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What’s Their Endgame?
By Doug Ross
By tying a nationalization of the student loan business into a reconciliation bill, Pelosi hopes to convince skeptical House Democrats that she’s serious about fixing the Senate bill.
House Democrats plan to tack a major reform of the nation’s student loan system onto the health care overhaul bill, a move that could help corral votes in the House but might make the bill’s passage more complicated in the Senate.
House Democrats have been skeptical of voting for the Senate version of the health care bill [because the] Senate bill contains a number of provisions they don’t like — including federal aid targeted at specific states that critics say was used to buy votes and a tax on high-cost insurance plans. House Democrats fear that, after they approve the current Senate version of the bill, the Senate won’t be able to pass the reconciliation bill and fix the objectionable parts.
What’s their endgame? Even a simpleton or a Democrat (but I repeat myself), would admit that it has nothing to do with health care. It’s a political calculation: Democrats are willing to lose Congress in November if they can create a brand new unfunded entitlement that will cement the power of government over the citizen.
mark
March 13th, 2010
End game? Total destruction of the country as we know it.
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cg6380
March 13th, 2010
No such thing as an ‘end game” when the ends justify the means.
Reverend Idaho Spud
March 13th, 2010
Student loans fit nicely into healthcare. Pelosi just said how nice it would be if students didn’t have to WORRY about healthcare premiums. So, there’s the tie in. Worry! In addition, these same students would be free to paint, write poetry, meditate without the interferance of…menial jobs to pay for healthcare ie…work.
Work and avoiding work is important to healthcare because look at how many people get tired from work, or get hurt doing work, or have their days interrupted by work and suffer emotional distress. Work is an enemy to good health.
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Uncle Al
March 13th, 2010
End game? What end game? These cretins don’t think like that, if you can call it thinking at all.
They perceive themselves as the benefactors and problem solvers for everybody else, and their highest order thinking revolves around identifying a problem, turning it into a crises, and being perceived as solving it.
The vicious circle is that the each so-called solution’s unintended consequences create usually more than one new problems which feeds back to the beginning in what now looks to be a runaway chain reaction.
I’m beginning to think that my own preferred end game will end up involving many politicians’ putrefaction.
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Uncle Al
March 13th, 2010
Oops. “crises” should be “crisis”
I can’t take you seriously anymore after The Man From A.U.N.T.
Peeps should be happy I’m not judging this thing… -bfh
had enuf mike
March 13th, 2010
The only “end game” I’m interested in hearing about is that the “wooden stake thru the heart” did the trick !
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Comrade Whoopie
March 13th, 2010
If this bill is passed the Socialists will no long need to win elections to rule over us. Unelected career bureaucrats with lifetime tenure will be in charge of every aspect of our lives. Not just the medical care we receive from prenatal to death. The food we eat, our lifestyle choices, our recreation and hobbies. Nothing in our lives will be safe from nanny state meddling. Eventually even certain political ideologies will be deemed unhealthy. In the end you’ll be forced to be compliant with gov. recommendations or risk denial of medical treatment, but you’ll still be required to pay into the system that has abandoned you, a social outcast.
had enuf mike
March 13th, 2010
NOW, can we call this presidency a “dictorship”, or is Sean Penn going to have us arrested ?
pla-leeze !
Elektra
March 13th, 2010
You’re right, Comrade. Plus amnesty. And they plan a long way out, too.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/graph_of_the_day_for_march_12.html
Tim
March 13th, 2010
C’mon, people. The ‘end game’ is the totalitarian nationalist/socialist takeover of the United States of America with George Soros as the ‘great helmsman’ and little BarryO as his buttboy.
Pelosi is a tired, old, face-lifted, botoxed, filthy rich socialist who realizes she’s entering her denouement and wants to be remembered as the deliverer of state socialism and the destroyer of the United States.
The rest of the socialists are fools, drunkards, and retards who want Chrissy Matthews to tingle over them and repeat their names on national TV.
SteveF
March 13th, 2010
I’d like to give that bitch a hot poker up the ass.
FreeWillie
March 13th, 2010
When we show up on their doorstep armed maybe they will reconsider their path. Just a suggestion.
Uncle Al
March 13th, 2010
@FreeWillie – Just being armed is only slightly scary compared to if you shoot somebody now and then. (That’s not necessarily a suggestion, merely an observation.)
Uncle Al
March 13th, 2010
Oh, yes, if you’re going to show up armed, remember that a Kevlar vest will stop most handgun rounds but a .30-06 (a/k/a 7.62×51mm) round won’t even slow down much on its way through.
FreeWillie
March 13th, 2010
7.62 is a .308 round Uncle Al. 30.06 is a different horse.
FreeWillie
March 13th, 2010
and as you speak of Kevlar you might check the different levels of body armor. What you say is true of Level 1 armor. But not so much of Level 3 armor.
Uncle Al
March 13th, 2010
@FreeWillie – point taken about the ammo. Don’t put a .30-06 into an M-14 although I seem to recall it looks like it fits (or is that a 7.62×51 into an M-1?).
I’m fairly sure that there is no soft (i.e. Kevlar) body armor that’ll stop either a .30-06 or a 7.62×51. Maybe I missed something but III-A is the highest rated soft armor and it would be a Bad Thing to be wearing only that and have some malefactor unload an M-1 at you. Full III is hard armor, yes?
FreeWillie
March 14th, 2010
@Uncle Al
You really don’t know anything about firearms or body armor.