What is amusing at this point is anyone on the Left wondering (apparently sincerely) where the anger is coming from. It's coming from people who were deliberately and systematically slapped in the face. The people who did it knew perfectly well what they were doing - need I cite Pelosi's oversized gavel waved in the public's face? The only real surprise is how quickly retribution is coming down.
Did you ever nail that! I wouldn't have thought in a hundred years that the backlash would take place this quickly. We conservatives were instantly ticked but I full well thought it would take much longer for moderates, I's and a few Dems to come over to our way of thinking for the o'care fiasco.
It was not an act of any process of representative government, it was the act of a victorious party celebrating its victory by steamrollering a bill whose contents Pelosi smirked wouldn't even be known until it was passed. This was no act of desperation, it was a blatant abuse of power intended not only to attain the contents of the bill but to rub the opponents' noses in the fact that everything the Dems ever wanted could be passed over their opponents' objections.The very reason for holding hearings on pending legislation, listening to witnesses on all sides of the issue, and having Congressional debates that will be reported and commented on in the media, is so that problems can be explored and alternatives considered before the legislation is voted into law.Rushing ObamaCare into law too fast for anyone to have read it served no other purpose than to prevent this very process from taking place. The rush to pass this law that would not take effect until after the next two elections simply cut the voters out of the loop— and that is painfully close to ruling by decree.
What is amusing at this point is anyone on the Left wondering (apparently sincerely) where the anger is coming from. It's coming from people who were deliberately and systematically slapped in the face. The people who did it knew perfectly well what they were doing - need I cite Pelosi's oversized gavel waved in the public's face? The only real surprise is how quickly retribution is coming down.
Democrats still believe that, as Keynes put it, "In the long run we are all dead." Well, in the real world "the long run" usually needs to be measured in months or even weeks - not years or even decades, as the Democrats manifestly suppose.