A TowDog

Awesome work

Her post on AT was read on air by none other than Rush Limbaugh today;

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RUSH: SusanAnne Hiller, AmericanThinker.com, pretty good piece here, and I say that because it sort of illustrates a point that I, El Rushbo, have been making for many, many moons now: “Why Obama Can’t Drop Health Care Reform — What the GOP fails to realize is that President Obama is fighting so hard on health care reform because the issue, for him, is finishing the work of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement. Obama has some influential company in this belief. In 2007, the Sacramento Bee covered Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson: ‘There really are two Americas when it comes to health care — the fully insured, primarily white America and the disproportionately uninsured minority America. More than half of the total uninsured people in this country are minority. That fact alone should make the need to cover everyone in America a pure ethical imperative. This issue is not about economics — it is about equality. Universal coverage should be the next major civil rights issue for this country to face.”

I think this is only one element of Obama’s obsession with health care, but I don’t doubt for a moment that SusanAnne Hiller is right here, that there’s a chip on this guy’s shoulder about minority inequality, unfairness, and all that. It’s what he’s been taught, it’s the way he was raised, and he’s going to settle the score and he’s going to return the nation’s wealth to its rightful owners who of course have had all of theirs stolen from them by evil people. “Halvorson also wrotean article in 2007 equating health reform to the ‘unfinished business of the Civil Rights agenda.’ Halvorson discusses the disparities between the races and health care coverage and states: ‘If we considered no other issue than racial and ethnic disparities, this nation’s leadership — like the leadership of a number of states — should be moving this country down the path to an American form of universal coverage as quickly as possible. There is no more vital or meaningful way for us to honor and extend the great legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.’

“Why should we care about what Halvorson says? This is the same George Halvorson who has met with Obama and has had several meetings in 2009 with key figures in health care, including: ‘March 27 – Meeting with Keith Fontenot, who manages the financial resources of government agencies related to health. June 5 – Meeting with Peter Orszag, director of the CBO. July 23 – Meeting with Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). July 24 – Meeting with Sarah Fenn, White House assistant.’ Additionally, Halvorson was the only insurance executive to meet with Kathleen Sebelius. And just how far off is Halvorson from MLK’s legacy correlation? Most of the last years of Martin Luther King have been lost — especially worth noting because most of his speeches were recorded. MLK challenged the nation’s priorities during his final years, as noted in this article: But after passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging the nation’s fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without ‘human rights’ — including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at a restaurant or afford a decent home, King said, anti-discrimination laws were hollow.”

Anyway, it goes on to make the point here that it was a big deal to Dr. King, and she makes this point at the end of the piece: “Obama is disingenuous when he says he seeks GOP input, as Republicans have twice introduced their version of health reform (here) and reintroduced it in late January 2010. He continuously says the GOP has not offered any ideas or a plan for health care reform, but he changes his story when he’s face-to-face with the GOP. The GOP must grasp that when Obama states that ‘[h]ope and change have been the causes of my life,’ he is not lying. They are just that! He will not change course or come to the realization that his policies are destroying the private sector and bankrupting the country, as some pundits predict. When you look at health care reform, each political party is looking through different glasses; their visions and the goals of reform are polar opposites. The Democrats want a Medicare-for-all type of reform, with the federal government controlling the entire U.S. health care system … Obama’s policies reflect who he is; they are the vehicles that masquerade as hope and change, which are the mechanisms for social justice and economic justice — ‘meaningful legislation’ through wealth redistribution. And now, through health care ‘reform,’ Obama will attempt to finish the job of applying positive liberties (what the government can do for you),” I would say to you, “ultimately attempting to forsake the Constitution, which is a charter of negative liberties (what the government cannot do to you), to apply the final judgment of the Civil Rights movement.”

Now, that’s part of it. I don’t doubt any of that, but there’s also the full-fledged desire on the part of Obama because he’s a far-left radical. It’s about far more than the Constitution and negative and positive rights. It’s about far more than Martin Luther King. It is about the empowerment of the Democrat Party in perpetuity to control virtually every aspect of our lives, and that’s why he’s not going to let it go, and it’s why the Republicans ought to have nothing to do — they’ve already got a plan in place, the trick — they’ve already got a plan in place to make this happen anyway. And going up there and providing any kind of assistance whatsoever — and I know there are people all over the place that disagree with me. “The president invites you, you gotta go, you gotta go, the president invites you. Gotta go up there and make your case, use this as an opportunity to tell the American people.” That’s not the way it’s going to happen. You can’t have I don’t know how many Republicans are going to be in the meeting up against one president who’s called the meeting and have them have any kind of opportunity here to upstage him, that’s not the point of this. There ought to be no fear in being the party of “no,” not on this issue. Even the Democrats are starting to peel away from Obama now. He needs the Republicans because they’re the ones whose poll numbers are up, he needs the Republicans to save himself and get his rear end out of the fire. And they will probably, probably cooperate.

Susan, what can I say? You totally excelled, and your piece on American Thinker, excellent as it was, I’m sure was just the beginning.