"I have to question the wisdom of naming a health care plan after a guy best known for driving off a bridge."
What? I knew him best as a Kennedy. I never even knew he drove off a bridge.
"He'll just rename it and reinsert it back in the bill."
Bills do not work that way. Also Senators and Congressmen are not that thick.
"Honor and truthfulness were never the strong points of the democrat party."
They've never been strong points of politics in general.
"Certainly the rest of the bill is a totalitarian power grab."
Really? Does it ban Trade Unions? Other Political parties? Does it abolish the legislature and transfer all power to him? Does it abolish the Bill of Rights? Does it abolish the right to vote? Does it extend his presidential term indefinitely?
No? Well then I'm sorry to burst your bubble but no power-grab is happening.
"The bureaucracy created for this health care bill is far more powerful than it needs to be."
Though bureaucracy was a feature of the Nazi regime it is hardly a feature unique or distinct to them. Also I very much doubt you can establish that objectively until it comes into service.
"It essentially swallows the IRS into its control."
You mean the tax office might be swallowed up into *GASP* THE GOVERNMENT! THOSE FIENDS! You dumb fuck, if he wanted to be a dictator there are so many better ways to go about that!
"It can access and deduct money from your bank account without judicial review."
For starters I saw a Republican explaining why that isn't true by reading out the actual wording of the bill. For second how exactly would they command the loyalty of a private institution (the banks) to just hand over the money they use to give out loans? (yes the money you put in your bank account is given to other people in loans). Banks don't hand over money for nothing and the health care is free so why would they?
"Its exempted from all sorts of laws that protect people from govt abuse."
Such as? This would make a better description of the PATRIOT Act. And they're going to abuse you by forcing you to use free medical assistance? Those dastardly fiendish democrats! I mean that's the evilest, most hitleresque plan I've ever heard! Oh wait...
"In short, its not a health care bureaucracy when its design is to spy on and punish people for crimes that don't exist."
EPIC NON SEQUITER! The conclusion of spying and punishing does not follow from you suggestions that they're creating a bureaucracy to oversee the new public option and have the power to take your money (not even true).
"I've said it before, I'll say it again. This has nothing to do with health care, and everything to do with establishing a dictatorship in the USA. Yes, Obama IS Hitler."
You don't even know any history do you? All you know is the childish Winston Churchill style view that "Hitler are bad, evilest man evar!". You don't even really understand why
1. That's not true.
2. By what standard he's evil.
3. What he really did.
Oh and by the way Hitler never seized power, he was carried there by a majority of people and a Reichstag (congress) that passed every dictatorial law without question or even real dissidence (with a few notable exceptions in the SPD).
"This is a power grab unlike anything I have ever seen."
How fucking old are you? I'm 18 and I've seen bigger power grabs in my own lifetime! The PATRIOT Act for one, or how about the new racist immigration policy of Italy? No? The 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hitler power? The 1916 Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) in Britain? Jesus the fucking bailout packages were bigger power grabs than this insignificant piece (now that its been dismembered) of legislation that does little more than gather up a few new bureaucrats to run it and prohibits insurers from being such colossal douches.
"We can lose this country if we do nothing. And I don't say that lightly."
You say it with the brisk note of insanity!
"The days are dark and getting darker."
That's because Summer just ended up there dimwit.
"I don't think Obama is a specific punishment on America, but we are reaping what we have sown."
You mean support for the PATRIOT Act, two unnecessary wars, a false faith in free markets and rising fundamentalism?
"Obama and the democrats are using our freedoms to overthrow democracy."
lol wut?
"It will be hard to live under tyranny and remember freedom. Take a stand now or regret it forever."
That's what I would say to every straight thinking man, woman and child in the USA right now. Take a stand against these fools, fundies and their malicious puppet masters! Don't let them take away the one secular country in the world! Don't let them ruin what was once the greatest country on the planet!
