Folks, this is now getting very serious, if not frightening and outright scary. What we have been hearing from the President and all Democrat healthcare reform supporters has been a smoke screen. There was extensive talk about using so called ‘reconciliation’ in the United States Senate once the two versions by the House and the Senate bills were to be merged and then requiring passage in both houses. The fight over this solution, the ‘reconciliation’ was fierce and all Republicans and Conservatives railed against it while the Democrats told everybody that this method had been used over twenty times in the past and for that matter mostly by Republicans.
We were also told for that to happen, as a first step, the House of Representatives had to pass the Senate version of the bill as it currently exists. This is the version that the Senate passed with 60 Democrat votes last Christmas eve that included some extortion-vote buying (Nebraska, Louisiana and Florida) . This bill differs substantially from the House version passed in November 2009. By passing the Senate version in the House, a merging of the two bills could then be undertaken and only then would ’reconciliation’ come into the picture, meaning, the Senate could pass the merged version with only 51 votes instead of the required 60 votes.
This was all a smoke screen. When the House of Representatives passes the current Senate bill, it can be send to the President and with his signature, this bill becomes the law of the land!
Then to work on a merging bill would be up to the discretion of the Democrat House and Senate leadership and it could very well be that they decided not to do so right away but to put it off indefinitely. The President could claim victory and America would have government-run healthcare against the will of a majority of the American people! The people’s will to be damned!
Now you might call this fear mongering on our part but we have seen for over a year the fanaticism on the part of the Democrats to push healthcare reform into law and we believe that they do not care at this time about anything else anymore. They do not care if they lose their majorities in the House and the Senate in November, they do not care if they literally screwed their own Democrat House members who believed them that there would be a time for merging the bills and they most definitely do not care what the American people in a solid majority believe and think about this massive overhaul of the American healthcare system.
The only thing standing between this becoming reality is the final vote in the House of Representatives and the President has urged House leaders to get this done by March 18, 2010. We can safely assume that there are not enough votes today to pass this bill, otherwise, the vote would take place today! It will remain to be seen if enough votes for passage can be collected by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team by March 18 or any other date shortly thereafter. And who knows what behind closed-doors deals are being cut at this time in order to get the required votes? The only thing certain is that they will stop at nothing to get those votes to pass this bill!
At this time, all we can do is hope and pray that there will be enough rational thinking Democrats in the House who recognize the will of the people as more important than the agenda driven attempt to pass this bill by the Democrats. Common Sense University hopes that there are enough such Democrat Representatives who will vote NO and therefore allow this bill to fail. The Republicans cannot do anything effectively by themselves, they are the minority!