Posted by
Steve on Monday, November 09, 2009 2:36:51 PM
On Saturday, the Democrats voted 220-215 to ignore the Constitution and do what they pleased. Nancy Pelosi cackled and the Democrats put forth a rousing cheer when the vote total was announced. As Rush Limbaugh put it on his show today, many of the Democrats may have just voted themselves out of office by voting for the bill. Hugh Hewitt’s suggestion in his column today is to target the 20 most vulnerable of these Democrats and start a campaign to get good candidates and fund them.
I do agree with both Rush and Hugh Hewitt that many of these Democrats have just put themselves on notice as candidates to not be there in January 2011. I did a quick scan of the Democrats that voted for the bill and it looked to me like all the Democrats from Arizona voted for the bill. That would mean that all of them, except for maybe Ed Pastor, would be targeted. Ed Pastor comes from the most Democrat area of the state. Rep. Pastor could be caught with a smoking gun and a dead body and still be elected from his district it is so heavily Democrat. The other Democrats in the state are not so lucky. They come from districts that are more evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. That means in a situation like this, they could easily be targeted for defeat. The easiest would be Harry Mitchell of Tempe. His district is normally a Republican district. The others are 50/50.
The Associated Press reports that the House Unconstitutional Power Grab for Pelosi/Obamacare is dead on arrival in the Senate. The reports say that the “public option” is the part that will make the bill unpalatable to the Senate. I would hope that the bill is dead on arrival. That would show that someone over in the Senate might actually know what is in the Constitution. There are 219 Democrat Representatives and one Republican Representative that do not have any idea what is in the Constitution. Their job is to defend and protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. How can they protect the Constitution when they have no idea what it says? Maybe people should have to take a test on the Constitution before they could actually take a seat in Congress. That way we know that they know what they are doing. Right now, they can claim ignorance and they would obviously be right.
Even though the House bill is DOA in the Senate, I do not hold any great hopes that there are any Democrat Senators who are Constitutional Scholars. All of the Democrat Senators have come out for some sort of universal healthcare system. Since a universal healthcare system would be unconstitutional, they obviously are not educated on what is included in the Constitution any more than their House brethren. They just have a higher hurdle to overcome in the 60 vote minimum to pass a healthcare bill. That means that any healthcare bill would have to be less intrusive than the House bill that was just passed.
As long as we have “Progressives” in the Congress we will have to worry about this kind of abuse. Progressives do not believe in the rule of law. They believe in the rule of man. The rule of man says that the rules can be changed to whatever you want, whenever you want. The rule of law says that you have to follow the law as set forth in the original documents. If you want to change those laws, you have to go through complicated steps to change them. The object of making it difficult to change the law is to look out for the rights of the people that are in the minority. The problem with Progressives is that they believe that they are smarter than you and so they should be able to tell you what to do. The Progressive does not have to follow those rules because they know better and can decide for themselves. But everyone that is not a Progressive has to follow restrictive laws to make things “fair”. By making things “fair”, Progressives make things unfair. But, Progressives cannot see that because they are already on to the next thing they want to mess up.
What we need to do is rid ourselves of Progressives. We need to keep some around just so everyone will know how destructive their ideas were/are. By getting rid of Progressives, I am not talking about anything dangerous. I am just talking about educating them on what is right and wrong. We may have to start with the children of Progressives before we can completely eliminate the problem. That problem is too big to solve in just a few years, but Progressives have been handcuffing us at every turn. We need to get the shackles off and get our freedom back. Choose freedom whenever you get the chance