percentage points to their gigantic tax bills is worth avoiding the nasty, brutish, and short lives of Americans in the pre-ObamaCare dark ages. Doubtless our grandchildren will applaud their role in financing the total State we bequeath them.
The rest of America has never properly thanked the people of Massachusetts for thirty years of Ted Kennedy’s wise Senate leadership. We should be willing to dig deep, and pay any price to keep Scott Brown from blocking the Kennedy legacy of total government power over the individual… especially since he would be doing it from a Senate seat he foolishly thinks is the property of America. The core belief of progressive thought, in the age of Obama, is that nothing belongs to anyone unless the government allows it. If Coakley wins on Tuesday, we will come one step closer to extending that principle over every cell in your body.
Cross-posted at Hot Air.
Personally, Doc, I’m prepared for the Mother Of All Begging to come from Obama in his message to the Democrat Party faithful. If he threw in a bone or two as bribery…Well, that wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Meanwhile, former Presidents Clinton and Bush will be doing Obama’s job in soliciting public financial support for the devastation in Haiti.
It’s nice of them to “fill in” while he’s off campaigning for his very political life.
Obama, the Campaign that keeps on…campaigning.
” health-care bill before it escapes the bloody ruin of its birth in the mess hall, and finds a nice hiding place in the cargo bay, where it can grow into an unstoppable acid-blooded monster that could devour us all. ”
Ouch! You can turn a phrase.
Please don’t give them any ideas.
This Administration and the Congress have made themselves impossible to lampoon. Whenever you feel that they’ve reached the lowest level of behavior imaginable, they break out the shovels and dig down to a new subterranean level of corruption.
Great article Z.
But I’m afraid that the Dem’s won’t need to do this. They WILL withhold seating Brown should he win and won’t care one iota about law and precedent while doing it. Then the tide turns. I would think some good Senators on the left (if there are any) might just break down with a moment of morality and jump to the filibuster. If I’m wrong, I think that the American public will take to the streets the likes of which we have not seen in this century.
“you’d have tons of shovel-ready projects down at the local cemetary!”
Ha, excellent line.
“I have a modest suggestion for the White House: given the stakes, why not simply promise the people of Massachusetts free health insurance for life, if they vote for Coakley?”
Don’t give them any ideas!
@ doctormom:
Brillant “Alien” referance.
We have at least SIX Scott Brown videos posted on Common Cents…
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com
Massachusetts is an excellent example of showing how serving two masters is one hell of a nasty, dirty, evil business; good people of Massachusetts, are the government’s silvered entitlement coins really worth the price you pay when selling your soul?
If Massachusetts is sincere about protecting the sanctity of life then perhaps the good people of Massachusetts could end their practice of empowering The Party of Death for a real change?
Perhaps instead appearances from Obama and celebrities, Pope Benedict would be more effective?
Hey, Doc, You Rock!
Encore, encore.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, gets under these thin skinned Alinsky-ites as ridicule.
Go for it. YOU ARE THE BEST!
Nice article.
I know it’s tough to believe, but the momentum here in New England has tangible qualities. For a deep blue state, you wouldn’t believe it.
Saturday was funny – as I drove around a few different towns, I saw Coakley supporters here and there, standing on the street with signs, and then around 12 noon, they all promptly disappeared. From everywhere. Must have only gotten paid for a half-day.
Unfortunately that phrase is TRUE. I’m Argentine, and I look in horror at how Americans don’t take seriously the threat of socialism trickling into policy first, and then into the collective subconscious. When I first moved to this country, I was amazed at the little role that the government played in people’s lives and as a topic of conversation. In socialist countries like Argentina, what the government is doing is the ONLY topic of conversation, because it consumes the life out of people. There is no life beyond what government does or allows. It is paralyzing, degrading and it drains all human energy. People stop thinking about creating wealth and they focus on gaming the system.
I just pray that that does not happen here, but unfortunately I’ve started to see that change in mentality.
Guido I don’t think you are seeing that change in mentality from the people. You are hearing it from the extreme left loving media and a tub full of wrongly elected politicians but that is NOT the belief most Americans have and we will take a stand.
@ SWChance:
I pray that you are right
Guido, nice to read your well-crafted words. Just try to remember that when 20% of the people are making 100% of the noise, it’s difficult – if not impossible – to even hear yourself think. We know that’s what the Socialists are doing and it makes it SEEM as though the entire country is going to Hell in a hand-basket. Such is NOT the case, my friend….and, starting in Massachusetts, your seeing what the other 80% of Americans are thinking and DOING.
53 million voters took a wild chance in November of ’09. MANY of them openly regret putting their confidence in someone who promised “Hope and Change” and then gave them wild-eyed, uncontrolled spending and the LEAST transparent government I’ve witnessed in 65 years. With every poll indicating a vast majority of Americans do NOT want the health care legislation currently under consideration, they fully intend to pass it anyway. THAT will be the end of the political careers for MANY, and it doesn’t matter if they’re Republicans or Democrats.
“Hope and Change” has become Hoax and Chicanery. We, the people, will use our power at the ballot box in numbers that will stagger the professional politicians.