Posted on 04/26/2013 4:59:04 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
When crunch time comes, when the chips are down, when the rubber meets the road — employ the cliché of your choice — Americans can put away their selfish concerns and come together in common cause. Even Congress, our only native criminal class.
Deep in the bowels of the Senate and House Office Buildings, secreted away where there will be no distractions, Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, have put aside partisan differences to work for the common weal. This particular weal has never had it so good.
The issue at hand transcends taxes, immigration reform, the war on terrorism, even war and peace (if any). The hush-hush conversations, involving House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, are about how to exempt Congress and all the little grunions who attend every need of the congresspersons from … Obamacare, the health care monstrosity that we were told would be so good for us.
Discussions started months ago, when it suddenly dawned on these worthies that the Affordable Health Care Act would not be affordable for these highly paid daytime residents of Capitol Hill, and they must be exempt from the requirements that will bankrupt everybody else. Democrats and Republicans alike are aware of the “acute sensitivity” of embracing public hypocrisy with such enthusiasm, and the sticking point is whether Democrats can persuade Speaker Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, to commit hari-kari with them. A source close to the talks tells Politico, the Capitol Hill political daily, “everyone has to hold hands on this and jump, or nothing is going to get done.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TRANSLATION: we all stand to make hundreds of million EACH fleecing the American taxpayer
Is there even a word to describe these despicable people, these so-called leaders of our nation?
There’s US.
Then, there’s them there serfs out there in “flyover country”.
Who cares about THEM?
As Mark Levin said, this is the stuff revolutions are made of.
>> Is there even a word to describe these despicable people, these so-called leaders of our nation?
Wicked?
Just repeal the whole thing. Have Lil Barry veto it and then override his veto. Shouldn’t take more than a week to kill this albatross.
There is a mentality among politicians that they are helping the poor with these laws. But in order to help the poor, they have to hurt everyone else because they need the laws to be “fair”. They have just suddenly realized that they are part of the “everyone else”.
So they rationalize that they shouldn’t have to suffer just for helping people. After all, they were doing something noble and good. Besides, these laws wouldn’t work properly for them because they are a special case.
Normally they can count on the media to cover for them but people have been wandering away from DNC-controlled media outlets. It’s gotten worse since Obama became President because the media can’t criticize the White House and that’s always been their bread-and-butter.
definitely in the right direction
I must say, I’m thoroughly enjoying this.
As Mark Levin said, this is the stuff revolutions are made of.
Yep...another straw. I think the camel’s back has had just about e-dang-nuff.
The sad thing is that the flag will be flown at half mast foe these slimebags when they finally kick the bucket. MN flag was at half mast for whoremaster Specter from PA last year.
Bipartisan rape of the American taxpayer.
These SOB's want us to give them - and only them - the best medical care in the world while we're standing in front of their death panels !!!
NOW will people understand why a massive and overly oppressive is a bad thing? These people think they're our Gods, and no earthly law should apply to them.
Indeed—Similar to the House Bank, this is something that even the “low-information” voter can comprehend.
It's for the children.
some pigs are more equal than others, these people need to be thrown out of office and run out of town on a rail
Only until there's a free space on the scaffold.
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