Desperate to counter the profoundly negative effects of
Obamacare on this year’s upcoming Congressional elections, the Obama
administration is attempting to bribe as many voters as possible. This includes trying to extending unemployment
benefits, forgiving the penalties for neglecting to sign up for Obamacare, expanding the food stamps program (see: CNS News Story), (over)using
the canard “equal pay for equal work (for women)” and now abandoning
attempts to collect hundreds of million of dollars of past Social Security
overpayments … see: CNBC Story.
As long as President Obama has the power of the purse … and
can capture two minutes of every nightly TV news broadcast with these
saccharine promises, it will be a more difficult for the Republicans to make
significant headway in this November’s elections. The term “buying votes”
really does have meaning … and the Democrats seem to know most of the old tricks. Alexis de Tocqueville famously said that “the
American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can
bribe the public with the public’s money.” He clearly neglected to include the
President in this insight.
But stay tuned … over the next six months I am certain that this
administration will discover and propound even more voter bribes. Watch and wait.
1 comment:
Obama had a press conference yesterday, where he urinated on the critics of AHC. Now that everyone agrees that the benefits of the law are "settled", I wonder what new bone will be tossed to the pack of ankle-biter pundits.
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