I obviously haven’t been writing here on the political battle currently taking place over the Obama/Democrat “health-care reform” plan. Just haven’t quite had the appetite or time for it lately. It can be assumed that I agree with all of the reasons for opposing it, and they’re being stated quite well by others. And I’m personally proud and heartened by how Americans are standing up and being counted at this crucial juncture.

One thing struck me that I just felt like articulating today, however: President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have in the last several days been vociferously assuring the American people that — no matter what you may have heard elsewhere — their new health-care plan will not cover illegal immigrants.

This assertion to me is interesting, especially coming from the president who has been talking about how we are “our brother’s keepers” and “partners with God in life and death” (although that last notion has a sinister ring to it). I have to wonder what kind of country we can look forward to under ObamaCare? What happens when an illegal immigrant breaks his leg, or gets run over a by car? What happens when an illegal immigrant child comes down with leukemia? Apparently, in our brave new health-care system, they will be left to die in the street! And this, in Obama’s opinion, is a selling-point for his plan!

Whereas, under our current system — which makes available to people in America the very best medical treatments in the world — illegal immigrants do not get abandoned to illness or injury. Like anyone else, they can purchase medical care. If they have no money, they can still walk into an emergency room and be treated.

What I’m focusing on here is the incoherence of Obama’s sales pitch for his plan. It is just one more example of how he is willing to say anything, however ridiculous and however opposed to the facts, in order to persuade people that they have nothing to worry about. Forget anything you may be hearing in the negative about this plan, he seems to be saying. “Trust me. I am reasonable. It will all be OK — whatever ‘OK’ may mean to you, that’s just what it will be …” Trust him.

Doesn’t it seem like almost an example of Divine Providence, the way in which the federal government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program crashed and burned and continues to cause chaos for car salesmen across the country? It’s been a shining and simple example of the government taking on something it couldn’t handle, making promises it couldn’t keep, and choking free enterprise with mandates and with paperwork. You had dealerships pulling out of a program that was bringing customers onto their lots because they realized that they just could not rely on the federal government to do what it promised to do.

Yet, we’re told not to be afraid of opening the door to the federal government taking over health-care. And then there was Obama’s amazing statement in a town hall meeting about how the post office is always in trouble while FedEx and UPS are always doing well. This as part of a convoluted argument as to why we shouldn’t be afraid of his “public option.”

We sure can’t say, during this time of debate and decision for America, that we haven’t all been warned.

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