Evidently the messages the voters sent in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts have not yet gotten through. During his Massachusetts campaign, Scott Brown frequently promised to be the 41st vote against the current heathcare reform. He was elected.
Today at The Foundry, a website sponsored by The Heritage Foundation, Brian Darling posted a story about the current efforts by the Democrat party to force healthcare through Congress, to the President and into law.
There will be a bipartisan meeting on healthcare reform at the Blair House on February 25th. The President called this meeting saying that it was time for bipartisan cooperation on the bill. That is what he is saying; that is not what he is doing.
According to the article:
"According to The New York Times, the plan is to have the President submit reconciliation legislation to be posted on the internet this weekend. The legislation will be crafted in a manner so that it can be passed using special reconciliation procedures created solely to enact laws to reduce the deficit as part of the annual budget. The next step is for the President to conduct his half day bipartisan summit at the Blair House on February 25th. With that faux-bipartisan stunt over with, the President will be free to pass legislation in a partisan manner that tosses aside the regular rules of business in the Senate."
Any Democrat who signs on to this idea will probably be unemployed after the November election. This is not bipartisanship at all; it is Chicago-style politics. The voters have made it clear that they do not support the current healthcare reform bill. I don't understand why this administration is so totally deaf to the will of the American voters.
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