This was copied from a Neal Boortz post at SmallGov.com, today.  It's pretty descriptive of where we are right now in the "war on the citizens"  (Obama today cancelled the "war on terror", so he and his minions could spend more time & effort in pursuing the "war on the citizens":

"The Democrats have really taken this healthcare reform argument to a new level. First we had the switch from healthcare reform to health insurance reform. That one happened in a matter of one day. One press conference. The talking points went out and the Democrats received their new marching orders .. this is no longer a battle over healthcare. We now have a new enemy to contend with: the insurance industry. Easy to figure out why … Obama’s behavioral scientists told him that people liked their doctors. It was the insurance companies they hated … so shift the focus and demonize insurance.

Then the Democrats returned home to their districts for the August recess. They expected parades. They expected praise and accolades from their constituents, thanking them for working to make healthcare reform a reality. But what did they really get? A bunch of angry citizens who are starting to wake up and smell the koolaid. They realize that this healthcare reform debate isn’t about their healthcare at all. They don’t have faith in their government officials to reform the system for the better. Heck, maybe some of these constituents realize that the government isn’t always the solution to every problem.

So now we pull out the big guns. Waging war against the insurance company hasn’t hit deep enough with voters. So now, we put it all on Barack Obama’s shoulders. Yep. Anyone who opposes this healthcare reform is only doing it because they want to hurt Barack Obama. That is according to Barbara “Call me Senator” Boxer. She told MSNBC’s “Hardball,” “All of this is a diversion by the people who, frankly, want to hurt President Obama.” Then we have Princess Pelosi telling the media that these people are showing up to protest government health care “carrying swastikas.” Yup! We are learning form the Democrats that all of these people showing up at the Townhall meetings are “thugs” paid by insurance companies and other special interest groups. Their true goal is to “hurt” Obama.

So now we’re supposed to sit back and quietly accept a government takeover of almost 20% of our economy in order to avoid hurting Barack Obama? We’re supposed to accept the idea of rationing healthcare so Barack Obama won’t be damaged? You’re going to accept the news that you can’t get a hip replacement with “Well, at least Barack Obama wasn’t hurt.” Yeah .. that would be the thought going through my mind if I had to wait four or five months for an MRI. “You know, I can go ahead and wait for this MRI. We won’t find out what’s wrong for a couple of months, but at least I won’t be hurting Barack Obama.

Isn’t that just dandy? Right now the Democrats are pinning their takeover of health care on the need to avoid hurting their president. Yeah … works for me."

Why Obama May Fail

If Obama can’t sell more government, no one can.

Avery long time ago, it was January. Barack Obama stood at the mountain top, bathed in the new light of a historic presidency and gazing down on a congressional lake afloat with contented Democrats. Those who spoke against him were vilified for not wanting this smart, vibrant president to “succeed.” How could he fail? Eight months into his presidency, Mr. Obama may do just that—fail.

Back then, few would have argued persuasively that at the August recess the Obama plan to redraw the American health-care landscape could be at risk of failure, with Democratic Members of Congress going home to halls full of raving constituents.

Why is this happening now? Mr. Obama was clear during the campaign about his plans for health care. He described the public insurance option. He spoke of the need for “sacrifice,” meaning the wealthy would pay higher taxes for his agenda.

If after all this Mr. Obama gets half a loaf or less on health care, look for the reasons among the hopeful, admiring people who voted for him. That is where his support is leaking.

Set to one side the progressive left, Congress’s liberal war horses, and the unions. For them, the Obama presidency is their last best hope, and no one will be dropping out. Not so non-movement Democrats, centrists and independents.

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Start with taxes because conventional wisdom has held for years that federal taxes must rise. Reality check No. 1: This much??!!!

I think many of Mr. Obama’s supporters in the upper brackets of politics, who were expected to bear the burden of his “sacrifice” by meekly mailing in higher federal tax payments, are shocked at how high their top marginal rates could go.

This is especially true in high-tax Democratic utopias such as New York City, the famous ATM of Clinton-era fundraising, where the top marginal rate for all taxes could hit 60% if the health surtax is imposed. Mayor Mike Bloomberg is competing with Mr. Obama to pull tax revenue out of the same base of taxpayers, and Sen. Chuck Schumer wants to tap them for campaign contributions. Ask these two politicians what they’re hearing from this high-value swath of the Democratic base. Even the fattest cats in time discover the fairness issue.

Taxpayers in New York, California and other states at the fiscal brink are asking whether they’d rather pay a jacked-up marginal rate unto death for another federal health-care program or pay taxes to support the quality of life where they live.

The newly arrived inhabitants of the Obama White House, who this week floated the possibility of middle-class taxes to pay for their deficit, talk as if the states don’t exist. Factoring in the “millionaire” health surtax, the Tax Foundation’s recent analysis puts the top marginal rate over 50% in 39 states. This is nuts. Even if they back off on the surtax, the health-care debate has made clear the needs and compulsions of this White House, and some loyal Democratic “givers” are backing off (or asking friends about no-tax Tennessee).

They say there’s confusion in the land about the health-care bill. Here is the biggest confusion, and for many Obama voters it’s reality check No. 2:

For years, Democratic politicians said the health-care problem was about “47 million uninsured Americans.” Whatever the merits, many people were willing to do something for those with no health insurance. Suddenly, these voters discovered that ObamaCare is about them. When did that happen?

Every policy wonk in America may have known this was always an everybody-into-the-pool proposal, and Mr. Obama has talked himself blue saying people could stay with the insurance they’ve got or the doctor they’ve got, “if you’re happy with that” and don’t like the public option.

A lot of people simply don’t believe this. How come? White House adviser David Axelrod said this week, “Our job is to help folks understand how this will help them.” It could be they’ve already thought about that. For many people, the first six Obama months already have been an unsettling Dantesque tour through levels of government “help” they never knew existed.

Normally government activity flows by like unnoticed sludge, but Obama’s celebrity got everyone watching. What people have seen is: an $800 billion stimulus package designed by Congress, a $4 trillion budget, massive outlays by an alphabet soup of Treasury and Federal Reserve programs, Barney Frank the symbol of Democratic goals, and then the federal absorption of GM, an American icon. After all this, ObamaCare looks like a bridge too far.

They are proposing the biggest federal social program in a generation, which no one can understand (or explain), and which requires permanent federal tax increases starting with the wealthiest but threatening to engulf the middle class.

The harder the White House and Democrats push this idea, the worse it could get for them. Americans may have arrived at the limit of how much government they want or will pay for. If Barack Obama can’t sell more of it, no one can.

Wow JOS and mallory are conviced the rich are gonna pick up the tab for the socialized healthcare that they want so badly!

Our U.S. Congressman, Dave Loebsack, is scheduled to hold an open meeting for his "constituents" in Muscatine City Hall Council Chambers on 22 August at 2 or 2:30 pm.   According to his web site.

I plan on going down there to ask him some questions about the proposed health care system changes and other things, if they let me.

The White House and leading Dems are now trying to portray ordinary citizens as "fringe radicals", organized by some unknown Conservative organization, and coerced into doing all this protesting and questioning!  I think we need a lot of ordinary (unorganized) citizens to show up to let Dave Loebsack know that we didn't vote for this kind of Federal takeover of our lives.

I did email each of our 2 U.S. Senators, and Loebsack with 4 questions I had about all this.  Also phoned AARP.   I'm waiting for a reply.

If you have time, here is a pretty informative article, by Scott Rassmussen, that describes what he found polling likely voters, recently, about changes to the healthcare system.  From what I can tell, it is unbiased and factual:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574330442429438938.html