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March 16, 2010

Is this the week democracy dies in America?

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AJStrata says this is the week that democracy dies in America, and given what we're seeing the Democrats attempting to pull-off in Washington this week, it's hard to disagree with his argument:

[...] (the) need to fake stories and make up lies to sell this crazy liberal scheme and confiscate our personal health care is why democracy is dying in America. Congress is despised, with less than 20% support and 75% of America in opposition. People want them fired - all of them. And yet they mindlessly continue to push for the destruction of our health care.

And to get there, they plan to destroy our constitution. Obama, Pelosi and Reid are big on talking about an up or down vote on health care. Real big. All they moan about is getting a vote for their proposals. Something they were free to do (and lose on) for over a year now. But that is all really a lie my friends. There will be no vote:
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.

Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.
To boil down on past all the misinformation, the Democrats will let their members vote on what they wish was in the bill, but illegally bypass reconciliation by saying that means they passed the Senate bill with all the stuff they don't like.

It is all a lie, because the Senate cannot go to reconciliation until the President SIGNS the senate bill. That mess has to become law first, then they may get around to fixing it. They will not vote, they will put on a show and then switch the bills out from under are dumb noses. How slick these people are!

Most of us are resigned to the reality DC is completely out of control and needs to be dismantled. Government now exists to please itself, not work for the people. It is still our country, and we will take it back this November. But right now all we can do is watch the fools tear it apart in their mad quest.

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AJ is essentially suggesting that democracy dies when representative government fails, and clearly, the Democrats' health care debacle has now brought us to a point at which the majority party has clearly decided to force its ideologically-based will on the American public. And they are doing so with, as Jennifer Rubin describes it, a bill that is so noxious that lawmakers have to pretend they aren't voting for it in order to, well, vote for it. Hence:

[...] "We have entered a political wonderland, where the rules are whatever Democrats say they are. Mrs. Pelosi and the White House are resorting to these abuses because their bill is so unpopular that a majority even of their own party doesn't want to vote for it."

Even Nancy Pelosi is trying to keep things vague, suggesting it may not come to this. But it is coming to this, because a desperate president and the equally desperate Democratic leadership fear losing, so they resort to tricks, backroom deals, and parliamentary sleights of hand. That's in large part how the bill got to be so unpopular. Nevertheless, the Democrats seem intent on doubling down, so why not load up on the procedural gimmicks? At some point -- now would be as good a time as any -- saner Democratic heads may prevail and wonder why their leaders must shred the Constitution in order to pass a bill that's supposedly such an electoral winner for their side.

In other words, our elected officials no longer heed the will of those that put them in office, our representative government has essentially failed, and yes, should Pelosi and Obama get this bill passed, we are likely to look back on this week as the week that democracy died, or at the very least, began to fall apart in America.