This is the face of the true enemy of freedom in this country.
The Democrats have decided that any semblance of debate regarding the facts of any topic is too much trouble. Instead rank name calling is the order of the day. There was a time when this sort of thing was done by activists in order to rabble rouse. Now the party is cutting out the middleman, and Democrat Senators are engaging in empty, banal, name calling — on the floor of the senate.
If you are against the government take over of 1/6th of the economy, you are a racist. Really? If you are against a 2000 page bill getting voted on w/o anyone taking the time to understand what is involved, you are a member of the Aryans? The second worst thing that can happen to the Democrats is failure to pass this bill. The worst thing is them succeeding in this kleptocratic effort. This mess is that bad.
The bill is unconstitutional. The federal government does not have the power to force people to buy a product. The 14th amendment demands that federal laws apply equally to all individuals. That means the amendment to the H.C .bill where Nebraska is exempt from paying in perpetuity its share of the Federal Health care is unconstitutional on its face. Noting the blatant illegality of this bill, and the fraud it is perpetrating on the American people will no doubt be called racist, homophobic, bigoted, fattening and will cause the polar ice caps to melt. The correct answer to this level of debate is, “I know you are, but what am I?!”
The best part of this is that we now have it in the congressional record that the Democrats have crafted a bill to kill the insurance industry. They denied it at first, and wrapped their rhetoric in business model talk — cost savings, consumer choice etc. Lying through their teeth they claimed this is a market based solution. How can that be if you are killing the market? Oh! Is that question racist?
In Virginia we suffer under the presence of Warner and Webb in the U.S.Senate. Bad enough, but the November 2009 elections gave us hope for our own future. Imagine being in Rhode Island and having as your senator a total moron like Sheldon Whitehead — with little hope for the future. There is bad, and there is worse.
I go back a long ways. As a young kid I rode around town on my Schwinn bike delivering campaign posters for Ike during his re-election effort against Adlai Stevenson. I have since had nearly thirty years of being an employee of the Federal Government both in Washington and overseas. I worked for seven different presidents.
I have never, ever felt such despair for the future of this country as I do now. Lunacy reigns in the halls of government. The Constitution and the Will of the People mean nothing to these lunatics. Power is their only by-word.
It is imperative that we fight back with power — the only thing they understand. 230 years of history, and it seems to have come down to one congressional election in 2010. In my opinion, if we do not unite as one solid electoral force and take power away from these lunatics, our freedoms will not survive.
Those of us who continue to rancorously criticize certain aspects of the political philosophies of members of our own team are contributing naught but discord, and discord is the seed of defeat. Yes, we have the inalienable right to speak; but there comes a time when we must also have the wisdom to know when our speech is harming rather than aiding the joint effort. A wise man knows when it is time to shut up and lock and load with the rest of his comrades in the trench.
Agreed on every point, Wolv.
When I think of those who couldn’t be bothered to turn out because they were busy, or didn’t care all that much for McCain, so stayed home, or voted for Barkley (3rd party candidate) as a “protest”, and so gave us the national humiliation of “Senator Al Franken”, it makes my head hurt. A paltry few hundred, that’s all it took, to not show up, and sold us all out.
The diaper-wearing Senator gave the Democrat Party the final nail for our collective coffins – an unshakable 60-vote majority in the Senate, to go along with the House and the White House.
If they choose to proclaim the moon is green cheese, how are we to stop it? Cap-and-Trade, Amnesty for Illegals, Single-Payer, elevation of “President Obama” to “Caesar Augustus”, who knows what’s next on their agenda?
We’ve given them the keys to our country, with no brakes, no fetters, nothing to prevent the current administration from destroying or forever perverting what many of us thought was best about our country.
A year ago, we had a lot of people sniffing that they didn’t want to vote for the lesser of two evils, that John McCain wasn’t [blank] enough for them, and so stayed home. All those people who said “Gee, maybe it *is* time for a change.” How’s that working out for you now?
Me, I’d happily accept “the lesser of the current evil” — there’s much to be said for a split system.
In less than a year, we have a chance to stem the tide. But if next year’s election isn’t a complete thrashing, a total repudiation of this Congress’s work, if it just maintains the status quo, the Democrats will take this as a sign that they’re on the right track, and ever more far-reaching legislation won’t be far behind.
So, 2010 mid-terms will, without hyperbole, be the most important elections in our lifetimes; let’s not waste time, energy, and effort in internal dissent, and who’s [blank] enough, and who isn’t.
I guarantee you there will be plenty of Democratic operatives attempting (continuing) to do that on a daily basis, to create schisms in their opposition, whether (I), (R), or (T)ea Party. They’ve been quite successful at that in recent years, and we’ve got to be more disciplined and stop falling for it, over and over and over again.
” A wise man knows when it is time to shut up and lock and load…” — that’s damn right.
We cannot even stop them in the Supreme Court. If the Court overturns this, they will just expand the Court to 11, as FDR threatened to do to get the New Deal through the Court.
“We cannot even stop them in the Supreme Court.”
I humbly submit, yes we can. If the court were to overturn this, Congress would have to go back to the drawing board in an election year. I believe many in Congress are counting on the short memories of many American voters.
“If the court were to overturn this, Congress would have to go back to the drawing board in an election year. I believe many in Congress are counting on the short memories of many American voters.”
Heh, the funny/sad thing is that, there are likely Democrats who are secretly hoping for just that result – then, they can claim they passed “Free Healthcare for Everyone” and everything would’ve been glorious if it weren’t for those dastardly Republicans and their flesh-eating minions – but re-elect them, and they’ll show them obstructionists a thing or two …
… and millions of glassy-eyed Americans would nod slowly in agreement, thinking “Hey, I want *my* free lunch, too!” as they shoved another government-bought Twinkie into their gullet …
I love this new feature that hides the author until you click on the comments. I find myself guessing who wrote it on the merit of the argument.
jacob, I’m not sure what the case is that you’re making. I think his statement is ridiculous politics. But I can’t tell if at least part of your argument is too or if you just see race in everything.
If it’s part of the repub machine now to start accusing all dissent to repub dissent as griping about racism then it’s just politics. If it’s not, I wonder why the mere mention of Aryan whatchamacallits inflames you most of the list of names he listed: hystericals, right wing militias, birthers, fanatics. . .
“to break the momentum of our new young president” I think was the statement he made. Not “new black president”, not “black young president”, not “new African-American president”. . .
You appear to be either endorsing, unintentionally, that all of those groups have racist motivations
or
You are simply attempting to inflame with some off topic repub rhetoric to match his ridiculous democrap rhetoric.
I would agree with you that the real issue indeed is the bill!!
Let’s recap just a bit here:
1. The Democratic Party in the Senate writes a 2100 page bill designed to alter fudamentally virtually every aspect of health care and health care insurance in this country. Contrary to the campaign and subsequent promises of their own President vis-a-vis “transparency” in governance, none of us are allowed to see precisely what is in that bill. All we get are bits and pieces resulting from limited reporting on the clashes in the Senate.
2. In order to be able to submit this bill successfully for cloture, certain amendments are made to satisfy the objections of key Democrats. Sounds good until we find out that these same Democrats have been for all intents and purposes politically bribed to change their stances — so blatantly bribed that one state governor has proclaimed himself and his people embarrassed at receiving special,under-the-table favors not available to other states. The bribed and outed senator himself is now making noises about asking for a cancellation of the bribe.
3. The amended 2100-page bill is than placed on the table before the Senate only a couple of days before the scheduled cloture vote. Again, few, if any, have had a chance to digest and debate the original bill, much less the last-minute version actually in front of the Senate. Cloture is achieved in a late-night straight party vote. (Reminds you of that old “midnight judges” thing which was once part of our early political system.) In other words, the Senate is asked to vote nearly blind for cloture on a bill in which the precise elements are still kept secret from the American people.
4. Now we find, thanks to Sen. Demint, that in that bill are clauses which require that any future amendment or other changes to certain key sections of the bill will require a two-thirds vote in the Senate. Not only that, but the Senate is trying to impose this same rule on the House of Representatives. In other words, the Senate Democrats are writing a sort of constitution within the Constitution which would limit the rights of any future Senate or House to change these portions of the health care system imposed upon us all.
5. About to impose the will of liberals on an entire country and facing polls showing the American people do not want this thing, Harry Reid goes to the well of the Senate and asks a la Rodney King: “Can’t we all get along?” Translation: “Smile and call me sweetheart while while I stick a shiv in your back.”
This has gone past liberal lunacy. It is now in the realm of an outright trampling on the rights of the people of this country which matches up quite well with the common practices of many of the totalitarian states in which I have lived and worked personally. It makes use of the common totalitarian tactic of the veneer of a phony legislative system which screws the people in the name of the people, all at the backroom whims of a small group or a single person in real control of the technical levers of political power. And how do they try to sell this thing after the fact to the populace? Easy: Here’s a free lunch.
Let us put aside for the moment the contents of this bill and address just the process unfolding before us. If you are willing to support this process or just turn your back on these dangerous shenanigans by an out-of-control political majority, you are, in the opinion of this American, one of those willing to sell your sacred political rights and liberties like a cheap whore.
Woof, c’mon. You know you’re just against it cuz he’s black
Yup. We opposed Clintoncare when Bill and Hill tried it.
Again, with America’s FIRST black pres.
Exactly.
Kevin,
“But I can’t tell if at least part of your argument is too or if you just see race in everything.”
You got it 180 deg. off. The Senator see race in everything. I am pointing that out.
I see my opposition as one who does NOT want government control of HC because the government can’t even handle the simple crap.
The Senator see’s opposition to this steaming pile of a bill as a means of attacking Barak Obama due to racial bias. My internal reaction to being called a racist over a policy matter is visceral. My exterenal is to point out what a ridiculous ass the Senator from RI is.
If anyone here knows what actually caused the American Revolution, our fore-fathers were ticked off for what they believed was heinous behaviour and loss of liberty. What is happening here is about 100 times worse and would force the ire long ago of our fore-fathers into action. Hence why they had a revolution and hence why we are ALLOWED to have another. When you beat around the bush and say things will get better or we can vote them out next time or let logical head rules; you show nothing but cowardice. As the saying goes-talk is cheap. You get this governments’ attention when you have a special election for state representatives because of a petition for a vote of no confidence. You get this governments’ attention when you bring criminal charges to EACH member of Congress that tramps and transgresses the Constitution which is a violation of their SWORN oathe of office. You get this governments’ attention when you seriously put forth measures for secession from this “bogus” union. And you get this governments’ attention when you march down the streets YOU own in D.C., walk into the capitol that YOU own, drag the rascals out into the street and flogg them and run them out of town. If that fails then it surely is time to start the second revolution. This talk isn’t about sedition-it’s about your Constitutional rights.
Wolverine laid it all out. It’s a disgusting mess.
At first I thought Whitehouse’s rant was directed at conservatives. Then, last night I heard Michael Brown (Dem. Strategist) claim that the black male unemployment rate was probably exaggerated. I was blown away to hear a Dem. make such a statement. It was eye-opening. Now, I firmly believe Whitehouse, Brown, and most other Democrats who try to raise the spectre of racism at the drop of a hat are really about the business of controlling liberals almost as much as they’re interested in putting conservatives on the defensive. Democrats have become expert at playing racial politics. They’ve had lots of practice.
Congress and the senate will continue to keep their current cadillac health care plan, they will not be included in the corrupt plan they devised, hmm, I wonder why?
Nothng in the plan would take effect before the next election, hmm, I wonder why?
Nah, Kev, the guy’s color has nothing to do with it. I’m against this bill because Obama’s ears are too big. I have a reputation as a big ear bigot — except for elephants. I like elephants. Of course, old Zimzo will soon be calling me an “earacist.”
Anyway, Kev, stand by to get screwed by this Hill crowd — along with all the rest of us. And, whatever you do, don’t get sick after 2014.
Urgent: Each member of congress and the senate should be required to take a drug test and have a complete background check and polygraph and mental stability testing. Additionaly, limit terms for all.
We require other agencies such as police officers to submit to the above, these lunatics are making decisions that affect our lives and the lives of our children whether it is health care, immigration, taxes, spending, wars, etc.
I agree HE!
Just read that Fannie & Freddie CEOs’ pay and bonus info. was released today (Christmas Eve disclosures are even better than late Friday night disclosures): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126166298621704303.html?mod=djemTAR
If you oppose their new benefit structure, you’re a racist (at least according to the Dems.)
The background checks, mental stability tests, and polygraphs should probably be given to all top officials, not just elected officials. Tax cheat Timothy Geithner would have been caught before he become head of the Treasury Dept.
Oh, and did I say that Sheldon Whitehouse is an idiot? I meant to say that earlier, but got caught up in the whole “you’re in league with Aryans if you don’t bow to Obama” thing.
Whoeee! A cool $6 million per year for the Fannie and Freddie CEO’s. Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama Administration.