Well, here it is, Christmas Eve. In a few hours the Senate will vote on their health care debacle. Now that the cloture votes are out of the way, they don’t even need 60 votes to pass the bill. Just a simple majority.
In case you haven’t heard, Senator Ben Nelson (Whore-Nebraska) voted for “Cash for Cloture” compromises before he voted against them. The official record shows he voted to allow senators to do what he did before he changed his vote. Erick Erikson has the proof.
I don’t know what’s going to happen. Will the Blue Dogs cave? Are Harry and Nancy going to play ping pong? The answer to both questions is probably. I don’t believe what’s happening today is what General George Washington had in mind when he crossed the Delaware 233 years ago. Our Founders believed we had Providence on our side. Why wouldn’t they? This rag tag Army that had been in retreat for weeks suddenly had a victory.
Thanks to the actions of some patriots a couple of hundred years ago we’ve had the most unprecedented experiment of liberty in history. Ever the optimist, I don’t believe it’s too late to restore our liberty. But only if we all remain vigilant. I believe it is now up to the states. The states created the federal government. The states can tame it.
Perhaps we’ve been directing our energies in the wrong direction.
This national health care debate is a classic example of how the Republicans keep making themselves Irrelevant while the Democrats pretend to be relevant to the needs of the nation.
The poor and the weary are not the friends of the Democrats.
The Democratic party only needs poverty, weak, poor and downtrodden in this country to continue to be relevant. Because once the poor are NO longer poor then they are NO longer beholden to the system.
Let me repeat that.
Once the poor are NO longer poor they are no longer beholden to the system that keeps them perpetually poor.
Health care for all…the poor will still be poor.
Food Stamps………..The poor are still poor.
Housing……………The poor are still poor.
Busing…………….The poor are still poor.
Democrats might have other redeeming qualities but their perpetual infatuation with poverty and then doing absolutely NOTHING about it is disconcerting.
The GOP has the opportunity to go after poverty while the Democrats use poverty to make themselves relevant by making poverty comfortable.
They dont fix it. They make it more comfortable to be poor and therefore have no desire to move up and become reliant upon themselves instead of a system whose very existence is designed to keep them poor so that they are relevant.
The GOP has more of a solution then they realize…they just seem to think of poor people as diseased or something…Im not sure why the GOP has allowed themselves to be painted this way but I can tell you this.
Health care for poor people is another example of the Democrats MAKING POVERTY MORE COMFORTABLE.
And when we move on guess what…YEP…the poor will still be poor and Republicans will have been painted as HATERS OF THE POOR.
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Well said. I couldn’t agree more. The poor are willing victims of liberal politicians.
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What kind of ACTION are we willing to take? I don’t see the outrage. Where are the protest marches in mass? How far do they enslave us with their silent imprisonment? We don’t even know the extent of this legislation. What’s next, movement laws? Where are citizens at individual lawmaker’s homes DEMANDING nullification and resignation? DO YOU THINK THE FOUNDERS WOULD SIT ON THEIR HANDS OR APPROVE OF OUR NON ACTION? Why aren’t the Republicans fulfilling a role and where is the leadership? No deference is given to the constitution from all but a few of our lawmakers, communications of all forms fall on deaf ears, head held high in arrogant defiance, insulated by the inherent civility of the American people; legislation created for all but them; for now they fear us not. Is resistance futile? Have we become apathetically paralyzed? Acceptance is approval; I think we still have the right to peaceably assemble. When will enough REALLY be enough?
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I believe too many of us are still clueless, still apathetic. By the time they realize what’s being done to them it will be too late.
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OBTW, from now on, the title of “Senator” is no longer used. They shall be referred to as “Commissar”.
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Our new motto should be “If you aren’t in an outrage, you’re in a coma!”. The horrors that are going on in Washington make it look like we never even had a constitution in this country. We need a revolutionf some kind to return to being a representative republic.
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If the headlines read ” Federal Govt. Set To Take Over The Health Insurance Industry” or “Healthcare Bill Gives Feds Control Of States Healthcare Programs” or “Goodbye HMO Hello Federal Med. Boards” “Goodby Marcus Welby MD Hello Nurse Rachett” if people new what was in store for them this bill never would have passed. I think the biggest disappointment of all was AARP an organization who had access to the details of this Bill early on has utterly failed it’s members.
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