Jaw-Dropping Comments from our Elected Officials
By Autumn Dawson
“We have to pass the bill so that you [The American People] can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.”
Yes, and I have to always blindly obey my parents.
Anyone want to take a shot in the dark at the identity of the darling Elected official—thank you California—who made the above comment on national television, when asked what is actually in the healthcare bill that Obama is determined to ram down our throats? If you guessed Madam Nancy Pelosi—and by now this should come as no surprise to anyone—you are correct.
I have watched the clip of her saying that repeatedly, with my jaw hanging open every time, and I can never decide if she is truly that presumptuous, or just stoned. I’m hoping it’s the latter. But on to the next comment:
“I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate,” Obama said in an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier.
Really? Really? He is the President of the United States of America and he doesn’t care about the methods congress use—no matter how underhanded they may be—to get his bill passed? Isn’t that his job? To oversee? To guide? Wasn’t he a member of that Congress? Shouldn’t he be taking responsibility for the methods used?
However, as disturbing a comment as Obama’s was, nothing shed light on the attitude within the Senate quite like this next one:
“He may have to twist some arms,” Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the senate finance committee said—referring to Obama putting-off a trip to stay in D.C. this weekend, leading up to Sunday’s vote on healthcare. “He may have to talk to some people. His personal presence helps.”
If this bill is so fabulous, if it is supposed to reduce the deficit, help millions of people and fix the problems with our healthcare system, why does the president need to ‘twist some arms’ to get enough votes for it to pass?
And lastly, I am not going to even comment on this one, but as a fifth-generation-Texan, I couldn’t help but reference it:
“Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that,” Rick Perry said at a recent tea party rally in Austin. “My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There’s no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American People, who knows what may come of that.”
How did we get here? Again? After a bloody war in the late 1700s to break away from an unjust sovereign, after a civil war less than one hundred years after that to protect States Rights, how are we here again so soon? How did we, The American People who elected these officials, let this happen?