The health care debacle has been drafted secretly, has been negotiated in private White House meetings amongst Democrats with no input from Republicans. If this is transparent government, then I’d hate to experience anything that is less so.

This is not a president of the people, but instead a president of the Democratic special interest groups. He has not lead this country towards reconciliation and bipartisanship, but instead to a time of more distrust and less cohesiveness.

Obama’s desire to pass a health care bill at all costs has led to Senators being bribed for their votes. Senator Nelson (D-NB) was offered to have all Medicaid payments covered by the federal government. This is normally a shared responsibility between the state and federal government. It is hard to see how this could be constitutional or how some other state would not sue over the issue. If one state is offered a deal like this, then all should be offered the same deal.

We need a new party in this country, or at the very least we need to boot out all the Democrats. It is perhaps the only way that they will learn that their arrogance does not pay.

The high point of the speech was provided by Representative Joe Wilson (D-SC) when he spontaneously yelled, “You lie!” after President Obama said that is was not true that Democrats wanted to provide health care benefits for illegal immigrants.

I thought it was disrespectful for Representative Wilson to address a president of this country in such a way, but could see how President Obama’s arrogant speech would get someone so frustrated that they could not hold back. Representative Wilson later apologized for the outburst and the apology was accepted.

People are frustrated at the incessant lies about of the health care plan. President Obama has said, for example, that the plan does not pay for abortions. In his speech he said, “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions." New Jersey Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) in a speech for the Family Research Council Action, said that the plan would pay for abortions under the public plan and would subsidize them in the private plans. He said, “For a man who argues he wants to see a reduction of abortions, nothing could be further from the truth.”

The most eloquent portion of Obama’s speech called for action. He said, “The time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action.” This, however, was overshadowed by his saying that he would not waste time with those who are opposed to the plan for political reasons, an obvious reference to Republicans.

What President Obama is failing to recognize is that this is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue. It is a grass-root issue for the people of this country who are sick and tired of politicians throwing away their hard earned money on capricious and grandiose projects of all kinds. It is a movement of the people saying, “Enough is enough. We do not want the government owning our car companies, our banks and our  doctors.”

President Obama also used the sympathy card. He deployed the late Senator Kennedy’s widow in the visitor’s section of the House of Representatives and said that Senator Kennedy had written him a letter in May saying that health care reform was a moral issue. This was the sort theatrics that many presidents of both parties have used in the past. It also has the same effect. It alienates those who oppose you and does nothing for your cause.

If Kennedy wrote that letter, I agree with him. This is a moral issue. We deserve to keep a health care system that provides the best care in the world and that saves lives on a daily basis. We do not need an iffy government program that no one has asked for. If Obama were serious about health care reform, he would be calling for tort reform and for lowering the requirements for Medicaid to cover indigents who have no health coverage. Those two changes would not drastically reshape our system in Obama’s image, but would certainly take care of the only two systemic problems with our existing system.

How about it President Obama? I know that lawyers support your party with huge donations, but if you really care about health care, what we need is tort reform. Will you have the audacity to pursue that? I hope so.  I think it is a moral imperative.

Newsweek broke this story so please follow this link for more information: Newsweek: Obama’s False Medicare Claim

It makes you wonder what other lies are circulating from the Obama campaign and directly from Senator Obama lately.