Liberty MavenDemocrats readying bribes to get 60 votes on health care reform
November 30th, 2009 8:00 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Big Government, Civil Liberties, Commentary, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Individual Responsibility, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Politics, War, congress | 0
Let the bribes begin! Health care debate begins today at 3pm in the U.S. Senate. There was probably a time (likely before I was born) when our lawmakers weren’t so blatant and open about bribing for votes. In some ways it is refreshing (at least they are open about it). Mostly it is just sickening.
Details of the “mock” debate and the real bribery that is about to happen can be found in this nice overview from The Politico:
After months of buildup, the historic debate on health care reform opens on the Senate floor Monday — but the C-SPAN cameras won’t see the real action.
The next phase in the Democrats’ health care push will be waged in the privacy of the Senate leadership office, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will attempt to do something that has eluded him all year: negotiate a compromise on the public insurance option that can garner 60 votes and win over a public still leery of reform.
That is one thing I think the article got wrong. There will be no effort to win over the public. There will only be an effort to get 60 votes. They are stricken with Obama-induced tunnel vision. Meanwhile Obama is ready to send more troops to die… er uh.. I mean to “finish the job” in Afghanistan. The Democrats are spineless. If they had any guts they’d hold up the health care debate until Obama stops acting like Bush on foreign interventionism. Also, why the hell aren’t they making a big stink about Obama pushing to keep the evil portions of the Patriot Act the law of the land?
If the tea parties are to really mean something we need to start seeing the stupid Obama-Hitler signs replaced by signs that say something like:
Democrats suck, Republicans suck. Who speaks for Liberty?
100 years ago America’s leaders entered the bathroom and began soiling the Constitution in earnest. With Bush and now Obama, the toilet has been flushed and the water-logged Constitution is spinning down the drain.
The soul of America is withering toward its end. America is on its death bed barely breathing. Don’t give America a chance to whisper her last words. Stand up and act up. Remember…
Friends don’t let friends make laws while drunk on government power.
