Listen to what our "representatives" are saying. Pelosi on reconciliation:
Chris Dodd on the irrelevance of the process:“What you call a complicated process is called a simple majority,” Ms. Pelosi said. “And that’s what we’re asking the Senate to act upon.”
Democratic leaders said Republican intransigence could help them round up the votes of wavering centrists in their own caucus. Republicans adamantly oppose the health care bill, as well as the use of any parliamentary shortcuts.
Got it. The end justifies the means.Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and an architect of the Senate health bill, said he was “not a great fan” of using the budget reconciliation procedure.
“But,” Mr. Dodd said, “the issue trumps the process. Would you drop doing health care altogether because you do not like the process? I don’t think so.”
Dodd on starting from scratch:
“That may be an appropriate answer for a narrow constituency,” he said. “But it just does not make sense for most people, who have watched their rates go up in the last year.”A narrow constituency? Really?
Steny Hoyer:
Use of the procedure is “in the Republican tradition,” Mr. Hoyer said. In any event, he said, Senate rules requiring a 60-vote majority to cut off a filibuster “are impeding the work of the American people.”Again, really? They're clearly, deliberately flouting the will of the people. But their words don't matter. Andy McCarthy explains it all for you:
I hear Republicans getting giddy over the fact that "reconciliation," if it comes to that, is a huge political loser. That's the wrong way to look at it. The Democratic leadership has already internalized the inevitablility of taking its political lumps. That makes reconciliation truly scary. Since the Dems know they will have to ram this monstrosity through, they figure it might as well be as monstrous as they can get wavering Democrats to go along with. Clipping the leadership's statist ambitions in order to peel off a few Republicans is not going to work. I'm glad Republicans have held firm, but let's not be under any illusions about what that means. In the Democrat leadership, we are not dealing with conventional politicians for whom the goal of being reelected is paramount and will rein in their radicalism. They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections. After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority. This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you've calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state. [. . .]Read the whole thing. Disturbing and dead on.
They will put their heads down and go for as much transformation as they can get, figuring that once they get it, it will never be rolled back. [. . .]
For Republicans, it won't be enough to fight this thing, then deride it if Democrats pull it off, and finally coast to a very likely electoral victory in November. The question is: What are you going to do to roll this back? What is your plan to undo this?
Linked at Michelle Malkin (buzzworthy)
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The Obami must push it through or he'l surely be a failed, one term prez. However, I still think he will fail. Two-thirds of the public is against it and I don't think it's gonna pass.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I do think he's a one term wonder. We need to cut government, create domestic energy (oi, natural gas, nuclear power), re-industrialize this nation and grow the economy. The Obami stands in the way of those things, he dreams of being the next FDR or LBJ. He's gonna lose.
I've been saying this for a long time now. It was never about the health, but about control and power. I have also said, more than once, that the only hope we have is the inherent greed and love for office most politicians have. How many are willing to fall on their swords? Did the so-called moderate new Democrats just elected into the House get a briefing by the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts that they are expected to have only one term, sacrifice themselves and then get hammered back home? If so, how many smiled and nodded yes, but privately said, "What, are they F-ing nuts?" I've said many times, it is a sad day when our best hope for freedom hinges on the greed of a liberal. It is madness and I've said the same thing McCarthy is saying, the leadership is willing to sacrifice others for the ultimate goal. Through healthcare they will be able to control every aspect of your life, including such things as gun possession, for the next sixty years. Somewhere in the long term plan is a type of government that will simply rule openly, with an iron fist.
ReplyDeleteMy novel, "Revolt" is going to be published and on Amazon within a month. In it, I set the stage where an America has been beaten by its own government to the point the people simply cannot take it anymore. I wrote it in 1997 as a political thriller. A work of fiction. People who read the manuscript are saying, "What...how did you know?" Simple. It is human nature to want to rule others and for some, it is human nature to want to be ruled. How else do we explain the tighten noose around our necks for the last hundred years. Only a few stand against the tide. We are close to that point now. So, far the pressure release valve has been the elections. Once that is compromised where will people turn to seek redress?
The Revolution was started because the people felt they had no other choice. The Civil war was started because a certain part of the nation felt it had no choice. For us to think we are immune now to that kind of event is a fool's dream.
Trouble with revolutions, as Beck rightly put it, they are messy and violent. I hope cooler heads prevail, but the right of the people to live free trumps any small minded plans to crush that freedom, regardless whether or not is presented by a heavy handed racist like Wilson, or a glad handing Haaarvard graduate like Obama.