Posted by
Patrick Henry on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:42:19 PM
Although seemingly endless, the long and acrimonious healthcare debate is nearing
an end. And it is an end that insults the American people, disgraces the Democratic
process and assures infamy for the Democratic party that has so wantonly abused
the political power extended them by a hopeful electorate.
Their "super majority" shattered by Massachusetts voters who clearly rejected the
Democrats' healthcare proposal, Senate Democrats quickly opted to use "reconciliation,"
a parliamentary trick that would require them to disguise healthcare as mainly a
budgetary issue, enable them to keep Republicans and other dissenters completely
out of the process and pass the legislative monstrosity by a simple majority of fifty-one
Senate votes. They point out that Republicans have used the tactic before. They are\
correct, but Republicans never used it to take over one-sixth of the American economy
and pass a bill that polls say Americans detest.
Next came the drama in the House of Representatives, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi
was hard-pressed to get enough of her own party members to vote for the odious Senate
measure. Facing the prospect of failure, and the stigma attached to voting for the bill,
she and Louise Slaughter (D-NYY), who is the House Rules Committee Chair, dragged
out an arcane rule suggesting that they could concoct their package of proposed changes
to the Senate bill, "deem" the Senate bill passed without ever having voted on it, and
then pass the whole conglomerated mess at one time. This would spare Democrats
afraid of an angry constituency the embarrassment of voting straight up or down in
public on the Senate bill per se. Clearly, Pelosi thinks Americans are stupid.
Then there are the backroom deals made behind closed doors, the "Cornhusker
Kickback," the "Louisiana Purchase," "Gator Aid," the union sweetheart tax break
and other bribes used just to advance the bill to the current pending status. Bribery,
manipulation, secrecy, graft and corruption are terms that clearly fit the Democratic
manip0ulations employed thus far. The scheming goes on.
When the repulsed electorate finally throws these charlatans out of office, they
will have so damaged the American economy and the delivery of healthcare itself that no
succeeding congress will be able to repair them. Ignoring the expressed wishes of the
American people, utilizing trickery and deceit and driven by blind ambition to enact
their entire left-wing agenda on a country that hates it, the Democrats more and more
resemble the hindermost parts of their own mascot. The bad things that are going to
happen to their party because of their own immoral, ruthless and egomaniacal actions
are WAY too good for them.