The Senate's Christmas Eve Screwing of America

Well, it's been quite some time since I've posted on this blog. Lots has been going on in politics, most of it bad, but given that I've got a 10-month old who still isn't sleeping through the night, I've elected to try and get some rest when possible instead of posting. However, after I learned today that Harry Reid seems to have secured the 60 votes necessary to ram the government-run healthcare plan through, I decided that it's time to get back on the horse.

It's very hard to come out and criticize this bill with any authority for a very simple reason. No one has been allowed to read it. Now this alone coupled with a vote being scheduled for Christmas Eve, less than a week away, is enough for us to know that this is a crap bill for the American people. The always detestable Harry Reid wrote this bill behind closed doors and did not even allow Republicans in the room to know what is in it. Don't you remember the president saying something about a new era of transparency in Washington? If you don't, a little reminder for you is below at around the 55 second mark.



The United States Constitution was only 4 handwritten pages long, yet was debated for 4 months at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. This came out to around a month of debate per page. Using that as an approximate measurement, debate for the current 2000+ monstrosity should take over 166 years. As it is, once it is unveiled either Sunday or Monday, there will be less than 166 hours to debate this bill before a final vote. Truly pathetic. All this so that our miserable, weak, inept, buffoonish, idiotic excuse for a president will be able to have something to talk about for his State of the Union speech in January. Something, of course, other than his pissing away trillions of dollars we don't have on programs that don't work.

I've spent a lot of time on this blog discussing why getting the feds so involved in our health care is a horrible idea, not to mention an unconstitutional one and an assault on our liberty as individual citizens. In the meantime, the administration's handling of Cash for Clunkers only reinforced my view that the government can take what should be a simple task and completely screw it up. It seems we see every day the wisdom of our founders in laying out a limited federal government.

What's really sad is that America doesn't want this bill and the politician don't much give a damn. The polls are absolutely overwhelming that the public doesn't like this. In fact, I heard a poll Thursday or Friday that Americans would rather keep the health care system we have, or pass nothing, than enact the Senate bill. This means that regardless of what that dimwit Obama says, the people of this country prefer the status quo to where his party wants to take us.

We'll talk about more details on the bill after it's released, but one thing we already know for sure. The federal government is going to mandate that you, me, and everyone else in this country purchase health insurance. This alone should be enough to invalidate the entire bill as unconstitutional. Even the CBO said in the 90's when Clinton was trying to pass Hillary-care that "The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States."

The federal government has absolutely no business demanding that we purchase anything. As I've often asked, who the do these politicians think they are, God? Well, maybe Obama does. Nevertheless, they are supposed to be working for us, not trying to work around us as Reid is doing. They DO NOT have the authority to mandate that we purchase a damn thing, and I'm very curious to see the number of Americans who say "Screw you" to Reid, Pelosi, Obama, and every other leftist up in Washington who's trying to take what's great about this country and flush it down the toilet by refusing to do so.

Hope and change, my butt.