No matter where you are in America today, March 21, 2010, it may well be a cold day. In Tulsa, we have had a late winter snow storm and temperatures in the 20s and 30s. That is cold of one variety. If the U.S. House of Representatives manages to “pass” the health care “reform” bill later today, liberty will enter a long, frigid winter from which it will not soon, if ever, recover.
As I compose these words, I am monitoring the House debate on C-SPAN. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is the Speaker Pro Tempore, and he looks largely clueless on the various points of order that Republican House members are raising. The Republicans and Democrats are taking turns parading to the lecturn to make their little speeches either in support of violating their oath to support the Constitution, or not. Cong. David Scott of Georgia, a Democrat, actually just stated that on this Lord’s day it is our responsibility to “step out on faith” and vote for this bill! What gall and stupidity!
I have thought quite a bit over the last few weeks and days about what is about to happen to our nation. I hope that you have done so as well. In fact, I hope that you have been praying fervently about this issue, because I don’t know what will happen if the petty tyrants in Washington are successful at ignoring the clear will of the American people. We already know that they consider the Constitution to be irrelevant. The only real question left to be answered is how long the debate will take today. This is how things work in Congress: the debate will end and the ceremonial slaughter of American liberty and economic vitality will commence only when the criminal left has twisted enough arms or bought enough votes to risk an actual vote. Amidst all that cowardice and criminal negligence,
there was one continuing bright light earlier this week. Sen. Tom Coburn, who is one of just a few brave, principled people in Congress, offered this promise:
http://www.breitbart.tv/coburn-warns-senate-republicans-will-watch-for-sweetheart-deals-in-health-care/
What kind of deals are the spineless or ignorant being offered? I watched a show yesterday in which a Representative from California revealed that Obama has signed an executive order to release a little more water to the rich farmland of the San Joaquin valley. Say what? Well, apparently the water in Southern California is tighly controlled due to legislation designed to protect some “endangered” fish. So, even in a year where, according to the congressman from California, they have had 129% of normal rainfall, it takes blackmail in order for thirsty farmers to get a little more water from the benevolent federal government. Are we all clear on how this works? The President of the United States invoked his brand of Chicago thug politics to buy the votes of a few wavering California representatives. In return for their complicity, some of the best farmland in the country gets water that it should have had in the first place. But, all this talk of oaths and the Constitution is boring and beside the point. Government will make health care cheaper, better and more affordable without deepening the deficit! All by spending money we don’t have! Liberty is overrated.
It seems that Obama’s threat to “fundamentally alter” America is about to come to pass.
Will God save us from ourselves no matter what we do?
