By Barry Secrest

Excerpt:

A majority of Americans were stunned this week after the budget shattering Healthcare Bill was passed by the Liberals in the House.  Upon completion of the vote, the House Leaders stood together congratulating both themselves and all of America.  Speaker Pelosi spoke, rather ironically, of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness while the Republicans set forth their determination to halt any furtherance of the Bill by any and all measures available.  The vote was narrow in its margins as the Democrats squeaked by with a total of 219 to 212, which was only 3 votes above the required 216 for passage.  There were no Republican votes in support of the Bill.  This while a number of State Attorney Generals began laying out plans to institute lawsuits challenging the Constitutionality of mandatory healthcare in conjunction with States' Rights.

In fact, as the chaotic tug-of-war between Washington Politicians  raged on this week, it seemed almost as if the Biblical "Tower of Babel" had re-emerged from the earth and set all of Washington into a frenzy of nearly unintelligible babbling.  The President, in a stump speech, stated that after the passage of healthcare coverage, premiums would go down by a remarkable 3,000%.  We can only perceive this to mean that insurance companies would heroically pay individuals "lottery like sums" to take out coverage.

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The President went on to then attack insurance carriers repeatedly, no doubt due in part to their being the largest competitor to the Federal Government's stake of better than 50% of all medical insurance coverage now in effect--that being not enough, apparently. You might forgive my lack of humour in all of this as events unfold.

There were also cries of racism yet again, as a number of Liberal Black politicians traversed through a vast throng of Tea Party protesters with boos and catcalls being hurled at them--but--at all of the other Democrats, as well.  Interestingly, of all the footage shown to date, we have been unable to discern any racial epithets.  Al Sharpton later weighed into the mix with uncharacteristic lucidity and stated on The O'Reilly Factor that "the American people overwhelmingly voted for Socialism when they elected President Obama."  This obviously left us all scratching our heads that we have finally found something on which we can agree as it regards the Rev. Sharpton.

Meanwhile, the CBO waded into the rising flood waters of Government's apparent love of extreme debt by scoring the available budgetary data as it applied to the impending  Healthcare vote.  The results of the score were much bally-hooed by the Liberals who gingerly overlooked the CBO's cover letter, which essentially stated that their overworked estimate was no better than pie-in-the-sky guesswork since it was nearly impossible to accurately score  the Bill's breadth and improvisation as it regards possible costs.  Further, the too numerous to count accounting tricks, vote buy-offs, gratuities and downright bribes at play left only a final, clumsily-executed rabbit pulled from the hat that was the Bill-signing to show an extreme naivete on the part of  the numerous supporters and fawning Media acolytes.

Jobless, Hungry, Homeless but in Great Health!

These tricks included 10 years of revenue collections against 6 years of expense outlays--which would be akin to qualifying for the purchase of a house by creatively proving income nearly 50% higher than it actually is.  Hmm... Sound familiar?  One wonders if ACORN has been giving Congress and the Administration advice prior to descending into dis-solution--but then, what else, Ladies and Gentlemen, does this remind you of in our recent agonizing past ?

Merely a day or so after the vote, press releases would point to Senator Stupak and ...

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