Today in Washington, D.C. - Mar 23, 2010 - Dems & Liberal Media Celebrate Another Government Fleecing of America

Senate reconvenes at 2:15 PM today and is expected to take up the reconciliation bill of changes (H.R. 4872) to the health care bill passed by the House Sunday night. The Senate Republican Whip’s office explains the reconciliation rules for this bill: “The motion to proceed to consideration of a reconciliation bill is not debatable and the overall statutory debate time is limited to 20 hours. Debate time on amendments is limited to 2 hours equally divided and 1 hour for 2nd degrees. The time that is consumed by roll call votes, quorum calls, or reading of amendments does not count against the 20 hours. Senators are not limited to the number of amendments (or motions) that can be offer after the 20 hours has expired. The Senate is expected to have a vote-a-rama on amendments following the end of debate time.”

Yesterday, the Senate voted 93-0 to pass H.R. 1586, the FAA reauthorization bill.

While Democrats are taking a victory lap over the passage of their monstrously bad $2.5 trillion health care takeover, the liberal press and even some of others appears to be throwing them a ticker-tape parade today. Not only that, they appear to be delighting in dumping on Republicans for their principled opposition to the bill. Yet from reading the mainstream media’s own polls, Americans don’t agree with these attitudes.

Among the triumphal headlines Democrats are enjoying today are the AP’s “Obama to sign health bill, celebrate with allies,” The Washington Post’s, “For historic vote on heath-care reform, Pelosi wielded potent symbol: The gavel.” Network morning shows had gushing segments on health care, and ABC’s Diane Sawyer asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cited an article callng Pelosi the “Most powerful woman in American history?”  I bet Bill Clinton as Hillary rages a bit in response to Nancy and not Hillary being praises.  Also a few of our founding mothers who sacrificed everything including for our freedoms metaphorically "rolled over in their graves."

Meanwhile, other news outlets are taking turns panning Republicans today. Politico features a story titled, “GOP weighs costs of losing ugly,” reciting complaints about tea partiers and frustrated Republicans. And The New York Times has a “political memo” from Adam Nagourney claiming “Republicans Face Drawbacks of United Stand on Health Bill.” Of course, the story is based almost entirely on a column by David Frum that the White House was distributing yesterday and statements from Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee chair Bob Mendendez.

However, all of this misses press rhetoric is ignoring the reaction of the American people, which remains overwhelmingly negative. As mentioned yesterday, CNN released an extremely telling poll, showing that 59% of the public opposes the Democrats’ health care bill, while only 39% support it. In the poll, 70% say the federal budget deficit will go up under the Democrats’ health care bill while only 12% believe it will go down. The CNN poll also found that 62% say they'll pay more for medical care under the Democrats’ health care bill and 56% say the bill creates “too much government involvement in the nation's health care system.”

And last night a CBS News poll found that support for the Democrats’ bill is still upside down with all the intensity on the side of those opposed to the bill. And two of the most-cited benefits of the bill are two items people just aren’t buying. A plurality, 48%, continues to disapprove of the “current health care reform bill,” while only 37% support it. And on the two main arguments for the bill (coverage for pre-existing conditions and lower premiums), people aren’t buying it: Only 37% believe the health spending bill will help control the cost of premiums, 50%  don’t believe it will and only 53% believe the bill will require companies to provide coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

So while Democrats and the media enjoy patting each other on the back today, the reality is that Americans oppose this government takeover of 16^th of the economy, and simply aren’t buying the claims made by Democrats about how great it is. One of the reasons as that stories like this one from CBS News keep popping up: “Already Insured? Get Ready to Pay More.” Americans had the common sense to realize that is the likely outcome of this bill. They said no, and Democrats ignored them and are continuing to ignore them as they congratulate each other today.

Today, we begin to see some of the uglyness hidden in the Government Health Care Bill. When even more Americans fully awakens to the upcoming planned fleecing of America by their own government, they will be more than angry.

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