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Obama
is famous for having brought "The Chicago Way" to national politics, to
the character of the presidency. What does this mean, exactly?
In
politics, Leftists pursue power while conservatives pursue principle. I
know. Rolling of eyes. Screeches of outrage. Sarcastic catcalls.
"Everybody does it."
"Even if it's true, you don't mean all Leftists..."
Well...yes. To the extent that we organize ourselves into groups, then
the members of a group are advancing the objectives of that group. If
you are a Democrat, you are advancing the objectives of the Democratic
Party.
Look
at the difference between a Leftist in power and a conservative in
power. If you were to accuse a conservative in power of favoring one
group over another in a civic matter because of the political support of
that group, the conservative would be affronted.
If
you were to accuse a Leftist of doing the same thing, the Leftist would
be proud. "You got the message. If you are on our side, good things
happen. If you are not, bad things happen." The Chicago Way is simply a
harder nosed and more shameless version of that.
Here
is the John Le Carre twist in this. The only way the Leftists can
expand the power, the reach, of the government is by pretending that the
government is guided by conservative principles. I.e., that
the government will act dispassionately in everyone's best interest
intermixed with mercy in more extreme cases (ignoring Hayek's argument
that it is impossible for the government to have this sort of
knowledge). If the government is going to be an instrument of control
and retribution, the public would not countenance its expansion.
ObamaCare is not there to provide us with health care. We already have that. It is there to prevent us from getting
health care - to ration it. And we are paying for the privilege. The
government has no source of income except us. So it can only pay for
our health care with our money. It is not giving us anything.
The
IRS is going to be the enforcer of ObamaCare. Yes, the first step is
that the IRS is "only" going to check that everybody has paid for it.
But if that is all that is involved, why do we need 16,000 more IRS
agents when we know that a huge number of them now are doing nothing but harassing innocents?
And
since we are adults, we do not have to accept the "Little Red Reader"
version that we are being spoon-fed. This approach to health care is
going to require rationing and who is the enforcer of that rationing going to be? Lois Lerner.
So,
what does ObamaCare come down to? LoisLernerCare. Lois Lerner is the
face of ObamaCare. She is the one who is going to decide whether your
family deserves this or that procedure. Scary enough for you?
Let's
return to the Leftist view vs. the conservative view. Lois Lerner is
not embarrassed that she was head of the department that used the power
of the IRS to diminish the presence of the Tea Party in the last
election. She is proud of it! That was what she was there for!
Conservatives are subversives, terrorists, racists, whatever calumny the
Left can dream up. She was doing - I can't say "God's work" because
God does not exist on the Left - let's say, the work of history. She
was fulfilling her mission. Yes, there is the detail of criminal
behavior, but that will get ironed out.
"Now
'den" as Dr. Strangelove would say, when you watch your children
playing in the yard, is LoisLernerCare what you want for them where
their lives as members of a conservative family will have less value to
the State than those of favored groups, whatever groups may be in
fashion at the time?
All the while paying for the whole thing?
