BOHICA - Scammed Again!

The Christmas/New Years holidays are over with and certainly it can be said that the Congress is back in Washington and it is again, "politics as usual". I could never speak for everyone but I am fed up with a federal government that is hell bent on their liberal agenda and the public be damned. I know it sounds like a broken record but I have never seen leadership so willing to throw transparency out the window along with Robert's Rules of Order. I am talking about the determination of the liberal Congress to pass Health Care Reform at any cost, and believe me it is going to cost.

Back in August of 2008 Candidate Barack Obama spoke to a town hall meeting in Chester, Virginia about the desire to reform health care. He stated "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies...what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-Span, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents...And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."

Yesterday, after meeting behind closed doors, democratic representatives were asked about the transparency of the reconciliation meetings and the fact that Candidate Obama had promised transparency in his administration. Speaker of the House Pelosi replied "well the President made a lot of promises on the campaign trail." The public was advised in a news release two days ago that the compromise between the House and Senate versions of the health care bill would be a three-way negotiation involving top Democrats in the House and Senate and the White House. It was announced there would be no plans to appoint a formal House-Senate conference committee, the method Congress most often uses to reconcile differing bills. The conservative side of the aisle has been totally shut out of the process. So the plan is to reach a quick agreement and on the desk of the President for signing.

It has become quite obvious of the administrations plans on this bill. Obama broke his promise on transparency many months ago with backroom deals cut with drug companies, hospitals and the AARP. I previously reported this in my commentary "Scamming Our Citizens" on November 10, 2008. The old scout motto of "Be Prepared" could not ring more true than in this situation. The American people will see more federal debt, their health care costs will increase, their taxes will go up and their quality of care will go down. There is absolutely no way on this earth that you can provide coverage to 15 million more people and cut the Medicare costs by a half billion dollars with out the resulting costs to taxpayers. Just one question left...have you removed that Obama for President sticker from your car yet?