Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is making the rounds again. She appeared on Sunday on TV, where she gave herself an ‘A’ for effort over last’s legislative accomplishments. She even thinks the Tea Party movement and her are on the same page! Nancy? Are you serious??? This gal is totally out to lunch. The only time she should be let out of a straight jacket is for basket weaving class, and even then she should still wear a muzzle!
Health care is back on the plate this week, or should I say, still on the plate. It’s been there for how long now? Ten? Twelve months? I’ve lost count. Dr. Obama is said to be releasing yet another scheme on Thursday. Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, is preparing to cajole her House Democrat caucus to adopt the Senate version of health care and then force the Senate to vote using reconciliation for adding pet items that Pelosi wants.
Reconciliation was originally conceived by 1974 to deal with budgetary minutia. It’s a procedural method allowing the Senate to pass minor changes by a simple majority vote and prevent filibusters from delaying votes. But, as with all things in Washington, it was abused. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) put an additional rule on the use of reconciliation in 1985 to limit it’s use to those items with terms of 10 years or less. In 1993, President Clinton wanted to use reconciliation to pass his health care initiative, but Byrd objected saying it was out of bounds.
George W. Bush used reconciliation for passing his tax cuts, which is why they were scheduled to end after 10 years, to fall within the Byrd Rule.
Obama, Pelosi and Harry Reid are planning on using it now for their complete overhaul of the nation’s health care system. Despite having large enough majorities to pass it the normal way last year, a lack of leadership and prevailing corruption led it’s failure. The American people have voiced their opposition, which has been building steadily since last summer. A recent CNN poll shows barely 25% support the Democrat legislation. An equal number want it trashed and most of the rest want a whole new reform bill started over from scratch. Oddly enough, a recent Rasmussen poll shows only 25% think that Washington has any legitimacy. The rest think our leaders are completely on the wrong track.
This does not bode well at all for us. Washington is taking us down a course which will end in disaster. There is simply no way that Obama and the Democrats can add 30 million people to the health care system and reduce deficit spending. The Democrats have become a party of lunatics. Their new symbol ought to be the Moonites, those crazy bad guys from Cartoon Network’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”. Obama and Pelosi make about as much sense as Ignignokt and Err!
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:47 am
SInce they are attaching “budget” to their Health Care Destruction of America Package, the Dems feel it makes it alright to ram this thing through.
Have you ever seen movies with prison sex? Ouch.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 am
No, Don,
I’m not ‘into’ prison sex films. But I get the analogy. I used to have this recurring dream as a child of seeing friends of mine sitting on some railroad tracks. Right next to them was a locomotive belching steam and noise, moving ever so slowly towards them. I’d scream and yell for them to get out of the way. But they were as oblivious to me as they were to the coming train.
Watching events unfold the last couple of years, really the last couple decades, just gnaws at me. A lot of people are running to China, Belize, etc, thinking they’ll be safer there when the whip comes down. I doubt it very much. When ‘The System’ crashes in America, everybody else will crash, too. I think the key is now to figure out who can recover and rebound faster. Call me an optimist, I think America still has the best chance to that. Honest money and the Constitution will work if allowed to.
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:47 am
Our health care system is not broken. Lets make health care affordable so most can pay their way. How? Get the feds out of it. The reason costs keep going up is Washington’s interference. There are 1,300 insurance companies. Let them compete and stop the restrictions. Let the individual state decide how they want the health care system run in their area. This is just a permanent power grap for the Democrats. I never liked Marx’s thinking in college and I still do not like his thinking. The Democrate Health Plan is noting but a Marxist Plot.