Of Democratic Rats and Sinking Ships
Photo Credit: David C. FosterAccording to legend, seafaring rats may possess an almost supernatural psychic ability to predict the future or to interpret natural lore such that they would have foreknowledge of the doom of the ship. They would leave, swim away, and take their chances in the open water rather than going down with the ship.
Absent scientific data to confirm the legend, the metaphor “like rats leaving a sinking ship” seems to have taken on a life of its own that may be used to describe certain committed leftists who have interpreted the proverbial tealeaves or seen the “handwriting on the wall” regarding the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.
To wit: Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the architects of Obamacare, expressed his sense of hopelessness concerning the financial implementation of Obamacare in a harangue directed at Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius in which he characterized the (not so) Affordable Healthcare Act as a “huge train wreck.”
On April 23 the former chairman of the miscarried super-committee announced that he is bowing out of politics and will not seek re-election in 2014. That’s one Democrat rat that has abandoned the Obamacare ship.
After suffering immense political damage from her “What difference does it make?” remark regarding the cause of the tragic deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the author of failed 1990s “Hillarycare,” once more abandoned public life. Some have suggested it was former presidential candidate Clinton who coined the word Obamacare.” For whatever reasons, the once Obamacare sycophant has fallen silent from shilling for the Affordable Healthcare Act. That is two metaphorical Democratic rats off the sinking ship of state.
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