03.22.2010
The Democrats now own your health care.
Every problem, every denial, every endless wait, every mistake, every…they now own.
Every tax increase to cover the inevitable deficits, every blue balled commission to fix and restore it from bankruptcy, every rationing of care from pushing down the cost curve…they own.
Write it down. 
Commit it to memory.
The Democrats now own your health care.
The undreamed of procedures, the new miracle drugs, the yet undiscovered cures, the hope of new not invented technology that will never ever be created…they own.
The missing doctors and nurses and health care aides…they own.
The clinics, offices, and hospitals closed…they own.
The Democrats own every bit, every scrap, and every part of health care now.
219 to 212.
Never before have I witnessed such an overarching change to our society without bipartisan and public support.
We have tried to fix our historic ills together.
Only one other time we could not.
Slavery was not a bipartisan fix.  It required a deeply bitterly divided nation to meet face to face on a battlefield: 618,000 died to settle the question.
Our fixes to racial problems caused by federal and state interference in matters of race were resolved more or less peacefully.   Bipartisanship worked to enact civil rights laws.
We went to numerous wars together.   Even the wars that started or became unpopular were bipartisan ventures.  As were the peace treaties that followed.
But not tonight.
Tonight, the Democrats own your health care.
219-212.

Thinking About Life On The 37th Anniversary of Death

37 years ago the Supreme Court found a faux right to abortion in the constitution.   I don’t know how fierce the abortion debate was prior to this one decision but fierce doesn’t begin to describe the fight since.  
Abortion has created a dividing line between pro-life (anti-abortion) and pro-choice (for abortion) factions.  It is the issue that separates conservative Republicans from so-called moderate Republicans.   With Democrats if you’re pro-life you cannot speak at one of their conventions.  So, whose tent is larger?
Besides creating a right out of whole emperor’s cloth, the Court’s Roe decision gave political cover to many politicians.  As a politician, you can claim a position on either side and never have to prove it because Roe tends to block or shield legislative action.  Well, for now at least. 
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am not pro-life.  I believe the state has the obligation and duty to put to death criminals so sentenced, I support sending our military to other countries to kill our enemies, and I don’t believe in turning the cheek; deadly force is the surest form of self-defense.   I am anti-abortion, especially when used as a form of birth control like it can be under this right.
But pro-life is the term and I will go with that. 
Pro-life also encompasses not just the unborn, but euthanasia, too. 
This anniversary has me thinking about a few things. 

Scott Brown roars to Senate upset win

Today the first trumpet blew and the first seal was broken on the 2010 elections.   The Day of Judgment is near.
Scott Brown won!
Scott Brown roars to Senate upset win 

“I never thought I’d see the day when a Republican replaces Ted Kennedy,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Herald tonight. “I think Scott Brown caught the wave of anger that’s out there, and the wave of anti-Obama.”

This wave is not mindless anger at Obama; this anger is very mindful  that under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid regime our fundamental American values of freedom and liberty are at risk.  
Scott Brown, Senator-elect (R) Massachusetts (it rolls nicely off the tongue, doesn’t it) ran a positive campaign for The People’s Seat (formally known as The Divine Right of Kennedys and other Liberals Seat). 
Who knew how grassroots would fare in the New England January weather.  
And imagine the ironies involved here:  Scott Brown won by proclaiming he would be the 41st vote ending Obama-care, taking the Senate seat held by the foremost proponent of Government controlled health care.  
Boston, home of the original patriot’s tea dumping party was witness to this generation’s TEA Party Patriot’s first dumping of an Obama-Democrat.
One if by land, two if by sea, and now, three if by GMC.   Gas Up The Truck!
Sorry, it’s late and I am getting silly with the joy this Scott Brown victory (VICTORY!) has me in.  
I don’t know if this means a lot come November.   A lot depends on too many unknowns.    Will the Democrats learn from this and recalibrate their policies?   Can President Obama learn from Bill Clinton’s response to the ‘94 Republican victory?  
After all, this is only one Senate seat and not the entire congress.    Not yet.
 
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