BROWN NAILS IT – AT 10:41 A.M. ET:  Newly elected Republican Senator Scott Brown, of Massachusetts, nails it exactly in his comments on the Democratic drive over the cliff on health care:

(AP) -- Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.

"An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message.

"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway."

And...

Brown...campaigned on a promise to be the Republicans' crucial 41st vote against Obama's health plan, and said Saturday that his victory amounted to a message from voters that Washington should "get its priorities right."

"We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt," Brown said.

COMMENT:  Very well said.  I believe this is the first time Brown was asked to give the weekly GOP address.  He did very well, and his phrasing was just right.  He will be looked at as a potential Republican vice presidential candidate in 2012.

March 12, 2010

MADNESS – AT 10:23 A.M. ET:  The Democrats in Congress have become completely fanatical on health care.  There is no stopping them.  From the Washington Post:

Democratic leaders on Friday stoked expectations that the year-long debate in Congress over health care may be coming to an end, after President Obama delayed his upcoming trip to the South Pacific and House leaders indicated they could deliver a final bill for his signature by the end of next week.

The House is preparing to vote, perhaps Friday or next Saturday, on the legislation that passed the Senate on Christmas Eve, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she was "delighted that the president will be here for the passage of the bill. It's going to be historic."

COMMENT:  I have never seen anything quite like this – a party hell-bent on passing a piece of legislation that is intensely unpopular with the American people...and claiming it's for the benefit of the people.  This is what tyranny of the majority, the Congressional majority, is about. 

I'm reminded of the story of Admiral Yamamoto, who planned the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  He was reported to have promised his government that, after the attack, he could run wild for six months in the Pacific, but could guarantee nothing after that.  He was right.

The Democrats seem to think they can run wild until the November elections, now less than eight months away, but know that they can guarantee nothing after that.  They will shove this poorly conceived monstrosity down our throats, knowing how hard it will be to repeal it while Obama is still in office.  The Dems hope that enough structural change will occur to our health-care system before Obama leaves as to make repeal essentially impossible.

The dream of the militant left has always been to control health care, the jewel in the crown of socialism.   Another dream is to spend so much money that the system is flooded, and overwhelmed, making the populace dependent on the government for any change, and drastically reducing the economic and military power of the United States.

I hope independents and moderate Democrats are seeing what their vote for Obama has brought us. 

March 12,  2010