Everyday brings more screaming headlines and hysterical accusations from the White House and Congress that anti-ObamaCare protestors are un-American hooligans, thugs, troublemakers, mobsters, and now a U.S. Congressman John Dingell (D-MI) has even accused an emotional father of a handicapped son of being a throwback to the KKK for confronting the Congressman at a town hall meeting.  (View details. . .)  

Beyond their boisterousness, the main accusation against ObamaCare critics is that they are professional agitators who intimidate Members of Congress and lie, distort, twist and misrepresent ObamaCare.  Wow, are these ObamaCarrions ever suffering from a sever case of psychological projection.

I have no doubt there is a ton of misinformation and misinterpretation of the details of the various bills on both sides.  How could there not be?  The House bill alone is over a thousand pages long written in such cryptic form using such opaque language that like the IRS code, no two people could read the thing without walking away with different interpretations.  But the critics of ObamaCare don’t have to be completely accurate on every section, subsection, clause and phrase of the bills to perceive the overall truth of ObamaCare—it constitutes a government takeover of healthcare that runs contrary to the laws of economics and creates so many perverse incentives and dangers of political over-reach and abuse that it is unacceptable, unfit for a free people.

One of the most insidious characteristics of the House Bill is that the monstrous mechanism people intuitively perceive lurking behind the fractured legislative language and bureaucratize does not spring forth from the brow of Obama fully formed.  Rather, all the bills put in place a bureaucratic infrastructure and a set of legislative mandates accompanied by a set of perverse incentives and fiscal pressures that over time (a very short time) will transmute and morph through bureaucratic interpretations, rules and regulations into the nightmare people foresee it to be.  It is this very foresight of the fully mature ObamaCare—requiring no paranormal abilities beyond a simple understanding of human nature, politics and the basic laws of economics—that so enrages and terrifies people.

So, the real question, never ask much less answered is, are the ObamaCarrions duplicitous or stupid or simply delusional?  Well of course some are each.  But in reality, it doesn’t matter which they are because all three lead to the same Big Lie, a composition of five logically inconsistent premises which when woven together produce the contradictory tapestry of ObamaCare.

1.              ObamaCare will provide every American top-line medical care;

2.              Without raising taxes;

3.              Without blowing a hole in the deficit;

4.              At the same time it reduces overall healthcare
         spending as a share of national income (GDP);

5.              Without Rationing.

Q.E.A.

It is like squaring the circle; it can’t be done—  HillaryCare couldn't do it and neither can ObamaCare—not because the ObamaCarrions aren’t smart enough or haven’t tried hard enough but because these five premises are logically inconsistent, and any system constructed upon them will be internally contradictory.  It is impossible to satisfy all five at once.  Something has to give. 

Not even the smartest mathematician could square the circle because it is a logical impossibility.  So is ObamaCare, which is why all of the Republican efforts to negotiate a “bipartisan compromise” within the parameters set down by the president are futile and doomed to failure.  Republican Senators who remain at the table trying to negotiate the impossible are simply enabling the President’s delusions and endangering the American people in the process.

Are the ObamaCarrions lying, stupid or just delusional?  Given the very smart people working for President Obama and the congressional Democrats, one would be hard pressed to ascribe stupidity as the source of the logical box into which they are walking the country.  And, while it is hard to imagine that such smart people could be so delusional, there is ample precedent for it.  Indeed, the admixture of arrogance, ignorance and the urge to do good are a powerful catalyst to delusional behavior in the political arena. 

There is, in fact, an historical example of politicians once actually trying to square the circle, which is eerily reminiscent of what we are seeing with ObamaCare today.  It was probably the most arrogant attempt ever by politicians to defy the laws of nature and establish their own version of scientific truth by legislative fiat. 

The so-called Indiana Pi Bill (General Assembly Bill #246), which passed the Indiana General Assembly in 1897, would have legislated a method to square the circle by, in effect, setting the value for π  at 3.2 rather than 3.14159.  To politicians, the difference between 3.2 and 3.14159 seemed trivial, close enough for government work, easily legislated away in the name of a good cause.  To mathematicians, it was appalling, and one can imagine the unanticipated calamitous consequences if engineering decisions were based on this false legislative dictat.   Fortuitously, after the bill passed the Indiana lower house, Purdue University Mathematics Professor C. A. Waldo got wind of what was afoot and tutored enough senators on the lunacy of the bill that they postponed consideration of the bill indefinitely.

Where is Professor Waldo when you need him?