Beware the Triggers

Obama is scheming to pass a universal care scheme using any parliamentary maneuver including reconciliation, which heretofore has been used only to pass budgets. Still, Obama faces opposition in his own party, perhaps sufficient to forestall the worst aspects of the care regime. Obama is willing to compromise now to have a plan passed-not a perfect plan in his mind, but one that advances the process. Obama knows once his foot is in the door, the government that will set the rules and then judge the outcomes, has the power to make the private insurers fail, with enough mandates to set off automatic provisions to implement the public health scheme they have been pushing to come into effect as artificial goals and standards are not reached. Obama believes he can rally Democrats in Congress to this cause, delaying any electoral consequence for himself and them as consumers see some benefit before they have to absorb the mammoth and ever escalating costs. Obama is willing to forgo complete victory now, knowing he is assured of winning later and feels he may even peel off one or two liberal Republicans to support this strategy, with Olympia Snowe, Senator of Maine and Senator George Voinovich of Ohio being prominently mentioned in the media as Obama's most likely Republican accomplices. If any bill with guidelines and time lines forcing the future implementation of a public option passes, the American people have lost and will inevitably be saddled with rationed care, unfathomable deficits, and freedom-limiting rules and regulation. Do not permit your Congress to rob you of freedom, steal your choice, and shorten your lives. Put paid to this socialist universal spread the misery scheme.