With each passing day it becomes more and more difficult to believe the Democrats in Washington DC are not truly evil. It’s also increasingly difficult to believe they aren’t insane. What more proof does one need than the headline Democrats Pin 2010 Hopes on Bill? That would be the health care bill. If you ask me, they’re criminally insane.
In today’s editorial the Wall Street Journal blasted the democrats for the reckless health care bill that everybody loathes. It’s so insane Harry Reid’s forcing Senators to remain in Washington for a late night Christmas Eve vote.
Mr. Obama promised a new era of transparent good government, yet on Saturday morning Mr. Reid threw out the 2,100-page bill that the world’s greatest deliberative body spent just 17 days debating and replaced it with a new “manager’s amendment” that was stapled together in covert partisan negotiations. Democrats are barely even bothering to pretend to care what’s in it, not that any Senator had the chance to digest it in the 38 hours before the first cloture vote at 1 a.m. this morning. After procedural motions that allow for no amendments, the final vote could come at 9 p.m. on December 24.
Even in World War I there was a Christmas truce.
The rushed, secretive way that a bill this destructive and unpopular is being forced on the country shows that “reform” has devolved into the raw exercise of political power for the single purpose of permanently expanding the American entitlement state. An increasing roll of leaders in health care and business are looking on aghast at a bill that is so large and convoluted that no one can truly understand it, as Finance Chairman Max Baucus admitted on the floor last week. The only goal is to ram it into law while the political window is still open, and clean up the mess later. …
The op-ed goes on to shred Obama’s comment this weekend that ObamaCare will reduce costs and “Anyone who says otherwise simply hasn’t read the bills,” a statement they call utterly disingenuous. All of our premiums will rise thanks to this legislation, and the increases will be far greater than if the politicians were to do nothing. Everything we hear from the Democrats these days is utterly disingenuous. Expand choice? Nope! Bring down the deficit? Nope? Control costs? Nope. Whatever they say, assume the opposite is true. The only thing they got right is that the bill is historic. It’s possibly the worst piece of legislation, passed in the worst possible way, in the history of our once great republic.
More links at memeorandum.
Agreed. Democrats are criminally insane. In addition, they are malevolent, self-righteous, self-centered, and have tunnel-vision. Sorry I can’t think of any more derogatory adjectives at this time, but it’s late where I live.
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This is very bad.
I refuse to comply….but everyone else will and so costs will go up and our freedoms reduced.
What happened to the Democrat party?
Are there ANY left who uphold the Constitution?
Commies all of them.
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I love you, LC, but please don’t refer to us as a “once great republic.” We still are a great republic. SamAdams, Soldier, michigan, Liberty 5, and many of your other readers are proof of that
Good heavens, LC, YOU are proof that we still are.
Sam, you will not be the only one to not comply. Keep your chins up everybody. It’s not over
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Sorry, Lisa. I’m usually quite the optimist. Lately – not so much.
But, you are right. There certainly are some great people here in the US and we need to work harder than the MoveOns, Acorns, and Soros funded election stealers next year or life as we have known it will never be the same.
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It’s pretty damned transparent to me, they mean to shove it up our butts no matter who objects, and by and large the entire group Dem. and Rep. are hypocrite sons-of-dogs.
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I understand,LC, but this I firmly believe: We are the next “Great Generation,” not to fight in foreign lands, but the generation who fights to save the values and principles of the United States of America. It IS up to us to save her. I think we will succeed.
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I don’t know. We certainly can no longer call this a constitutional republic. Maybe we can get it back, but as it stands now….
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“It’s possibly the worst piece of legislation, passed in the worst possible way, in the history of our once great republic.”
Don’t forget the PATRIOT Act, which allows the government to spy on Americans and declare them enemy combatants who do not have the right of habeas corpus. Once the Feds know everything about us, there’ll be no room for dissent in this country — you might not have access to health care.
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I admit I’m a bit disheartened right now with the whole health care fiasco and the shady deals made behind closed doors; however, I’m believing this can and will lead to a second American revolution. Not a a violent revolution, but a peaceful one through which the American people are seeing right through the Progressive Democrats.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid have over-played their hand; they have misplaced our trust, have misrepresented our values and miscalculated our anger.
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No truce. I would rather have us remember and emulate the exemplary leadership and heroism on a Christmas Eve by our greatest founding President, George Washington.
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