While watching the C-span coverage of the House of Representatives and their vote on the Senate health care bill, I became more and more depressed as the debate went on. It is clear to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear that the majority of Americans do not want this bill. All the polls have shown this. T he bill just passed by the House (219 to 212) still includes the Corn-Husker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, and federal funding of abortion. Americans do not want these things to become law, but the Democrats have rejected the will of the American people.
With our government firmly rejecting the will of the people and seizing power that we the people have not given them via the Constitution, we are left with the question, “What can we do?” What can we the people do when our representative government no longer represents us? What can we the people do when our politicians have rejected the American ideal of self governance? What can we the people do when our own hard earned tax money is used to buy votes? What can we the people do when our government mandates what we must buy and which doctors we must see? What can we the people do when our government rejects us?
This is a sad day for our country. Our forefathers, who were mostly farmers and shopkeepers, fought a war against one of the largest and most powerful empires in history to create a representative republic focused on limited government and liberty. My fellow Americans, we are no longer a representative republic. We now have an oligarchy of Democrats ruling over us who reject our American idea of self governance. This oligarchy does not care what we the people want because they have rejected the will of the people. They have forgotten that all power rests in the people. They have forgotten that they work for us. I think it’s time we jog their memory.
Our republic has been dealt a painful blow, but we cannot give up the fight. We cannot give up the fight to reclaim our founding principles of self government and liberty. We cannot and we will not give up. I truly believe we can win and “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Democrat Bart Stupak misled the American people when he claimed he and a group of Congressmen would vote no for the health care bill if it included public funding for abortion. As we all know, he and his cohorts switched their no vote to a yes after President Obama promised to sign an executive order reaffirming that no federal money will be used for abortions. The fishy part about that deal is the fact that a law passed by Congress and signed by the President overrides an executive order. So President Obama’s executive order was meaningless because the very law Stupak voted for cancels out the executive order. We have to assume Stupak knew this and the whole executive order ordeal was a way to provide cover for him for going back on his much publicized pro life pledge. So, what was the real reason Stupak voted for the health care bill?
