U. S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, move over: Mrs. DeLauro has
now become the chief progressive maenad of the U.S. Congress. She brought to
her performance suitable demagogic props, a large sign that said “Get Old
People,” the words arranged horizontally and the first letter of each word – G-O-P
– in fierce bold script. C-Span captured the historic moment here.
Mrs. DeLauro was not wearing her pussy hat at the time; so the members of the House
were spared that indignity.
Seen from a progressive bubble, Obamacare is a crashing
success. It is, in fact, a political success but a real-world wreck from within,
and it has been so from the beginning. Obamacare has never been more than a
program hardwired to fail that would lead, when it did fail, to universal
health care, a nationwide government healthcare program palely imitating
European models that would drive insurance companies -- unable to compete with
a tax supported, progressive driven health care system – out of business. Under
a universal healthcare system one fourth of the economy in the United States
would move from the private to the public sector, and insurance companies in
Connecticut would become boutique providers servicing rich people – mostly
wealthy Republicans who, in DeLauro’s view, want to Get Old People (GOP). Mrs.
DeLauro’s gerrymandered lair is Connecticut’s 1st District, an
impregnable progressive fortress; so then, she need not fear that she will be
undone politically by championing a lost cause.
And Obamacare IS a lost cause. Even in her home state,
insurance providers have pulled out of the program with their pants on fire;
premiums have skyrocketed across the nation, and the coroner has been sent an email.
Virtually all the progressive Democrats in the Congress who
so passionately support the failed Obamacare program are not enrolled in it.
Mrs. DeLauro herself is a millionaire and so will be able to afford
prohibitively expensive boutique insurance once the last insurance company
snakes are driven from Connecticut and the nation as a whole is forced into a
tax supported universal health care system. The old and poor people of New
Haven -- whom the GOP wishes to destroy, in Mrs. DeLauro’s judgment -- will not
be so fortunate. Under such a system, insurance companies in Connecticut, once
known as the insurance capital of the world, would simply wither away, costing
the state billions in jobs and tax revenue.
The authors of the U.S. Constitution supposed that
legislators would be unwilling to pass ruinous laws under which they themselves
would suffer. How quaint! The author of Obamacare himself is now wealthy enough
to buy retirement properties worth millions anywhere in the world he chooses
to live, in or outside the United States; socialist Bernie Sanders owns three
houses; millionaire Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal had money enough
to send his children to expensive private schools that many of Mrs. DeLauro’s
constituents could never afford. Politics has been good for Mrs. DeLauro and
her millionaire husband, Stan Greenberg, both of whom own expensive property in
the Washington Beltway, where they entertain similarly minded progressives in
lavish splendor that might bring a blush to the cheek of the Great Gatsby.
It may strike some hearty rationalists as unseemly that two millionaire
politicians who favor partial birth abortion and euthanasia – which clips life
it its beginning and end – should profess such a touching concern for old
people. Only on questions of life and death are Mrs. DeLauro and Mr. Blumenthal,
the Senator from Planned Parenthood, excessively libertarian. Blumenthal, who
never met a regulation he didn’t like, would leave Planned Parenthood – which makes
most of its profits from abortion – as the only unregulated big business in
America.
China still pursues a policy of forced abortion; in that totalitarian
country women, liquidated as infants in the womb, are perceived as somehow less
valuable than men. International Planned Parenthood has in fact been working
hand in hand with the population control program in China, almost since its
inception. China joined the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
in 1983.
In December of last year, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers wrote a letter to President Donald Trump calling for “a
full-scale investigation of International Planned Parenthood to determine the
exact nature of its operations in China… Transparency is demanded by the
fact that IPPF receives taxpayer dollars from the United States and other
nations as well. I believe it is impossible to partner so closely with
the Chinese Communist Party’s forced abortion machine without being complicit
in its atrocities. This is especially the case when this year we learned
that the number of abortions in China is not 13 million, but a staggering 23 million a year.”
What a pity the group
did not address its petition to Mrs. DeLauro, defender of the poor and oppressed,
or Mr. Blumenthal who, as the Senator from Planned Parenthood, may possibly exercise
more leverage with the IPPF than does Mr. Trump and the entire Republican Party
which -- as we all know, thanks to Mrs. DeLauro’s campaign bumper-sticker outburst
in the House – wishes to oppress if not euthanize their grandmothers.
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