They Do It For A Reason

I'm not sure what the most sickening aspect of Saturday nights vote in the House on the healthcare bill was.

Was it the fact that an American elected body voted to destroy a vast part of the economy, destroy jobs and nationalize an industry unconstitutionally, the standing ovation it got or the fact that a group of leftist women representatives got into a tearful screaming match when it became apparent that abortion would have to be cut from the bill to get it passed?

As appalling as the thought is of federal representatives being brought to tears because they won't get to pay to kill babies (for now) that isn't the right answer. There is no right answer, it's all a disgrace and reminds us why the framers decided to have House elections every two years.

Because the House if prone to do all kinds of nutjob things.

The very composition of the body ensures it. House Representatives only have to win the backing of a small number of people from a limited geographical area. Naturally this allows fringe candidates with radical ideas to get elected.

This is why Saturdays vote should be disappointing but not surprising to anybody. If anything was surprising about the vote, it's that it took so long and was so close given the extreme leftist composition of the House and its leader.

Sadly for some Dems, this vote may destroy them and be all for naught. The Stupak amendment was a sham and will provide no cover for moderate Dems in red districts. The amendment can very easily be removed when (if) the bill ever makes it to the reconciliation process and don't think Pelosi won't try to do it. Harry Reid is a jellyfish and Pelosi will bulldoze him if a bill ever makes it out of the Senate into reconciliation. Voters know this and the moderates won't be able to justify their votes based on the success of the Stupak amendment. Besides, many moderate Dems have always claimed they were moderate because of fiscal issues and this bill is still a trillion dollar plus atrocity.

I suspect these Dems who sided with Pelosi will greatly regret it as they end up being voted out of office and the bill they sacrificed their job for winds up dead in the Senate along with Cap and Tax.

Thankfully, the House is the one area where retribution by the people can occur swiftly and decisively. If the Senate were a collection of radicals (more than it is anyway) then the people could only institute change every six years, staggered. With the House, the people get the whole enchilada every two years, plenty close enough where Saturday won't be forgotten. To the ultimate demise of many.

Of Cowards, Carbon and Commies

The god awful cap and trade legislation passed the house today because 8 Republicans are either cowards or liars.

This bill is built around the myth that carbon dioxide is bad for the planet and must be restrained by humans, even though appx. 95% of CO2 in the world comes from water vapor and that CO2 only makes up 4% of the atmosphere.

Either way, this bill does nothing to curb carbon emissions, all it does is make carbon a commodity to be traded and regulated. This will cause massive off-shoring of American jobs by companies seeking to avoid the massive penalties for non-compliance or the massive cost of compliance. Obama himself warned us that this plan will also called the price of our utilities to "skyrocket". The job market for all those coal miners, gas technicians, etc. would be decimated if it actually was passed into law.

The promise of new "green" jobs is also a myth, the bill tells that it is. Vast sums of money are being given to inventors to create new green technologies over the next 20-30 years. If the government is trying to bribe inventors into developing technologies, it means we don't have it yet,; therefore no new jobs in that sector.
If you need an example of this failure, just go ask Spain who had the highest commitment to green technology in the world and now have an unemployment rate of about 18%.

Now this bill is being announced as dead in the Senate, which is good but there was a time when this would never have been proposed.

This bill essentially makes anything which uses or produces carbon the jurisdiction of the EPA. This gives them a hand in just about anything they want being that carbon is the building block of all life on this planet.

There are some good developments though.

First, a whole slew of Democrats in moderate/conservative districts just signed their own death warrants politically. The only reason they were in office was because people were mad at Republicans, not because they suddenly became liberals. Good to know you.

Secondly, now we know who needs to be out of the party. If we can't rely on them to vote against this abortion of legislation and capitalism, then they should really not claim to be members of the GOP.

The unfaithful 8 are:

Mary Bono Mack - CA 45
Michael Castle - DE
Mark Steven Kirk - IL 10
Leonard Lance - NJ 7
Frank LoBiondo - NJ 2
Chris Smith - NJ 4
John M. McHugh - NY 23
Dave Reichert - WA 8

All of these guys are either not conservatives, to weak to stand up to Nancy Pelosi or were bribed out of their principles. One thing we do know is that nobody in Congress has actually read the entire bill they just voted on.

Good to know you fellas, now hit the F'n road.