When 41 Senators Stomp Democracy Into The Senate Floor
Massachusetts elects a new Senator and suddenly the party that had sixty votes, a super majority, has fifty-nine. And they are crying? How is that? One election, one new Senator and healthcare legislation is in jeopardy? Personally, I don’t like the present bill. Who wants a law that is violated by simply not purchasing an insurance policy. Who is the Government to tell me what I have to buy? But just as alarming is where does this leave the poor? What about the two year old girl-child living with her parents in St. Paul who will have no medical care simply because mom and dad cannot afford it? And the Republicans (of which I am one) are cheering? Is there something wrong with this picture? Isn’t this like cheering for death at a lynching?
The Democrats are still the majority. Doesn’t the majority rule? Both parties should be ashamed for this democratic robbery. How is it that our own elected officials allow themselves to be fleeced by themselves. How is it that in a democracy the majority doesn’t rule and the elected officials permit it? Forty-one Senators are screaming joyfully, “We got you now. We’ll show you! The majority will not rule.” And as a result, those forty-one multi-millionaires in a senate of one hundred multi-millionaires will force the farce of the fifty dollar aspirin on the poor; the poor who cannot afford the hospital, let alone the aspirin that is made by the tens of thousands for less than a penny. The irony: These fat-cats have Cadillac Health Insurance Plans furnished by the very electorate from whom they are stealing democracy.
All of you Senators who are Democrats: Shame on you! All of you Senators who are Republicans: Shame on you. As I stated: I do not especially care for the Healthcare bill but I live in a Republic where the majority should always rule, where the majority of votes should always carry the day. Shame on all of you for permitting the arcane filibuster to exist, where the majority are robbed daily by yakkers with nothing to say and nowhere to go.
You elected representatives of the people: Just where are you taking Democracy? Who is exactly stealing from whom? A pox on all your houses!