We have met the enemy; Tea Party II, here we come

It becomes clearer on a daily basis, from bribes to Senators to get votes to Pelosi’s refusal to let Republicans participate in a press conference in Copenhagen, that America is no longer a Republic, but a dictatorship, at least until the next election.

The latest, and one of the most egregious examples, is exposed at RedState.com yesterday in an article entitled “We Are No Longer a Nation of Laws. Senate Sets Up Requirement for Super-Majority to Ever Repeal Obamacare.”

I encourage you to read the article, but if you don’t have time here’s the short version:

Changing Senate rules requires a 2/3 supermajority of 67 votes.  However, a provision in Reid’s health care “reform” bill (which people including Senators are just having a chance to read now even though it already passed) includes a provision which changes long-standing Senate rules by making it “out of order” for the Senate to consider a change to a section of the bill.  This means the process by which the bill would be changed is governed by a new “rule” which itself would require a supermajority to change.  Therefore, unlike almost every other piece of legislation and in defiance of years of Senate tradition, that part of the bill which “applies to regulations imposed on doctors and patients by the Independent Medicare Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels” is nearly impossible to amend or repeal.

When Senator Jim DeMint questioned the Senate President about the rule change, he was told that it was simply a “procedural change”, which is an outright lie.

Not only is this an indictment of the new tyranny of the Democrats, it also shames the Senate Parliamentarian who, for the second time in a week has allowed the Senate to break long-standing rules that every Senator understands. (The first time was when they allowed Bernie Sanders amendment, the 767 pages of which was being read in full at the demand of Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), to be pulled and the reading stopped.  Senate rules are clear that if any Senator objects, the reading must continue once started even if the amendment is not going to be voted on.)

Harry Reid is a shameless thief of Americans’ money, economic liberty, and now our very political system.  The Democrats who go along with him are co-conspirators in actions that are economically devastating and irrational if the true goal were health care reform, which if course it isn’t.  Beyond that, however, the frontal assault on the structure of our rule of laws is beyond what should be permissible even if you accept the premise that “people get the government they deserve.”

Democrats have twice broken the rules of the Senate in their mad rush to pass anything no matter how bad, no matter how much the public is against it, in order to claim a political victory for Democrats and defend Barack Obama from a devastating defeat so early in his presidency.  The Democrats are probably right that antipathy toward them and their bill will initially soften if it is signed by the President.  But they are probably wrong to think that temporarily-lessened hatred of them and their law will not soon be swamped by an outpouring of grassroots clamor which could make this year’s Tea Parties and Town Hall meetings look like demure little warm-up gatherings.  The political fodder for Republicans conservatives is enormous if only they learn how to use it, something they’ve not done well so far (particulary Senator McConnell, who has a lot to answer for.) One can already think of a half-dozen good ads attacking Democrats in what will certainly be the most aggressive attempt by the GOP to “nationalize” elections in many years.  Polls are showing the public being repulsed by the Democrats’ heavy-handed government takeovers, or attempted takeovers, of…everything.

As a secondary effect, I believe that RINO Republicans, whether in Congress now or candidates for office, such as Florida’s Charlie Crist will be badly damaged by the Democrats actions.  The picture of Crist with Obama, which was probably already worth 5 percentage points for Marco Rubio, will now be worth at least 10.  I will go out on a limb and say Rubio wins the nomination.  (Not as much of a limb as it was when I first contributed to Rubio’s campaign.)  I should also note that I heard Rubio on the Hugh Hewitt radio show a few days ago and was extremely impressed.  I think recent events are the political death of Ben Nelson, and maybe of Mary Landrieu.  I certainly hope so.

The key to the survival of our Republic now is that no Supreme Court Justice, and particularly no conservative Justice, leave the court until after the next election.  If we get another Sotomayor, especially if that person replaces a conservative, this country will be devastated for years to come.  Don’t forget, as recent events prove, for liberals the end justifies the means.  Rules are annoyances to be cast aside if it means grabbing more power for the government over your life.  And since we can no longer count on the president, regardless of his political party, to defend the Constitution, we’re left sadly reliant on a Court that is already barely reliable.

Finally, with all that said, I reiterate my view that I’m glad John McCain lost.  McCain is a RINO.  If he represents winning, then the nation is already lost. A McCain government would have been just a slightly slower version of an Obama government.  In the spirit of someone whose son’s middle name is Rand, let the voters get a good hard dose of the happy-faced fascism which they have voted into office. Let them learn once and for all that even for people who do not see liberty as an end in itself (as I see it), the tangible results of the loss of liberty, particularly economic liberty, are devastating.  It’s going to take a hard, expensive lesson for the benumbed complacent American populous to wake up and realize who the enemy is.  Luckily, Reid, Pelosi, and Obama are making it easier for Americans to see evil than it has been for many years.

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