Nancy Pelosi on health care: damn the torpedoes...

Nancy Pelosi, musing over "what-ifs" concerning today's election?

Picture courtesy of the Weekly Standard

...and full speed ahead.

Demonstrating once more that neither the letter of the Constitution nor the voice of the American people matter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vows that wildly unpopular government health care takeover legislation will pass, regardless of the outcome in today's Massachusetts senatorial race between beleaguered Democrat Martha Coakley and state senator Republican Scott Brown.

Until recent weeks, the idea of a Republican actually winning a senate race in the state of Massachusetts could not have existed in reality, nor in any permutation of reality. And yet after what many are calling a "brilliantly run campaign," in contrast to Coakley's being a disaster of epic proportions, the underdog Brown has been surging in the polls of late and is poised to claim victory.

Pelosi is quoted as telling reporters in California on Monday, "Let’s remove all doubt, we WILL have health care one way or another.” (emphasis added)

Although conservative pundits such as The Weekly Standard's William Kristol has expressed serious doubt that Pelosi could come through on this assurance, noting that "she would have to convince 217 other House Democrats to jam Obamacare down the throats of the American people, a move widely considered to be political 'suicide.'"

Speculation now is that the House of Representatives may simply pass the Senate version of the bill which would send it to the President for his signature.

Otherwise, Democrats have allegedly considered an option known as "reconciliation" which allows members to pass a bill with a simple majority as long as the bill is limited to "budget reduction" efforts. However, according to Fox News, "that would mean big alterations for the legislation."

President Obama added his own spin to the topic Sunday, speaking to congregants at the Vermont Avenue Baptist church in Washington, D.C., during their Martin Luther King Day service, saying the legislation will help more than 30 million Americans, "men women and children, mothers and fathers" to get insurance.

"This will be a victory not for Democrats," Obama said. "It will be a victory for dignity and decency, and for our common humanity. It will be a victory for the United States of America."

This caricature of “victory” coming in spite of virtually all the polling numbers reflecting sentiments of turgid opposition to the Democrats plan to overhaul the health care system, instead of simply reforming areas that need improvement.

Conservatives have long maintained that certain ideas, i.e. tort reform, opening markets for insurance companies to compete to help lower premiums, and the like, are appropriate in the discusson and should be probed, but that the federal government's current proposals are both invasive and unconstitutional, .

It's an astounding spectacle to behold when one stands back to take in the auspicious events encompassing this Democrat endorsed health insurance restructuring proposal.

We've had President Obama promising transparency and bi-partisan involvement in the negotiations process - that never materialized.

We've heard Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid liken Republican opponents of his bill to slave owners.

We've repeatedly seen legislators voting when they imagine the American public is least likely to notice (e.g. weekends and holidays) their shenanigans and bribing fence riders for their support.

We’ve witnessed the endless wrangling over using public funds for elective abortion within the parameters of “universal” health care.

And add to all this the latest from Pelosi promising health care [legislation] will pass at all costs and Mr. Obama suggesting we are somehow a less "decent" society if it fails.

And these represent just a sampling of what is above the waterline. In a word wow!

One can only imagine what might be on the horizon as the out-of-touch liberal left continue their efforts to force feed America its radical ideology.

Perhaps if the president and Congress recognized that conservatives are "frothing" over the policies they propose and try at every turn to ram through, and not simply dripping middle class "pablum," they would realize that their "fundamental transformation" of America is unwanted by the masses.

But it's doubtful the elitist, intellectually superior, vanity of such folks would permit them to see this reality.

Until next time...

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