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DEMOCRATS ASKING FOR DEFEAT
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
DickMorris.com
The Democratic
Party's decision to deform our health care system in the name of reforming it
amounts to a suicide pact. With America decrying the legislation by 60-40
margins, the legislators lined up and dutifully drank the Kool-Aid.
A few traitors who had previously passed themselves off as opponents of the
legislation in the November vote turned their coats and revealed their true
convictions by switching and voting no. These Congresspeople - who, at the
moment, include Murphy (NY), Kosmas (Fla), Boyd (Fla), Kucinich (Ohio), Boccieri
(Ohio), Nye (Va), and Markey (Col) - have made themselves special targets for
our political wrath. They have painted targets on their backs with their
cowardice in November and perfidy in March.
The anger of the voters at
this total disregard of public opinion will power Republican candidates
throughout the nation and will impel one of the greatest reversals of
Congressional alignment in history.
But the aftershock of this
political earthquake is yet to come. It will be upon us in the fall when
Congress must decide whether to proceed with the Medicare cuts (particularly to
cut in doctors' reimbursement rates) or to postpone or cancel them and add the
cost to the federal deficit.
Either they will make a shambles of Medicare
or a mockery of their pretense of fiscal responsibility. The cuts would
force broad swaths of the medical community - physicians and institutions - to
refuse to treat Medicare patients. Their cancellation of postponement
would swell the deficit and underscore the cynicism with which President Obama
characterized the plan as a great deficit reduction measure.
This vote
transforms the political landscape in a way that we have not seen in our
lifetimes and the results will be cataclysmic for the Democratic Party.
One hopes that the deals that the various members cut with the leadership to
sell their votes included generous retirement packages. They're going to
need them!
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