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If you're going to trample the Constitution to illegally nationalize an entire industry that you are unmistakably forbidden to touch, then why stop there? Why not break other laws in the process of shoving it down America's throat?
That seems to be the rhetorical question being asked by Democrats at this point as they regroup from repeated flip flops and prepare to deliberately misuse "reconciliation"--a procedural maneuver from the 1970s which is reserved strictly for budgetary measures--to railroad their lawless assault on health care through Congress without the added complication of long-established rules or actual dissent.
Even veteran Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, who the "Byrd Rule" was named after, has freely acknowledged that this measure cannot be legally used to force through ObamaCare.
This must be more of that "post-partisan" transparency and "open debate" Obama campaigned on.
Interestingly, liberals, including the ones who apparently run the Associated Press from top to bottom, are now frequently using the absurd "Republicans wouldn't work with us" excuse for this latest attack on the rule of law. They say this as if Republicans hadn't been stripped of basic minority rights from the very beginning, excluded from virtually the entire process, and eventually just handed a plateful of ultra-liberal legislation with zero concessions.
Of course Democrats are the only ones now making any compromises...their starting point was extremely left-wing and contained nothing for anyone else. There was no other direction in which things could move. You don't just get to declare yourselves the reasonable ones for finally "compromising" by barely involving the other side for a change.
As with nearly everything else liberals have revealed about themselves in this "debate," this attempt to smear their opponents as partisans for not giving Democrats everything they want thoroughly demonstrates how completely un-concerned these people are with anything other than Democrat power.
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let people read it and laugh, Robert
They will get it through somehow. They will pay for it too. I cannot hardly wait for the next election time! Liberals have angered my generation.
Beverly,
Yep, they're redistributing care from the sick and elderly to immigrants, both legal and illegal, and to those who don't want it, and those who refuse to lift a finger for their own station in life.
Meanwhile 84% of Americans are happy with what they've got. Bankrupt America to reward failure and punish success. Welcome to "the change we need."
Unfortunately though, now that these "lie-cheat-and-steal" lefties have corrupted the Census Bureau for partisan gain and put ACORN in charge, I don't know that there WILL be another legitimate election in this country again.
Oh no!,Liberals have angered my g-g-g-generation! We're all REALLY scared now! NOT.
Your disrespect for the elderly (the most solid voting bloc of them all) is noted.
i am a senior citizen yes libs have anger me my generation had fought in VIet Nam.We dont want government health care i am angery with this lib retards.
John Littlefield: if you served in Vietnam, thank you for your service. If you served in the military, are you refusing your VA benefits? You said that you're a senior citizen. Are you foregoing Medicare, because it's "government health care"?
I find it interesting how many seniors are under the impression that Medicare is regular health insurance, rather than a government program. I don't hear conservatives say we should get rid of Medicare for seniors; only that younger, uninsured citizens shouldn't be allowed to have those same benefits. They complain that Medicare is wasteful and expensive; yet I challenge them to tell seniors that they want to get rid of Medicare. If younger citizens shouldn't be allowed to get government health care, why should older people? Shouldn't they have saved up and pay for their own? Shouldn't their children take care of them? Good luck getting that to fly with seniors.
As an independent, I find this pitter patter between the left and right pretty amusing. All of a sudden, now that the other side is in power, the right is railing about limited government, after their guy oversaw the largest expansion in federal government since the great depression! Now, if you were out there arguing against this stuff before that point, then kudos to you, but if not, you're just like Hannity, Limbaugh, and the other self-serving pundits who don't know which orifice they are speaking out of.
Bottom line in this debate - our health care sucks. I'm a small business owner who provides health insurance to his employees, and the current system is not sustainable - I cannot endure 8% increases year over year for long before I drop or curtail the coverage I provide. The right is offering nothing but absolute resistance to doing anything. This article I find particularly disingenuous...the left started with major compromises in not even considering single payer.
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