A House Divided
Jan 14th, 2010 by David Anderson
The Democrats are divided, whether their house will stand is not just based upon unity, but whether or not they unify based upon freedom or government power. The American people want their nation back. Washington is struggling against the grain.
The blustery admonition from Rep. Anthony Weiner, one of the House’s leading liberal voices, underscores deep divisions among Democrats over how the final bill is paid for, how it deals with abortion and whether it establishes a national or multiple state insurance exchanges.
He also gave voice to liberal House Democrats’ rising resentment to being forced to accept the bulk of the Senate bill, which does not include the public option coveted by liberals and imposes an excise tax on health insurance companies that critics say will increase premiums for middle-class families.
“The House has shown deference to the Senate in this process. But I am tired of hearing how hard it was to get 60 votes in the Senate … getting 218 votes to pass our health care bill in the House wasn’t easy,” he said in a written statement issued just before Mr. Obama’s meeting with House and Senate leaders about merging the two chambers’ health care bills.
The aptly-named Weiner thinks that you can just print currency, and everything will take care of itself. He either has no knowledge of the increasing money supply/stagnant product supply ratio (inflation), or, being a Marxist, doesn’t care. People of his ilk, primarily ignorant Socialist-Democrats, will lead the nation to bankrupty. These people need to be indicted and tried for treason.
Rick, we must share our part of the blame. The American people are just as responsible for electing AND RETAINING these imbeciles time and time again.
For over 100 years America has slid progressively left. I mean for God’s sake have you READ Teddy Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism” speech? If not, please do (http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=501).
Here is a small passage:
“We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. This, I know, implies a policy of a far more active governmental interference with social and economic conditions in this country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar�s worth of service rendered�not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective�a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. ”
The failure of health care reform was the dismissal of the patient. When you go to the ER, no one asks your political party, they do ask for your insurance info.
Obama and his team balkanized the issue to work many sides against the middle and in the end the reform failed. Tricks like CBO scoring were quoted not admitting the tax increases needed to make the bills neutral and the cuts to Medicare and Dr’s were not going to happen destroyed all credibility.
Mike Protack
The cowards at delaware liberal have blocked me again. so sad they are.
SILENCE MR. PROTACK! We cannot defeat your common sense here.
Rick, we must share our part of the blame. The American people are just as responsible for electing AND RETAINING these imbeciles time and time again.
I understand this..but remember, Weiner is from New York, and many of his constituents are true believers in socialism. That is the problem..thus, I don’t believe the cultural schism that exists in America today can be resolved politically. At the end of the day, since leftist dogma espouses power for the sake of power, resolution will, ultimately, be by force.
Rick,
I don’t think so. I think this CAN be done politically and IS being done as we see the numbers of liberals shrinking and conservatives growing. So WHAT if they have pockets of progressivism? Remember Rick, the New York delegation to the Continental Congress refused to vote in favor of declaring Independence. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin had to convince New York to abstain from the vote at all in order to get South Carolina to vote in favor of Independence and thereby establish our national identity. Pennsylvania (which Franklin was a part of) would not vote for Indpendence and it took the Rodney ride to cast Delaware as the deciding vote to make it official. Adams, Jefferson and Franklin knew that there would be loyalist sentiment but they did not by force seek to silence opposition voices (until Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts at the behest of Hamilton, which have been called one of the biggest debacles in the history of the presidency).
I cannot and I will not advocate or agree with any idea that would by force silence other voices. I don’t agree with it but I BELIEVE in our system to save the nation from their insanity.
I don’t think so. I think this CAN be done politically..
Perhaps. But remember, there is another component to the schism; the cultural component. Control of Congress is of less importance than control of the media, academia, entertainment, the petty bureaucracy, etc. This leftist monopoly has been the precursor to the general (and ever-increasing) trend toward Socialism in the 20th century. Hence, even regaining ‘control’ of Congress will have little overall effect (See Reagan and Bush majorities), because the statists will still exert disproportional power and influence in the aforementioned, non-political realms.
Today’s ‘culture war’ may well follow the usual historical course of progression..to civil war.
Today’s ‘culture war’ may well follow the usual historical course of progression..to civil war.
Rick,
I understand your concerns but really I think this can all be achieved by America waking up (which we see more and more each day) and realizing where we need to be. It’s not time for revolution, it’s time to retake our institutions.
“People of his ilk, primarily ignorant Socialist-Democrats, will lead the nation to bankrupty. These people need to be indicted and tried for treason.”
More holy war talk wrapped in bull crappy ideology with no absolutely no facts to back up the cheesy slogans. No facts, just the dream of a no government world, where everything just hums along on pure liberty. The far Left says Make love not war. The far rights says get government out of our lives.
Thank God these nuts never get elected to anything serious.
I think, since you fight with the same self-righteous ideological blindness, the same fanatical fidelity theory, just as the Islamic Jihadists do, you need to refer to non-believers as “infidels”.
Why settle for socialist, marxist, treasonous when Infidel says it all? Allah Tea Party Akbar! Jail the infidels for treason! Purge the nation of non-believers.
Everybody has their own weird little Koran chock full of infallible ideas that they want to force down our throats.