Posted on 10/28/2010 3:19:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
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.
Dismantling America: and other controversial essays by Thomas Sowell (Aug 10, 2010)
BTTT!
Some members of Congress who voted for ObamaCare, and who are now telling us that they realize this legislation has flaws which they intend to correct, are missing the point.
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.
Touche’ Dr Sowell Pinpoint accuracy.
“We have a strange man in the White House. This election is a crossroads, because either his power will be curbed by depriving him of his huge Congressional majorities or he will continue on a road that jeopardizes both our freedom and our survival.”
Truer words have never been spoken! I love you, Dr. Sowell!
Like a skilled surgeon with a laser scalpel, he cuts right to the essence of the problem.
If I were Grammar School Czar, I would degree that Thomas Sowell be read by every American school child starting in the sixth grade. That's the beauty of him: he writes to adults about abstract adult concepts in economics, but in a way that can reach any intelligent mind of any age.
Standin' at the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
Whee-hee, I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me, everybody pass me by
Standin' at the crossroads, risin' sun goin' down
Standin' at the crossroads baby, the risin' sun goin' down
I believe to my soul now, po' Bob is sinkin' down
You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
That I got the crossroad blues this mornin',
Lord, baby I'm sinkin' down
-Robert Johnson -
Thank you Dr. Sowell, and thanks jaz for the ping. Dr. Sowell is so correct.
“We have a strange man in the White House.”
This is such a serious column, from a serious writer. It somehow makes the sentence about a “strange man” rather eerie and foreboding....like there should be some creepy music following the statement.
Yes, and Dr. Sowell was being kind in just saying “strange.”
Very good piece, I see Shelby Steele is a colleague of Dr. Sowell.
Thanks for the link.
All I can say to Dr. Sowell is STO LAT!! My he live 100 years!
A man the press knew was wholly unsuitable for the job.
We sure do. What a strange situation we've let ourselves get into.
If legislation can become laws passed without either the public or the Congress knowing what is in those laws, then the fundamental principle of a free, self-governing people is completely undermined.
Some members of Congress who voted for ObamaCare, and who are now telling us that they realize this legislation has flaws which they intend to correct, are missing the point.
Dr. Sowell just scored two in the ten ring.
Liberals are still stuck on stupid.
Thanks for posting these good reports by Sowell and others.
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