Revoting ObamaCare…

Have you noticed that Congressional Democrats barely mention health care these days?   I can think of only one running for re-election who’s promoting voting for ObamaCare.   That’s because the more We the People learn about its consequences,  the less we like it.   It’s on the elevator down to the basement where the level of approval of Congress it.

The White House is  still pitching it,  but Michael Barone finds that those who voted for it find their  careers imperiled.

Meanwhile our liar-in-chief is  chiding us for being  too frightened and frustrated to think clearly.    Ed Driscoll views our trauma as Obama.    Sister Toldjah  captures perfectly the president’s elitism.  (h/t for all four links to Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt — sign up for it at National Review Online)

And now we know that  Obama told David Brooks a year ago there were no such things as shovel-ready projects for the stimulus, which means His Oneness has willingly,  knowingly,  lied for over half his presidency.   I once thought it impossible for anyone with a scintilla of government experience at any level to believe there were such things as shovel-ready projects just waiting for money from the government.

In the real world,  a project’s financing is in place long before anybody even thinks about picking up a shovel.    I once worked for a large American corporation with a presence in nearly all of our 50 states,  as well as three foreign countries.   Part of my job was anticipating problems and devising ways around them,  and my work started long before the equipment arrived to clear a site.

The federal government has very few real problem solvers,  because a bureaucracy’s solution to a problem is to create more bureaucracy,  which you know exacerbates the original problem.   I still know a lot of people who work in various bureaucracies;   I used to know many more.   I knew one who shot himself in the head after many years of drawing a nice paycheck while avoiding the work which was supposedly required in exchange for them.    Did the emptiness of it overwhelm him,  or was it simply despair at lacking the strength to break free of that life?

I don’t know,  and I’m not sure he knew himself.    Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction famously said that Barack would not allow you to remain uninformed and uninvolved.   Well,  you’ve now had 20 months of hope and change.   If you don’t yet comprehend just how much trouble we’re in,  I hope you remain uninformed and uninvolved,  and stay well out of our way while we do the work you won’t.