The Democrats favor “universal health care for all” save at the
most crucial moments of life, its beginning and end. The unborn and
disabled elderly won’t enjoy Barack Obama’s largesse and fervent
hopes for All Good Things.
Notice that after spending much of Tuesday night’s Democratic
presidential debate rattling on about his commitment to universal
health care, Obama in the final moments of it delivered himself of
the regret that he failed to support more vigorously those calling
for Terri Schiavo’s death by starvation and dehydration.
“When I first arrived in the Senate that first year, we had a
situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I remember how we
adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed
Congress to interject itself into that decisionmaking process of
the families,” he said. “It wasn’t something I was comfortable
with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and
stopped. And I think that was a mistake…”
Not comfortable interjecting himself into health care decisions?
Here we see once again liberalism as willfulness writ large. It
permits any and all contradictions, proposing endless federal
meddling in the health care decisions of states and families at one
moment, then forbidding such meddling in the next, lest abortion
and euthanasia be jeopardized.
Obama’s health care plan is predicated on massive interference.
He knows what is good for families and states far better than they
do, all the way down to the smallest details of policy. But we’re
told by him that the federal government has no interest in stopping
a cloddish husband from finishing off his inconveniently disabled
wife.
IT IS NOW A cliche that the GOP blew it by defending Schiavo so
loudly. The truth is that moment represented one of the few
honorable acts of a dishonorable GOP Congress, and if the
Republicans had any sense they would revisit these fundamental
moral issues, which provide the starkest dividing line between
liberalism and conservatism.
Why let Obama occupy the moral high ground? For all his pious
progressive prattle, for all the windy talk about human rights, he
leads a party whose platform rests on the gravest human rights
abuses imaginable.
The Democrats support killing unborn children at the beginning
of life, the elderly at the end of it, and not so long from now the
disabled in between. (If you doubt the latter, look at the
now-routine eugenics aimed at the disabled unborn, the logic of
which applies to the living disabled.) Whatever national health
care plan the Democrats eventually enact will incorporate and
accelerate this grim harvest.
In every liberal scheme of human improvement, no matter how
mellifluous the rhetorical bells and whistles that accompany it,
the final solution is death. What Obama means by “progress” is more
like regress into a pagan past. Instead of abandoning babies on
hilltops and the doddering to snow drifts, Obama Care will let Ivy
League doctors get the job done.
Obama in effect casts himself as a moralist, appealing to the
better angels of our nature. But in reality all the old Democratic
demons hover above him, counseling despair, not hope. “Yes, we
can,” he says to starry-eyed affluent voters. No, we can’t, he says
to the voiceless weak who need hope the most.
ONE WOULD THINK a civilized health care plan at the very least
wouldn’t entail an attempt on the recipient’s life. But no such
guarantee is forthcoming in any Democratic plan I’ve ever seen.
Entrusting one’s health care to pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia
Democrats makes about as much sense as hiring a doctor who prides
himself on not signing the Hippocratic Oath.
Children and the elderly make nice props in Obama’s speeches,
but they will be disposable in his legislation. He no doubt thought
he was playing it safe by identifying insufficient enthusiasm for
Schiavo’s death as a serious fault — probably something in his
mind as innocuous as a disorganized desk, the fault he confessed in
a previous debate.
But his answer was really quite revealing and damning, reducing
his assurances of universal health care for all to sham posturing
— a reminder that beneath Obama’s rainbow there are some very
sinister shadows.
