Powerless we are – for now; and an idea matched with truth will eventually have all the power in the world:
All 40 Republican members of the Senate sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday asking him to hold health care negotiations in “the light of day.”
“In the coming weeks, we ask for increased transparency in the process of merging the House-passed bill and the Senate-passed bill,” the letter said. “Closed door negotiations and unprecedented special provisions in exchange for votes do not meet the expectations of the American people.”
At best, Democrats might give us some window dressing on transparency – but I doubt we’ll see even that. It must be kept in mind that all Democrat rhetoric about being for the little guy; about being for clean government; about being other than ruthless, corrupt and greedy political whores is just that – so much rhetoric. They don’t care about us and don’t care about America – they only care about their own power and wealth. What they are doing behind closed doors is working things out to maximize both wealth and power for themselves – if someone manages to get some health care out of the deal,that is ok…but its not the primary concern.
Its hard to condemn a whole group of people, but the plain fact of the matter is that for decades there has been an increasing tendency to this sort of self-serving corruption and as Democrats have not been held accountable in the MSM or by rank-and-file Democrats there has been no means of checking or correcting this tendency. Only massive, crushing defeat coupled with an internal, Democrat demand for honesty will fix the problem in the Democrat party.
Meanwhile, we sit here suffering the effects of having an irresponsible and corrupt political class governing our nation. All will be set right in the end, but we’ll have some pretty bad times before then. Let this be a lesson to us to move ruthlessly against the least manifestation of corruption in politics. Policies may be good or bad, but if they are at least honestly arrived at, they won’t be nearly as bad as bad policies coupled with bad hearts.
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