I am absolutely sick at the Democrat’s evident intent to ram their healthcare takeover through without even having a proper vote.  They are now planning to just “deem” it passed. Sick with rage – how dare they?  Sick with fear – can they?  Sick with worry – will we, the people, tolerate this?  And if we won’t, what exactly would that look like?  It’s that thought that makes me sick with fear. But not, perhaps, as fearful as I will be if we will tolerate it.

This is a naked abuse of power – the likes of which the now-silent moonbats screeched about for eight years of the Bush administration, and he never even came close to this level of abuse of the Constitution.  If they rammed it through by virtue of winning a real vote – they have the majority in both houses, after all – that would be enraging since I so heartily disagree with it, but it would not be blatantly unconstitutional.  If it is “deemed passed”, the legislation itself ceases to be the main problem.  Not that it will not be bad, really bad – the entitlement state is already collapsing.  Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are unsustainable.  But if they ram through legislation federalizing one-sixth of our economy, allowing government to essentially make public utilities of formerly private companies, and to dig this deeply into each citizen’s daily life without having a real vote, then that means that Congress has entirely abdicated our current system of government.   We will have gone from a federal republic to a banana republic overnight.

It doesn’t help that I’m also sick in a more mundane way – physically ill. My head is splitting, I can hardly breathe and my throat is so sore it’s difficult to speak.  So doubtless that’s contributing to my discouragement level.  But apart from that, this is truly sickening.

President Obama is fond of announcing that “the time for talk is over.”  (Shut up, he explained.)  Just one question.  If the time for talk is over, why don’t they shut their yaps and vote already?  Oh, right… it’s because they don’t have the votes they need to ram this monstrosity down our collective throat.  Yet.  They know they’re going to be beaten like a rented mule in November, regardless of whether it passes.  They know it’s going to be a long, long time before voters welcome them back.  So for the foreseeable future, this is their only chance to expand government power, and they’re desperate to take it.  It would be funny, if it weren’t so pathetic and scary.