Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Obamacare Without a Vote

As I have addressed in several posts below, Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leadership in Congress appear intent on approving the massive Obamacare entitlement program without even having the House of Representatives vote on the bill.  In an article today in The Washington Post, the Speaker is quoted as follows:
"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill" [emphasis added].
She likes it because the House does not have to vote?  Truly, this whole process makes my stomach churn.  The Congress of the United States, under the control of the Democratic Party, plans to take over seventeen percent of our national economy without even subjecting the matter to a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives.  Are the supporters of Obamacare so wedded to the idea of the federal nanny state that they are willing to flout the Constitution of the United States in order to put their social policies into effect?

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