I just added my vote to a MSNBC Poll. In case you had to be reminded, MSNBC is the voice of the Far Left.
Anyway, the results are showing a remarkably strong disdain for being told that Washington Knows Best.
Wow! The Angry’s outweighed the Exciteds by 2.5 to 1!
Consistent with the thesis that Obama and crew just don’t care about the mood of the public, this is a another factoid that will certainly spell doom for the Dems in November.
The ramrodding of the health care bill in the House last night will embolden and invigorate the radicals, as I predicted months ago (Earthquake in Mass! Will Obama Listen, or Double Down?)
… the Dem leadership will not take this as a warning shot for the November mid-terms, but will double-down their bets — press healthcare harder, and push more of their leftist program. (After all, they are smarter than the rest of us. We just don’t understand as well as they do!)
All the revulsion from the Christmas eve Senate bill … that swept Scott Brown into office … All the outrage from the (“little”) people …. meant NOTHING to alter the radical agenda Obama and his commune have for the country.
So it is time to reflect and review our Rules for Radicals, the published user’s manual for the Obama cabal. What rules did they use to push this one through?
Ah! Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Never let up. I’d had to award full marks to Pelosi and Obama for never believing they couldn’t use the power to persuade, bribe or otherwise entice members to vote against the will of the people.
“Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)”
What went wrong? Dan Perrin tells us this morning that Stupak lied. Until the final moment, Stupak gave no indication that he and the other pro-life members had a deal. Of course, some members got water, some get a hospital, and some get to keep their bank …
AS GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER THE ENTIRE STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM!
I need a day to think about all this … but I am convinced we will see the radical left GROW in intensity. Will we see an anesty program? We WILL see the health care bill being sold like it was something everyone wanted and will enjoy for decades to come.
We will see spending discipline (what’s that?) disappear as the “savings” are spent on the doctor fix and whatever other program floats into the empty skulls of shot in Washington.
A sad day for freedom as the socialists win a battle …. But not the war!
Nancy Pelosi is reported to be scheduling a vote on the Slaughter rule: where a rule vote will consider the Senate bill a passed bill, WITH AMENDMENTS!
This is reported in last night’s RedState briefing under the ominous title: Constitution Be Damned – ObamaCare Vote Next Week.
If you haven’t been concerned about this very unsavory process up until now, you should be. The constitution is clear:
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.
If these maneuvers by the White House and Pelosi are pushed into the Senate, the Parliamentarian must rule them out of order.
At that point, Vice President Biden can overrule the Senate parliamentarian. As Charles Krauthammer states:
But if he does that, that’s not a nuclear option. That’s a thermonuclear option. That’s Krakatoa. That’s 100 megatons.
That will be a catastrophe if it is seen that the bill is pushed through by overruling a ruling of the neutral parliamentarian and passing what would otherwise be illegal.
Jimmy Gee made some scarey comments on the RedState Article:
I now understand why Obama used the State of the Union Address to ridicule the Supreme Court of the United States. He is trying to use Alinsky tactics to marginalize the Supreme Court of the United States; Obama knows full well that this unconstitutional power-grab will not stand and that they will be deciding on numerous parts of it this year. This will make the Gore/Bush election debacle look like a girl scout meeting!
As a nurse, I fear that once this becomes law, Obama, will soon after HCR is passed, will federalize all health care workers and put them under the SEIU. We will be forced to pay union dues to the SEIU.
Something else I fear. Someone is going to be killed in this mess. Some Senator, or Congressman will be shot at a town-hall, or even while out for pizza with their family. I fear something akin to the riots of the 1960’s.
But what I fear most, is that if the democrats get this bill through, and successfully pass it, they can, and will, do anything else they want to do.
But what they don’t understand is this; they see this as a means to continuous political power for how ever the United States exists. We, the people, see this as the death of the Constitution and the death of the United States.
Never corner a caged animal…you have not idea the fight in them!
This will end badly…
Obama, like all “progressives” (formerly known as avowed socialists), believes in rule by an elite class.
An IBD column yesterday has some stunning quotes, dug up by George Will.
Professor Obama, who will seek re-election on the 100th anniversary of Wilson’s 1912 election, understands, which makes him melancholy. Speaking to Katie Couric on Feb. 7, Obama said:
“I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn’t have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go ahead and have that passed. But that’s not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people.”
Note his aesthetic criterion of elegance, by which he probably means sublime complexity.
This reminded me of a political conversation with a friend of mine, who strongly felt that government should be run by PhD’s only. Well folks, this is what we have got!
Obama regularly lectures us on the right answer. He tells us where we and his opponents are wrong. He does not like having to explain his reasons to the “little people”.
Obama wants to “fundamentally change” America .. even if he can’t get the votes fair and square through the Senate and House.
Vote “no” for health care reconciliation. Vote YES for America!
Nancy Pelosi said, “But we have to pass the [health care ] bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
