Are you choking yet?
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Harry Reid and Senate Democrats, in goosestep…er…lockstep, are forcing their socialized medicine scheme down all of our throats and in doing so, enslaving us all to a federal tyranny that will be able to control every aspect of our lives – including our lives themselves.
The latest Quinnipiac poll shows that 53% of American voters DO NOT WANT this fascist takeover while only 36% approve of it. Apparently 11% responded “Huh? What? Hey! Don’t hog that doob, dude.” But that’s another story…
Harry Reid even had to buy the votes of his fellow Senate Democrats to hammer this thing down our throats. What are some …just some… of the bribes that we are paying to get this abomination?
$10,000,000,000 — $10 BILLION to buy the vote of Bernie Sanders of VT (who is a self-admitted Socialist)
$100,000,000 to buy off Christopher Dodd of CT
The entire cost of Nebraska’s future Medicaid costs born by residents of the other 49 states, a few new Nebraska hospitals omitted from the restrictions on the existence of new hospitals, plus a number of other smaller extorts to buy the 60th vote from Ben Nelson of NE. Senators from VT (Bernie Sanders again), LA, and MA were also bought off with an agreement for the rest of the states to pick up large portions of their future Medicaid bills as well. Residents of Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio, whose economies are in a shambles largely because their state governments have proven incapable of controlling their own spending – how are you feeling just about now, knowing that you are going to have to provide relief to Nebraska, Vermont, Louisiana, and Massachusetts WHILE trying to survive your own inept leadership?
Oh – AND – while the MASSIVE new taxes will kick in just after the 2010 elections, the destructive changes (a.k.a. benefits) don’t come until 2013 – to protect the 2012 election. (If this is as “urgent” an issue and if we are facing as major a “crisis” as Obama and his minions regurgitate so endlessly, why does nothing happen until after the “election” that will buy Obama’s 2nd term?)
This bill is such a winner that it had to be snuck through late at night (1:00 AM Monday morning following an effective news blackout over the weekend) after Senators were held in Washington over their Christmas holiday (final vote is scheduled for Christmas Eve) and even Democrats who can hardly find the nerve to even consider the possibility of thinking a potential thought that could be considered slightly negative about the Great Dictator had to be bought off with MASSIVE bribes. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have both admitted that this bill alone will be responsible for Democrats losing seats and possibly the majority in 2010, and have admitted that they, themselves, may lose their highly coveted leadership positions over the bill. So what is so compelling about it – besides the fact that it is another big smooch on Obama’s ass?
It enslaves ALL Americans to an all-powerful federal tyranny. The federal government will be able to dictate what we do, how we do it, and IF we are to be permitted to get treatment for ailments/injuries! Harry Reid even threw in an amendment (that no one was permitted to read before voting, of course) that locks down the “death panels” – the “Independent Medical Advisory Board” that determines whether or not you can receive treatment – so that no future congress can amend or repeal the section of the bill that defines them. And while he was at it, he modified a number of Senate rules (which by Senate rule takes 67 votes instead of the 60 he used). Of course that is unconstitutional, but then, so is EVERYTHING else in this bill and virtually everything that has been done since Democrats took the majorities in 2008.
We are no longer a Representative Republic. Our Democrat representatives no longer even try to hide their unwillingness to consider their constituents. (Both my Democrat congressman and my Democrat senator have admitted deluding themselves that 80-plus percent opinion against them only means that their supporters didn’t bother calling and they MUST outnumber the dissenters. “They just must.” I could almost hear them stomping their little foot in little-girl-tantrum style at the other end of the townhall cop-out…er…teleconferences.) Our constitution is null and void when congress completely ignores it and the REgressives hold a majority on the Supreme Court.
Americans – if that word has any meaning now that we are effectively without Constitution – are you choking yet? If not, what could it possibly take?
