Yesterday morning I woke up to learn that in the dead of night, the House of Representatives passed the health care bill. This is all the more amazing when you consider that lawmakers aren’t finished writing the bill yet, and they probably haven’t read the 2,000 pages that we know exist (so far). They basically voted to give the San Francisco ex-hippie, Nancy Pelosi, a blank check. Most amazing of all is their timing. Just before midnight on a Saturday? For me, that’s about as close to the middle of the weekend as you can get. These are guys with an attendance record that would get them fired from most jobs in the real world. Earlier this year I heard that a lot of them don’t show up until Tuesday afternoon, and head back to their home districts by the end of Thursday, so most of the important voting is scheduled for Wednesday. No doubt they did it to sneak the bill past us, and Pelosi did it with a bunch of arm-twisting.
The good news is that the vote was so close (220-215) that it might not get passed in the Senate; senators seeing their careers pass before their eyes are likely to think twice first. Apparently that happened with my congressman, Ben Chandler. After he voted against offshore drilling and in favor of “Cap & Trade,” the energy tax that is sure to ruin our coal industry, I was ready to declare him a moonbat; he just happens to be less obnoxious than Alan Grayson, the new congressman they have where my father lives. This time, though, he voted against the health care bill, so I guess the “Blue Dog Democrat” description is more accurate. It sure must have taken a lot of calls from unhappy constituents like me to make him see the light. Maybe also the current mess-up over flu vaccines. If the government can’t get enough of that out when they say they will, how are they going to do when they control the whole health care industry? I’ll file the news from Ben Chandler with the statement that even a blind squirrel can find a nut occasionally (no ACORNS, please!).
Over the weekend, I also got an e-mail from Victor Schlatter, a retired Wycliffe missionary I saw two or three times when I lived in Florida. Last May 17, I wrote an essay where I gave thirty reasons why I believe Barack Obama is a “stealth” Moslem. Since then, I have added five more reasons to the list. Now Mr. Schlatter has referred me to a video that makes the same points. Around the beginning of this year I learned the code for posting YouTube videos on webpages, so this one is going there as a second opinion. It makes you think about what we have gotten ourselves into, doesn’t it?
