The Angry White Guy

Hell Care Summit – Obama just doesn’t get it

Posted February 25th 2010 at 4:20 pm by AWG

To build a house you need a plan.

Obama started out the healthcare summit by saying his time on the clock doesn’t count. Well little Barry you’re partisan with a capital D after your name so your time is PART of the democrats time.

Obama said while using the Republican idea of reforming healthcare a piece at a time sounds like a good idea in principle it won’t work as “baby steps don’t get you to the place you need to go.” No Barry baby steps help proceed with caution and avoid pitfalls – you go barging in like bull in a chine shop something going to get screwed up. Obama is not a fan of incrementalism and wants it all at once… let me explain something to dumbass and I’ll keep it simple on why incrementalism is really a pretty good idea…

First let’s take building a house – in Obama’s world he wants to make a house magically appear out of nowhere and hope it everything worked and everything is square on first try, no checking and double checking incrementally – just drop it down and HOPE it works – that’s foolish. What the Republicans are saying is something sensible you start by building the foundation then you check it, then you build the subfloor and you check that, then you build the walls and you check it and so on and so on through the entire process of building a house you check it every step of the way – you know incrementally and you can fix problems as they arise and it doesn’t not cause a bigger problem later on – I like to think of it as common sense. Let me give you an example and apply this to healthcare – you plumb a house before the finish walls (drywall hung) are installed then you check the plumbing for leaks before you install the finish walls and floors – if it leaks you fix it.

Now using Obama’s method you’d drop the house down completely finished and turn on the water and then discover the leak only when the walls are soaking wet, the floor is warps, the electrical is shorted out and the carpet is ruined and instead of fixing it for a few cents as you would if you caught it on the installation – it is now going to cost you $1000′s to repair everything else that was screwed up because you couldn’t take the time to do it right and make incremental checks. Why is it a bad idea to check things along the way and during the process? Obama wants to slam it all down at once and HOPE it works – that’s just …. stupid. There is really no other word for it – it’s reckless and it’s stupid – just painfully naïve. Anytime you adjust something you make small incremental adjustments and tweek it in, you never make one big adjustments and then ok that will work let’s go… I can’t express enough just how utterly ignorant this is – I could give example after example of why this is just foolhardy.

This summit drug on for 7 ½ hours with the democrat hogging most of the time on the clock and in the end nothing really was accomplished and I’m guessing it will all end with the nuclear option and then the Democrat having their butts handed to them in November.

What the official time clock?

Democrats including Obama – 352 minute
Republicans – 110 minutes

Yeah that’s bipartisan don’t you think? As you know once you reach the summit it’s all down hill after there.

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