This is Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, writing about her desire to kill the bill.
I went on Ed Shultz last night, and Fox deliberately today after yesterday’s hubub. It scares the bejesus out of the DC establishment of both parties to think that the left and right might align against the corporate interests that dominate the massive giveaways that keep happening no matter who’s in power.
That's something I can get behind. Corporate Welfare killed the Republican party in the last few elections. It undercuts the entire reasoning behind voting for a self-professed limited government party. If Republicans can't be counted on to not give giant amounts of cash away to corporations, then the party should be left in the dustbin of history with the rest of the statists.
As for Hamsher, who is a very liberal blogger - her desire to kill the bill is a principled one, and her decision to attack the bill brings to mind the reason why healthcare reform has so thoroughly trashed the approval ratings of Obama and the Democrats.
If the Democrats truly believed they had a long-term sustainable majority and a mandate to drive the country to the left, they wouldn't have to hide bills, play parliamentary games, take votes in the middle of the night, and insert insane manager amendments that voluntarily cede future Congressional oversight to a panel of bureaucrats.
They would have taken bite-sized chunks of the their agenda and passed it to media fanfare, keeping their president's approval high and forestalling a tidal wave of defeats in 2010. If the country approved, they would have the means to enact their agenda over a period of a decade, showing proper respect for the laws, precedents, and counterweights to majority rule that our republic holds dear.
But they didn't. They have acted like thieves in the night, emboldened by a press afraid to criticize the messiah president, and now they face outright revolution from a populace that will not lay down freedom so cheaply.
Kill the bill. Eliminate corporate welfare. Govern effectively. Follow the rules. If Democrats truly believe in their agenda, they will back down. If they are children stomping their feet and hoping not to get caught, then they will find that Leviathan is nothing compared to the will of the American people.
Global Warming, hell us missiorahans don't believe in the theory of evolution or that theory that the earth revolves around the sun. We're proud to be ignorant conservatives. This missouri site is for rednecks that haven't ever left the Ozarks!!
Posted by: Former Missouriahan | 12/25/2009 at 07:48 PM
Congress should be compelled to read aloud, every single pay-off boondoggle added expense measure, tacked on to this bill, in its attempts to "buy votes".
This is beyond "compromise"...
Congress is now....compromised.
Posted by: CHUCKtheFED | 12/27/2009 at 07:34 AM