Kirsten Powers is well known by anybody who watches Fox News, as she's often invited in to represent the Liberal perspective when they're discussing issues. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but that sort of thing happens on MSNBC somewhere between rarely and never. When it does happen on the radical left-wing channel, the brave conservative who shows up is chopped up and incinerated.
Kirsten wrote an article yesterday titled "The GOP is Threatening Murder-Suicide with New Shutdown Warnings".
Her article represents the elitist attitude that Republicans never approach an issue from a point of principle. Republicans are merely political animals whose mission is to obstruct Democratic objectives at every turn. Kristen notes that Obamacare is the president's capstone achievement, so that must be the reason Republicans want to destroy it.
Not that it's disastrously expensive, patently unfair, laden with unnecessary and silly regulations, is already responsible for smothering economic recovery, and most of all fails to deliver on nearly all of it's trumpeted objectives.
In Kirsten's world, those crazy right-wing Christians, especially Catholics, object to contraceptive mandates because they're stuck in the 1500's. Who could possibly object to helping women prevent pregnancy? I suppose Kristen's perspective about children is that they're a disease that must be prevented rather than a blessing representing a bright future for America.
She would lecture us that we have to stop these negative attitudes and this unfounded mistrust of the Federal government. Her Democrat friends in DC are the smartest people she knows, and they know what's best for all of us ordinary people who live out there in flyover country. We should therefore acquiesce to the enlightened guidance of Kirsten and all of her liberal friends, who went to universities like Harvard and Yale and therefore know a lot more about what it means to be a citizen of the world.
Kirsten has no concerns about government mandates. Kathleen Sebelius should have the power to design the health insurance plans for the insurers and dicate to evey one of them what should and should not be covered, how the premiums are to be priced, and how much the Doctors and other providers will be allowed in compensation. The IPAB isn't a Death Panel, because it's probably going to be made up of caring liberals who think just like Kirsten; they're smart people who will make the wisest decisions possible about our care. It's perfectly OK that Sebelius chooses which insurance companies will be permitted to participate in the Exchanges, because if she wasn't vetting them some evil profit-driven companies might slip through.
Kirsten happily overlooks the fact that hundreds of Obama cronies, both business and union entities, have been granted waivers from having to implement the conditions of Obamacare. Even Congress has been given special dispensation from King Barack.
So Kirsten believes that Obamacare is a free-market solution to healthcare that is more "fair". I struggle to understand how a small hand-picked cadre of companies providing insurance products designed and priced by the government is a free-market solution. And over my lifetime I have learned that the definition of "fair" depends on the individual - if it benefits me, then it's "fair"; if it benefits someone else at my expense, it's not "fair". Guess what, Kirsten: Obamacare is NOT fair.
Will this initiative be suicide for the GOP? We'll see, but probably not. But if a government shutdown ensues, which party will be the one committing suicide? Why wouldn't it be the Democrats, who rather than allowing a temporary delay to allow the Obamacare exchanges to be fully developed and the multitude of kinks in the system ironed out, insisted on implementing it in full force because it wasn't ready for primetime?
The media is determined to hammer the message home to all Americans that the GOP caused a government shutdown over some petty political desire to stop a signature Obama program. All the while, those who know the truth know that Obamacare is the most unwieldy, costly, corrupt, and disastrous law to be passed in generations. It deserves to be delayed at a minimum, or better yet repealed.
Kirsten has illustrated our modern problem for us. She will never understand the mind of a conservative. I know she just wants us to all go away so her party can have their way forever. Sorry Kirsten, we're not ready to surrender just yet.
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