Last night’s Senate vote on cloture for the health reform bill
The Democrats had their 60 votes lined up to close debate on that ghastly bill, which would usurp the medical care industry and the individual freedom of every American.
And they voted to do that against the clearly expressed wishes of the American people. It was not a vote on health care, but a vote on the assumption of extraordinary power over individual lives.
It’s a monstrosity, and the vote last night paves the way for a vote later this week to pass the bill. The House, in a rush to avoid losing momentum for this diabolical thing, could pass it as is, to avoid a House-Senate conference, and then our diabolical President would sign it into law.
How do I regard that vote last night? It is legislative violence, a vicious, violent attack on every American, on the idea of America, and on America herself, as a nation. I am not Patrick Henry, but I know whence my country came and how it won the very freedom that was violated last night.
If you are so flattened out by modern life, so bleached of principles, so indifferent that you do not want to understand history and the gravity of this thing, so glib that you can’t possibly be thinking at all, then do yourself and everyone else the favor of waking the hell up, now.
It is impossible for me to describe in terms still suited to civil society what I feel about Harry Reid and that gang of craven imbeciles he led last night. He is a wimpy, limp-wristed Mussolini, dribbling along toward El Duce’s standard: Everything within the state; nothing outside the state. This is not a new catastrophe, a new tragedy; it is just new to America, where people are only just beginning to understand how far the governments have indulged in the real violence of naked compulsion.
Our forebears set themselves free of this 233 years ago. The circle has come around and closed on us.
What is to be done?