Friday, February 12, 2010



Censorship in aid of Obamacare

Courtesy of the Obama administration, we're experiencing more and more Nixonian moments. Take medical reform. The health insurers started out in Obama's camp. But a shuffling of policies and a few insurance companies began making obvious points about how this or that feature would raise costs, not decrease them. And the Obama administration struck back.

I've talked about the Humana gag order, how our bureaucrats in Washington decided to tell insurance companies to shut up about reform proposals. Congress gagged the gaggers.

Then a health insurance association released a study suggesting that the cost of insurance would likely go up under legislation being proposed in Congress. The president retaliated by threatening to take away the industries' immunity from anti-trust laws.

What? An important policy change, and the president threatens it not to achieve a better outcome, or for constitutional reasons, but merely to punish and thereby silence opposition to his policies? How petty. How dangerous.

On the floor of the Senate, Lamar Alexander advised the Obama administration to play a little less hardball. Alexander warned that by creating an "enemies list," including people in the media, the White House is heading into Nixon territory. "An enemies list only denigrates the presidency, and the republic itself." An old Nixon aide, Senator Alexander should know.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is simply the Left enforcing one of it's basic principles. "Do as we say, not as we do".

The govt. is now in the hands of Marxists and Socilaists, most of whom are in the White House. The last thing they want is open dissent, since that exposes their lies. But things are slowly changing. Even their strongest supporters, the MSM, are starting to ask "real" questions, one of the reasons the administration has been attacking the media, and not just Fox.

Change? You bet! And it'll come in Nov.

Anonymous said...

I don’t expect anything less from people who venerate Mao, Castro, Chavez, and Che. Their living document concept is merely an attempt to legitimize their desires for autocratic and draconian control. Compromise cannot be reached with leftists who want to enslave, impoverish, and ultimately to murder you.

We The People said...

The sad part of what's happening in DC, and throughout "our" government and country, is that this is all the fault of the American people. We have allowed ourselves to become a nation of mindless sheep, more interested in some fake TV shows than the future of our own country.

It is not only the elected lying crooks who are destroying this country, but the voters who elected them, (regardless of party) and keep returning them to power as if next time will be different.

Albert Einstein said, "the true definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results." We seem to be living proof that he was right.

Anonymous said...

obama should be impeached,tried, thrown out of the white house and thrown in jail for treason.

Anonymous said...

QUOTABLE QUOTES

"Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life. When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden. We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America?"
– Eddie Sessions

Anonymous said...

We the People - SPOT ON.

Anonymous said...

Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.