Conservatives Defending Liberty

Senator Harry Reid has a plan or two to get the health care bill passed in the Senate. These plans are a little more sneaky and underhanded than people realize. Yes there is “reconciliation”, but he is trying to attach health care to the Tarp Bill revamp which taxes some TARP recipients, this has been side lined for months. If he can do that he thinks he has a way through. Reid understands he can’t get 60 votes on an up or down vote which is what most Americans think happens in the Senate. If he gets two committees in the Senate to pass a version of health care he can get it to a floor vote, he hopes to get enough votes to get the bill out to the House. And then have the House vote on what ever the Senate passes so they don’t have to come back to a conference committee were it could sink. This way they could send the bill to Obama directly without any review or revisions which he knows again, will sink it.

The House under Pelosi won’t vote until the Senate does, they do not want to expose their liberal members to a vote for the bill, if the bill they vote for won’t pass the Senate. To put members in a line and make them go on the record to vote could be murder for Democrats in moderate to conservative districts. If the Senate under Reid can pass a bill that can get just enough support in the House to get it across the line, Pelosi will attempt to shield her more vulnerable members. She can let them vote against the bill in hopes voters in their home districts will not hold the passage of the health care bill against them individually. Pelosi needs to try to attempt to protect the Democratic majority, she knows full well they will loose seats, the only question is how many and how far the loses will go. Joe Biden came out last week at a fund raiser and told liberals that if the Democrats loose 30 seats in the House, the agenda he and Obama have for the country is done.

With a recent poll showing senior citizens have only a 16% approval rating for the Obamacare plan, Democrats are trying hard to confuse the issue. The whack job Democrat with the “GOP wants you to die fast”sign is simply trying to counter the Sarah Palin “death panels” message. The simple fact is that liberals and Democrats have lost the battle for the American public. They are well aware that it takes 40 Republican seats being picked up in the House and Pelosi won’t be the speaker any more. They also know that several Democratic Senators are suddenly vulnerable including Harry Reid himself. Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas is in trouble, Specter is sunk in Pennsylvania, experts have estimated the GOP could pick up anywhere between 2 and 6 seats. Not enough to swing the majority over, but enough to stop anything crazy Obama and the liberals want.

The country has spoken on this health care issue, and still the Democrats move forward against the will of the people. They know the cost’s so they are attempting to call it something else, like attaching it to a tax bill to try to get the votes but using a budget trick in the Senate called reconciliation. The only thing the American people can do in the short term, is to make sure Harry Reid understands he will not come back next year. The GOP must target Reid with everything they have. Any Democratic leader who pushes this must not get re-elected no matter what happens. Members like Pelosi are generally seen as having a “safe” seat, Ok, she can’t be speaker again come hell or high water, period. The American public needs to wake up and understand these liberals will try to get this done no matter what the citizens want. This is not the form of government in our constitution, this is government dictating to the people what they will get. Revolutions have begun over such things.