Norvell Rose
"Shut up and take your medicine!"
By Norvell Rose
Like so many of you, I'm feeling sick. My head hurts. My body aches. And my stomach is so upset that "nauseous" hardly describes the awful feeling. H1N1? No, worse. At least with the swine flu, there's the great likelihood of full recovery in a reasonable period of time. With what now ails me, as well as an increasing number of queasy Americans, I'm frankly not so sure. In fact I'm seriously starting to wonder how our nation's health can fully recover from the federal government's shocking and sustained assault on our healthcare rights.
There are so many things wrong with the healthcare legislation, it's hard to know what to focus on. The policy? Whatever that may be, my churning gut tells me it's woefully misguided. The legislative process? Corrupt if not outright criminal — even my aching head can understand that. The consequences of passage of some monstrous Frankenstein of a bill? I get the chills. If common sense, rational thought, and practical experience are allowed to offer a prognosis, the "cure" will surely be far worse than the "disease."
Given all these symptoms of a potent and perverse virus at work in Washington, the aspect of this ordeal that most recently has thrown me for a real loop is the attitude of the President and his Congressional cohorts. It's an attitude that has clearly infected the relentless Democrats, raising their sense of self-worth, spiking their delirious determination to a fever pitch. It's an attitude of arrogant indifference, bordering on that dangerous strain of insolence that precedes emotional isolation, leading to the kind of social dementia that self-justifies virtually any means to achieve one's ends, as destructive as they may be.
This virulent virus is indeed a rare and potentially deadly disease. Certainly, we have seen its weaker forms before, but this mutation presents cause for the deepest of concern. It blinds. It deafens. It covers the body politic in an ugly scale that prevents common sense, common decency, and the pursuit of common causes from reaching and nourishing the government's bloodstream. Washington's sense of balance is perilously close to being lost. Its sense of direction distorted by ambition. Its sense of right and wrong darkly clouded by the lust for power that hardens the heart and muddles the mind.
The Democrats, masquerading as physicians of the caretaking State, tell us, "Shut up and take your medicine"! They "know" what's best for us. Their sick superiority complex has swollen pride into hubris; it has enlarged their collective ego into a cancerous mass that threatens to consume the country, even as it pretends to offer a healing hand. Paying scant attention to the moans and cries of their distressed patients, the DC docs continue to apply the leeches, and with sneering disdain appear to enjoy the bloodletting. This grim malady coursing through the "ruling aristocracy" would be fascinating to study if it weren't so foreboding in its threat to our very survival as a country.
These DC docs are thoroughly infected with a sense of their own unassailable superiority — moral, intellectual, and managerial. Like morally corrupt physicians who grossly abuse prescription drugs to the point of addled addiction, our "leaders" have become slavish followers of their own destructive tendencies. The spiral into madness is close to complete. Their condition — their madness of the inbred elite — is at critical stage.
"Shut up and take your medicine"? I will do neither. For the "healing" they offer is, in fact, a potentially fatal dose of dependence. The "reform" they put forth with a sniff of superiority is, in fact, a poison pill that threatens to choke the system. The "hope" they trumpet with a hollow flourish is nothing but a drug to deepen our state of depression, not help us out of it.
There's no doubt that we are in a Constitutional Emergency Room. The real question — the only real question that demands our urgent answer — is not whether the false, deceptive benevolence of the DC docs will usher in a new state of healthcare for the country. The life-and-death question for us is now, "Will the nation's immune system react with the necessary speed, strength, and endurance to fight off the deadly federal infection?"
© Norvell Rose
January 13, 2010
Like so many of you, I'm feeling sick. My head hurts. My body aches. And my stomach is so upset that "nauseous" hardly describes the awful feeling. H1N1? No, worse. At least with the swine flu, there's the great likelihood of full recovery in a reasonable period of time. With what now ails me, as well as an increasing number of queasy Americans, I'm frankly not so sure. In fact I'm seriously starting to wonder how our nation's health can fully recover from the federal government's shocking and sustained assault on our healthcare rights.
There are so many things wrong with the healthcare legislation, it's hard to know what to focus on. The policy? Whatever that may be, my churning gut tells me it's woefully misguided. The legislative process? Corrupt if not outright criminal — even my aching head can understand that. The consequences of passage of some monstrous Frankenstein of a bill? I get the chills. If common sense, rational thought, and practical experience are allowed to offer a prognosis, the "cure" will surely be far worse than the "disease."
Given all these symptoms of a potent and perverse virus at work in Washington, the aspect of this ordeal that most recently has thrown me for a real loop is the attitude of the President and his Congressional cohorts. It's an attitude that has clearly infected the relentless Democrats, raising their sense of self-worth, spiking their delirious determination to a fever pitch. It's an attitude of arrogant indifference, bordering on that dangerous strain of insolence that precedes emotional isolation, leading to the kind of social dementia that self-justifies virtually any means to achieve one's ends, as destructive as they may be.
This virulent virus is indeed a rare and potentially deadly disease. Certainly, we have seen its weaker forms before, but this mutation presents cause for the deepest of concern. It blinds. It deafens. It covers the body politic in an ugly scale that prevents common sense, common decency, and the pursuit of common causes from reaching and nourishing the government's bloodstream. Washington's sense of balance is perilously close to being lost. Its sense of direction distorted by ambition. Its sense of right and wrong darkly clouded by the lust for power that hardens the heart and muddles the mind.
The Democrats, masquerading as physicians of the caretaking State, tell us, "Shut up and take your medicine"! They "know" what's best for us. Their sick superiority complex has swollen pride into hubris; it has enlarged their collective ego into a cancerous mass that threatens to consume the country, even as it pretends to offer a healing hand. Paying scant attention to the moans and cries of their distressed patients, the DC docs continue to apply the leeches, and with sneering disdain appear to enjoy the bloodletting. This grim malady coursing through the "ruling aristocracy" would be fascinating to study if it weren't so foreboding in its threat to our very survival as a country.
These DC docs are thoroughly infected with a sense of their own unassailable superiority — moral, intellectual, and managerial. Like morally corrupt physicians who grossly abuse prescription drugs to the point of addled addiction, our "leaders" have become slavish followers of their own destructive tendencies. The spiral into madness is close to complete. Their condition — their madness of the inbred elite — is at critical stage.
"Shut up and take your medicine"? I will do neither. For the "healing" they offer is, in fact, a potentially fatal dose of dependence. The "reform" they put forth with a sniff of superiority is, in fact, a poison pill that threatens to choke the system. The "hope" they trumpet with a hollow flourish is nothing but a drug to deepen our state of depression, not help us out of it.
There's no doubt that we are in a Constitutional Emergency Room. The real question — the only real question that demands our urgent answer — is not whether the false, deceptive benevolence of the DC docs will usher in a new state of healthcare for the country. The life-and-death question for us is now, "Will the nation's immune system react with the necessary speed, strength, and endurance to fight off the deadly federal infection?"
© Norvell Rose
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