Health Care Express

Yes, the goal of this blog is to elect Gov. Sarah Palin as president in 2012, but there are more pressing tasks at hand. First we must stop the train that is rolling forward to a socialist America. Pres. Obama is the engineer but he prefers to takes his hands off the wheel and allow Pelosi and Reid to alternate taking command. The "health care plan" they have arrived at is as bi-polar as the method by which it was created. It will not reduce the costs of health insurance. It will not cover everyone or nearly so as it was promised. It will not allow you to keep your current plan. The only fair thing to be said for the plan is that we'll all be in the same mess together, unless you're in Congress that is. Congress will still have their plan. The health care bill is simply a power grab for federal control of powers that had been reserved to the states.

Even the liberals in the House won't vote to pass the Senate health care bill. In order to "pass" the bill, a ruse has been devised to allow the House to "consider the bill passed" after an amending bill has been passed. The thinking is that this will allow the President to sign the Senate bill into law. Then the Senate can consider the amendments and presumably pass them using a procedure called budget reconciliation that has never before been used on a substantive bill. There is a great big problem with this process. It's clearly unconstitutional.

Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution says that every bill that passes the Senate and the House shall be sent to the President for his signature. In this case, the House will be sending a bill to the President that has not been passed, only "considered passed". Obviously the intent of the House would be that the Senate bill would be passed with changes. The House can not pass a bill without voting on the bill. Bypassing the requirements spelled out in the Constitution is a betrayal of the Constitution. The President would violate his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution would he sign a bill under such circumstances.

Another side effect of bypassing constitutional requirements that have served well for over 200 years, is how people will react to having the Constitution cast aside. The administration's representatives have said that the people are ignorant of process and don't care about it. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We elect people and expect that they will follow the rules.

This health care bill stinks. The process being used to pass it stinks. The people pushing the process are beginning to stink. The American people can still smell. We haven't lost our senses as many in Congress seem to have. Congress, stop the health care express before it rolls off the bridge into the abyss. There is still time.