Isn't it reasonable for lawmakers and ordinary citizens to say that a piece of proposed legislation should not be enacted into law until it has been studied fully to find what its effects likely will be?
But Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has bizarrely reversed that. She says she wants to enact ObamaCare socialized medicine first -- and then let everyone find out what it would do.
She was speaking recently in Washington when she made some remarks on ObamaCare. They started out fairly mild:
"You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention -- it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting."
OK, those comments aren't very specific, but neither are they particularly controversial.
It is what Speaker Pelosi said next that turns common sense and sound public policy on its head:
"But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy," she said -- according to a transcript that she proudly posted on her own Web site!
That is as backward as it gets!
The American people and our lawmakers need to know with crystal clarity what is in this gigantic, trillion-dollar-plus legislation before -- not after -- it passes. In fact, it is precisely because grassroots Americans have become aware, bit by bit, of alarming provisions of various ObamaCare proposals that those bills have not become law already. That public scrutiny seems to trouble the speaker.
It will be too late to reverse course once ObamaCare is enacted and its disastrous consequences -- for our economy and for our medical care -- can no longer be denied. It is condescending and distressing that Speaker Pelosi would suggest hastening ObamaCare into law before the public knows "what is in it."
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The public doesn't want to know what precisely is in the health care bill,they,like this editor,make up their mind on bits and pieces of information and disinformation with no intention of ever reading the bill.
Our congresspersons don't read these bills,they have their staff and/or lobbiest tell them what is in them and how to play the politics. It's an ugly process.
Spoken like a true Lib-Prog above. Absolutely not true-again. There are many US citizens and their Reps, (mostly on the Conservative side) and in the Conservative media, who have taken the time to not only read all the monstrosities put before them, but educate themselves on the details and the legal language-language that has proven to be purposefully devious, untruthful and dangerous to future generations of Taxpayers. Pelosi knows this too, that's why she's hiding this one (and why she's bribing the conservative Democrats). No, not on C-Span, not transparent, not open, not bipartisan. Huh Obama and cronies? Huh?
The poster above speaks in true, Progressive code-speak, which is, "the public is too ignorant and uninformed (read stupid), too uninterested and non-caring (read too engrossed in their playthings), to care what goes on in the Halls of Big Gov't. And yes, The Progressives in power sure know how to play politics all right. Dirty, cheating, lying Chicago politics that is. They are ugly, their "Process" is ugly and we, the people are angry about them, it and the state of the State. Too bad, so sad.
The ever-increasing insanity of Pelosi and Reid become more apparent every time one of them goes to the press, which lately, is way too much. She not only stated the above, insane remark but also in the same interview (which was not played on or in most of the MSM, she stated that, "won't it be a much better country when artists, filmmakers (like her daughter), actors, entrepeneurial folks, etc, can get rid of that second job and just be able to do what they want to do? And they will never have to worry about paying for healthcare...etc, etc". Ad nauseum.
So let's get this straight, in her Never, Never-land of Utopia, we all can just quit our hated jobs and do..whatever, as long as it makes us feel good. And Big Gov't Daddy will support us all the way. Shades of Lenin, Stalin, Hugo Chavez! Why didn't we think of this now? Stupid us. How deluded we've all been for almost three centuries. We don't need to work hard to obtain what we want or need. We don't need 'real' money to pay for groceries, mortgages or healthcare. We just need Big Daddy to tell us what we need and then he'll pay for it all. With 'printed money'.
Hello slave-Master Red Communist China. Bow to you? Speak Chinese as my first language? Mark me as your slave? Sure, whatever you say, Master, we will obey, just let us live, not die in the New Utopia. We don't need freedom or guns or healthcare, we just need you.