Obama Care: Where is the Republican Mr. Smith?
Who, on the Republican side will step up to put love of country ahead of scorn by a corrupted Senate and and even more corrupted media?
One sure way to get bypassed for a Washington Post or New York Times Style section profile would be to try and pull a Mr. Smith-style stunt.
Who will be 2010′s Mr. Smith? Will there even be one?
AmSpec’s Quin Hilyer has it exactly right in Thermopylae for Health Care.
Voters don’t want promises to repeal. They want to strangle this puppy before it’s born.
What infuriates conservatives is the attitudinal signals the Senate leadership sends. The health care bill is treated as just another piece of legislation — certainly more important than most, as Atlanta was a more important city than most, but not ground to be defended by every available means, to the death, as if a civilization hangs in the balance the way Greek civilization was threatened by the Persians. Yet for millions upon many tens of millions of Americans, the health-care battle is indeed their generation’s domestic version of the Greco-Persian War, and nothing less than a Thermopylae-like stand will be acceptable. These middle-Americans don’t want amendments to the bills. They don’t want to force bill supporters into tough votes that will be used against them in the 2010 fall campaigns. They don’t care about positioning for future battles on other legislative subjects, and they don’t give a flying expletive about maintaining the alleged dignity of the Senate.
What they want is to beat Obamacare: They want to ward off this abomination, this vicious assault on the Constitution and on the free market, this affront to individual liberty in a realm that is intensely and profoundly personal. They want to defeat it, trip it up, smother it, by any and all means within the law. They hate Obamacare. They see a government that already has taken over banks and financial companies and car companies, a government blob that wants to limit the very air we exhale, and they see it now trying to suck in one-sixth of the whole economy in one massive power grab.
This may well be the single instance where conservatives are in favor of abortion: a health care bill abortion.
This monstrosity is too big, too dangerous, too freedom-destroying to be allowed life. Republicans should be doing everything–EVERYTHING–to stop its implementation.
Let’s see some damn scorched earth, people!
Procedurally, also, McConnell could do far more. He could tell Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will tie the Senate in knots for the entire year unless Reid backs down. No unanimous consents all year. Holds on every nominee. Every single one. Forced readings of every word of every bill and every amendment, all year.
Is there not one Republican who yearns to be Mr. Smith, saving his country from this cesspool-of-corruption-POS legislation?
In Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Jimmy Stewart played Mr. Smith, a simple man who put love of country, freedom and the American way ahead of corrupt, backroom dealings in the Senate.
Is there not one Senator who prizes stopping this affront to the American people over backroom corruption masquerading as Senate dignity?
America would cheer.
And never forget.
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Is it possible???? Maybe so. The special election in Massachusetts on January 19th has a canidate that we can get behind, Scott Brown has a good chance to be the 41st Republican Senator. He is the last chance to stop this foolish health care bill. He’ll need all the support he can get.
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