The Obama Argument Clinic
Conservative Blog Post for September 19
The Obama Argument Clinic
Team Obama rolled out yet another communication plan after the big speech to the joint session of Congress failed to move support for the health care takeover plan. This next version involves sending the Prez out with His message to all the major Sunday news shows. At best, this is a questionable tactic. At worst, it will reveal once and for all that the Obama plan to ruin American health care is based on a series of illogical dreams and wishes that cannot possibly become reality.
Had the President been in serious negotiations and willing to compromise, some serious and positive changes could come out of the effort. However, pressure from the radical left has ensured that once the plan was revealed, the Washington politician’s job was to sell it – not modify it. Those that objected to the plan – in addition to objecting to the sales methodology – really object to the content of the legislation.
In response to criticism over the inevitable rationing of health care services under this plan, the Obama team responded ‘there will be no rationing.’ In response to criticism over the cost – that the Congressional Budget Office even states will be astronomical – the Obama team responded ‘not one dime will be added to the deficit. No logic, economic history or facts are applied to the left’s position.
Denial is not a form of argument. People want logic, facts and reasoned responses to inform their decisions. So far from the Democrats, voters have received only irrelevant emotionalisms followed by denials that these bad things will happen. These denials have gotten silly. In Monty Python’s “The Argument Clinic” (see it here), the characters have an “argument” that is simply an exchange of “yes it is” and “no it isn’t.” Team Obama has boiled its entire sales strategy down to simply saying ‘no it won’t’ in response to serious and meaningful questions. But, as Demcrats simply can’t handle serious and meaningful questions without demeaning the questioner, this is about all voters can expect. The Obama shills in the media are too busy calming their legs to challenge the Chosen One’s responses. Voters have just about lost patience with the entire exercise as it appears the Democrats simply have no logical case to make for taking over one sixth of the nation’s economy and the media has no interest in uncovering the details behind the plan. And tomorrow on the Sunday shows, Obama will turn on his broken record once again.
In this final push, Team Obama is rolling out the Chosen One to work his interpersonal magic on the lesser news networks (those other than FOX). The friendly media will certainly not provoke an argument with the Prez, so one can imagine the discussion going something like:
CBS: “Critics have said that rationing of health care will result from the rapid influx of millions of currently uninsured patients into the system without any additional doctors”
Obama: “No it won’t”
CBS: “Oh, Okay.”
MSNBC: “Critics charge that the government appointed health care boards will function as ‘death panels’ if they are entrusted with deciding under what circumstances seniors will be allowed to receive certain treatments.”
Obama: “No they won’t”
MSNBC: “Oh, You are so brilliant and benevolent.”
NBC: “The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that this plan will cost trillions of dollars after year 10. Is that true?”
Obama: “No it won’t”
NBC: “Oh, Okay”
ABC: “Critics say that there are loopholes in the current legislation that will allow taxpayer funding of health care services to those in this country illegally. Will illegal aliens receive health care services under your proposal?”
Obama: “No they won’t”
ABC: “Oh, Okay”
We’ve actually seen this strategy play out. During the President’s ‘joint’ speech, he made no additional argument or case for passage of the program. Because He is still fairly well liked, support for health care takeover jumped for a few days, but as of the latest Opinion Dynamics poll, support for this monstrosity hit a new low – 42%. Opposition pushed 55%.
Simply put, the Obama sales plan has no substance – just like the argument clinic. And unless the President can come up with a reasoned response other than demonizing those that object, this plan will either fail (hopefully) or be rammed through Congress with disastrous results. Should the latter occur, Democrats can count on being out of power within twelve months. The next Congress will then have to dismantle the bill while Obama is still in office. If Americans think things are contentious now… just wait for that.