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‘Twas the Eve of State Health Care

A political carol for the Obama era.

by
Tom Blumer

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March 19, 2010 - 12:00 am
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With non-festive apologies to Clement Clarke Moore.

‘Twas the eve of state health care, and all through the House
The bill was unread, even by the head louse.
The statists hung ’round with a faux-festive air,
Hoping their awful “dream” would indeed soon be there.

The USA’s children were snug in their beds,
Unaware of the pain being laid on their heads.
Everyday people opposed to this crap,
Wondered when or if D.C.’s hypnosis would snap.

When out from O’s House there arose such a clatter,
‘Twas the President’s flacks and their usual chatter.
They showed docs in white coats supporting this trash,
Using children as props as they threw around cash.

The Speaker stood forth for her part in the show,
It will be when we pass it that you’ll get to know,
The wonders we’re bringing that statists will cheer,
Creating more wards who’ll elect us for years.”

They were led by a punk, not so lively or slick,
Who knew that to pass it the thing must go quick.
For this speed the protests and polls were to blame,
So he called out supporters and hailed them by name:

“Axelrod, Zeke the Bleak,
Plouffe and Michelle!
Pelosi and Reid,
Now unleash health care hell!

Take the world’s best system,
Reorder it all.
Stop doc-patient decisions.
Now we’ll make them all.”

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14 Comments, 14 Threads, 1 Trackbacks

  1. A happy health care to all,
    and to all a good night!

    Obamacare should, if the American people have any intestinal fortitude left, end for many, many decades the power of the Democrats.

  2. 2. Jack

    The Tea Party Movement is dead! If they can’t mobilize in mass demonstrations in the streets tomorrow then it’s over, kaput, adios, sayonara. A flash-in-the-pan movement. I really thought we the people had something going last year but the silence from the TPers over Ocare is deafening and disappointing.

  3. 3. LeighB

    Well done. I woke up this morning reminded of the horrible conditions discovered at some of our military hospitals and worry that this will be the new standard for all. The current bills are disasters in the making. I am going to agree with Fred Barnes’ article earlier this week, that if this is passed or deemed or another type of trickeration, I am comforted that it will never get out of court challenge to be implemented. Would someone please tell the Prez that we do not share his socialists views and we are not going to stand by as he tries to impose socialism on us, whether it be health care or redistributing from those who create value to those who do not.

    How many former Democrats are there like me who have been relatively polite in our criticism and restrained in supporting the other party? I support expanding access and making health care more afforable for everyone. Make no mistake, if this health care takeover is accomplished, you cannot how imagine how hard I will work to defeat every person in every state who deemed, voted, and helped to cram this down the throats of the public who did not want this. And please, don’t pretend you are listening because you aren’t. But there will be a time when you will have to because your utter disdain for the American people is a short term strategy.

  4. 4. yuck

    I suppose nothing is more trite than parodies of Night Before Christmas. If you ever feel the urge again, please suppress it.

  5. 5. Yep

    #4 +1

  6. #4 & 5: Trust me, your comments are far more trite.

  7. 7. RKV

    Hellth Care morelike. Politicians selling our children into slavery.

  8. 8. myth buster

    2. What do you call what happened Tuesday?

  9. 9. Linda Rivera

    SCARY……

    Is this REALLY our AMERICA??????

    Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 – Key Points
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8

    The highly destructive Cap and Trade. An inferior health care plan that no one wants and cannot afford to pay. The threat to jail and/or fine those who don’t purchase the government enforced plan. Massive spending as if there is no tomorrow. Massive borrowing. Massive debt. The massive printing of paper money. There is no question that the total DESTRUCTION of America’s economy is planned. The results will be horrifying. In the once wealthy and great nation of America, millions of Americans will become destitute, hungry and homeless with no money or resources to help them.

  10. 10. Linda Rivera

    OBAMA: DEBT UNSUSTAINABLE

    Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
    By Roger Runningen and Hans Nichols

    May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

    “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

    Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”…
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJsSb4qtILhg&refer=worldwide

    Obama admits the terrible financial destruction wrought against Americans. WHY then DOES OBAMA NOT IMMEDIATELY REVERSE THIS TRAGEDY?

    A major investor states America is going to reach Zimbabwe hyperinflation.
    http://economyincrisis.org/articles/show/2942

  11. 11. Joni

    Tea Party silence?….You have not been listening.

    If this monstrous bill call reform passes, the repercussions of this will be felt thoroughly by November.
    http://www.retirelikeme.com/

  12. 12. jbinnout

    From town halls and tea parties,
    there arose such a clatter.
    Santa Obama said “That doesn’t matter.”
    Then laying his middle finger aside his nose,
    He exclaimed, “Screw you rich bastards, I won, you know!”

  13. 13. Tater Salad

    Power to the people:

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20192

  14. 14. Ilan Ben Menachem

    “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.

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