“This is the height of political arrogance,” said Senator Johnny Isakson. “Americans need a Congress and a President that are focused on fixing our struggling economy, not engineering a government takeover of our health care system.”
The tyranny of the majority was proudly displayed. Democrats who railed during the Bush years about the lack of bi-partisanship are now quite comfortable ramming the single biggest legislation in over 50 years down our throats by a narrow, partisan vote.
Compare the vote to others of its scope. The civil rights act won with a bipartisan vote of 70-30%, Republicans voting 80% in favor. The resolution authorizing Bush to go to war passed almost unanimously. This Obamacare vote was essentially 50-50%. The only thing bipartisan about it was the opposition.
By overwhelming margins, the American people told Congress not to vote for Obamacare - yet they did it anyways. Maybe that’s why Congress’ approval rating is 16%, and Pelosi’s and Reid’s are 11% and 8%.
We can’t afford Obamacare and the American people know it. You can’t increase benefits to 20-30 million people while cutting costs. Tens of millions who’ve never paid into Medicare will now receive benefits, while cutting Medicare by half a trillion dollars. The nation is drowning in entitlements, and we just added the mother-of-all entitlements to your children’s debt sheet. Thanks.
Generational theft is too kind. We’re sentencing our children to financial doom. The CBO just announced that in 2020, our debt will rise to 90% of GDP. 80% of Americans now think the economy could collapse.
Like the IRS? Great, because they just got a lot more powerful. 159 new agencies and 16000 more IRS employees will be added to feed this monster.
Like your medical privacy? Not anymore. The IRS is now the enforcement arm of Obamacare, probing, regulating and punishing.
College just got more expensive. The Feds seized the entire loan process, promising to raise rates to subsidize Obamacare.
It’s unconstitutional for the government to force you to buy anything. But who needs a pesky Constitution when really smart people are willing to control our lives.
Obama promised we’d have 5 days to look at the bill before he signed it. A day and half later he signs it into law. Only the pre-existing benefits for children clause was left out of the bill. They literally forgot it.
And please - spare us your sermons about compassion. The same folks who scream about the separation of church and state now invoke God to plead their case. Besides, Jesus taught us to give to the poor, not take money out of your neighbor’s pocket and then give his money to the poor. There is a difference.
I’ll give this to the Democrats – it takes a lot of courage to walk over a cliff. Their devotion to socialism is certainly admirable. But after all, “It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people,” said Congressman Dingell (D-MI).
Did he ever consider – we don’t want to be controlled?