Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish nails it:
Go here to read the brilliant rest. ObamaCare is the culmination of an ever growing movement on the Left of a desire to transform reality to match ideology. “If a man wants to call himself a woman, he is a woman.” “A fetus is not a living human being unless the mother wants it to be.” “Marriage should mean whatever we say it means.” “You can keep your insurance plan, even while we mandate changes in those plans that will make it prohibitively expensive for any insurance company to offer them.” Unfortunately for fans of unicorns and pixie dust everywhere, in this Vale of Tears reality always wins in the end. Devotees of the substitute religion known as modern liberalism will view that statement as heresy, but reality gives not a fig for their anathemas.
Hah I was JUST about to email this link to you. Especially as one who works as a “fixer” of stuff in a day job, this article really spoke to me. It also brought to mind say… Mark Shea’s post way back when on biometric guns. How did he respond? Why almost like a voodoo priest: chanting a mantra and excommunicating unbelievers.
In fact not just him, but several believers (protestant and catholic alike) I’ve noticed have this belief:
The only catch is that they believe God will work it out (and we do know He’s real). How can you respond to such? How can you even have a debate? “X won’t work.” “X will work! It’s good and God will make it work!”
As someone who’s watched far better people than me pass on way too early, I doubt them. If God won’t preserve the best of us from the trials and mortality of this life, why would He preserve our foolish plans?
As Ben Franklin noted Nate, God helps them who helps themselves. God gave us brains and when we fail to use them He usually allows us to suffer the consequences.
Don, if you’re ever around, you’ll have to let me buy you a drink. 😉
You’re spot on of course. It’s just… one wonders how to even suggest that idea to people. Heck I’ve seen even where people might get it, they then retaliate with something like “Well we’re called to die for our Lord.”
…REALLY? Not only has (apparently) God called us to be dumb, but now martyrs? I think He told us to die if necessary, not to seek it out.
Actually it calls to mind that joke about the guy waiting for God’s help during a flood. (who here knows it?) Only now it seem less of a joke and more the S.O.P. of many Christians.
TMLutas also has a great examination over just HOW BAD this thing is. (and as someone who has written website code in the past, I can assure you: it’s even worse than you think)
Whoops, forgot link:
http://flit-tm.blogspot.com/2013/11/obamacare-blew-it-before-republicans.html
There it is.
obma messing everything up, when him and his wife sign up i will think about it. dont screw with our constatution, i have rights and a lawyer. we should all think about what we want, not what some guy in office for 8 years wants, i have the freedom to pick what i want and i will. after he leaves how much money will he make per year off the american people, and in 5 years how much will i pay then can obama tell us that no he can not.