Posted on Tuesday, 16th March 2010 by Bruce
What a sick bunch of lying liars. Byron York writes:
“If you have any doubt that the Democratic leadership of the House views passing the current health care reform bill as the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system, just note what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers on Monday. “My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive,” Pelosi said, according to an account by Washington Post reform advocate Ezra Klein. “We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there’ll be more legislation to follow.”Pelosi told the bloggers she favors using the “self-executing rule” strategy in which the House would pass the Senate health care bill without going on the record as specifically voting for it. “I like it,” Pelosi said of the scheme, “because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.”
Pelosi argued that the debate over health care reform can begin after the bill is passed. “Pelosi said passing the bill would allow Dems to undertake a ‘debate’ with Republicans over ‘what is the balanced role that government should have,’” writes another pro-reform blogger at the Post, Greg Sargent. According to Sargent, Pelosi explained, “We have to take it to the American people, to say, this is the choice that you have. This is the vision that they have for your health and well being, and this is the vision that we have.” Again, in Pelosi’s scenario, that debate would occur after the bill is passed.
In the end, the Speaker declared, “I have no intention of not passing this bill.”
So much for that “solid up or down vote” Mr. Obama called for last week, eh? What could possibly be more solid than “deeming” bad legislation into law? This is devolving into outrage.
Writing at NRO, Charles Krauthammer weighs in on the matter:
“This is Alice in Wonderland stuff. This is Twilight Zone. As I read Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, it says a law “shall have passed” the House and the Senate, not “shall have been deemed to have passed.”It’s [being done] because here the Democrats are about to change one-sixth of the American economy and demanding ostensibly an up-or-down vote — but are so unwilling to actually have it voted on, that they want to have it deemed accepted in a vote on the rule.
You have an issue of democratic decency: It is rare enough, unusual enough, and really indecent enough to change a sixth of the American economy with a bill that has not a single support from Republicans.
But to do it by a procedure which doesn’t even approve of the bill itself is simply staggering.”
Many years from now, when you and your children mark the very moment that your personal freedoms were pried under great protest from your hands, by a group of kleptocrats too tyrannical and power-drunk to care, remember how this happened.
And remember precisely whom it was that did this to you.
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March 16th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
This is just too scary. I cannot BELIEVE that this is what “our” government has come to.
March 16th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Some good news:
The thought that it would get to that point is… Sad… And infuriating.
March 17th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
What do you think young people in their teens and 20’s see our government as? I mean this is business as usual in their eyes. Much like a President getting blow jobs in the Oval office and lying to Grand Juries is no abnormal to them.
Our children and young people are being raised in an environment that is very very unhealthy.
March 17th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Other News of note:
New England Journal of Medicine: 46.3 percent of primary-care physicians “feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine”.
I Will Not Comply - John Hood (via NRO The Corner)
Laura Ingraham’s
Fun With The Census (Ok this has nothing to do with health care, unless one considers fed funding direction, but I did exactly this yesterday).
March 17th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Even Chris Mathews is breaking bad on Dems plan to pull an unconstitutional trick.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
h/t: James T.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Wow, this bunch of lying liars has even lost MSNBC.
What the hell does that say about what the rest of us have been preaching all along? If this were any country other than couch-potato, post-Clinton USA, and once-proud people who had once known personal liberty were having it ripped from their hands, there’d be riots in the streets.
The fight for civil rights boiled over with marches, and torches, and violence, and bloodshed. Isn’t personal freedom a “civil right?” It used to be. I’m not sure when the rest of you forgot what got us that freedom we once knew.
How twisted is it that these power-drunk elitists, who have always championed “choice,” are going to rob you of “choice” over your personal well-being, against the will of the people, using schemes and smoke and mirrors, and there isn’t a god-damned thing you can do about it?
You stupid, pathetic hand-out losers who voted for these corrupt bastards deserve all the blame. You are larcenous suckers who allowed yourselves to be used as political pawns by a bunch of tyrannical kleptocrats who loathe your very existence, yet purport to know “what’s best for you.”
You didn’t even demand to get kissed before the rest of us got fucked. Nicely done.