Truth v. Tap Dancing
Okay. Let’s try this.
Great white tap dancers: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Bob Fosse.
Great black tap dancers: Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, James “Jimmy Slyde” Godbolt, Barack Obama.
I’m guessing that there is probably no way to include tap dancing and this history-making first black president in the same sentence without being called a racist. Making a racist innuendo is absolutely not my intent but when it comes to tap dancing Obama ranks right up there with the best of em’.
The news wires are now filled with this latest ObamaCare step, shuffle, kick. And it is by no accident.
Nothing, nil, nada comes out of this administration of openness and honesty without first being contrived or at least approved by the infamous Obama Chicago Connection, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel.
These two political pros have spent years honing their skills in the fine art of Chicago pugilistic politics. They are masters at feigning the right only to land a roundhouse sucker punch with the left. Such was the case with the premeditated trial balloon sent up by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. In her comments last week she said that Obama would be willing to abandon his proposal for the “public option” single payer portion of the ObamaCare bill to aid in its passage.
Immediately after Sebelius’s comments the Democrat left became unified in its opposition to the idea. Several leading Democrat House and Senate members raced to news microphones to announce their dismay at this proposition, each claiming they would not support ANY healthcare bill without this nationalized provision.
Phase one worked to perfection. It took the media spotlight off the public outrage, off the raucous town hall meetings, off the defensive back-peddling Democrats and gave them something to take the offense on. Even if it was to take the offense against proposals coming out of their own side.
Now comes phase two of the plan. Already the Associated Press and Reuters are coming out with “news” pieces that attempt to artificially prop up the perception of strength amongst the Democrats and downplay the overwhelming public disapproval.
The AP is leading with a story headlined “Analysis: Liberals tired of health care compromise”. Besides misspelling healthcare, the story goes on to quote numerous unnamed sources that are throwing down the gauntlet on giving any more concessions to Republicans. The only problem with the piece is that it is as blatantly contrived as it is factitious. Republicans have not only not received any concessions; they have been summarily shut out of the process entirely because Democrats can pass the ObamaCare nationalized disaster without a single Republican vote. This AP commentary is an attempt to portray the battle for ObamaCare as being between two political parties when in fact the crusade is to win the hearts and minds of the unsupportive American public.
The Reuters piece makes this clear with their headline “Views unchanged on Obama’s healthcare plans: poll”. At least Reuters can spell healthcare correctly. The opening line of the piece is a classic in political deception. It reads “Americans remain skeptical of President Obama’s healthcare reform drive, but their views have not changed much after weeks of sometimes angry protests at public meetings according to an NBC poll released Tuesday.” So basically what they’re saying is that Americans are firmly against this plan but they haven’t gotten more firmly against it, right?
It is only later in the article that one finds even that statement is fallacious. The poll shows overall support for the “public option” of the plan has dropped from 46 percent to 43 percent approval in the past month. That doesn’t sound unchanged to me.
Let’s take just a minute to imagine what the headlines would have read if George W was still President and promoting this plan. How about “After months of personal appeals President’s words fall on deaf ears”. Or possibly “American’s support for public option drops almost 10% to an all time low”.
I guess maybe Karl Rove was not the genius many thought he was. Bush should have gone with the boys from Chicago for his news media relations.
Perhaps Axelrod and Emanuel could float this as their next AP or Reuters headline:
“ObamaCare: Almost not everybody hates it”.
