Obama's health care mess

  By now you've seen the ridiculous new ad claiming Paul Ryan's budget bill will put wheelchair granny on a path toward a cliff, where the wheeler of the chair dumps her off.
  This is typical deflecting of responsibility by big government liberals. 
  They continue to insist that the "death panels" are fictional, even though the panel already exists that will decide who gets what treatment under obamacare. And even though the president's advisor has recommended that the very young and the old (60 and above) be denied treatment because of the expense.
  IOW, we're going to save money by denying treatment to people whose lives aren't worth as much, as the government determines worth. Of course, government luminaries would be exempt from the same requirements.
  Powerline has an excellent article this morning about the Dems' lack of passing a budget, about their determination to destroy Medicare as we know it, and their attempt to stop any attempt to save it.
  Powerline:

 The Democrats intend to use the collapse of Medicare as part of the overall destruction of our health care system, so that the only apparent alternative is socialized medicine. That, plus they think that demagoguing the issue will help them in 2012 as it has in prior elections.

But it is hard for the Democrats to articulate their real policy with regard to Medicare. For political reasons, they have to pretend that the program in its present form is viable, even though they know perfectly well that it isn't. This is, I think, the central reason why the Democrats cannot come up with a budget. Any honest budget would have to either 1) cut Medicare spending, or 2) raise taxes on all taxpayers by an astonishing amount, or 3) project horrific deficits, forever. The Democrats prefer not to face this reality, but rather to pin their electoral prospects on an appeal to the ignorant.

  Here's the ridiculous commercial:


  This is what we're reduced to. This is what represents logic by the left.