So.....if by some disasterous turn of events, ObamaCare passes.....

[Fred Douglass]

...what is left for us to do? If the Dumbocrats sneak or ram this thing through, what we do to reverse it? I know we can just SHRED the morons who vote for this next Fall, but after that, what can be done? Once the socialistas get a huge "entitlement" through, it's nearly impossible to wrench the recipient-class leeches off the government teat. It would seem (by reviewing precedent), that once it's law, it is nearly impossible to repeal.

Hopefully, our newly-minted Senator will stay away from the loathsome influences of Sens. Grahm, McCain, Snowe, Collins and similar perfidious RINO swine. Nonetheless, it will remain a major task to derail this fascistic takeover once it's signed.

What are your thoughts?

[Teri K, California]

I have a dream...

Obama is bent over, bowing to whatever Indonesian big-wig...
Just within "arms reach" of one of his Indo-Jihadis ...

yep, just dreamin' ...

[Grandpa]

So far, the tea parties have been a polite warning. For all of the left's smears about how the tea party movement is driven by "hate"—another rehearsal of the left's favorite racism smear—the rallies have actually had something of a festive mood. In the enlightened free society that we still live in, the tea partiers have had the sense that if enough of us raise our voices, our political leaders will have to listen.

Well, they didn't. So now the tea party is over—and it's time for the tar and feathers.

No, I'm not advocating violence against anyone, and I'm not saying that we should actually smear Democratic politicians with hot tar and daub them with feathers. Though I can't help thinking that among the millions of supporters of the tea party movement, there must be more than a few roofers and certainly a few poultry farmers. And if they were to form a caravan headed to Washington, DC, hauling tar wagons and trucks full of feathers, that might have nice symbolic impact. Just an idea.

But what I really mean is that the time for polite warnings is over. It's time to instill in the Democratic establishment in Washington a healthy fear and respect for the American people.

That's a respect they evidently lack, because President Obama has once again launched a push for a health-care bill that the American people overwhelmingly oppose.

The message from the public could hardly have been delivered more clearly. We shouted it at our representatives at town hall meetings, we explained it to pollsters—the roughly 60% of us who oppose the bill—and when the people of Massachusetts, of all places, were given a chance to vote for a Senate candidate who vowed to block the legislation, they leaped at the opportunity.

The message we've gotten in return has also been crystal clear. A writer at The New Republic put it most brazenly, in his title for an article praising the president's new campaign: "Americans Aren't Enthused About Obama's Agenda. Screw 'Em." That's the essence of the president's message, too, though he puts it a little more politely. Ignoring everything the American people have actually said over the past year, Obama declared that "They are waiting for us to act. They are waiting for us to lead." The New York Times report then adds that "advisers to Mr. Obama are betting that the politics of health care will eventually turn in the party's favor, if the president can actually sign a bill into law." What that means is: Americans expect me, Barack Obama, to decide what's good for them and shove it down their throats—and later on they'll realize that it was for their own good.

As patronizing as this concept of leadership is to begin with, it is packaged in a particularly repellent form: an attempt to use the legislative tactic of "reconciliation"—intended for minor budget changes, not for major pieces of legislation—as a way to bypass the filibuster in the Senate. It is a tactic all of the Democrats, including Obama, are on record as opposing—when it was convenient for them.

Even the talk of "reconciliation" is deceptive, though, because the first step of this process is for House Democrats to pass the existing Senate version of the bill, with a promise that the Senate will use reconciliation later on to "fix" the parts that the House doesn't like. But that promise is just a ruse for gullible House Democrats, because once they have voted on the Senate bill, it will be signed by the president and ObamaCare becomes law—at which point Obama no longer needs them, and it doesn't really matter whether or not the Senate uses reconciliation to tweak the bill.

So the only real showdown is in the House—and it could come within days. What we need urgently, right now, is a public siege of House members that will make last August's Town Hall Hell look like—well, like a tea party.

It has become clear that the Democrats won't be stopped by fear of losing this fall's election. Indeed, they have already taken such a loss into account. So we need to raise the pressure to a new level. To heck with whether or not they win re-election; we need to make Democrats afraid that if they support this bill they will never be able to move back to their home districts. They need to be afraid that they won't be able to go out in public without being harangued—that every audience they address from now on will be an angry mob—that they will become lifelong pariahs for defying the will of the people. We need to make a vow that every Democrat who goes along with this bill will be a marked man for the rest of his life—or at least until the health care bill is repealed.

And that brings me to what the Republicans can do to actually earn our support this fall. They must do everything they can—using every procedural trick in the book—to slow down Congress and obstruct a vote on this bill. If they can drag it out until the end of the month, Democratic congressmen will then be forced to return to their districts over Congress's Spring break—where they will face a reaction that will make the heat of last August seem mild by comparison.

Moreover, Republicans must immediately gather together and vow, as a group, to repeal the Democratic health care bill if it passes. They need to make clear that this will not be some wishy-washy partial repeal that leaves large parts of the legislation intact, so the Democrats at least end up with half a loaf. The Republicans need to draft up a repeal bill in the simplest possible terms—one sentence will do: "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is hereby repealed." They must then declare that this repeal will be their first act as a congressional majority in 2011 and that it will be the first bill they send to a Republican president in 2013. The Republicans must make it clear that if the Democrats are going to sacrifice everything for this bill—their offices, their reputations, their peace and sanity—they will be sacrificing for nothing.

In short, the Republicans should take their cue from a sign carried by one of the patriots at the September 12 tea party rally: "I'm not with the party of 'no.' I'm with the party of 'hell, no.'"

Yes, these are unusual hardball tactics—but the provocation is unusual. Never has a bill this vast, with such a wide and intimate impact on the American people, been passed without significant support from the opposition party. Never has such a bill been passed without the support of the public. Never has the party in power shown such contempt for the governed.

That is, not since 1773. Back then, we had a tea party first—and the tar and feathers came later.

[Karen Bracken]

Move to Panama. If we have to live in an Socialist America what is the sense. At least health care there is good and reasonable and people don't have to wait months for care. This is the result of "progressively" moving forward the Socialist agenda. First, SS, Medicaid, Medicare and now the granddaddy of all Socialized medicine. Once this is done we are done too. The key element in turning a country into a Socialist country is to take charge of peoples health. Pretty soon we will be a country of poor and rich. Of course the rich will be our elected officials. JUST REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER VOTE THEM ALL OUT...that means Rs and Ds. They are all criminals. We need to send a LOUD and FORCEFUL message. Obama won't be able to pass gas in 2011. And whoever we elect needs to be held accountable. We need to be meeting with them and be in their faces constantly. They will be ordered to repeal ANYTHING that was passed in 2010....HC, Cap&Trade and Amnesty. The latter two are his next move and they too will be slammed in against our will. Between Health Care and Amnesty this country will crash and burn.

[Grandpa]

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Monday that she is leaning toward using a “deeming” mechanism to push health care reform across the finish line.

The Speaker, in a press briefing with progressive media in her Capitol office, said that three options were under consideration. One of them involved a vote on the Senate health care bill, followed by a vote on a reconciliation package. “Nobody wants to vote for the Senate bill,” she said. She wouldn’t rule out that option, she said, because there is no official bill language yet, which she said she needs first before she makes a decision on process.

A second option would entail a vote on a rule followed by a vote on the reconciliation package. The Senate parliamentarian, Pelosi said, has told Democrats that such a strategy would not be acceptable, because the Senate bill must pass the House before the reconciliation amendments can.

So the third option is to write the rule so that the passage of the reconciliation package deems the Senate bill to also have passed, a parliamentary maneuver she said the Senate parliamentarian had said was acceptable.

It’s a technical distinction and Democrats hope that it’s deep enough in the weeds that average voters will focus instead on the substance of the legislation instead of the confusing process. Asked if she had firmly decided to pursue the third option, she answered, “I like the third one better.”

Pelosi said she expects the Congressional Budget Office to return with a cost analysis of the final amendments shortly, at which point she’ll call for a vote.

“Get the bill,” she said, punching her fist into her hand. “Go for it.”

This woman needs to be removed immediately!!!!