My friend Mike emailed me today to ask if I had some language he could use when communicating his opposition to ObamaCare to his Senators. Since I have never been reticent in expressing my opinions I was happy to share with him. And now I'll share with you.

Mike -

First of all, forget the Senate. The problem right now is the House of Representatives which is about to vote on a package of changes to the bill the Senate passed just before Christmas. Included in that House vote will be a rule that Deems the House has passed the original Senate bill. The idea being that once they have pulled that trick off, the Senate will pass the revisions using reconciliation. 

According to the Senate rules, they cannot use the reconciliation process on a bill that has not been signed into law.

So once the House Deems the Senate bill passed (in other words passes it without actually voting on it) The One will sign it into law. Then even if the Senate thumbs its noses at the changes the House actually voted on, we still have Obamacare via the Deemed Passed and signed Senate bill.

Forget the Senate - the House is the problem.

The arguments I have made when contacting members of the House have focused more on the broader issues at stake than on the content of the bill. For me I see no validity or value in debating the merits of this clause or that, or arguing about the contained budget gimmicks and the defect impact of the bill. I don't give a damn if the bill funds abortion or not.

I have said:

I do not want the federal government to take away my freedom to decide how best to care for myself and my family. I believe those decisions are the provence of the individual. Further I do not believe that the Federal Government as established by the Constitution of the United States has the authority to mandate that I buy health insurance any more than it has the authority to mandate that I buy peanut butter. Any legislation or legislature that attempts to do so is illegitimate.

I believe that if the House of Representatives attempts to advance this legislation using a Deem and Pass rule that they have denied every American citizen representation. This bill, in addition to it's unconstitutional mandate, contains massive regulation that are in effect a federal nationalization of the insurance industry, and equally massive increases in taxation. Such an action represents not only taxation without representation but nationalization without representation. The procedural machinations of the the Democrat House Leadership will cost the Congress the Consent of the Governed. 

The first American revolution was started for less.

(UPDATE The Washington Post has list of House members and where they stand. Start with the undecideds and help them to make the right decision.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:22 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment