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The other day I posted about thug Democrats threatening the insurance industry with burdensome new regulations and tactics if they didn’t stop opposing the quasi-health care nationalization efforts in Congress.  Liberals, of course, poo-poo’d this as so much conservative paranoia and hyperbole.

But witness today Obama getting positively giddy at news that insurance industry stock prices are dropping.  Obama sees his thuggish, bullying tactics working and he likes it.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the drop in the health insurance stocks this week was a sign the industry has become nervous that a healthcare reform bill may pass.

“This is when the insurance companies are really going to start gearing up,” Obama told a town-hall event in New Orleans. “Their stock went down when the Senate Finance Committee voted out that bill. Now they’re getting nervous and, by they way, they have been wildly profitable over the last decade.”

Right.  How dare they turn profits.  How dare they make money providing an in-demand service to people.  That has to be stopped!  We can’t have companies just making whatever amount of money they want.

What do you think this is, a free country?

This is not how government is supposed to work.  In our society, government is supposed to be the referee.  The impartial rules keeper thereto enforce the laws our representatives write.  But more and more the government under Obama isn’t an impartial rules-keeper.  More and more, the government under Obama is putting on a uniform and getting in the game.  They’re taking over companies.  They’re actively fighting against other companies.

And while this behavior certainly isn’t unique to Obama or other Democrats, there’s no doubt that they are the worst perpetrators of it in modern American history.  Perhaps since Franklin Roosevelt.

While our economy stumbles, while millions are losing their jobs and millions more are struggling from paycheck to paycheck, Obama is all but applauding the downfall of a private industry that has gotten in the way of his political agenda.  Which is really quite revealing.  Obama’s agenda here isn’t freedom and independence for you.  Obama’s agenda here is more power for him and his allies.

If it were otherwise, Obama would be looking for ways for you to be able to take care of issues like insurance on your own instead of looking for ways for the government to manage those issues for you.