R.I.P. Representative Democracy

Well, they did it. In the end the Democrats in Congress went against the expressed wishes of the American people and passed a health care reform bill that is so unpopular that even many of the politicians who voted for it find it appalling. Why were so many of them willing to throw their careers away in order to help pass a bill they despise? Because of one man: Barack Hussein Obama.

Mr. Obama was able to convince the moderates weasels in his party that his personal legacy as President is more important than their own political careers. My guess is he told the Blue Dogs who were threatening to vote no over the abortion funding issue that if they failed to pass health care reform after making it 98.6% of their entire job for the past year, he (Obama) would be seen as a failure, and that would set a bad precedent for the first non-caucasion to occupy the oval office. So not wanting to appear to be the spoiler of history, they caved.

Now that the Senate Health Care Bill has been made the law of the land, we can all sit back and watch the wobbly wheels of our economy fall completely off unless the Supreme Court steps up to the challenge and strikes this monstrous legislation down on constitutional grounds. I believe they ultimately will – at least major portions of it – but we’ll just have to wait and see.

In the meantime we find the Representative Democracy that has served us so well over the last 2+ centuries gasping for breath, struggling to survive after such a brazen assault on the Constitution and the obvious intent of the founding fathers. I’m still proud to be an American, but as of this morning the America I love seems to be slipping away from the patriots’ grasp.