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Hi Freepers, I realize that only a few people are awake, but I am having trouble getting a clear, cliff-notes version explanation of the bill the Senate is about to vote on tomorrow. All I know for sure is that if Pelosi, Reid, and Obama are behind it--it must be very, very bad. It's finally sinking in that something "big" is happening. Up until now, I've avoided really examining the issue and its implications for fear of getting too upset. I've listened to coverage on every news network and end up being more confused. I realize that it may be...

The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago. Even though the House version is far from perfect, it at least represents a step toward our goal of giving 36 million Americans decent health coverage. But under the Senate plan, millions of Americans will be forced into private insurance company plans, which will be subsidized by taxpayers. That alternative will do almost nothing to reform health care but will be a windfall for insurance companies. Is it any surprise that stock prices for some of those insurers are up recently?...

Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and John Ensign (R-Nev.) are questioning the constitutionality of the Democrats’ Senate version of the healthcare bill.  On behalf of the Republican Steering Committee, the official caucus of conservative senators, the two raised on the Senate floor yesterday a Constitutional point of order that will compel a vote by the full Senate today on the bill’s constitutionality.   The point of order will either be waived -- by Democrats who don’t care about the constitutionality or are willing to ignore the issue -- or it will stand and the healthcare bill will be dead until the...

UPDATED: By a roll call vote of 60-39, Senate Democrats have passed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) Manager’s Amendment that encompasses all of the backroom deals used to buy votes from Democrat colleagues.  The vote, which only required a simple majority, was a display of the Democrats’ solidarity, all walking in lockstep behind their Fearless Leader to vote for a highly unpopular bill.  The Real Clear Politics average of all polling over the last two weeks shows a miserable 38.7 percent of Americans favor the bill.  Harry Reid’s polls at home aren’t doing so well either. The latest poll...

Today I called my U.S. Senators and told them both: "Please stop ignoring us. We don't want government healthcare; we want JOBS!"