It would seem that when it comes to the Democrats, there are wars being fought within wars, within other wars. Right now the main war being fought in the Democratic party is the Healthcare Bill. I have yet to understand completely why a Healthcare Bill, something that is a passion of the Democratic party, is having such a hard time getting passed when our Gov't today is being controlled by a Democratic House, Senate and White House. Every other day we hear about Obama doing yet another speech in some other part of the country trying to convince the America people his concept of Gov't Healthcare (because that is what it is) is the solution to our current Healthcare problems.
So why can't the Democrats pass a bill they are so passionate about when they have the majority in both houses and the support of the President? Well, this has to do with one of the wars being fought within a war. Democrats are fighting amongst themselves trying to figure out how to pass any kind of healthcare bill. So the first war is passing the bill, the next war within this war, getting all the Democrats to agree to a bill, the next war within a war? The war within themselves. I believe the reason the Democrats have been unable to agree is because many of them are scared of losing popularity amongst their voters and believe they may not survive the next round of elections if they vote on something the American people are against. For once I find myself believing there are some smart people within the Democratic party.
Now to add to the problems the Democrats already have amongst themselves, some Democrats have decided to defy the President by looking for a way to allow illegal immigrants to benefit from Obama's concept of Healthcare (Link). A concept where he clearly stated the following words:
"There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."
These are the infamous words that led Rep Joe Wilson to break the House rules by yelling "you lie!" to the President during his speech. I find it ironic that while he was punished for this outburst here we have the Democrats looking to prove Wilson was correct in his out of place comment. Even more interesting is Obama's contradiction to his own words about no illegal immigrants benefitting from this bill here.
"The one exception that I think has to be discussed is how are we treating children,"
"Partly because if you've got children who may be here illegally but are still in playgrounds or at schools, and potentially are passing on illnesses and communicable diseases, that aren't getting vaccinated, that I think is a situation where you may have to make an exception."
Now, I can actually agree with this. children should not have to pay the price for their parents mistakes. Regardless what you believe entering a country illegally is a crime according to the law, we just don't always enforce it for some reason. But it can't be denied that Obama did lie and that the Democrats are trying (unintentionally perhaps) to make Obama a liar by wanting to allow illegal immigrants to benefit from any Healthcare Bill passed. I would think if this happens Rep Joe Wilson would deserve an apology from the Democrats for the way he was treated by them.
So, in the end Obama seems incapable of uniting his own party to vote for solutions they have been wanting to pass and have the power to do so at this time. This leads me to believe that Obama does not have the capability to unite this country any more than he does his own party and therefore is failing to accomplish one of his promises to unite this nation. Instead he seems to be creating an even greater rift that the one Bush started.
It is my opinion that Obama was nothing more than a shiny new Windows Vista that promised to make the experience better but instead is creating more problems than it resolved. Perhaps this image sent to me as a joke may be more realistic than one would want to believe:
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