The willingness of Dems to once again trot out dual loyalty charges in order to sell a government health care plan is ugly

The Long March to ObamaCare and Copenhagen

By Daniel Greenfield
Saturday, December 19, 2009

As Obama continues the long march to ObamaCare and Copenhagen, both have come to resemble a painful death march that is bringing, what one can only call the extreme left and the left into conflict with each other. Howard Dean and the Democratic promoters of the Public Option have this in common with the street protesters in Copenhagen, in that they are unwilling to settle for anything less than the extreme.

But how do you pass extreme left wing policies without gaining the cooperation of some people who may be radical, but still more moderate than you? The answer to that may well be a disturbing one, because it is clear that for much of the left, even ObamaCare and Copenhagen aren’t enough, and since these programs already a democratic consensus, and since it is clear that they have no interest in gaining one, their attitude is ominous at best.

Not that the so-called mainstream left is any better at this point. For blocking the Public Option, Senator Lieberman is currently being subject to the American left’s version of the Doctor’s Plot, with denunciations ranging from the completely hysterical to the downright anti-semitic, particularly the talking points being circulated among Democrats that Lieberman was holding out on the Public Option in order to gain some sort of concessions from Obama on Israel. The willingness of Dems to once again trot out dual loyalty charges in order to sell a government health care plan is ugly, particularly from the same people who denounced basic national security measures, and then howled that their their patriotism was being questioned.
Obama has trotted out every thuggish tactic to bully Senators into backing ObamaCare

Meanwhile the same media that got upset at Joe Wilson for shouting You LIE at Obama, will naturally have nothing but praise for Al Franken denying Lieberman extra time. Looks like ACORN got what it paid for and there is no point in listening to any empty outrage from Democrats and liberals about civility, since they have taken the time to repeatedly demonstrate that they have none.

While Obama has trotted out every thuggish tactic to bully Senators into backing ObamaCare, right down to the threatened shutdown of a military base—the public support for the bill is lower than the public support for another term by George W. Bush… which should tell you something right there.

Both ObamaCare and Copenhagen are imploding because they are a compromise that no one wants, too left for the mainstream that doesn’t want its blood drunk by a vast government bureaucracy and not left wing enough for the left, which wants to be guzzling blood by the gallon… they are senseless and ugly children left on the White House and Brussels’ steps, children without a natural father.

The entire bureaucratic process itself has thoroughly discredited Obama, and demonstrated just how inefficient and unwieldy big government really is. When a mere amendment to a bill is effectively considered unreadable, because it’s nearly 800 pages, the entire process stands revealed as a bureaucratic sham.

But the propaganda by the dying media continues. And so does the fight.

Meanwhile with the roundup, a valuable piece from Phyllis Chesler,

“I Hope the West Does Not Give Inâ€