The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the last few days before Christmas are the opportune moment for a narrow majority of Democrats to stuff ObamaCare through the Senate to meet an arbitrary White House deadline. Barring some extraordinary reversal, it now seems as if they have the 60 votes they need to jump off this cliff, with one-seventh of the economy in tow.
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 mess will start being cleaned up at the polls beginning in 2010.
ReplyDeleteI wrote to our illustrious senators, urging them to take their time (and to encourage Harry Reid to take his time) with this bill.
ReplyDeleteI do realize that my e-mails to them will make not one whit of difference. I am only one voter, and Congress long ago stopped caring about the opinions of voters.
Not only should they be voted out in November, but they should be investigated and prosicuted for treason!
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