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The other day a woman in South Carolina asked the president at a town hall meeting if it was such a good idea to raise taxes for his health care plan in these difficult economic times. According to Anne Kornblut of the Washington Post, the president embarked on a rambling 17 minute, 2500 word answer to this question spewing factoids and statistics and causing glazed eyes in the audience. 

 How typical for this administration. They are masters at filibustering things. Remember poor Bret Baier who interviewed the president on Fox news several weeks back? He had to constantly interrupt the president to try to get him to answer a question and stop giving speeches.  The video below is a 6 minute snippet of his answer… the first 6 of 18 minutes . As you can see, in this piece the president did not answer the woman’s question at all. But then this is so typical of avoiding hard questions.  Thankfully there are some in the media who are on to this tactic. Too bad many Americans cant see him for what he really is: a  political lightweight who is way over his head in this office.  See for yourself and you be the judge.  Oh, and no teleprompter.

I am proud to say that the attorney general of our state is joining nine other attorneys general in a challenge to the bloated  health care extravaganza . That bill  was bought with our tax money in the form of bribes and kickbacks. Kudos to him for standing up for what is right and attempting to protect constitutional safeguards against an ever encroaching government takeover.

  Like many, I am truly saddened by the 219 members of congress who defied the will of the American people yesterday. They have to know this was a horrible mistake on multiple levels. Yet they knowingly voted for something that poses a significant threat to the future of our country. Where is the courage anymore? Thankfully, there are still some in government who will not shirk from defending liberty. Our attorney general is one. Thank you

The democrats say yesterday’s vote on health care was historic… just like Pearl Harbor was historic! I am ashamed that this is what the Democrat controlled congress of the United States has come to: to use whatever means necessary to enact bad legislation just so they could claim a victory. There was no bipartisanship except for the democrats who joined republicans in trying to stop it. The democrats don’t know what is in the bill; if the senate will pass their hoped for fixes; how much it will really cost; or even if it is constitutional. But that didn’t matter to Queen Pelosi, carrying what looked like a sledge hammer, arrogantly parading arm in arm with sixties era civil rights leaders to the vote.
What a sad day for our country that intellectual pygmies are in charge, led by egotist in chief Barack Hossein Obama. Their goal is a major transformation of our country in their image. With the help of god they can be stopped in November before they do even more damage, But unfortunately November is a long way off.

I have read many of the postmortems since last night, and want to share an editorial in today’s Washington Times. I think it sums up the situation the best.

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The government takeover of health care will go down in history as the worst piece of legislation to emerge from a Congress held in general disdain by the American people. The only bipartisanship on the health bill was in the opposition.

Usually autopsies are reserved for after the patient has died, but in this case it is useful to get ahead of the matter. The malformed health legislation is not the only reason Democrats are facing political extinction in November, but it is one of the most dramatic. The legislative process in this country has never been so unseemly. Arm twisting, backroom deals, special privileges and potentially criminal “government jobs for votes” agreements became a normal way of doing business. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fixated on the mantra that the Democrats’ health plan is “historic,” but so was the Black Plague.

President Obama went to Capitol Hill on Saturday to give a final pep talk to Democrats, where he absurdly called his socialist health care measure “one of the biggest deficit reduction measures in history.” This contradicts the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who says his staff currently has no idea what the impact of the plan is “due to the complexity of the legislation.” Democrats have been hoodwinked into believing they won’t pay a political price for their actions, but they will soon discover they miscalculated.

The new system will suffer a tsunami of bad publicity when states sue the federal government over unfunded mandates, when the IRS begins enforcing the aspects of the bill that voters never knew existed, when small businesses start firing employees because they cannot afford the higher costs of the new system, when new and unforeseen costs blow out the already record federal budget deficit, and when seniors begin to feel the impact of Medicare cuts. All of this is what Mr. Obama euphemistically calls “bending the curve” but which seniors will find out is better termed “denial of care.” Whether the formal “death panels” will convene before the November elections is still to be determined.

Many members of Congress probably don’t know exactly what is in the bill. The 2,300 pages of “fixes” to the Senate bill presented last week were only a draft, and no member can be certain what has been slipped in. A frantic Democratic Party memo sent out Thursday instructed members — twice, in italics — not to “get into a discussion of details of the [Congressional Budget Office] scores and the textual narrative” with the bill’s opponents. But the devil was in those details. Mrs. Pelosi’s offhand statement that members would learn what was in the bill after it was passed should have been a warning.

The majority party was even having problems over the weekend determining if they could vote to amend a law before it was signed by the president. It is a sad day for America when senior members of Congress either dont understand the Constitution or no longer think it applies.

Democrats in Congress refuse to believe the contempt with which the American people hold them. Gallup shows congressional approval ratings in the teens and headed downward. Gallup also found that “more Americans believe the new legislation will make things worse rather than better for the U.S. as a whole, as well as for them personally.”

Democrats are in much worse shape than in 1994 when they lost power, and the opposition is far more energized. Once voters have a chance to tell the most irresponsible government in American history that enough is enough, the Democrats’ brief reign will expire, and be deemed death by suicide.