"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste"

That was Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's Chief of staff, last year shortly after the Presidential Election.  The full quote excerpted from this aged NewsBusters piece:

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

Which makes this current William Warren cartoon from GetLiberty.Org all the more poignant:

The question I have is how... how would Obama use the H1N1 flu as the means to get ObamaCare passed?

I'm just not smart enough to see it.

Who'll enlighten me?

Crossposted(*).

Comments

[Locutisprime]

I don't see it as a means for him to get it passed? But I do see it as a means for him to garner all but absolute government control over existing health care (the system) and the manner in which health care is disbursed to everyone.

And do keep in mind, the last time we had a real pandemic? The government turned it's back on conventional reason and common sense and assigned a sociopolitical status to the pandemic. Thereby negating any criticism or effective isolation of it.

That pandemic began as something called GRID (gay related immune deficiency) in the late 1970's and quickly became AIDS after that. And no one cared about the vectors for "acquiring" it.

It served well to just know that it was an acquired and faultless malady that we needed to put the full force of government policy and resources behind.

Does that clarify the picture any better as it concerns his current push to control health care regardless of whether he can get his bill passed?

What he fails to push through congress is easily resolved through executive order and a willing and complacent media.

[Mommynator]

He promised 100 million doses of the vaccine.

So far, there is a vast "shortage" of them, so he can stir of peoples' fear of not getting this vaccine because:

1. the "mean" pharmaceutical company
2. only government can make them make it
3. give inaccurate information so people will fear for their lives

So far, of all the physicians and nurses I've spoke with in the hospital, none of them is getting the vaccine on purpose.

We also have not seen a huge influx of people with H1N1. Of the cases we've seen, no deaths have resulted and the patient population is from infant to over 80 years old.

It's not that people won't die from this virus (just like the regular flu). It's just that this particular virus is less . . . virulent. Symptoms are milder unless there is another underlying issue.

So don't panic. And unless there is a compelling health reason to not get this virus, don't worry about being vaccinated.

Screw Rahm Emmanuel and the horse's ass he rode in on.