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The health care reform bill passed the House late Saturday night (sneaky time when people wouldn’t be watching the news) in an extremely close vote, 220 to 215.  I haven’t been able to post about it until now because I was too upset to even think clearly.  This bill is the mother of all entitlements.  It is the grand slam for liberals.  If it becomes law, it will be nearly impossible to deconstruct just as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are today.  It will grow the bureaucracy and the government past what is sustainable.  This bill will not only lower our quality of care, cause insurance companies to go out of business, and give the government complete control of our health care, but it is simply unaffordable.  Our government is already running on borrowed money!  How much more can it borrow?  We are racing towards high inflation because of Obama and the Democrat’s spending spree, but they continue to spend more!  This bill does nothing to reduce the actual cost of health care and this means costs willstill continue to rise.  That means more taxes and more deficits.  Ugghh! 

This bill is not about providing quality and affordable health care.  If it was, they would have taken a different route.  This is about power.  If the government controls your ability to see a doctor and receive treatment or medication, they control your life.  You know the old saying, ”If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything”?  Well, if this bill becomes law, we will no longer have control of our health… the government will!  Our forefathers did not mutually pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to create a government that would provide everything for us and tax the rich to pay for it.  They created a country where we would be free from government interference and would have the liberty and ability to rise or fall based on our own merits.  America is supposed to be about personal liberty and individual responsibility, not this!   My only hope is that the health care bill will be filibustered in the Senate.  I urge everyone to call and email their Senators and keep the pressure on them.  Our future depends on it.

I will be posting more in depth about the health care bill in the days to come.

The main stream media and many liberal politicians have been accusing those who protest Obama as being racists.  Evidently, opposing big government is a race issue.  Now, it seems that the protesters may also be violent.

In her weekly press briefing, Nancy Pelosi warned of possible violence by people protesting health reform and other big government policies.  According to the Washington Post she said,

I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this, myself, in the late ’70s in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening, and it created a climate in which violence took place.

So I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made, so that understanding that some of the people — the ears that it is falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statement might assume.

So, Pelosi thinks “this kind of rhetoric” can create a climate in which violence may take place.  What rhetoric is she talking about?  Is it the clever signs the tea party protesters are coming up with?  The ones with slogans like “Cap government and trade Congress”?

Where was Pelosi during the Bush years when the rhetoric actually was violent?  Why didn’t she make a statement about how frightened she was of the protesters then?  Why don’t we compare some of the people who protested Bush and some of the ones currently protesting Obama?

Here are some pictures of tea party protesters from all over the country.  These are the people who are being accused of racism and violent language—

Nancy Pelosi admitted that she is clueless about the ACORN prostitution scandal.  The Senate already voted to de-fund ACORN and the Census Bureau has cut ties, but Pelosi still has no idea any of it has gone on.  Where has she been?  I guess she only gets her news from the NY Times and MSNBC.

According to the New York Post,

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable.

“I don’t even know what they passed,” Pelosi told The Post yesterday. “What did they do? They defunded it?

How does the Speaker of the House not know about this even after the Senate had a vote on it? The main stream media truly is dead.

If you are an ordinary American, who is angry at the government, and you dare to speak out at a town hall meeting, you must be a Nazi.  That’s what Nancy Pelosi thinks.  In the video footage I’ve seen from these town hall meetings, there are grandparents, soldiers, and blue collar workers in t-shirts and baseball caps angry at what their government is doing.  Nancy Pelosi must be watching some strange town halls because she said the people attending are wearing swastikas…

In my last post, I showed a quote from DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse, where he called the people speaking out at town halls “…rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.”  Where are these politicians getting their information?  Do the Democrats really think these Americans,