You Lie, Nancy Pelosi!
November 21, 2009
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently defended the new health care legislation from charges that it will provide a completely new federal subsidy for abortion by pointing out that, according to the letter of the new law, Federal health care subsidy dollars could not be used to pay for abortions. Individuals who receive federal subsidies will only be allowed to use the non-government portion of their health care money to pay for abortions.
Does this approach actually prevent federal dollars from being used for abortions?
At breakfast this morning I pulled a stunt on my 22-year-old daughter: I took away her knife, fork, and spoon and replaced them with three one-dollar bills: two on one side of her plate, and one on the other.
When she sat down to eat, she looked at the money and gave me a quizzical look. I responded that she had to buy her silverware with the money. Each item of silverware cost a dollar, I explained, but there was one specific restriction on the use of the money: The singleton one-dollar bill was a pacifist dollar; it must be kept separate, and may not be used to buy a knife.
My daughter, a clever young lady, quickly sorted the matter out: She used the two dollars to buy a knife and fork, and the ‘pacifist’ dollar was used to buy the spoon. She spent all of the money, even the ‘pacifist’ dollar, and still ended up with a knife!
Nancy Pelosi’s assurance that federal dollars can not be used to pay for abortions looks suspiciously like a decoy, a fig-leaf covering her real intentions: It is plain that anyone participating in a federally-subsidized plan who wants an abortion will simply use their “non-federal” money to fund their abortions, and use the “federal” money to pay for health care that they would otherwise have had to forgo because they had already spent some of their health-care dollars on an abortion. Thus, the federal money will simply fund the abortions through the back door.
Nancy Pelosi’s claim that these spending restrictions will prevent federal money from funding abortions is plainly either a failure to grasp basic realities on her part, or it is a ruse plain and simple.
It is a good general rule to make the most charitable assumptions possible about others’ mistakes. Here, we must choose to decide one of two things: Either my 22-year-old daughter is cleverer and wiser than Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or Nancy Pelosi is intentionally deceiving the American people.
It’s a bit of a toss-up. But believing that Ms. Pelosi is less sophisticated and intelligent than a young woman a third her age is pretty demeaning. Ms. Pelosi is, after all, a career politician and one of the most powerful people in the world. It is actually probably more charitable to assume that Ms. Pelosi is morally defective rather than intellectually backward.
So in this situation, the most respectful thing we can do is to believe that Nancy Pelosi is intentionally aiming to deceive America.
So: You lie, Nancy Pelosi!
Americans, it is long past the time to stop putting up with dishonest politicians. Yes, we can – and we must – expect honesty and forthrightness from those we elect to office. Why keep sending the crooks and con-men back to Washington?
No amount of Federal dollars in your pockets are worth the misery and destruction that dishonest politicians bring on us.
Take action, America! Let’s send these lying politicians home!
