The human mind being what it is will, at times, and depending upon the circumstances, gloss over some of the more unsavory aspects of the past either as a coping mechanism or perhaps as an unconscious appeal to our better nature.
Conversely, that's why the interwebs and more precisely the archives here at Beers with Demo are such a valuable tool in reminding us of just how awful things were and how it's important to never forget just how awful things are bound to be. In this case, we're talking about the crafting of the legislation which would become ObamaCare. We don't know if we're going to do this on a regular basis but we think we might as a reminder of just how atrocious a manner this law was cobbled together.
The following is a re-post of what we originally generated back on December 13 of 2009:
Hey, do you remember when they told us if we voted for McCain it would represent a vote for continuing the secrecy of the Bush years? Well, they were right.
Recall how we’ve been challenging proponents of Obamacare to divulge some of the specifics contained in the legislation as reasons to support the same. With even major points of the Obamacare bill appearing, disappearing and then reappearing, it’s a fool’s errand for supporters of the Senate bill.
But it’s not just us John Q. Publics out here in fly-over country that aren’t in the loop with the Senate version of the bill, the #2 Democrat in Senate has nary a clue regarding what’s in the bill.
Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin admitted Friday that he is "in the dark" about the national health care bill currently under construction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In an exchange on the Senate floor, Republican Sen. John McCain asked Durbin, "Should we not at least be informed as to what the proposal is that the Senate Majority Leader is going to propose to the entire Senate?" Durbin's answer: "I would say to the senator from Arizona that I am in the dark almost as much as he is, and I am in the leadership." Durbin explained that during a Democratic caucus, Reid and the small group of senators involved in crafting the bill turned to their fellow Democrats and "basically stood and said, 'We are sorry, we can't tell you in detail what was involved.'"
You see, we’re all supposed to just trust Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, who with his staff and health care lobbyists are writing and re-writing this legislation in the secrecy of his office.
Durbin claims that Reid is not to blame for the secrecy rather the Congressional Budget Office which Reid has asked to do a cost estimate on the bill. (Insert jaw-drop face, here).
That damn CBO and their rather inconvenient scoring of the various permutations of Obamacare has been a thorn in Congress’ side since they took up their task late in the spring of this year. CBO can’t score what CBO can’t see. Brilliant strategy, Harry.
Back to the future...
Perhaps it was brilliant strategy by Reid as the Senate version of the bill was passed on a Christmas Eve vote before going on to the House where more backroom miracles were performed (see: Stupak)
Any clues as to ultimate effectiveness of this law were foretold in just how it was fashioned: under the shroud of secrecy, deceit and good ol' fashioned business-as-usual pork barrel-ing.
Wasn't Hopenchange everything you expected?
Yeah. That was fun, now wasn't it? We do think this will be a regular feature.
A round-up of news items, articles, columns and blog posts that caught our eye this past week.
Our blog buddy, Harrison is taking a little winter vacation and has just wrapped up his visit to Yellowstone. Check out his site here for some great pictures and where he makes this observation regarding the self-serve and self-regulated warming huts in and around the Park:
I wonder what would happen were one of the Yellowstone warming huts to be set up in San Francisco, New York City, Detroit, Boston, or Seattle? The axe would certainly be stolen and used to commit a crime. The logs would disappear as well while the iron fireplace would be extinguished and be covered in graffiti before being stolen for scrap, and the building itself would be occupied by a bunch of smelly losers with no job until the police were called in to evict everybody before the structure was torn down.
He's right and which helps explain why collectivism on any large scale doesn't work. Counting on moral and cooperative behavior on anything of a larger scale than a warming hut and a "population" more prone to self-sufficient and altruistic motives is simply a fool's errand.
Most people are familiar with so-called affirmative action policies that favor blacks (purportedly to redress past discrimination) and Hispanics and penalize whites. Racial preferences are discriminatory toward individuals of Asian descent as well.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating complaints that Harvard and Princeton discriminate against Asian students in admissions.
Naturally, the schools deny the claims. Harvard “does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants,” spokesman Jeff Neal told Bloomberg. “Our review of every applicant’s file is highly individualized and holistic, as we give serious consideration to all of the information we receive and all of the ways in which the candidate might contribute to our vibrant educational environment and community.”
Apparently, it may also extend to athletics...
"I'm sorry, sir, there is no volleyball at the gym tonight"
Jeremy Lin, currently the toast of Manhattan as he has been tearing it up of late for a Carmelo Anthony-less New York Knicks (addition by subtraction - Anthony is one of the most talented yet clueless players in the NBA right now). Lin, a Taiwanese-American, born in L.A. and raised in Palo Alto, CA, was asked to walk on at several Pac-10 schools after a highly-decorated high school career, instead enrolled at, um, Harvard. He signed as an un-drafted free agent with the Golden State Warriors and did some D-league duty before signing with the Knicks prior to this season. According to Pops, the Lakers had a shot at signing him, ultimately passing on that opportunity. Man, they could use that shot in the arm he is now providing the Knicks.
Barack Obama's politics meant nothing to Samuel L. Jackson because the "Pulp Fiction" star only voted for the president for one reason and one reason only ... because he's black.
In an interview with Ebony magazine, Jackson explained, "I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them ... That's American politics, pure and simple. [Obama's] message didn't mean [bleep] to me."
We know for a fact that's why a lot of white people voted for him.
The officers on Saturday got Cover to stop filming, not by telling him to cease recording or seizing his camera. They told him he was loitering, and that he had to move along or risk arrest.
It's a caveat - some might say loophole - in the new general order publicly trotted out by police on Friday, three days before they're due in court to argue in a lawsuti brought by the ACLU that they are properly addressing citizen's right to record.
The new rule says that citizens have an "absolute right" to photograph or video record the enforcement actions taking place in public view. The chief legal counsel for the agency called it "an extension of the citizen's right to see. [An officer] wouldn't go up to a citizen at a crime scene and tell them to close their eyes, so the officer can't tell them they can't film."
But the rules also says that the person recording may not "violate any section of any law, ordinance, code or criminal article" - such as loitering - while doing so. The officers on Cross Street seemed aware of that fine print.
Funny, we didn't see the ol' "loitering" charge brought out against Occupy. Good thing the ACLU is all over this. Did we mention that the ACLU can go straight to hell?
Without former Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, President Barack Obama wouldn’t have gotten his health care overhaul in 2010 passed through Congress.
But Stupak, a pro-life Catholic who voted for the health care reform after being promised that federal dollars wouldn’t fund abortions, now isn’t happy with Obama.
Appearing Wednesday night on Fox News, Stupak made clear he opposes the Obama administration’s insistence that religious-affiliated organizations are not exempted from the law’s requirement that health insurance plans cover contraceptives.
“I’m disappointed that the administration would put forth such a rule,” Stupak told host Greta Van Susteren.
Stupak? Really? No one gives a rat's ass what this guy has to say. His name will go down in political history as being synonymous for getting rolled and being played for a total chump. See also: "patsy" and "tool".
Oh, and Dionne is all whiny also:
Another liberal Catholic who isn’t happy with the new rule is columnist E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post.
In his column, Dionne recently wrote that Obama “utterly botched the admittedly difficult question of how contraceptive services should be treated under the new health-care law.”
“His administration mishandled this decision not once but twice,” he wrote. “In the process, Obama threw his progressive Catholic allies under the bus and strengthened the hand of those inside the Church who had originally sought to derail the health-care law.”
Oh, please. Dionne is bent because Team O has made such political hash of this mandate business rather than being upset over any religious conscience violation.
You give this much unilateral authority to one department and specifically one person in Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, who serves at the pleasure of the most radical pro-abortion administration ever, what the hell were these people expecting?
That the respective priests of Sebelius, Kerry, and Pelosi have the balls to deny them communion. What absolute disgraces.
Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and raised questions about how accessible emergency contraception should be.
The student health center at Shippensburg, a secluded public institution of 8,300 students tucked between mountain ridges in the Cumberland Valley, provides the Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive in the vending machine along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.
"I think it's great that the school is giving us this option," junior Chelsea Wehking said Tuesday. "I've heard some kids say they'd be too embarrassed" to go into town -- Shippensburg, permanent population about 6,000 -- and buy Plan B.
So, let's get this straight: accessability is such an urgent and pressing issue for contraceptives that they are now vending machine-ready yet the thugs in the Obama administration are forcing Catholic employers to provide the same, free of charge, to their emplyees. Got it. Not an option, there, Chelsea.
OK, gang. That's probably it for today. We'll see you all tomorrow.
B-Daddy here. Stupaked seems to have re-entered the political narrative. Dean has a regular series called Nancy's Nuances: a journey of discovery, the latest entry is in the post below. When Bart Stupak and "pro-life" Democrats cut the deal that passed Obamacare in the House, on mere assurances that a federal executive order would prevent tax dollars from subsidizing abortions, a new word entered our political lexicon, Stupaked. As in:
"Dude, I cannot believe you let that used car salesman play you like that. Now, you’re stuck with this lemon. You got totally Stupaked.”
Now Democrat congressmcritters in generally pro-life districts are crying over their spilled milk, as pro-life groups are airing ads that correctly point out that they voted for the biggest expansion of federal funding of abortion evah. Of course, they are crying like babies to their lawyers to get the ads pulled.
Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-West Price Hill) has filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission against anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List.
The complaint stems from the group attempting to erect four billboards blasting the Congressman for his vote on the health care bill, accusing him of voting for “tax-payer funded abortion.”
Attorneys for Democrat U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper's campaign want four Erie radio stations to pull an ad by an anti-abortion group that contends her vote for health care reform resulted in "the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded abortions ever."
Americans United for Life stands by the ad, saying the freshman lawmaker voted to pass a final version of the bill that omitted key safeguards to prevent federal funding of abortions.
Why aren't they proud of their votes? And look at this article to see the specific mechanisms under which the subsidy flows to insurance plans that cover abortions.
A couple weeks back, we gave some free campaign strategy to Republicans running for House and Senate seats. There were four things that we thought needed to be hammered on relentlessly and they were:
1) The economy/jobs 2) ObamaCare 3) Federal spending/unsustainable debt 4) Process
The first 3 are pretty obvious and the 4th may be as well, but as the Republican ads we've see thus far are doing the job on the first three (shoot, even some Democratic candidates are following this advise), we're not seeing the process of governance hit up nearly as much as it should.
Right now, the Republicans are the proverbial dude walking around the whorehouse with hundred dollar bills hanging out of his pocket. We like the dude's chances also but why leave the voters wondering - the issue of process needs to be a campaign theme as well and Jay Cost writing in Politico's Horse Race blog agrees with us:
Partisans on both sides tell themselves stories about why they're up, why they're down, and why the other side is where it is. These stories usually contain at least a grain of truth, but they also help encourage ideologues in the face of an impending rejection by the electorate. Democrats ignored the political problem of health care in the fall and winter - arguing that Martha Coakley and Creigh Deeds were bad candidates, that voters had been turned off by the health care bill because of the process, and that they would come around once the many benefits kicked in. Now, they're pointing to the economy as the only significant reason why the party is in trouble.
It would be difficult for any strong partisan to admit that such an accomplishment was so deeply unpopular. Yet the polling is pretty unequivocal on the relationship between the Democrats' fortunes and the health care bill. It was during the health care debate that the essential building block of the Democratic majority - Independent voters - began to crumble. It was evident in the generic ballot. It was evident in the President's job approval numbers. It was evident in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
Reconstructing the Democrats' meme, we can fairly say that the economy is a huge problem for the party. Of this, there can be no doubt. We can also say that the stalled recovery denied the Democrats a chance to win back the voters they lost over health care. But the process and passage of health care reform were crucial elements in the story. That's when the party started losing the voters it needs to retain control of the government.
(itlalics, his)
Cost alludes to the narrative attempting to be established by the liberal-Left that if the economy wasn't in the tank as it is currently, the President's approval numbers would not be upside down as they are now.
Because that premise is not entirely without merit, it then behooves Republicans to remind Independents that whatever state the economy would've been in right now, the reason why they fell out of love with the Obama and the Democrats: the process of the passage of ObamaCare was a spit in the face at them.
Remind Indies that the HopenChange narrative was all about changing the way business was done and how Obama was going to achieve transparent and ethical governance in D.C. And then remind them of the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, the union carve outs, the Stupak sell-outs and all the rest of the backroom wheeling and dealing that ultimately resulted in a monstrous entitlement program that we cannot pay for and will limit our medical decision freedoms. Process matters.
Process played a big part in 2006 when the Democrats won back the House and Senate by hammering the Republicans on their ethics problems.
It's too late in the election cycle for the economy to be of aid to the Democrats even if it did miraculously spring back to life, but drive a stake through this thing by emphasizing that it wasn't just that Cash for Clunkers and Porkulus did nothing for jobless numbers and the economy as a whole but that Hope and Change are an entirely fraudulent brand.
KT sees at least one successful challenge to an element of ObamaCare, here.
We almost have a level of respect for the Obama administration not unsimilar to that of the Sawi tribesmen who were far more fascinated and admiring of the deceitfulness and treachery displayed by the person of Judas than they were of Christ while being evangelized by missionary Don Richardson in his book “Peace Child”.
It’s almost as if Obama was saying to himself,”You know, how do I maintain my unsullied bona fides as the most radical pro-abortion president in the history of this country but still sway this yokel, Stupak? Any ideas, Rahm?”
“That’s it! We’ll go with 'ol the Executive Order 1-2. He’ll never see it coming”
(UPDATE #1): Unbelievable.
According to reports, Stupak received $729,000 from the Obama administration on March 19 for 3 airports in his district in return for his "yes" vote on Obamacare. March 19 was Friday. An entire weekend of hand-wringing and will-he-or-won't-he and stay strong, Bart and it was already a fait accompli! And for what? A stinking 3/4ths of a million dollars? By standard porkulus jobs accounting, that amounts to approximately 6 jobs. 6 jobs!
Not only is Stupak unconcionable, he is completely incompetent as well. If you are going to go down as one of the biggest chumps in the history of this country, you better get a better exchange rate for your "vote of concious" than $729,000.
"It is naive for any elected official, especially one who describes himself as 'pro-life,' to expect that a promise to issue an Executive Order that reasserts the intentions of the Hyde Amendment will be fulfilled by the most pro-abortion president to ever sit in the White House. Perhaps Mr. Stupak and his fellow pro-life Democrats forget that President Obama's first Executive Order was the repeal of the Mexico City Policy to allow for international funding of abortion."
"Not only would an Executive Order be rendered meaningless in the face of Congress passing legislation which actively provides for the massive expansion and funding of abortion services, but anyone who doubts the abortion tsunami which awaits this bill becoming law lives in a fantasy world."
That from Phyllis Schlafly, president and founder of the Eagle Forum.
We’re submitting a new word for consideration into the modern political lexicon: “Stupak” (verb) as in, “to be Stupaked”.
Essentially to get rolled in the most embarrassing, obvious and transparent of ways. “Dude, I cannot believe you let that used car salesman play you like that. Now, you’re stuck with this lemon. You got totally Stupaked.”
"Rarely has such a good thing for Americans been perceived by so many as a threat to their livelihood and liberty."
That from the clueless and hapless editors of the L.A. Times rationalizing their support for universal healthcare which they believe is the endstate of Obamacare.
So, those folks showing up at tea party rallies and town hall events with their “Obama = socialist” placards weren’t guilty of overheated and hyperbolic rhetoric after all. Guess that just proves when you get what you set out after, you can finally reveal yourself for who you really are.
“There is some danger that health care reform will turn the larger private health insurance companies into the same sort of black-belt lobbying champs that Congress created in Sallie Mae."
Count on it. As smaller insurance companies get squeezed out because they will be unable to afford the expanded coverage mandated by ObamaCare, look for a consolidation in the industry to where there will be only a few big boys left and who will really be throwing their weight around Capitol Hill, especially considering their client list just increased by 30 million people.
If you thought that the health insurance lobby was influential now just wait until ObamaCare downsizes the number of carriers and increases the influence of those left. It will be picking winners and losers and crony capitalism at its finest as the politicization of health care kicks into high gear.
We were going to run with a similar post a couple of weeks back but it just didn’t feel right at the time. Even still, we’re filing this under “Were not saying… we’re just saying”. And that is with respect to the government’s handling of the numerous alleged Toyota defects.
It just seems odd that a company whose name has been synonymous with quality has seemingly gone off the rails in such epic fashion.
Honestly, if you didn’t know any better, you might think that the Feds might be gunning for this mostly non-union, foreign auto maker.
From an anecdotal standpoint, we don’t ever recall the government being as aggressive or as openly vocal when it came to charges of vehicle defects and recalls related to those defects. But we’re sure all this venting is truly legitimate.
Congressmen like Bart Stupak and John Dingell from, uhhh, Michigan ripped into Toyota for dragging their feet on the recalls, but they’re really just trying to protect the consumer, right?
And we’re sure there is nothing to the fact that recalls are traditionally handled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration but in Toyota’s case the recall effort is being headed-up at the cabinet level by Transportation Secretary, Roy LaHood. Something this important can’t be entrusted anywhere but the highest levels.
Never mind the fact, also that there is absolutely no rhyme or reason for what triggers a recall effort.
"Edmunds.com's analysis of NHTSA data shows no clear pattern in terms of the number of consumer complaints that trigger an agency investigation. As few as five complaints have triggered an investigation; other investigations haven't started until 1,500 complaints had accumulated," noted Edmunds.com Senior Analyst Michelle Krebs in her report NHTSA on the Hot Seat: What is Standard Operating Procedure? on AutoObserver.com.
The report points out that between 2005 and 2010, steering problems on Chevrolet Cobalt were the subject of 1,157 complaints while Toyota Corolla steering problems were the subject of 84 complaints. According to Edmunds.com's reading of the steering complaints on both vehicles, the complaints about the Cobalt's steering are far more serious and more dangerous than are the complaints about the Corolla's steering. NHTSA recently opened official investigations of both vehicles.
And that joint GM/Toyota venture (NUMMI) up in Fremont California that GM bailed out on and which Toyota is planning on moving its Fremont operations to right-to-work San Antonio, TX? To the naked eye one would think the investigations are being used as leverage somewhat in order to keep Toyota and its 5,000+ union jobs there in bay area. But that’s just non-sense, right? The federal government and, in particular, this administration would never try bullying or any strong-arm tactics in the auto-manufacturing sector, would they?
News flash, geniuses: it's not an industry thing. They are your competitors. The Obama Administration owns Government Motors. You don't see them busting GM's balls about regulatory issues, do you? Quite the contrary, they're still using the fake bank "Ally Bank" to funnel taxpayer dollars to fund cheap financing for Government Motors vehicles.
If Toyota won't surrender to UAW demands and start writing big checks to Democrat campaign funds, they're in for the Dr. Jellyfinger treatment.
Because nothing says “we’re proud of what’s in this bill" like pre-dawn and Christmas Eve votes, completely opaque “negotiations” and multi-hundred million dollar payoffs.
But it’s a new year and now that the House and Senate healthcare bills will need to be reconciled, maybe those conference committee negotiations will be televised live on C-SPAN just like the President promised, right?
Not quite.
Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have handled the healthcare bill has been anything but transparent. And, if the left-wing blogosphere is to be believed, the two congressional leaders intend to keep the deliberations secret as they try to merge the House and Senate versions of the legislation into something that will pass both chambers.
Legislation this important to the American people can’t be held up by anything as icky as parliamentary procedure, can it? The talking points going out will be that this method will remove the roadblocks set up by obstructionist Republicans when the reality is that House Democrats, like Bart Stupak, he of the anti-abortion Stupak amendment are just as nettlesome, if not more.
Every single feature in this bill and particularly every step along the legislative process path has convinced us this bill has nothing to do with improving healthcare but rather with passing something… anything for the sake of checking off “healthcare reform” on the presidential to-do list.
There’s no real reform in this bill. The net effect of Obamacare will be the increased subsidization of a flawed healthcare system that, over the years, will be dragged further downward under its own weight.
Features like the public option, if they are not in the final version that winds up on the President’s desk for signature, will worm its way into the system over the years via incrementalism.
Or as Paul Krugman would put it, Obamacare like any other great social safety net program we have instituted would just get better over time.
Just like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, eh, Krugman?
We'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.
Now C-SPAN is asking precisely for that. Its CEO, Brain Lamb, has sent a letter to House and Senate leaders, requesting that his network be permitted to broadcast the final negotiations, as the two chambers work out the differences between each body's version of the legislation:
As your respective chambers work to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate health care bills, C-SPAN requests that you open all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings, to electronic media coverage.
The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of these sessions LIVE and in their entirety. We will also, as we willingly do each day, provide C-SPAN’s multi-camera coverage to any interested member of the Capitol Hill broadcast pool.
Yawn.
This plea for transparency would’ve been helpful when Congress returned to work in September after it’s summer break not now when the bill is mashed-up bag of fait accompli. Thanks for the timely and courageous hold-their-feet-to-the-fire request, C-SPAN.
Maybe this is what has the liberal-Left crying such crocodile tears over the extreme-ing of the Republican Party and how the alleged witch-hunt of moderates within Republican ranks is bad for the party and bad for the nation or something:
As Congress remains embroiled in a massive debate over whether to force Americans to pay for abortions through the new government-run health care programs, a new CNN poll finds 61 percent oppose government funding abortions with public dollars.
The poll found six in ten Americans favor a ban on using federal funds for abortions, such as the Stupak amendment recently added to the health care bill in the House.
The new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released today shows 61 percent oppose taxpayer funding of abortions while just 37 percent are supportive.
The CNN poll goes further and finds that a majority of Americans, by a 51 to 45 percent margin, believe women should be required to use their own money to pay for abortions even if they have private health insurance and no government money is involved. They did not think health insurance should pay for abortions.
Holy smokes, it ain’t the Republican party that’s being radicalized – it’s the whole damn country!
In fact, the trend line on abortion has been moving gradually away from the pro-abortion position for years.
The admonitions to stand-down on the social issues bear no merit.
Gay marriage? 0 for 31 in state referendums nationwide, most recently in the allegedly socially laissez-faire state of Maine. Obviously more evidence of extremism ruling the day among conservatives.
This is what has the liberal-Left freaked out as they try to project the radical label onto conservatives and relegate their default party to "rump" party status.
And similar to the abortion question, the gay marriage question has gradually been trending towards the “pro-“ position. So not to speak for “the movement”, we believe the fact that abortion and gay marriage has largely been left to the courts who fashion “rights” out of whole cloth is what is most disconcerting to people.
We firmly believe these two topics are as emotionally-charged as they are is because, particularly in the case of abortion, they have been removed from the democratic process which favors the concepts of the market place of ideas and winning hearts and minds over the previously mentioned rights-fabricating courts and grandstanding politicians like the mayor of San Francisco who used gay marriage as a cheap political stunt.
Why not let the clearly radicalized public decide these matters?
Just consider this our little “well, isn’t that special” moment for those out there that whine about the Religious Right’s undue influence on the Republican party
"I will continue whipping my colleagues to oppose bringing the bill to the floor for a vote until a clean vote against public funding for abortion is allowed," Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Monday in a statement.
He said last week that 40 Democrats could vote with him to oppose the legislation -- enough to derail the bill.
That felt so good, we may need a smoke.
The meme’ of the radicalization of the Republican party has become the talking point du jour for the left and we couldn’t be more pleased. The left’s belief that the Republicans risk permanent marginalization because of a huge swerve to the right is a premise that is so spectacularly flawed, we should take to pushing it here ourselves.
Because, god knows, we don’t want the liberal-Left to think that they are open to any electoral vulnerability as they passed a $787 billion political payoff package and as they continue to ram a personally invasive $1.2 trillion health care plan and an economically ruinous and environmentally dubious cap and trade bill through Congress.
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