His 'highness' or his 'highhandedness'? ~ By David Limbaugh

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By David Limbaugh Posted: January 08, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 The more we read about Obama's health-care scheme and his handling of it the more obvious his arrogance and contempt for the people become. This is stunning behavior, really, for any administration (and his party), but especially one that holds itself out as a servant of the people and a model of transparency. Just consider headlines from the past few days: "Obama reneges on health-care transparency: As a candidate, President Obama promised to put health-care reform negotiations on C-Span," "White House REFUSES to discuss broken C-Span promise," "Dems will bypass conference committee to get health care passed," "Sources: Obama, Dems to sidestep GOP on health care," "Hatch: Health-care bill 'rich' for challenges on constitutionality," "AP sources: Obama OKs taxing high-end health plans," "Obama pushes for quick health-care deal," "Conference committee bypassed," "House will vote on pro-abortion Senate bill" and – get this one – "Pelosi: 'There has never been a more open process.'" Seriously, who do these people think they are? No wonder they always assumed the worst of former President George W. Bush and then accused him of sinister motives he never had and actions he never committed. As I've noted before, they were projecting. They knew how they would behave if in power. Now, once again, they're proving it. Think about it. Obama promised at least eight times – memorialized in video recordings – that he would air health-care debates and negotiations on C-SPAN for all to see. If you watch the videos, you'll notice that he was even wearing that smug, self-righteous look as he made his deceitful pledge, as if to say: "When I take over, we are finally going to return power to the people. We'll be open and transparent. We won't behave as Washington politicians are used to behaving. We're better than that. We're morally superior." But now, his highness is not only not going to air the negotiations on television; he and his party are making sure to negotiate behind closed doors, period. Even the Republicans – you know, that other political party – will not be invited or permitted to participate in the discussions. It gets worse. When pressed to respond to the open-and-shut claim that he deceived the people in promising a transparent process, he simply says – through his disgraceful surrogates – that he isn't going to be bothered to discuss it. He doesn't have to explain himself. He's the messiah. Who are we to doubt – much less question – him? READ FULL STORY >