President Obama promised to be a postpartisan, post-racial president. That myth disappeared last January. Now we’ve got irrefutable proof that some Democrats are hatemongers:

Voting ‘no’ and hiding from the vote are the same result. Those of us on the floor see it. It was clear the three of them who did not cast their yes votes until all 60 Senate votes had been tallied and it was clear that the result was a foregone conclusion. And why? Why all this discord and discourtesy, all this unprecedented destructive action? All to break the momentum of our new young president.

They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. That is one powerful reason. It is not the only one.

Sen. Whitehouse just accused people who have a policy dispute with President Obama of being Nazi racists. That’s the Twentieth Century definition of Aryan. Sen. Whitehouse also insinuated that President Obama’s political opponents of being gun-toating violence-mongers.

The party of tolerance and enlightenment strikes again.

If Sen. Whitehouse served when Pat Moynihan and Hubert Humphrey served, he’d be taken to the woodshed for saying this. It’s a shame that giants like Moynihan and Humphrey have been replaced by Al Franken and Chuck Schumer.

It’s a bigger shame that President Obama didn’t deliver on his initial promises:

The best and most rigorous cost analysis was recently released by the insurer WellPoint, which mined its actuarial data in various regional markets to model the Senate bill. WellPoint found that a healthy 25-year-old in Milwaukee buying coverage on the individual market will see his costs rise by 178%. A small business based in Richmond with eight employees in average health will see a 23% increase. Insurance costs for a 40-year-old family with two kids living in Indianapolis will pay 106% more.

This actuarial data proves that the Democrats’ legislation won’t reduce health care or health insurance costs. The good news is that health insurance costs will go down for some. The bad news is that that’s only because the costs are hidden by subsidizing people. Not coincidentally, that’s paid for by raising people’s taxes. In some instances, the people getting subsidized are seeing their taxes increased.

King, is that the definition of robbing Peter to pay Peter?

This paragraph should infuriate everyone:

“The Senate isn’t hearing those of us who are closest to the patient and work in the system every day,” Brent Eastman, the chairman of the American College of Surgeons, said in a statement for his organization and 18 other speciality societies opposing ObamaCare. For no other reason than ideological animus, doctor-owned hospitals will face harsh new limits on their growth and who they’re allowed to treat. Physician Hospitals of America says that ObamaCare will “destroy over 200 of America’s best and safest hospitals.”

That’s shocking. Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Speaker Pelosi and President Obama think they know better than medical professionals? Who would’ve guessed?

It’s time we stripped these egomaniacs of their power. There’s only one way to do that, namely by defeating them when they next come up for re-election.

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Cross-posted at California Conservative