Happier Days

Finally, some hope that the Obama train can be slowed, if not derailed. Obamacare may be dead. If it is not dead, it is at the least pared down. Now don't get me wrong. I have no illusions that the House may still try a vote on the already passed Senate version. The bottom line is that they absolutely cannot be trusted. Today, in the wake of the Republican victory in Massachusetts, they are talking like they will not try to bring it to a vote anywhere, that it needs to be reworked, pared down, etc. The president has even said in an interview that they should not try to ram anything through in light of this loss of their super majority in the Senate. DO NO TRUST THEM. We must stay vigilant. They have proven with their backroom maneuvering and dealing and general lying that they will do what ever it takes to get their agenda passed. That, I do not believe, has been changed by this election. All that can truly be said is that the dynamics are now different. So watch out for a change in their tactics, not their agenda.
But having said all that, I am optimistic for the first time since last January 20th.

Listening to Levin now. His sound bites of the president and Dems are priceless. How did these people end up in charge?

Oops.

I just read a scary scenario for the passage of Obamacare. The idea is out there to have the House simply pass the unaltered Senate version. In spite of the objections, it will be hard for them to go into the mid-term elections having failed to pass a health care bill of any kind. It may not in the end matter what the bill looks like, just that it is passed.
We have objections and protests and promises by the House leadership not to consider or bring to a vote the current Senate version, but they have proven repeatedly they cannot be trusted.
They met on a Sunday to discuss this option. The arm twisting has begun because they are afraid they will lose in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Keep watching.

Back again, again.

So much for blogging with a vengeance again. That lasted about a week, but now my Internet is restored and the Christmas crazy season is over so maybe I can get back at it.
I am looking forward the the Massachusetts vote on Tuesday. This is going to be an important and telling vote on Obamacare. I am, of course, hoping for a Republican win that will force the Democrats into serious underhandedness to pass the health care program no one who understands it wants. Passing the bill in the Senate using a proceedural manuever intended to prevent budget impasses will further enrage an already livid public. No Democrat facing reelection in November should be reelected. They simply do not deserve it for the harm they are inflicting on this country and on future generations of Americans.
A central ideal of the founding fathers was "no taxation without representation," but this congress and president are inflicting taxation on future generation in which they have no say. It is wrong, and it must be stopped. The Massachuesetts senatitorial election of Teddy Kennedy's seat is the next chance we have to stop it. If that fails, then in November we will have to elect a new congress that will begin the work of undoing the damage of this health care bill now being concocted.

The fact that Obama has felt the need to go to Massachusetts this weekend says they are feeling desperate, as well they should be. Let's hope he is as sucessful as he was in New Jersey and Virginia last year.