Much has been made about how Democrats are committing political suicide with the healthcare bill and all the other onerous legislation they have proposed and/or passed this year. There is no mistaking that these actions are extremely unpopular. The widespread uncertainty they have fostered in the business community by coupling job-killing legislation and talk of big tax increases with unprecedented, reckless deficit spending has kept our economy at a virtual standstill. And their insulting, arrogant, dishonest and blatantly corrupt behavior has brought citizen concern and anger to a fever pitch, while Democrat poll numbers plummet.
But those who believe in this "Democrat suicide" model implicitly assume next November's elections will be free and fair. Given ACORN’s antics, Democrat Secretaries of State literally stealing elections, shocking abuses of power by Democrats in Congress and the administration, the blatant thuggery of SEIU and other union activists, while the media covers for them, such an assumption is fairy tale fantasy. It would be funny to think some people actually have that much faith in Democrats, if the implications weren't so disastrous. As it is, one can only cry.
Some of us believe this "Democrat suicide" to be a reason for greater concern rather than less. Since FDR, Democrat politicians have demonstrated themselves to be selfish in the extreme, throwing friends under the bus, lying in public, buying voters with vast spending programs that commit government to ever growing expenditures, while the programs themselves prove unfettered disasters; whatever is necessary to accomplish their goals. It is difficult to square this observed behavior with the notion that they would suddenly be running off the cliff like a bunch of lemmings just to pass healthcare in time for Christmas.
It is therefore much more likely that their corruption, their despicable, insulting tactics and breathtaking dishonesty comes of an ominous foreknowledge. We know, for example, that much of the "Stimulus" money is only stimulating Democrats. Despite the supposed focus on “shovel-ready” projects, only 7 percent of the $787 billion in the first Stimulus bill actually was slated for such projects. But when fellow Democrat Peter DeFazio pointed this out, Obama’s answer was, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” One can assume a similar attitude drives the auto and banking industry "bailouts," and just about every other piece of legislation. Post bailout, for example, UAW workers pay nothing for a Cadillac healthcare plan now that GM is underwritten by We the People.
We have never before witnessed such brazen corruption. Consider the award of almost $6 million in “Stimulus” monies to companies run by former Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn, supposedly to save three jobs. According to The Hill, Clinton still owes Penn $1 million for her 2008 campaign. Looks like we taxpayers are covering that now too.
The Obamacare health travesty bill voted on in the wee hours Monday night contains a laundry list of Senate buy-offs, of which Senator Ben Nelson’s (D-NB) $100 million Medicare exclusion for the state of Nebraska is only one. Chris Dodd, facing a daunting re-election battle in Connecticut, got a similar amount for his state, presumably to improve his chances. There are many others. Lindsay Graham, the usually collegial Senator from South Carolina calls the bill “…one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in the history of Washington.” And as if the Democrats couldn't’t do more, we now learn this version of the bill allows for covering illegals.
The largest three kickbacks in the Senate bill total $1.2 billion. Sounds like a lot of money with which to bribe voters. But what will it mean when trillions of dollars in “Stimulus I” and “Stimulus II” (just passed in the House of Representatives) are applied to election contests? Are Democrats overconfident? One can only hope. But if past is prologue, it is a dim hope, at best.
And it gets even worse. After all the secrecy, after blatantly violating sacrosanct Senate rules, after buying off Senators to get their support, Senator Harry Reid’s bill includes a section that will require a super-majority (i.e. two-thirds) of Senators to change any rules relevant to decisions made by the “Independent Medicare Advisory Boards,” aka “Death Panels.” As Redstate reports, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) objected that any language requiring a super-majority vote must be approved by a two-thirds majority. For the second time, the Senate presiding officer brushed aside standing Senate rules and said they didn’t apply. This happened today.
Even a former mobster is comparing Obama and Democrats to the Mafia. A post at Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiller contained the following quote, which seems to sum up the issue quite well:
The Left has no intention of giving up power. But they act consistently and almost unanimously in ways that leaving [sic] me biting my tongue to find ways of describing it in this forum, and actively infuriating huge swathes of the American people. If there are honest elections a whole bunch of them are going to lose power, quite possibly enough to take them out of control of the government.
Politicians in a group when they act consistently and anomalously against what would seem to be their own interests, are usually operating on information not available to anyone else. One also has to add to the mix the question why the Republicans as a party are only offering token opposition to the Democrats, when standing up would rally support to them? What do they know?
When you rule out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, has to be considered. The only thing that remains, that I can see, is that no matter what they do, they no longer have any fear of facing the voters in an honest election. The specific mechanisms and basis for that confidence have yet to be determined. If anyone has a convincing alternative explanation that fits the data; I would gladly entertain it. I really would like to be able to accept an alternative that bodes better for our country, our Constitution, and the future of my children.
In mind of this, two more pieces of legislation have come to light which promise more devastation to our country, more government control, and even more promising prospects for Democrats to extort votes in 2010.
The first is Barney Frank's financial overhaul bill. Michelle Bachman (R-MN) claims it is even worse than the healthcare bill. Michelle tends to shoot from the hip, and sometimes opens herself to criticism as a result, but her assessment of the Frank bill appears to be on the money.
The second is a new illegal immigrant amnesty bill that will flood voter rolls with tens of millions of new Democrat voters, if passed. Anyone want to bet on their chances of getting it through? And we still have eleven months to go… This nonstop blizzard of society-wrecking legislation continues to follow the Manufactured Crisis format, for anyone still in the dark about it.
In order to win next November, Republican candidates will have to win with vast majorities just to overcome Democrat vote fraud. Democrats will doubtless call it "vote rigging" if Republicans win with big margins and do whatever they can to discredit the results. For close races it will be scorched earth tactics like they used in Florida’s 2004 presidential race.
But Democrats will have an added advantage because they have also been busy stacking the deck using the so-called "SOS Project." This George Soros-funded initiative strives to elect sympathetic Secretaries of State as they already have in Minnesota.
Finally, Obama has gotten four sympathetic “technical advisors” appointed to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. One of these, Edwin Smith, VP of Dominion Voting Systems, has been called a “scammer” by the Brad Blog, know for its expertise on e-voting machines. Brad Blog describes Smith thusly: "This isn't just the Fox in the Hen House. This is the Fox who has already devoured every Hen in the House, in the Hen House. With feathers in his mouth and a sub-machine gun in his hands."
Smith is a former VP at Sequoia Voting Systems, a producer of voting machines that failed during New Jersey’s 2008 elections. Sequoia had been owned by Smartmatic, a Venezuela-based company tied to the Chavez government and suspected of rigging the Venezuelan vote for President Hugo Chavez. Smartmatic was forced to sell off Sequoia after an investigation by the U.S. Treasury and State Departments in 2006, but Sequoia’s software is still owned by Smartmatic. Smartmatic in turn, got its technology from Dominion, Smith's latest employer.
If all this fails, it is not inconceivable that they would take some more blatant extra-legal step, to shut down, postpone or otherwise nullify election results. If this sounds too extreme, consider: the Democrats are staking their future on a legislative, rhetorical and legal strategy that is alienating the entire country.
Are they really that stupid?
UPDATE: There appears to be a movement already afoot among some states to nullify any healthcare measure that comes out of this Congress. Nullification is an innovative Constitutional strategy states may use to neutralize onerous federal law the state believes to be unconstitutional. This comes out of the nascent 10th Amendment movement within some states to reassert authority that the federal government has been undermining for a long time. It is nice to be able to offer this positive bit of news as Christmas approaches, given Congressional Democrats' apparent determination to play the Grinch and wreak as much havoc as possible in this Christmas season.
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And if this article doesn't depress you enough read the article below, I've written the website. If we are going to replace these Socialists we need a better plan. You can't fight the gang with rules of engagement. This is the Mafia. Learn the rules of the Mob. You better be 10 steps ahead, a lot smarter and be prepared for a different kind of game plan. All the fancy angry words in Southern gentlemen style of the Republican Senators isn't doing crap.
Obama makes first move to undermine 2010 elections
GETS FORMER SEQUOIA CO. VP NAMED AS ADVISER TO U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION at thepostemail.com
Gotta love the sign behind these fascists! HONEST AND OPEN GOVERNMENT??????? Sure, believe THAT and I have some health insurance for you that will not cost you anything!
Yes, the Democrats know a lot you don't know. In fact, you know very little about the health care system!
Why don't you clue us in Samantha, since you apparently know so much.
Samantha doesn't know anything, she just likes to prove it by shooting her mouth off and making herself look the fool.
Why don't all of you naysayers actually offer some explanation for your claims? Oh that's right I forgot ignorant libtards don't have to explain anything because whatever they say is always truthful! Always quick to bash but never have the balls to back it up. Hey libtards not all of us want your lousy socialist government programs so stop trying to ram this down our throats. We choose to live our lives as we see fit without any government intervention. We can think for ourselves apparently unlike you who can't function without government help and your ignorant group think. You have nothing to offer and are merely a drain on society that literally steals money from those who actually work for to give to those who neither earn it nor deserve it. You are precisely the problem in this country. For those who don't know what libtards means, it is liberally retarded!
I see what Samantha is saying. You don't stay on point at all -- which means you're not discussing specifics of the health care reform bill. You're ranting and raving about everything Obama.
Very appropo since everything Obama has done, or plans to do, is worthy of ranting and raving by anyone who claims to love America!
I completely agree. Jim Harkin (Drudge) is reported as calling the "bribes" as small stuff. They apparently are not worried about their behavior..i.e corruption, bypassing rules of the Senate, no concern about the consitutionality of this reform bill as will as other bills they have passed. We should all be very alarmed!
Samantha,
I know a lot about the health care system, seeing as how I have over a decade of experience working in the health care system. This bill is a nightmare. Socialized medicine is a nightmare. If you think that there are cost overruns and inability to access affordable, effective health care now, just wait until this abomination is forced through. The past few years are going to look like a golden age.
Thank God there are two Senators who are looking out for our founding documents and our last freedoms and liberties.
"Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign (R-Nevada), raised a Constitutional Point of Order on the Senate floor against the Democrat health care takeover bill on behalf of the Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative senators. The Senate will vote tomorrow on the bill’s constitutionality.
“I am incredibly concerned that the Democrats’ proposed individual mandate provision takes away too much freedom and choice from Americans across the country,” said Senator Ensign. “As an American, I felt the obligation to stand up for the individual freedom of every citizen to make their own decision on this issue. I don’t believe Congress has the legal authority to force this mandate on its citizens.”"
michellemalkin.com/2009/12/22/forcing-a-vote-on-demcares-constitutionality/
Tony says: Very appropo since everything Obama has done, or plans to do, is worthy of ranting and raving by anyone who claims to love America!
So if you are against Obama and his policies you hate America?
Why then does Obama hate America? Why did he say this?
"We are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJJP9AYgqU
You do not "fundamentally transform" what you love, only what you despise.
If the Republicans could do better they should have come up with a plan. The last 8 years were devoid of any progress. The health plan Repugnants were pushing recently did not extend coverage beyond people already insured. Some plan!
If they think Obamacare is a bitter pill, they should have worked to produce something better. But they dropped out. Losers!!
Linda:
You need to go back to the very first article I wrote on this, Manufactured Healthcare Crisis, to get the history. Sandra, you need to do the same. Then read the articles I wrote as the plan was developed. They are very detailed.
Finally, you all have to recognize that at its most basic, government was not designed to provide healthcare, good, bad, rich, poor, whatever. It is NOT in our constitution and has no business being a government function, because the economics of it GUARANTEES eventual failure. Did you hear that? GUARANTEES! An unfettered private market, which we have almost NEVER had, would provide a greater level of choices, better healthcare and ultimately at lower cost. THAT is economic reality.
Government, of any kind or at any level, produces no wealth. Therefor, in order to "do" anything, or "give" anything, they must first steal wealth from those who do produce it. In order to steal that wealth, they must use either force or fraud to convince the victims to continue being robbed.
We've seen endless years of fraud. As more people become aware of it - from ALL political parties, I might add - the more the thieves will use force. The proof has been with us for a long time in the "war on drugs, war on guns," and all the rest of the wars on people who do not wish to be cattle.
Isn't it about time the producers decide to be human beings again, instead of tax cows - a herd being kept for the benefit of the politicians and others who receive the stolen goods?
I been saying these progressive democrats think they got sure fire control of the next elections since April of this year. Their complete disregard for public opinion and arrogant attitude coupled with the fact that EVERY ONE of them is a lawyer and seems completely sure they will suffer no backlash convinces me they have it in the bag.
From more than a few states rumors and accusations have surfaced of the blantant poll and voting fraud which makes one think that maybe they already did it once for Obama along with the questionable elections of Ol' Al Franken and that new rep from New York.
I fear only a general uprising will get these usurpers out of office now.
Hearing from simple minded invertebrates that are incapable of any rational thought, let alone a thought of their own is really a bore. A once wonderful nation is being deliberately torn apart
by selfish parasitic animals that do not even care a whit for those of you that they know as "useful idiots". Someone must strive to recover our Constitutional Republic, so, either LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY.
Don't bother responding to me, save your breath, you'll need it to blow up your dates.
Thanks Jim
The democrats have just realized how stupid the American voters really are, and that the stupid are in the majority! The democrat party owns the black population, welfare recipients, union workers, most teachers/professors, atheists, gays, and every unrepentant female who has ever had an abortion. That leaves us working-class, conservative, Christians who vote with our brains rather than feelings in the minority.
"The last 8 years were devoid of any progress."
By "progress" you mean unprecedented nation and economy killing levels of debt and massive new taxes, right?
Sarah Palin is the Republican suicide strategy. They did it once and they'll do it again in 2012. Stupid, you betcha!
I, for one, can hardly wait to start busting caps on these leftist tyrants. I just don't see any other way to restore our freedoms, constitution and Republic.
In the past I've worried about the destruction and chaos that would bring upon my beloved country but am now convinced that if FREEDOM is to survive, aggressive actions against the elitist in Washington DC must be taken promptly. Read, "Unintn=ended Consequences" by John ross.
What if 40 or 50 million Americans just refused to submit income taxes. Increase your monthly exemptions so that the employer is NOT taking out any monthly and sending it to the Feds. Then file an automatic extension in April 2010. IF ENOUGH AMERICANS exercise the requisite COURAGE AND CONVICTION to participate in this mass act of civil disobedience, there really is NOT anything the government could do. They simply do NOT have the resources to round up and prosecute that many citizens and would be forced into offering some kind of amnesty program. Better yet what if we start acton to repeal the unconstitutional income tax and IRS period?!! Think about it!
In the next election I'm playing by the ACORN rule book. I'm going to vote 10 times for Republicans in different states - I'm through being a dudley-do-right when dealing with these pinko commies!
'TIS THE SEASIN FOR TREASON
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