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When masks slip, part…

Oh hell. we'd all better just get used to it; because the masks have seemingly come off since the passage of Obama's "historic, landmark" healthcare legislation.  Do you recall how during the debate the mere allusion that Obamacare was essentially national medical care in the finest Euro-socialist tradition engendered the howling, screaming, crying and gnashing of teeth by any of it's supporters; and the subsequent labeling of the person making that observation as being among the RACIST!, hating, hicktard rubes, that, at once, didn't understand what was in their own economic interest as well as, you know, clearly wanting sick children to die?

Well, now that legislation has become "the law of the land", and there is no longer any need for such misdirection; at least as far as the Chairman of the Senate Finanace committee Max Baucus is concerned.  Darleen at Protein Wisdom has the text of his breathtaking, but not surprising, remarks:

In an unusual speech on the Senate floor moments ago, Max Baucus declares that the “healthcare bill” to be “an income shift, it is a shift, a leveling to help lower income middle income Americans.” Baucus continued, “[t]oo often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America.”

[emphasis Darleen at PW]

So in Baucus' own words, the bill was about addressing the "maldistribution" of wealth in our society; gee, and here all of us rubes thought it was about healthcare.  But I guess that's what we get for listening to Palin and the RETHUGS!  Thanks for clearing that up Max!  But while you're clearing things up, maybe you and Boss Obama will be so kind as to tell us just how many people are allowed to be wealthy in our society, and are non Obamites allowed to be rich?  Or, is it only the Democrat Apparatchicks like yourself...

This is no real surprise though, at least for anyone who actually listened to the blather of the candidates during the primaries, and general, campaign.  In addition to Obama's slip while speaking to Wurzelbacher, there was the very public allusion to penalizing the successful during the debate with Hillary in Philadelphia.  Asked pointedly by ABC's Charles Gibson why then Candidate Obama so strongly supported raising capital gains taxes, when there is a large body of evidence correlating increasing rates with falling treasury revenues, the Presidential contender esentially answered, "because of the fairness!".  And went on to elucidate, if that's the proper word to describe his characteristic "Wizard of Uhhhhhs" performances when he is sans teleprompter, that regardless of the effects on treasury revenues that it was time for the wealthier Americans to pay more of their income in taxes.  Indeed this has been a strong meme among the Democrats since Al Gore lost in 2000; because as we all know, America is always socially fair and enjoying booming economic prosperity when Democrats are in the White House; and especially so when they control 1600 Pennsylvania avenue as well as both houses of Congress.

The Obamacare vote in the House last Sunday night was a shameful perversion of the very nature of "the people's house".  Instead of acting as conduits for the exercise of the people's will, the Democrats overwhelmingly voted against it; indeed "our betters" were deciding what was good for us RAAAAAAAACIST!, hicktard plebes who had been duped into opposing the measure.  And for those who blanched at both the arrogation of power by the House Democrats as well as the rising spectre of socialism that this bill really represents?  Well good ol' Reverend Al was happy to remind us that, if this is indeed socialism, the majority of Americans voted for this last year anyway when they elected the wO!n.

But nothing could be further from the truth, Reverand Al.  Obama went out of his way to masqerade as a centrist during the 2008 campaign, but has revealed himself to be the most socialistic leader this country has ever had-bar none.  And while some of you may posit FDR as a strong contender for that crown, I'll remind you that despite taking advantage of the Great Depression, you know, not letting that good crisis go to waste and all, in order to place dramatic wage and price controls, hamstring business, and institute social security, he didn't go as far as the Obamacrats have.  Obama is a compulsive liar who is bent on enacting his agenda by any means necessary-regardless of the effects on the American people.  He and the other Marxist Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops in order to institute an agenda that they are convinced will bribe enough of the electorate to cement socialist Democrat majorities in perpetuity.

See more details at Hot Air and Ace's

(H/T AllahP at Hot Air)

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