george bush is now, permanently, the source of all our problems

We are not entitled to our own facts.  Fortunately for left wingers, we are entitled to our own spin.

To listen to Obama, one would think that Scott Brown won in the liberal fiefdom of Marxachusetts because they were fatigued by the “last eight years” of Bush.

“The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office is what swept me into office,” he said. “People are angry and they’re frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened over the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”

So, liberal Massachusetts voted for a Republican because they were tired of Bush?  What else has happened in the last eight years?  What could he possibly be referring to besides our erstwhile president whose been out of office for a year?

To listen to Howard Dean, one would think that because the 80% of Obama’s Massachusetts votes who stayed home were upset that there was no public option in the Senate bill, Brown’s victory was really a declaration that many voters wanted a public option.

So, they voted for the one choice out of two who was clearly and openly opposed to, not only a public option, but a universal health care bill in general.  Say, didn’t Coakley support a public option?

To listen to Frau Pelosi, if you can stomach it, one would think that the voters of Massachusetts were not voting against Obamacare because they already have state health care coverage—it being the inference that they clearly enjoy it very much—and moreover, we cannot expect the fate of health care reform to rest solely on the desires of one state.

That’s an interesting take on representative government.  Ought the senators of states who have state health care remain home and not vote?  Does this mean that John Kerry will not be voting, henceforth?  Well I’m all for that Madame Speaker, indeed.

Senator Feinstein was more tempered.  To wit, she advocated that Democrats go slower.  “People do not understand,” she said.  Health care reform is “so big, it’s beyond their comprehension.”

In Feinstein, we find the archetype of all left-wing spin:  hubristic self delusion.

In a word, Democrats just didn’t do a good enough job of telling us how awesome they are.  In the future, they must strive for even more awesomeness.

Still, numbers have a funny way of compelling the logical inferences which the Left tries desperately to avoid.  Brown won by nearly 6%, closing a 30 point+ deficit in less than one month—on the back of a campaign declaring him the “41st vote.”  He won 67% of the vote in one Massachusetts district which Obama carried 53-46 in 2008—the same margin which Obama won by nationally.  That district handed an extra 21% to the Republican candidate just a year after Obama’s inauguration.

Brown won 20% of Democrats, 18% of Obama’s 2008 votes and 70% of Independents.  Obama carried Massachusetts by 62% overall.  Couple these results with the statewide elections in both New Jersey and Virginia, both carried by Obama, and the message becomes clear.

But there’s more.  This seat was held by John F. Kennedy and later Ted Kennedy for more than fifty years.  Ted Kennedy was arguably the safest and most easily re-electable politician from either party in the entire nation for decades.  He was, moreover, the Senate’s champion of universal health care since the 1970’s.  Alas, it’s not Teddy’s seat anymore.

Massachusetts turned out with 50% of registered voters—higher than most presidential election turn-outs.  For what?  Because they really-really wanted a public option as Howard Dean would have us believe?

Pelsoi would have us believe that since Massachusetts already has universal health care they must like it and therefore could not have been voting against Obamacare.

Yet, we know health care mattered to them.  In fact, 52% of Massachusetts voters opposed health care reform and 42% said they voted for Brown for the specific purpose of thwarting Obamacare.  And was it not obvious to all why Brown was referring to himself as the 41st vote?

Or maybe, as Senator Feinstein would have us believe, people just didn’t understand how great health care reform was going to be.

I don’t understand this though—was there some kind of media black out on the topic?

Let’s see:  President Obama gave more than fifty speeches, made hundreds of comments, held a primetime nationally televised speech before a joint session of Congress, and held another primetime press conference which derailed into a colloquium on the president’s racial musings (Whitey and those stupid cops).  Congressmen and senators held numerous town hall meetings throughout the summer—to be sure, derailed by protestors.

Aha!  A K-street misinformation campaign—that’s what confused Americans.

Americans are so simple that the complex and nuanced health care reform flew over their little heads, allowing those vile naysayers and K-Street lobbyists to stymie debate and influence the dimwitted proletariat.

That’s an interesting position in that it is brilliantly ass-brained:  exactly what an arrogant left-winger needs to excuse the glorious rejection of their unwieldy social agenda.

First, how is that when 52% of the country votes for Obama it is an earth shattering, glass-ceiling breaking orgasm of inspiration; yet, when America rejects his health care agenda by a similar margin it could only be because Americans are dim and easily misled about comprehensive health care reform?  After all, health care reform was supposedly part of his election mandate.

Second, who was hindering debate over health care?  It seems to me that a filibuster prolongs debate while it is cloture which ends debate.  It would also seem that holding partisan, closed-door debates on the bill and rebuking opponents as Nazis and K-Street Lobbyists would stifle debate as well.   Left-wing media hounds called whole groups of citizen-protesters “tea-baggers.”  Albeit, I would not doubt their intimate knowledge of the practice.

Third, who was spreading misinformation, and whose misinformation was the most widely disseminated?  Aside from Sarah Palin’s comment about ‘death panels,’ I can think of no specific fact held up by Conservatives which average voters—such as those who went to the polls on Tuesday—accepted as true, but was arguably not true.  That rationing shall result from this bill is debatable—easily proven, but debatable and, thus , not what I would even call “misinformation.”

Hyperbole Palin’s statement was; misinformation it was not.

Will Obamacare be a government take-over of the health care system?  Yes, of course it will.  Will a public option put private business out of business and cause government to be the only health care option.  Yes.  Will taxes increase and Medicare be cut?  Yes.  Will it be more expensive than Obama is telling us?  Ask the CBO.  Has Obama and company repeatedly advocated single payer health care, thus creating the perception that his bill is no more than a Trojan horse—call it an “incremental” step—toward single payer care?  Yes, youtube it.

Now, for my favorite pieces of misinformation (lies):  (1) that there are 45 million uninsured; (2) that America ranks 37th in overall health care world wide; and (3) that the reason health care is so expensive is because evil insurance companies and drug companies are making obscene profits (2-3%, the same as most industries) in an “unregulated” market.

Obama has spent nearly a year spreading these and other “facts” which are easily disproved:  not arguably disprovable, easily disprovable.

America saw through it—again.  For at least the fourth time in American history, the American people have rejected a federal overhaul of health care and a national health care regime.  Each time it began with high polling numbers, invariably due to the question presented to them being:  “Do you want health care reform which will make it cheaper and more accessible?”  (Personally, I always say “N-O!” to that one).   And invariably, once the details of the reform are released, broad opposition ensues.

But left-wingers tell us it’s because we were too stupid to understand how awesome they and their agenda are.  Well, I am certainly seeing a pattern of stupidity, but not among the American people.