Winners and Losers

There is a lot of disagreement about the wisdom of the government shutdown as it relates to the Republican Party.  Mona Charen compares it to the misguided "Charge of the Light Brigade" with the Russian cannons replaced by the liberal media outlets.

I don't think there is any question that Obama and the Democrats are winning the war in the media.  They have the advantage.  Republicans may well suffer in the 2014 and 2016 elections.

You know what?  I really don't care.  If the Republican-controlled House caves and gives into the demand to fund Obamacare, they might as well be Democrats.

Yes, I know there are other issues:   gun-control, immigration, oversight of the NSA, investigations into Benghazi, Fast and Furious, et al.  While those are important, most of the Tea Party-backed Republicans are there because we wanted to thwart the attempt by the government to destroy what little is left of a free-market health care system.  Obamacare will fail, but, if it is not stopped now, most likely it will be turned into a single-payer nationalized system.

Personally, I do not see the House going back to a Democrat majority because the Republicans stood up against Obamacare.  If it does, we are doomed anyway.

The point is that the debate should not be, should never be about whether the Republicans or the Democrats win.  Do the taxpayers and the hard-working citizens out here in the private sector win?  That's the question.  So far we have not.  Obamacare was a victory for the insurance companies who were suddenly going to the recipients of millions of new, young, healthy premium payers who would not need much in the way of expenditures.

TARP was not a victory for taxpayers but for the big banks and investment firms that had leveraged themselves to wealth on thin air.

The bailout of GM was not a victory for Americans but for the UAW pension funds.  Not even autoworkers have a right to steal money from my grandchildren.  Do a better job of making cars and you won't have to worry about it.

We could go on, but you get the point.  If the people who pay the bills don't win, the parasites win.  Politicians, especially the ones like Obama who have never had a real job in their worthless lives, are parasites.  When they lose, I win.  I don't care.  If America has gone so far down the crapper that we fail as a people to see through the media's agitprop smoke screen and see Obama's recalcitrance for the despotic idiocy that it is then we are dead as a nation and just waiting around for free drinks at the wake.