Posted on 12/03/2009 7:03:17 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Well, this Yuletide, there’s a new She Who Must be Obeyed. It’s our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius. Secretary Sebelius is the star of “Harry Reid’s Polar Express.” The new health care bill Harry Reid just dumped off his sleigh weighs in at 19.8 pounds. It’s 2,079 pages of “shalls” and “musts” and “directs” Sen. Reid wants to have it all wrapped up and signed by Christmas.
Secretary Sebelius gets all a bureaucrat could want under her tree in this bill. There are 1,697 grants of discretionary authority in Reid’s monster.
She Who Must be Obeyed gets to decide what health care is going to cost for every enrollee in America. And she gets to decide what qualifies as health care and what does not. If we’re going to give her all this power, if she’s going to be the one who must be obeyed, shouldn’t we know whether she’s been naughty or nice? Let’s consider the record.
Kathleen Sebelius was elected Governor of Kansas with the enthusiastic backing of ProKanDo—the political action committee set up by the late, late-term abortionist, George Tiller. Tiller’s Wichita abortion center did some 60,000 late-term abortions. (snip)
On April 26, 2008, Sebelius invited George Tiller, LeRoy Carhart and their staffs to dinner at Cedar Crest, the Kansas Governor’s Mansion. LeRoy Carhart has been to the U.S. Supreme Court not once, but twice, defending his practice of partial-birth abortions. (snip)
Think of Secretary Sebelius’ dinner partners when you think how much power Harry Reid’s bill will give her. These are the people who put She Who Must be Obeyed in power. These are the kind of people with whom she dined and felt no horror.
We must defeat Harry Reid’s bill.
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But the real problem is that all this discretionary power would not be exercised by the top person but rather day to day by faceless, feckless bureaucrats.
What a nightmare this will be if Congress doesn't kill it now.
What a nightmare!
In addition, I was hoping this was a thread about Tiger’s wife.
None of them loves America. They need to go.
None of them loves America. They need to go.
Doesn't that sound like a huge boil that needs to be lanced?
She screwed over Kansas, now she gets to screw over the country.
ALL of these people have politicized an essential and extremely intimate component of Americans’ private lives, well-being, the American economy and societal equilibrium just so they can jump start their own personal ‘careers’ ... and it will be REMEMBERED on Election Day!!!
This brazen and self-interested abuse of power for personal aggrandizement is a permanent blot on the character of these individuals and on American politics.
We have a system of government which was designed to pre-empt this kind of personal and executive malfeasance and these egomaniacs are doing an end run-on that system.
ENOUGH!!!
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