Posted on 12/09/2009 3:13:13 AM PST by Scanian
Oh, look! The rattlesnake is sleeping!
Quick, let's step over him!
They are now going the Medicare route. They want to drop the age to 55 as a compromise. Then it will be 45, 35, 25, eventually it will be the single payer system
Congress has already seen that SCOTUS has no stomach for “political questions” so they are totally disregarding the Constitution.
Until the Court shows some gumption in tackling unconstitutional legislation, the power-hungry congresscreeps will continue to pile it on.
Or more accurately, laid it temporarily aside to be passed later as an amendment to an appropriations bill.
“Dems ditch public option”
I wouldn’t trust them.
There is absolutely no reason to pass any “healthcare” bill without an inevitable route to single payer.
This is the primary and single goal of this legislation - putting the gov’t in control of healthcare and our lives.
Yes, and why this escapes people here, who keep putting their faith in Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe to “stop it” is beyond me. NO ONE will stop this.
I don’t believe it.
The public option is NOT abandoned.
The AP could report “Democrats say they’ve abandoned the public option.” THAT would be true—they SAY they’ve done thus and such.
But they haven’t. They’ve repackaged it...and if Landrieu, Lincoln, Lieberman and Nelson fall for this lie then they’re major league ignoramuses.
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