"Yeah, we've known the whole time those tax cuts aren't so much as a drop in the bucket of acid about to be dumped in America's face-- a bucket of acid marked Insolvency," confessed Mao Mao Amerikkkastein, a prominent left-wing activist who changed his name in college to ace his Social Justice final without having to bother with the formality of a written thesis.
"It was just good rhetoric to scream at Teabaggers. Made them look uninformed, if you didn't think too hard about it. And by 'thinking hard about it,' I mean 'failing to pretend adding a multi-billion bureaucracy to the health-care system will somehow cut costs.' I also mean 'failing to pretend that the need for the individual mandate somehow isn't proof in itself that we just don't have the means to (further) socialize medicine.'
"Look," continued Amerikkkastein, squatting to spray diarrhea on both an American and an Israeli flag, "We're not stupid. We know Canada can only... HHNNNGH, excuse me... afford Single-Pay because, thanks to American military might, they can spend dick on national defense. And since we read British news sites obsessively, we know Europe's system is as least as big a crapshoot as ours. Obviously Obamacare isn't going to work. Hell, even Medicare's about to go tits up.
"But certain failure or no, we're supposed to try anyway. That's the moral thing to do. In fact, I don't get why the" --Amerikkkastein waves his arms sardonically-- "supposedly Christian Teabaggers aren't down for this. I guess they've forgotten that part in the Bible that says 'Render unto Caesar what is God's, so Caesar can do God's work for Him.' Hypocrites, man."