Weekly Wrap-Up

President Obama held yet another prime-time press conference this week – this time to push his plan for government-run health care (I guess I’m allowed to say that – more on that in a minute). Here are some questions I’d like to see answered...

First off, does President Obama really believe that your health care plan will NOT have a negative impact on small businesses, seniors, young people – on virtually everyone? If so, he hasn’t read this article from The Wall Street Journal...

http://tiny.cc/8y18d

As John Fund notes, “Democrats have been brilliant in keeping knowledge about the pain and sacrifice of health reform from the very people who would bear the brunt of them.”

Next question: Why does the President keep saying that the “other side” of this debate hasn’t offered any concrete plans for reform? You know good and well that’s not true. Here are the latest ideas from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal...

http://tiny.cc/GJcsz

Being down in Louisiana, Gov. Jindal has a unique perspective on how government runs things:

“The Democrats disingenuously argue their reforms will not diminish the quality of our health care even as government involvement in the delivery of that health care increases massively. For all of us who have seen the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to hurricanes, this contention is laughable on its face.”

Now, how about some straight answers on abortion? Specifically, under the Obama plan, will my tax dollars be used to fund abortions? It’s starting to look that way...

http://tiny.cc/wnfrD

What’s the world coming to, when The New York Times has a somewhat fair and balanced article about the abortion issue?

The Times quotes the National Right to Life Committee, which points out that this new health care plan “would result in the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.” So much for all of the Democrats’ talk about wanting to make abortion “safe, legal and rare.”

So much for free speech too. Why are the liberals so determined to silence critics of the Obama health care agenda? Two examples...

“GOP Not Allowed to Say 'Government-Run Healthcare” (http://tiny.cc/9GU1H)

“Dems Block GOP Health Care Mailing” (http://tiny.cc/J7AO6)

Fortunately one young lady is not afraid to speak out. Shona Holmes shares with The Weekly Standard a frightening story about how she was almost blinded by Canada’s government-run health care system. She’s the inspiration for this week’s poll...

http://tiny.cc/Ttd6N

For conservatives, this was not a terrible week. We’ve got President Obama and the liberals playing defense on health care. Let’s keep up the good fight – because this is a battle we literally can’t afford to lose.

Have a great weekend!