The Defeat Of Obamacare (A Primer For The White House)*

*Image courtesy of AP Photo/Gerald Herbert.

If the recent town hall meetings are any indication, the White House was clearly not prepared for the fury Americans have vented over the soon to be defeated healthcare reform legislation currently being contested in virtually every venue available to the public. Why else the "unexpectedly personal moment" of President Obama's while attacking private insurance companies to convince town hall participants that he couldn't possibly pull the plug on grandma?

But lest we forget the President's true aims here, not every bureaucrat has a grandmother measuring out her final days under the agonies of modern healthcare. And not every government decision-maker living on the tax-payer's dime is as fantastic a smooth talker as our elected leader.

Yet the polls--for whatever they are worth--offer a partial explanation for much of the anger poured out over this audacious, government-sponsored repudiation of the individual's worth. Tellingly, a Gallup Poll produced this summer indicates that 40% of Americans view themselves as conservative, 35% as moderate, and only 21% as liberal. And that makes this a center-right nation, regardless of any vague notion of change voters hoped to extract from a new and decidedly different Chief Executive.

As the astute Michael Barone posits on the issue, the disparity many Americans are sensing right now comes down to the difference between membership in the party leading the reform push and actually believing both heart and soul in an extreme liberal agenda. And unfortunately for a very far left leadership set, the party does not always keep the faith.

Perhaps this is why Sarah Palin can cut so very deeply with her remark on the chilling "death panels" proposed as a funded option for the elderly every few years, a model reportedly suggested to inform these gentle souls as to what their scant options are under single-payer healthcare--a particular part of the legislation that has thankfully been nixed as a precursor to final irrelevancy for the work as a whole.

Without a doubt, the legislation itself is an unmistakable wish list of liberal ideology that grinds against the basic sentiments of most Americans. And while the majority of citizens want to see all of their neighbors have access to adequate insurance and healthcare options irrespective of pre-existing conditions, the price to both our characteristic American individuality and national pocketbook is just too much.

Mercifully, the public or single-payer option is quickly evaporating as those close to the push for this irrational healthcare reform have switched their focus to non-profit insurance cooperatives. And while this option has its own negative consequences--including the possibility of a subtle government buyout on the way to public insurance in the future--it appears to be a less egregious alternative at present than the economic ruin and aggression against the individual of the current plan that is being talked up like so much golden utopia. But such are the victories afforded frustrated voters when elected representatives lack the courage to speak loud enough to be heard over the beat of socialism's drums.

Now the only thing left is to note just how much longer President Obama and his team of arrogant academics are willing to push for this societal shake down. To be sure, they remain inexorably committed, but the longer this absurd debate continues, the more those usually disinclined to voice their opinion on such matters will become staunch opponents of the White House and its laundry list of unacceptable freedoms.

And that is a mess the President will be cleaning up for some time to come.

UPDATE: The White House's obnoxious fishy e-mails project appears to be shut down, hopefully due to the understandable outrage of American citizens. However, further complaints can and should be sent via the condescendingly named "Health Insurance Reform Reality Check" website using the "Contact Us" button.

As with the former avenue for dissent, this one ought to be brimming with all sorts of democratic ideas and suggestions for healthcare reform--whether or not President Obama wants to hear about it.

IN OTHER NEWS: In a bold condemnation of Khomenei's role in Iran's rigged election and post-election crackdown on protesters, an unprecedented appeal has been sent to the Assembly of Experts to investigate the torture and rape allegations slowly filtering out of that country's demonic prison system and to condemn the mass trial of dissenters currently under way.

And while this is a courageous action likely to be ignored--and regrettably so--it should do some good in heartening those still fighting for their own rights of freedom in Iran, even if the West remains damnably silent.