If This Goes On ....

It Depends on What the Meaning of 'Settled Law' Is - Ann Coulter :

Liberals will fight until they get their way -- and, as soon as they do, they announce their one victory is "settled law." 

That's what happened with Obamacare. Weren't Americans reasonably clear about not wanting a hostile takeover of our health care system the last time Democrats tried it? 

 Hillarycare was so widely reviled that the majority Democratic Congress never held an up-or-down vote on it. In the very next election, the public punished Democrats for even thinking about nationalizing health care by voting in a Republican Congress for the first time in almost half a century. 

Obamacare wasn't passed because the nation changed its mind. We got Obamacare because, at a brief moment in time, the Democrats happened to have aberrationally large majorities in the House and Senate, as well as the presidency. It was quickly and unconstitutionally enacted on a strictly party-line vote. 

 In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives -- the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.

This is why the duly elected Republican majority in the House keeps funding the entire federal government -- except Obamacare. Or except Congress' exemption from Obamacare. Or except the individual mandate that Obama has already waived for his big-business friends. 

 [OBAMACARE] Federal Laws Are What You Make Of It ... if you're a Liberal

I remember "HillaryCare", and I remember my outrage against it.

The 1990's were turbulent times (as if today is not) and this was the era in which I switched my political party registration from "Democrat" to "Republican".

Don't get me wrong; I was a Conservative a quarter-century ago.  I was over forty ...and Winston Churchill famously said ...

"If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are not Conservative by 40, you have no brain".

... but I thought I was too clever by half.  I would vote Democrat so that in the Primaries I could vote for the candidates who were so obviously unacceptable that they would be easily defeated by a Conservative candidate.

Little did I know then, that the most egregious fruitcakes on the American political scene would be so universally embraced!

Then they embraced The Evil Bill (President of the United States: POTUS ....   Clinton ... he of the elastic zipper and plastic politics ...) and I realized that the old "One Man/One Vote" rule was insufficient to impose morality, let alone Good Sense, on the American Political Scene.

I had just begun to get my head around the concept of The New Liberality, when Hillary come on the scene not as a First Lady of America but as a Liberal Activist who had the intention of imposing her bizarre concept of "National Health Care" on the American People.  She could do that, she thought; she was First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS).

Her idea?  Hillarycare 
Everybody gets free health care.  The government will do that for you.  (Sound familiar?()

My personal recollection is that during a televised announcement in late February, 1994, she suggested that it would be entirely paid for  by imposing a  federal tax (fifty cents?) on every pack of cigarettes sold in America.

Okay, I'm old and stupid; but I wasn't that old then and certainly not that stupid, and even this dumb old country boy can recognize that THIS is not going to work!

Fortunately, the Democratic MOJO wasn't powerful enough to overcome public skepticism.

Unfortunately, public skepticism is not nearly so prevalent today.

Even more unfortunately, those who are willing to 'buy' (in quotes, because they believe it will cost them nothing personally) into this "Pig in a Poke" have sufficient voice to over-ride the doubtfuls who don't delude themselves into believing that The Government has bottomless pockets.

Somebody has to pay for this Federal Largesse .. and it certainly isn't the senators who are voting for it.  Hell, they aren't even subject to the conditions of the ten-foot stack of paper which describes the law.

The Senators don't even have to read it.  And they have not!
All they know is, if they vote for it, they will get re-elected.
At least .. one more time.  After it all goes into the crapper, who knows who will be elected in 2016?

You know what?  If this goes on, we might as well all learn to speak French.
 Because we will be no better than the French, with their 30 hour work week, five weeks guaranteed paid vacation, and a society which no longer knows the price of "national prosperity".