HAT TIP: Atlas Shrugs
via The Most “Responsible” of Democrat Leadership, DRUNK on Senate floor.
Another reprehensible, disgusting, embarrassing DEMOCRAT. Must have learned from their hero, Ted Kennedy…
Your statements carry more weight when they’re not slurred, Senator.
-Ryan
HAT TIP: Radio Vice Online
via A letter from Congress and the President to Medicare health care recipients.
The government’s Health Care plan passed thru the Senate today with voting as expected, down party lines. Certainly a dark day in our history as America is another step closer to the biggest piece of socialist legislation to be enacted in many decades.
This from CNN.com:
The Senate plan increases the Medicare payroll tax on individuals earning more than $200,000 and couples earning more than $250,000 from the current 1.45 percent to 2.35 percent. The Senate bill also imposes a new tax on insurers that provide so-called "Cadillac" health plans valued at more than $8,500 for individuals and $23,000 for families. The 40 percent tax would be on the value of the plan. In addition, it imposes a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning salon treatments.
Both bills call for cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid.
I wish I could sit here and cast the blame for this entirely on the Democrats. But it simply isn’t true. They are doing what everyone expected them to do. The liberals are pushing liberal policies in an age of a liberal, Democratic majority. But I did not expect the Republicans to lay down and die, offering no more than a symbolic, watered-down, ineffective rebuttal. They had options. They could have done more. Unfortunately this exposes what I feel are still crucial weaknesses in the Republican party. They need a real leader they can rally around and until that leader surfaces, expect more of the same.
Senator Tom Coburn’s view of things from Real Clear Politics:
This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt.
This process was not compromise. This process was corruption. This bill passed because votes were bought and sold using the issue of abortion as a bargaining chip. The abortion provision alone makes this bill the most arrogant piece of legislation I have seen in Congress. Only the most condescending politician can believe it is appropriate to force Americans to pay for other people’s abortions and to coerce medical professional to take the lives of unborn children.
I can only hope this will serve to motivate republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and any one else interested in restoring common sense to our society and more importantly to our electorate. Get involved in local politics. Start a blog. Write letters. Call your Congressmen. BE HEARD!
And remember we are less than a year away from the 2010 elections.
-Ryan