THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 5, January 5, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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LIBERAL POSTURING REVEALS FLAGRANT HYPOCRISY
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE ELITISM, DISINGENUOUSNESS, & HYPOCRISY OF THE POLITICAL LEFT IN THE U.S.A.: LIBERAL DEMOCRATS STILL
INDIFFERENT TO THE INTEGRITY OF THE NATION & THE CONCERNS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- THE VERY SLIM
DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY IN THE U.S. SENATE DETERMINED TO KEEP OBAMACARE IN EFFECT AS FEDERAL LAW &
NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY, DESPITE MAINSTREAM AMERICA'S FERVENT OPPOSITION TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE --
SANCTIMONIOUS LIBERAL DEMOCRATS EXPLOITING ISSUES & CIRCUMSTANCES TO ENHANCE THEIR OWN POLITICAL
FORTUNES
FULL STORY:
Sanctimony from Liberal Democrat, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York, never plays well with the public, despite
media efforts to cast it in a good light, and his latest blunder is true to form. In an effort to go on the offense in the
ongoing Obamacare debate, Schumer came up with what he undoubtedly considers a brilliant strategy, blissfully unaware
of how completely it highlights his elitism and hypocrisy.
Brad Dayspring, spokesman for U.S. Representative Eric Cantor (Republican -Virginia), the new House Majority Leader,
informed the press that the House Republicans plan a vote to repeal Obamacare on January 12. Given the sizable GOP
majority in the new Congress, the bill is certain to pass. Over in the Senate, the Democrats remain in control. So, it is just
as certain that any efforts to truly undo the impending damage of Obamacare will be completely stalled there.
Nevertheless, Liberals in both houses of Congress know full well how much political damage can be inflicted on them by
repeated associations with the nightmare of socialized medicine which they imposed on the nation through scurrilous
means last year. Thus, they are determined to craft and implement an effective means of dodging such a fate. And
Schumer, clearly unaware of how poorly this ruse is being perpetrated, is front and center.
Desperately hoping to put Republicans on the defensive, he has challenged them to prove their sincerity by foregoing
their own medical insurance. In a January 4 statement to the “mainstream” media website Politico, Schumer
asserted “It was a central value to us when we passed health care, and a central value to the American people, that
members of Congress should get the same health care as everyone else” -- which sounds good, but, as is typical of such
pronouncements coming from Liberal Democrats, is starkly contradicted by the facts.
It was not so long ago that Americans engaged their Liberal Senators and Representatives at townhall meetings across
the nation, hounding and excoriating them for daring to meddle with private health care plans with intentions to eradicate
them, after which they would then be supplanted by the nightmare of socialized medicine. Time and again, common
citizens challenged Liberal Leftist public officials to prove their confidence in the worthiness of government run
“healthcare” by agreeing to forego their own abundant coverage and participate in the squalid government imposed
version that they intended for the rest of us. Of course, none would dare to do so.
Now Schumer wants to make the case that the bureaucratic monstrosity of federally controlled and rationed medical
treatment is equivalent to the “Cadillac plan” that he and his cohorts still enjoy. While such a “bait and switch” routine
might have served him well in the distant past, before the alternative media existed and he could count on the sympathetic
monopoly of a Leftwing Liberal press to cover for him, things are starkly different now.
The illusion of “free medical coverage,” relentlessly proffered and propagandized by the Democrats from late 2009 through
March of 2010 when it became law, never sat well with the mainstream of America. Since then however, as its grim realities
become increasingly apparent to the public, any meager degree of support that it may ever have had has significantly
dwindled. Overwhelmingly, Americans are fervently opposed to it, and demand that it be fully repealed. Regularly, new
details of its grim implications rouse Americans to vehemently insist that Washington permanently butt out of their
doctor-patient relationship, which, despite its shortfalls, has historically worked far better in this country than any attempt
among socialist states to “improve” things elsewhere.
With Senate Democrats barely maintaining their majority, it is obvious that they nevertheless intend to remain indifferent
to the concerns of the American people. Rather than considering the public sentiment, they hope that, by some miracle,
they can posture and pander sufficiently between now and 2012 to turn the tide on the Republicans. But their
disingenuousness glares back at them and mocks them in plain view of the public.
In response, Eric Cantor derided Schumer for descending to such a level, rather than addressing the legitimate
apprehensions of the American people. And, in a brilliant move, he turned the tables on Schumer by suggesting that, if
he really believes in such an absurd philosophy, he and his Democratic Party cohorts who opposed extending the Bush
tax cuts will prove their “sincerity” by paying their income taxes at the higher rates that would have ensued, had the
extension not been implemented.
Elsewhere, other examples of brazen hypocrisy from Leftist icons are too numerous to count. Yet, a few notable examples
give the big picture. In each case, they solidify the reality that the Liberal political machine cares neither for the integrity
of the nation, nor the plight of its citizens, but seeks, instead, to exploit such circumstances to enhance its own political
fortunes.
In a news item from the Hawaii Reporter, outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent exorbitant sums on her
lavish vacation in the Aloha State, costing taxpayers dearly for security, support, and transportation. As someone who
flagrantly distorted the effect of extending the Bush tax cuts, decrying them as “giving bonuses to the rich,” this incident
puts the lie to any concern she might have expressed for the condition of the Federal Treasury. And it is only the latest
outlandish indulgence of herself, her family, and her friends from the public trough.
Previous trips have included family members ferried on Air Force jets, expensive meals while en route, and a generally
lavish lifestyle exceeding every other public figure except, perhaps, Michelle Obama. It is no wonder that she was so
unconcerned by the flagrant corruption of Congressman Charles Rangel (Democrat - New York) that she made a mockery
of the censure imposed on him by the House of Representatives.
Of course, nobody has made a more pious appeal to the American people to scale back their lifestyles than Barack and
Michelle Obama, who exhort Americans not to seek gainful private sector employment, but to engage in community
service, while chiding them on their excessive use of the world’s resources. But no first-couple in the nation’s history
has been more excessive in their exploitation of the Office of President as a means to pamper themselves with food and
frolic as they travel the globe at taxpayers’ expense. And the Obamas' recent vacation, also to Hawaii, is no exception.
In an era in which the Washington “Ruling Class” has been exposed as an ugly gaggle of self-serving frauds, the
exuberance with which such individuals as Schumer, Pelosi, and the Obamas preach frugality and thrift to America on
the nightly news only highlights the contempt with which they regard common citizens. The backlash from those “little
people,” expressed so stridently last November, clearly did not register among the elite. It is time for the grassroots to
begin preparations to make known their anger and disapproval even more loudly in the next election.
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Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state
level for many years, and is a contributing columnist at the new print publication Liberty Ink Journal. His
contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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