Moe Lane

Most of the rest of this Time article on the looming Democratic problems with passing its health care rationing bill is kind of bland, but this: this is pure genius.

Barack Obama will no longer be able to stand on the sidelines and will have to declare his own position on many of the issues that have divided his party.

After all, his position is already well-known: the President will have turned out to have agreed all along with whatever bill makes it out of Congress for him to sign. As for showing leadership – what do you think this is, the Olympics?

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

You’d think that I wouldn’t have to write that.

This is a pretty good article by Greg Gutfield on old people and the health care rationing meltdown (via Instapundit), but it’s the picture that I want to highlight.

As Greg notes, these are the people that have been the backbone of the protests against health care rationing – and I’ll note that it is not a good idea for the Democrats to keep calling them racist, un-American, fascist extremist dupes and fakers.

Because they vote.  A lot.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

First off, here it is.

I know that it’s a over-complicated visual mess – but then, so is the health care rationing plan that it represents. Which is why the Democrats don’t want people to get too good a look at it:

Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.

House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.

The dispute centers on a chart created by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee to illustrate the organization of the Democratic health care plan.

At first glance, Brady’s chart resembles a board game: a colorful collection of shapes and images with a web of lines connecting them.

But a closer look at the image reveals a complicated menagerie of government offices and programs that Republicans say will be created if the leading Democratic health care plan becomes law.

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