--Remember all the controversy over conservatives who characterized the end-of-life "counseling" in the House Obamacare boondoggle as the creation of "death panels"? Without rehashing that debate, were you aware that Obama's Democrats had already slipped the death panel concept in their "stimulus" legislation? The American Thinker reported that H.R. 1 -- aka the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the porkulus bill -- allocates $1.1 billion to fund the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. That council -- the brainchild of former Sen. Tom Daschle, who surely idolizes Jack Kevorkian -- would be the bureaucratic agency empowered to make decisions on health care rationing. These paragons of compassion just can't quite be open about their sinister schemes. If you think it's over-the-top to call it sinister, then we don't share the same value system.
--Were you aware that the Democratic-controlled Senate Finance Committee just defeated Republican efforts to tighten abortion restrictions in Obamacare to make sure no federal funding will subsidize abortion under any new law? The committee's chairman, Max Baucus, brazenly opposed the move, which failed on a party-line vote, with the specious argument that "this is a health care bill. This is not an abortion bill." If Democrats agree that abortion won't be subsidized under any law, why won't they accede to this restriction? Hasn't President Obama been adamant that his "plan" would not subsidize abortion? Who's telling the truth now?
--Equally contentious has been the debate over whether Obamacare would cover illegal immigrants -- so contentious, in fact, that Obama has called his critics liars for suggesting he's angling for coverage and Rep. Joe Wilson has called Obama a liar for denying it.
Well, we suspect that Obama plans on amnesty for illegals, which would make the coverage question moot. But beyond those justifiable suspicions, Senate Finance Committee Democrats have specifically rejected a Republican proposal requiring immigrants signing up for health insurance or tax credits under Obamacare to prove their identities with photo identification. Can you think of a legitimate reason for Democrats to bar such a responsible measure? Who's telling the truth now?
Obama will also continue to dissemble concerning his intention to establish a single-payer system, though he's on record as having committed to it and continues to press for the "public option," deceptively peddling it as a competition enhancer.
The hard truth, folks, more plainly apparent with each passing day, is that today's "mainstream" Democrats have been exposed as radical leftists, whose agenda is overwhelmingly rejected by a vast majority of Americans. The only way they'll succeed in enacting various components of their socialistic designs -- notwithstanding their strong numerical congressional majorities -- is through trickery, legerdemain, chicanery and deceit.
Unhappily for them, the long-snoring public has finally awoken.