Conservative Donnybrook

President Obama is reported to have “decried” the media frenzy over angry protesters showing up at meetings all over the country concerned, and in many cases more informed than their representatives, about the current health care reform bill. This, from a man known for subtle and not-so-subtle criticisms of ordinary Americans (who cling to their religion and guns, the fools) was droll.

President Obama and his fellow Democrats across town at the Rayburn and Hart Buildings are reported to be extremely nervous about recent polling data showing a tremendously precipitous decline in public support and confidence in their ability to affect the kinds of change they voted for, namely an end to a reckless foreign policy and worrisome deficits, which the White House recently admitted were going to be $2 trillion more over the next decade than previously announced, skyrocketing from $7 trillion to $9 trillion. This kind of spending is beyond comprehension. It is outrageous and sickening. The continuation of essentially the same foreign policies as the last 3 administrations, the continuation of the same fiscal and monetary policies, the astonishing non-reform of credit-default swaps among the “too big to fail” but now record-profits-making financial sector, and so on, are all hastening the impending collapse of the world’s remaining superpower. The threatened takeover of the healthcare system, price-fixing, socialist income-levelling of doctors, and non-reform of insurance protection rackets companies are awakening the slumbering middle American like nothing since September 11, 2001.

That the constant media coverage of the public outrage has towed the White House barge onto the shoals of bill-killing sandbars is now apparent. The leftists in the editorial rooms have obeisantly published finger-wagging and the occasional mention of Sarah Palin’s tweets while steadfastly refusing to investigate the meaning of the actual content of the proposed legislation. Americans can access it for themselves in a fashion not possible on this scale 15 years ago. They do not like what they read. They are pointing out very valid concerns and huge 5-year-plan type language, and the Left has been forced to abandon one chief facet of their plan: the “public option.” While seemingly heartening, this is a ruse, a temporary setback in the Rahm Emanuel-designed hit-’em-from-7-sides strategy. As with every other leftist “compromise,” the ratchet will tighten. It just won’t be cranked up 4 clicks.

When I worked for a legal document management and reproduction company, we were often sent large jobs to provide legislators at the statehouse with copies of proposed legislation — from a huge law firm in town. The lawyers there wrote the bills, lobbied to find “sponsors,” and then gave the general assembly the materials needed to discuss and review the new laws. It happened all the time. Does anyone imagine that a hydra like the current healthcare bill is any different? This, friends, is not republicanism, it is not representative democracy, it is not American. It must stop. We must demand a return to constitutional government and expect responsible behavior from our elected officials. It starts with anger like we’re seeing today, but it is accomplished when emotions are set aside and rational examination of the sausage-making takes place.