Posted on 11/08/2009 4:38:55 AM PST by radioone
We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country.
The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.
Despite Americans’ decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken her own promises of transparency to ram a health “care” bill through the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced”?
This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates – the highest we’ve seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don’t have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.
Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that.
All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in the bill to begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great – because abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak’s amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership has already refused to promise that it won’t be scrapped later.
We had been told there were no “death panels” in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.
Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too.
Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday. Speaker Pelosi’s promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C. establishment’s too-common political ploys. It’s broken promises like this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned about the future of their country.
But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close attention tonight. We’ll keep paying close attention. We need to let our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the “reform” they are pushing. After all, this is still a country “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” We will make our voices heard. It’s on to the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It’s their choice.
- Sarah Palin
Go Sarah Go!
I support Madame President......MY President and the only one I will listen to
BLECH!
This is only the 1st touch down in a LOOOOnnng game.
It still has to pass the Senate, then the two bills have to be reconciled then pass both Houses again then
pass the Courts.
This is a long way from done.
This is clearly where the war needs to be won.
Are the Conservative lawyers up to it? Their absence in most all of these battles is conspicuous.
My faith is weak and this looming legal court battle situation depresses me no end.
T-R-E-A-S-O-N!!!
“We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard...”
AMEN! Instead of hand-wringing, Sarah reacts correctly and we SHOULD all be making plans for how to fight this and how to fight it HARD!
Let’s pray and get going!
One more step. The Democrats have to stay in control of Congress after 2010, and the White House in 2012, to keep the GOP from repealing it.
Oh yeah, passing the courts will be a real problem.
That's true. A ray of hope given that the political winds are beginning to blow in our direction for a change.
Palin and Huckabee president and vice president.
Don’t care which order.
Let's see how long it takes before we hear from all the other Republican "leaders" with similar messages of courage and hope. I'll wager they're still in bed sleeping off the strain of being up so late last night to hear the final vote.
Once again.......PALIN IS THE LEADER!
Leni
“conservative lawyer” might be an oxymoron
I have heard conservative businessmen I respect say that if it is passed it will be difficult or impossible to repeal. I simply refuse to believe that.
Keep up the good work, Gov. Palin!
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Let me see if I get this straight.
You must have health insurance under this plan. There are no exceptions. If you elect to not pay for health insurance, the government can fine you. If you don’t pay the fine, you go to prison.
When my son broke his arm, there was a couple beside us in the ER who was there for a toothache. They couldn’t afford a dentist visit so they went to the ER. Under this new plan, these people must pay for health insurance. Correct.
Yeah, when the GOP took over in 1995 they rammed thru repeals of a number of Clintons worst ideas.
We HAVE leaders ... and they speak one syllable English.
We need to mobilize.
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