If any lesson can be taken away from this it's the need for congressional term limits. The Pelosis the Franks and the Rangels aint going anywhere. They basically run unopposed in their districts and the bottom line is as long as they bring home the pork to their districts they have jobs for life. With each census districts are redrawn using computer models to insure the incumbent party gets in every time. This is why Soetoro wanted ACORN in charge of the census.
So what can be done? First vote out the incumbents. Even if you live in a solid socialist district vote against them... Let them know that not everyone buys their socialist bilge. Second become active in the primaries, even if its simply attending rallies. Let these people running know that we want term limits. Really the only chance we have of getting any new ideas in the house is with a large freshman class. Once they're in there beyond 2 or 3 terms they become part of the problem. Finally, if NY-23 taught us anything it's that 3rd partys don't work. We'll have to work within the party system for the foreseeable future. It'll be a long hard slog, but if we keep up what we've been doing in the past year it'll happen. </soapbox>
These people no longer represent America - they represent a narrow band of left-wing kooks. This bill passed not because it was thought through or because Congress had America’s best interest at heart, but because Pelosi & Co. needed to satisfy a bunch of fringe leftist wackos who now form the base of the democratic party and was owed this because of their support in getting Pelosi & Hussein elected.
America, you just got the shaft.
I dunno. I hope so, but am not real confident about this. Our Senate Republicans have always been a lot more liberal than their House counterparts. Remember when the House passed HR4437, a great bill that would’ve eliminated illegal immigration? And the Senate’s answer was an amnesty bill. I don’t trust them RINOs.