Standard Mischief

The next featured reason to not support ObamaCare is brought to you today by House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.)

“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

I really can’t call this anything but legislative fail. If mere mortals can’t decode the damn thing, even given two days to study up on it, then it’s either a poorly written law by their own standards or (more likely) a deliberate attempt at obfuscation.

Talk about “transparency” all you want, the i(D)iots themselves prove my point that ObamaCare can’t possibly stand the light of day.

[Hat tip to some guy that does not allow comments.]

That would be me. I’d meant to have at least one more post out there by now, but…

So let me steal a quote from TD :

Contacting your elected representatives to ask them to vote a certain way on a bill is SO 20th-century. The new and cool thing is asking them to at least read a bill before voting on it.

He’s got a link up over there.

Meanwhile, over at leanleft.com, Kevin thinks ObamaCare is dead in the water. What killed it? Transparency in government. OK, okay, he doesn’t exactly say that of course. He says that because of the Kos kids, there’s a delay on the final vote, and that means that it will not be rushed through like the PATRIOT act, the new and improved Perpetual PATRIOT act. and both TARP bills. That means someone will actually be able to read the thing first, and know what they are voting on. Here’s the money quote:

First, it now appears that meaningful health reform is dead in the water. Harry Reid has delayed the passage of the bills, which gives opponents more time to the spread lies like “page 16 of the health care bill outlaws private insurance” and to use their money to browbeat or buy congresspeople.

I’m reading the comments too and I doubt I can stand to jump in the fray. Besides the fact that “meaningful health reform” can’t stand the light of day, there’s a bit about “social justice” and my favourite ObamaCare euphemism, “single payer system”.

I’ve been over this before, but every time this comes back up, it still manages to floor me.

It goes like this. The cornerstone of Roe v. Wade, a landmark Supreme Court case on the right for a woman to have an abortion, is privacy. Medical privacy. As in “the government may not stick their nose in a woman’s medical care because to do so would invade their privacy” type of privacy.

Furthermore, I also happen to note that the most “vocal”|”fringe”|”progressive”|”leading edge” of the feminist bunch almost universally support government run “universal”|”single payer”|”socialized”|”ObamaCare” type healthcare. One of the promises of the plan they are trying to promote is that there will be a “cost savings” by letting the nanny state safeguard your own medical records in some kind of digital format.

If you can’t see the elephant yet, I’ll spell it out for you. If you think of your medical records as private, how in Lilith’s name is it logical and prudent to hand over safekeeping to the state?

I mean this is the government that has been rightly condemned for misusing the Census data to round up the Japanese and put them into internment camps. The same government that has been doing all that warrantless wiretapping. The same government that has been torturing and detaining non-POWs while ignoring Habeas corpus.

I’ve always asked this question every single progressive pro-choice feminist I run across who speaks fondly and approving of state-run, taxpayer supported healthcare schemes. So far I’ve gotten zero responses. I’ve been left to guess the lack of response is some kind of self-defense mechanism; a cognitive shut-down to avoid a warp core breach.

If I listen to my own inner “healthy” sense of paranoia, I’d have to come to the conclusion that Congress-critter John Fleming must be playing the part of the “designated opposition” in the carefully crafted “medicine show” to sell us all on ObamaCare.

The Honourable Representative from Louisiana’s 4th District has the following to say in an article in the online version of the New York Post:

“So I’ve offered a bill, HR 615, to give them a chance to put their “health” where their mouth is:…”

However, if you go looking up on Govtrack.org for the “bill”, don’t search for “HR 615″ or you’ll get the “Antifreeze Bittering Act of 2009″. Instead search for “H Res 615″, at which time you likely conclude that this is a non-binding resolution, rather than a proposed law. Here’s the highlight:

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that Members who vote in favor of the establishment of a public, Federal Government run health insurance option are urged to forgo their right to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and agree to enroll under that public option.

(Emphasis mine.)

That’s some strong language there for a non-binding resolution!

So, will the real opponents to Obama-ized healthcare please stand up? I know the socialist faction is going to pull every single trick in the book. I’d like you to respond in kind with the usual standard mischief; including obfuscated language, last minute riders to “must-pass” legislation, keeping the actual text of the bill out of Thomas.gov until after it’s been voted on, having anonymous “staffers” secretly editing text without anyone noticing, killing things in committee, and the always effective “poison pill” amendment.

There’s just one group of clowns that I use these words on, and they are represented well in the search results you’ll get back if you try this phrase.

In the upcoming “medicine show” that will promote “ObamaCare”, it seems that our overlords have exempted themselves from the healthcare rationing for the masses. This will also seem to keep their private medical records from being mingled with our own “government safeguarded” digitized records, (digitized solely as a cost savings measure, or so they claim).

I’d cite some bills, but instead I’d like to call on our congress-critters to fix Thomas.gov first, before trying to “fix” healthcare.