The Art of (Healthcare) War

The great military strategist Sun Tzu wrote: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Our President and those around him need to study Sun Tzu’s The Art of War if they plan on getting any more HOPE and CHANGE legislation passed before they get voted out in 2012.

Sun Tzu wrote: These are the six ways of courting defeat—neglect to estimate the enemy’s strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to used picked men—all of which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

The left underestimated how Americans would react to changing the entire healthcare system to satisfy the 10% without health insurance. They want the authority to dictate what kind of healthcare we end up with based on systems that will make our lives worse. The supporters of Obamacare are really the angry ones calling our grassroots opposition Astroturf, right-wing Nazis, KKK, and the mob. The Whitehouse has depended upon the in-the-tank media with a multitude of spokesholes to soothe the American people about multiple House bills and one unwritten Senate bill that are all in competition to stick it to us.

Sun Tzu wrote: When a general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed orders assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly, haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

In the President’s own words:



Sun Tzu wrote: When the officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander in chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius: “What’s important is choice and competition. The public option itself is not the essential element.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "There is no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option," she said to a crowd in California, noting that regional health care co-ops won't get the job done. "If they want to have [co-ops] for their state, perhaps that could be included in the legislation. But it is not a substitute for a public option."

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) NY: “The President does seem like he's moving away from the public plan, and if he does, he's not going to pass a bill. Because there are just too many people in Washington who believe that the public plan was the only way that you effectively bring some downward pressure on prices, and if he says well we're not going to have that, then I'm not really quite sure what we're doing here.”