This is truly alarming, if not surprising. Ed Haislmaier and Jennifer A. Marshall have done the reporting about the Free Birth Control Rule that the mainstream media won’t.
This episode has confirmed my suspicion that seizing power for the bureaucracy was the primary point of Obamacare — even beyond expanding access to health insurance. Such centralized control gives the government the weapons and the pretexts — increasing efficiency in the provision of health care and promoting “wellness” — to smash the principles of limited government and transform us into a bureaucratic state. In other words, the U.S. is on a course that will turn Washington, D.C., into Brussels. Just wait until the cost-benefit boards and the Independent Payment Advisory Board come on line. Then we will see what bureaucratic power really looks like!
At this point in time, Honduras had removed their elected President for Treason.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOf course, in Obama's case, Treason would have to be explored, along with Obama's documentation that has never seen the Light of Day.
And all those who colluded to bring America to this state, they should be arrested along with him, of course. Especially those who "haven't done anything" - when they could have - for Dereliction of Duty in the face of Direct Assault.
This episode has confirmed my suspicion that seizing power for the bureaucracy was the primary point of Obamacare
-jackpot, my friend. I think we can include ignoring the southern border violence, a scofflaw INS, and bringing suit against Arizona- with a healthy dash of under-the-radar Gun Walker assault on the 2nd Amendment added to the mix.
Why won't it be acknowledged how utterly dishonest these people are?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNot sure that's it -- Dems have owned the federal bureaucracy for years. Obamacare just expands it and slips its tentacles deeper into private affairs.
If you said the objective was to "take the gears of bureaucracy and supercharge it into an engine of progressive totalitarianism" then I'd nod my head in sad agreement.
Also note how rulemaking can be used to create wedge issues in advance of elections. Remember when MSM lackeys asked the GOP candidates about outlawing contraception at one of the debates? Yeah, we all thought that came out of leftfield. It didn't. The Dems were prepping the battlespace for this.
Fortunately, the candidates refused to get suckered then, and church leaders don't appear to be falling for it now. Expect more ambushes like this from the progressive apparatus.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is a deeply paranoid analysis. Firstly, do you honestly think that any American, liberal or conservative, really hankers to live under a totalitarian bureaucracy? Why? Why would anyone want such a thing? Isn't it just a tad more likely that liberals "real objective" in providing people with health care is to provide people with health care? Secondly, how exactly did it help the Dems in the contraception battle that the GOP candidates were asked about the issue at a debate back in January?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseInquietude. Even a self-governing people will long for a strong-man who will impose order over life's inherent messiness. History is replete with peoples who slouch toward nannyism and wannabe strong-men happy to capitalize on those anxieties.
As for the desired advantage in this skirmish... I think the Dems intended to make another squeeze on the sex-without-consequences lemon. That lemon has been PR gold for them since the 1960s, enabling them to paint their political opponents as aging prudes who want to take your pookie away. I'm certain they will play it that way between now and November.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNod on the supercharging bit. If it involves a thousand-page bill, kill it. If it involves a regulation in the name of green - whatever that means, precautionary science or collective health education and welfare, kill it. Probably incomplete, but a good start.
I would also point out that this adminsistration is in the midst of defining the debate in its own terms with EPA-like projects defining justice to suit them - environmental justice, economic justice ... Then there's the panel looking into scientific "eithics" who begin with an objective of providing government with decision criteria.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy won't it be acknowledged how utterly dishonest these people are?
Because millions like it that way - generations of idiots raised by idiots, many (but not all) never knowing there are other ways to govern a society.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNot BRUSSELS! Oh my goodness, I would never want the US to become a third world heck-hole like Brussels, with all the poverty and disease and crime and dreary lives without liberty that they have over there.
I pray for godspeed for the people at CPAC, so that their strong leadership will insure that the US never resembles Brussels in any way, shape or form. We must become the opposite of Brussels in every way.
We are talking about Brussels, BELGIUM, right? I just want to make sure there's not some Brussels, Somalia or something.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"to smash the principles of limited government and transform us into a bureaucratic state."
Unfortunately, that happened decades ago, at least as long ago as the establishment of the EPA (and one could reasonably argue much further back with, say, the creation of the FCC).
Everything else is a matter of degree (which, admittedly, does matter). Obama and allies have simply upped the degree so far, so fast - and on an issue - that many otherwise complacent people are now outraged (and deservedly so).
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhether the emerging Obama megastate is a difference in degree or in kind can probably be argued indefinitely. The point is that Mr. Obama has no fear of the right whatever. He views it as so corrupted and so at odds with itself that he can act with impunity. So the question is: how are the various parties going to act to fight back? Recall when the Tea Partiers had that big demonstration in Washington? Recall that all the official conservatives pooh-poohed it, arguing how small the protest really was, and when that didn't work, came up with this condescending routine of -- Oh look how cute they are, and the pick up after themselves too! Thank you Ramesh and Rick!
Well, let me tell you, we're long past the rime when writing a letter to the editor will do the trick. And I dare say holding up a placard and walking around in circles isn't going to help much either. The Left intends to be your Lord and Master and the sooner you get used to it, the better. We ain't talking Brussel's, baby.
Personally, my money is on Obama. Now what are you going to do about it?
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