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From this weeks Barron’s Magazine
Matey, I Know a Dead Parrot
By JIM MCTAGUE |
Barron’s Magazine
ObamaCare is deader than a Monty Python parrot.

OBAMACARE HAS KICKED THE BUCKET. IT IS pushing up daisies; has shuffled off this mortal coil. The proposal is deader than Monty Python’s famed dead parrot.
ObamaCare was put to sleep by a death panel: The American public. It has carefully read the three House bills and one Senate bill on the Internet and consequently is shaken. Numerous polls show a majority of persons desire Congress to scrap the plan and begin anew. A recent Rasmussen Report survey found that 54% of Americans don’t want Congress to vote on the measure this year.
It’s not merely the loud-mouths at the town brawl meetings who are opposed to the current bills; so are many open-minded people who have read the legislation cover to cover. They find it vague and confusing and consequently, very worrisome. They cannot decide whether they are reading boilerplate with a foundation of sound case law or the hasty concoction of exhausted aides whose ideological bosses want to railroad the plan through both houses by the fall.
My favorite example of this bewilderment is Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, who, on August 12, tried to skewer Sarah Palin for her claim that under ObamaCare a death panel would deny treatment to her elderly parents and Down syndrome child. Parker inadvertently makes the case that Palin’s reading is defensible. She writes, "The bill is an enabling document that leaves great discretion to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop guidelines that ultimately could change the character of what seems to be offered." Parker concludes that people correctly fear bureaucracies and have a right to clarity from lawmakers.
AS IN THE MONTY PYTHON SKETCH, in which a pet-shop owner repeatedly denies that a certain dead parrot is dead, the purveyors of Obama’s health-care turkey claim it is merely stunned. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the public has "misconceptions" and that our President soon will set them straight. (For the sake of comparison, I urge you to view the parrot sketch on YouTube.)
Misconceptions? Clearly, people are revolted by the plan, a fact that hasn’t been lost on many lawmakers up for re-election next year. Americans, it turns out, retain a preference for private-market solutions and not big-government solutions. Senators talk of slicing and dicing ObamaCare like a turkey so they can digest it one piece at a time.
Divisions within the Democratic-controlled Congress are as much the cause of ObamaCare’s cardiac arrest as is any quackery from right-wing radio hosts and preposterously venomous protesters. The party’s liberals won’t vote for any bill that doesn’t include a government-run insurer. Party moderates and conservatives won’t vote for a plan that does include it. Liberals want a bill at almost any price tag. Party conservatives and moderates fret about the budgetary impacts, which could exceed $1 trillion over 10 years.
In any event, there isn’t enough time left on the legislative calendar to work out these significant differences. No appropriations bills have been passed. The Senate must vote to raise the debt limit. A predicted flu pandemic might disrupt deliberations.
Just like Monty Python’s parrot, not even 4,000 volts can jolt ObamaCare back to life.
Libs rant all you want, Obamacare is dead. Some version of healthcare reform will pass without the "public option" and 0bama will do a phony victory dance and take credit and it will "change’ nothing. The american people are becoming more and more tired of this liberal left agenda.

Wishful thinking on your part. There WILL be a healthcare reform bill passed. And it WILL have the public option in it. I know you can’t stand sick people getting medical care in America but they will and you will have to live with it.