but has divided his party in Congress and run into almost universal GOP opposition

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America is against the plan too, but nevermind them. They’re only the constituents.

Anyway, to continue, I began to imagine a time in the future; my vision went something like this….

It is the year 2034, the 25th year of His Royal Highness Obama’s glorious presidency. His Holiness is sitting in the Oval Office (now called the “Hall of Mirrors”) and consulting with his image on important matters of state. There is a knock at the door; it is Milton Megachump, Obama’s 467th Press Secretary (the other 466 were driven to suicide by Rethuglican terrorists.) Milton is granted entrance and curtsies, but does not speak until spoken to. His grand benificence looks up from his favorite mirror and greets him: “Ah, Milton, how is my 467th favorite press secretary today?”

“Generally well, oh Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler, but there is a small problem I must speak to you about”, Milton replies.

“Damn, we’re not out of the one-million-dollar-per-pound Japanese steaks again, are we?”

“No, no, sire, nothing that bad. However, it is a bit of a sticky situation, sir….”, Milton stammered.

Obama, getting impatient, demanded “Milton, make like Olberman and spit it out. I’m losing valuable mirror time here.”

“Well, sir”, Milton began, “Healthcare IS a constitutional right, is it not sir?”

Obama frowned. “Yes, of course, Chief Justice Sotomayor discovered the right to free healthcare in the Constitution years ago. It was on a page that was stuck to the back of another page for two hundred and thirty years. What’s your point?”

Milton took a deep breath and then blurted out the bad news as quickly as he could: “Sir, we’re running out of physicians. The subjects are demanding the healthcare they are entitled to, but there is nobody to provide it. The other day, a riot broke out in the waiting room of the last remaining plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. Susan Sarandon and Madonna were beating each other with their canes and walkers over an opening for a face lift procedure 3 years from now. Sir, we’re in desperate need of more doctors and nurses!”

“That’s ridiculous”, Obama sneered. “We had millions of medical professionals when my healthcare reform passed Congress! What happened to all of them?”

“Sir, many just retired or left the profession, claiming that between the cost of liability insurance and the reduced payments from the Obamacare program, it just wasn’t worth the trouble anymore.”

Obama considered for a moment, then countered “Well, what about replacements? The medical schools are full of students!”

“They all go back to China and India as soon as they graduate”, Milton retorted. “They don’t practice here.”

Obama was becoming increasingly baffled and couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “What about Amerikkan kids? There must be SOME smart kids from THIS country? Aren’t any of them becoming healthcare practitioners?”

“No, they all become tort lawyers”, answered Milton sheepishly.

“Tort lawyers????”

“Yes”, Milton began, “the last stimulus bill, ‘Stimulus XVII – The Search for Spock’ which was rammed thru the Congress by Speaker Svetlana Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi’s granddaughter) contained a hidden clause inserted by the trial lawyers lobby allowing anybody to be sued for anything unless they also happened to be a lawyer. Ever since that bill became law, there has been no profit in any kind of work except tort lawyer. So every college graduate these days either becomes a tort lawyer or a community orgranizer.”

“So we have no more doctors and nurses”, Obama concluded.

“Now you got it, sir” replied Milton.

Obama stared into his favorite mirror and pondered the situation. There was silence for about a minute and then he blurted out, “I’ve got it! We need doctors and nurses so we’re just going to have to create some. I’m instituting a para-military draft of young men and women aged 18-45. Beginning immediately, they will be conscripted and trained to be physicians, nurses, and associated practitioners in the People’s Medical Service. We should be up to speed and have an adequate number of professionals within a couple of months.”

“A couple of months?”, asked Milton with more than a trace of skepticism. “Sir, it takes YEARS to train a competent doctor or nurse! How can we be ready in a couple of months?”

“Compentent?”, roared Obama. “Who said they had to be competent? Look Milton, the Constitution says people have a right to healthcare, it doesn’t say anything about it having to be COMPETENT healthcare!”

“You have a good point, sir”, said Milton, proud of his sycophancy. “No wonder you’re the best president ever!”

“Thank you, Milton”, spake Obama. “Now get busy and start lining up our allies to begin demonstrations demanding the Congress pass my medical draft bill. And start coming up with arguments to refute any critics the plan might have. ‘All Obama’s opponents are racists’ is a good one to start with.”

“You got it, sir!”, Milton said as he left the room, leaving His Excellency alone with his favorite hobby.

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the greatest leader of them all?”

At this point, a rather loud commercial for a combination fat burner, miracle cleaner and fabric glue came on the television and woke me from my dreamlike state before I could see how the vision turned out. Kinda scary, wasn’t it? Anyway, it had to have been a dream, there’s no way something like this could ever be real. I mean, talk about implausbile happennings…. a million dollars a pound for steak???? Yeah, I must’ve been asleep and this was all a dream. Forget I mentioned it.

AnninCA used to comment on NQ, Liberal Rapture, The Confluence. Mostly small liberal blogs that were hardline behind Hillary Clinton. Ann’s specialty is disarm and disinform. She bakes you an apple pie, while sticking a shiv into your side. A kindly grandmother with a poisoned apple–and philosophically and temperamentally nuts to boot. Beware.

JiangxiDad on September 10, 2009 at 10:54 AM

Thanks Dad, I understand her better now. I thought her weird mental transformations were simply varying doses of Haldol, perhaps taken too close together or at times, too far apart.

I was thinking with the crash of the Precedent she was really ready to swear off the meds and embrace Freedom and personal responsibility; however the Carter/Clinton comments were very clear and frankly, bizarre.

I shudder to think what will become of the USA if Der Leader publicly turns against Israel and supports her enemies.

I think that is going to happen as sure as God made little green apples. With this administration it is not a matter of if, but when.

Most days I could just blow you off. Today my only response to you is STFU and get a job.

TXMomof3 on September 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM

Stay down with your bad self!

I don’t think he’s the anti-Christ but I could see him being a harbinger.

sven10077 on September 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM

Again, I agree with you, Sven.

I shudder to think what will become of the USA if Der Leader publicly turns against Israel and supports her enemies.

Never thought I’d see this in my lifetime, but under Obama perhaps we are seeing the biblical “beginning of the end.”

Keep looking up!

Stop posting so damn often! That’s the thing I find most annoying about you. Stop making every thread about you by posting constantly. You need to relax. Posting over a dozen times on this page alone is just too much. This is why so many people don’t like you. It’s not just your opinion. It’s because you insist on dominating every discussion you engage in. Do you notice that you post more than anyone else?

Obama made a huge tactical error.

For this speech he had to have a package ready to had out to press

Otherwise, his speech is just a bunch of promises.

I promise you my promises are real

Obama should have held this speech until a package was delivered to Congress for review.

Now, a package will appear (hashed out by Congress behind closed doors) and it will be unveiled as the new plan. People will have to read what it says, and the game starts again

Then Obama will have to do another Speech to the Nation in a fancy suit to convince people the printed plan is the same as his fantasy plan from the last fancy suit speech

It is becoming like Ground hog day.

I call this level of politics infantile

We ruin everything! Don’t we?

Loxodonta on September 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM

VRWC-Screwing up America for Democrats since 1993…because we care.

But that may be due to the vast right conspiracy.

Loxodonta on September 10, 2009 at 1:05 PM

That somehow infiltrated the Obama camp last year….funny that.

sven10077 on September 10, 2009 at 1:14 PM

We ruin everything! Don’t we?

But that may be due to the vast right conspiracy.

Loxodonta on September 10, 2009 at 1:05 PM

That somehow infiltrated the Obama camp last year….funny that.

He’s a nice man, very ethical, and he got a bum rap in many ways.

AnninCA on September 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM

That was a joke, right?

CPT. Charles on September 10, 2009 at 12:31 PM

I bet not. Ann appears to be a Clintonista. Putting aside possibly honest differences of opinion about policy, the Clintonistas overlook the massive personality flaws in both Bill and Hill.

But that may be due to the vast right conspiracy.

Besides I don’t EVER want anyone to confuse my posts with hers!

anniekc on September 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM

‘kc. Your posts have the sweet smell of roses, without the hidden thorns. No one will confuse if they pay attention and want to avoid the pain. (I was going to use “avoid the pri*ks”, but figured it would get caught in the filters. ;-) )

It is all very easy to emote and envision, patting each other on the butt and enjoying the “win”, but doing the job is much different, and very few WH denziens have ever done a “job”…designed, built and managed anything. In their hubris, I suspect they would bring a new plan to the game without understanding what they were undertaking. Reality set in, and the day before this Speech it leaked out Bama was planless.

Just like the school speech…fire, ready, aim. Materials flew out before anyone thought through what they were doing.

In this regard, we do get to see what these people think more clearly.

A thin resume and very little experience is not offset by oratory or ideological purity.

The question remains how the radical left will react to failure, between graceful acceptance and blood in the streets. Their hopes soared so high when Bama “won” and all the toys became his. The blitzkreig began well, Porkulus, then Crap + Tax, firing Rick Wagoner, blah, blah…and now resistance has stiffened, the unsustainable house is creaking badly and the “mandate” is evaporating, independents are leaving.

The economy, which Bama is doing all he can to hinder, may be the “General Winter” which took such a toll on German forces who went into Russia in War 2. You can only spend so much money you don’t have. Bama’s purposeful ignorance here may undo the chances for both health and C+T.