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Three hundred eight million, seven hundred thirty-nine thousand, one hundred forty-four. 308,739,144. That’s the population of the United States as of today, February 23, 2010. Over three hundred million of us, and we’re at the mercy of 51 men and women in the Senate of the United States.
Reconciliation. The nuclear option. We’ve been hearing for weeks now that the Dems might use that to get their health care control bill passed into law. What does that mean exactly?
Here’s the official definition. Mine is “when 51 men and women who have been elected to represent the will of the people living in the districts and states they represent, choose instead to force an overwhelmingly unpopular bill to become law, without regard to the will of the people, because they want to.”
The majority of the American people do not want this bill.
There are 435 House representatives and 100 senators. Fifty-one of 535 elected officials will decide for all of us. That’s 9.5% of Congress. It’s less than 0.00003% of the citizenry.
They were sent to the Senate to “represent” and speak for the people and have decided to simply rule instead.
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Why should they listen to what the country thinks when any fool realizes they know better than we do? Time for the public to give every sitting congress critter a career change. Better to throw out the few good with the overwhelming bad and start over to the extent possible. Will it happen?
I think it will happen. I think this mess in Washington has awakened a sleeping giant. They just haven’t figured this out yet.
Have a terrific day.
Our Founding Fathers must spin on a daily basis. This isn’t what they envisioned; it’s certainly not what they fought, sacrificed and died for.
Which – shame on our current crop of politicians. They need to be routed out completely; this country needs a clean slate.
The dog-and-pony show held at Blair House yesterday was intended to be a trap to make the GOP look like close-minded jerks and the Dems to be those who really CARE about people. And it backfired in a big way.
Don’t know which moment I loved more from this snoozer of a summit: Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin deftly, logically, single-handedly dismantling Obama’s claims about health care costs with facts rather than “feelings’ (he’s also kinda cute, which may make Democrat women swoon a bit), VP Joe Biden mentioning during a break that “it’s easy to be vice president, because you don’t do anything,” the “dead sister and the dentures” sob story, or Pres. Obama picking his nose in front of the live camera.
There are those who say this was a colossal waste of time and money and that O planned a trap. Well, my comment is this: anytime the American people get can get actual evidence of Republicans engaging in the debate in a smart and intelligent way…that counts! That’s important because they have been shut out for awhile now. I’d say this whole thing turned in their favor, much to the chagrin of the other side.
I was in agreement before the summit (O does like those summits doesn’t he) with those who were calling it a trap. But I was proud of those guys that showed up, with their copies of the bill, their notes, and their brains. They shamed the Dems, totally showed them up in the facts and logic department, and didn’t play into any of the olympic sob story competition (I heard that the dead sister’s teeth won the gold). I may get aggravated with many of them lots of times, but yesterday they did well. I only hope more than conservatives were watching, or at least, will see parts of it.
There’s no way now that the Dems can continue to say that the GOP doesn’t have a plan. We knew they did, we knew where to find it to read it (them) but most of the country didn’t. It may not do any good, but then again…you never know who might have been watching.
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