House Democrats to America: Kiss Off!

(Note: My apologies for being away so long. I've been bogged down with some work-related difficulties that have kept me from writing. I'm back now, hopefully without interruption.)

Well, there you have it.

Last night the House Democrats stated loudly and clearly they don't give a hoot about We the People. Under the Stalinist rule of Nancy Pelosi the House voted 220-215 to pass the health care legislation and force a government takeover on the nation. Despite the summer's tea parties and town hall protests, the protest in Washington last week, and poll after poll indicating the majority of Americans are against the legislation, the House knows better than the rest of us and was bound and determined to do what it wanted. Asked about the public sentiment Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, had the audacity to claim House Democrats were merely respecting the wishes of voters who booted the Republicans out of office last year.

Mr. Van Hollen, with all due respect sir, put a sock in it.

You and I both know full well you don't care anything about the voters you so piously profess your love for. No one who truly respects the American people and their liberty signs on to a bill that mandates every citizen purchase health insurance or face a government penalty. Pardon my French, but who the hell are you and the rest of you Washington jackasses to tell the rest of us what we must spend our money on? (To my readers, I do humbly apologize for my language, but I am absolutely furious right now.)

The U.S. Constitution, which apparently is a document the Congress doesn't believe they need to follow, gives the following authority to the House and Senate:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States...;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia...;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States....;

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."

Do you see anything in that language the allows the Congress to mandate a universal Federal law regarding health care insurance? There is none, and no matter of tweaking the Constitution changes that. Proponents of universal health care claim Congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce allows them, to which I say, BULL PUCKY. Regulating interstate commerce only applies to businesses and how they conduct themselves. It is not authority to force people to purchase something they would otherwise not. It is a gross and immoral "interpretation" (and I use that word reluctantly) of the Constitution to claim Congress has the authority they have assumed upon themselves.

If that's not enough, the Constitution's 10th amendment limits Congress as follows:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

It doesn't seem to matter what the law is anymore, those in our halls of government have manipulated the average American to the extent that the vast majority of them don't even know the government is operating illegally in many areas. Thus, Washington is free to do whatever it wants without consequence.

Personally, what's most frustrating about this for me is the fact that I spent the better part of a year warning people before the election we were headed this way, yet people refused to believe their government would abuse its power to this extent. Even my fellow Christian believers, who ought to know better about the sin nature of man, were so enamored by the possibility of having the first black president they completely ignored the history of Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, and the rest of them.

What has happened to this once great nation and the time when people used to care enough to stay informed, get involved, and hold their elected officials accountable? Are we so pathetic that we'll let them do whatever they want as long as we get to watch American Idol? Have we become so apathetic that we'll mortgage our children and bankrupt our grandchildren just so we won't have to suffer any inconvenience?

America, SHAME ON YOU!!!

I for one, have had enough. I don't know how or what to do next, but you'd better believe I'm going to start looking for every possible opportunity to put a stop to this garbage. The founding fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence something that stirs my heart and mind every time I read it. It says:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." (emphasis mine)

My fiends, we have long since passed the point of mere inconvenience or burdensome regulation. With this health care fiasco we are dooming the future of this country to Socialism and a government nanny-state. This is not what this country was founded on or was ever intended to be. Our future security, and that of our children, is now at stake and it is our DUTY to throw of this government immediately!

This nation can return to its former glory if We the People stand up and take it back. We can return to the days when Congress kept its collective nose out of our business; when they went to Washington for a few years only to return to civilian life and the real world; the days when the Supreme Court understood that God was the final authority, not them; the days when the President led by principle and integrity rather than a monster ego. We can do it if we really want to.

Yet that's the lingering question that bothers me tremendously. Do we really want to? Are we willing to lay everything on the line to gain back our liberty? Would we march in the streets, contribute our financial resources, even pick up the rifle if it were necessary? If the answer is no, then we might just as well give up now and let the statists have their way; think of it in terms of the Borg: resistance is futile. But if the answer is yes, then let's get busy and stop talking about it!

I will volunteer to lead the charge if you will volunteer to join me.

Sources:
Democrats Face Electoral Backlash After Health Care Vote, Top Republican Warns - FOXNews.com - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/08/democrats-face-electoral-backlash-health-care-vote-republican-warns/

Texts of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence