This is a piece of pure, unbridled political genius. Really, I have no choice but to grant grudging admiration to the right on this one. I can tell you that I never in a million years could have thought up such a masterful scheme of deception.
So first they trot out death panels and Sarah Palin's inexhaustible mouth. Then they beat the rationing horse to death and beyond. They make sure to use the word socialism quite a bit, along with all the talk about the government standing between you and your doctor. Rhetoric rhetoric rhetoric. etc and so on.
Then, here's where it gets really good, and then they take HCR and make it their own. They get every single tiny thing they want out of it. And it's really a stinking pile of dung of a bill, no doubt about it. Mandates, no cost controls, no public option, no TRUE protection for those with pre-existing conditions, not even really a bone thrown to the uninsured. Basically, this bill just makes everything that sucks about the medical insurance industry into law. Oh, and you don't get to opt out. Awesome!
But wait. Here's the best part. They aren't going to vote for it. No sir, not them. This piece of crap bill, that they wrote through their helper monkey Lieberman, will go down in history as Obamacare. People will suffer, go broke and die. And it will all be hung on the big D.
Oh, it's pure genius.
Well played sirs, well played.