Are we No Longer a Nation of Laws ?

When the US Congress starts passing laws that are irrevocable, we will be trading our liberty for tyranny. This is reminiscent of Germany in 1933. Due to a major crisis, the German Parliament passed the ‘Enabling Act’ (Official title: Law for the Removal of the Distress of People and Reich) thus giving special legislative powers along with the authorization to deviate from their constitution. This ‘Act’ gave the majority party a virtual dictatorship. America is in a healthcare crisis as well as an economic crisis. Congress is being pressured to quickly pass the ‘Affordable Healthcare Choices Act’ that will greatly expanded government’s authority to intervene in our daily lives. We are still a ‘nation of laws’ but to our dismay, the trend is for the laws to protect the government rather than the citizens. With Nazi Germany the scapegoat were the ‘rich Jews’, with Liberal Fascists it’s the so called ‘rich people’ and ‘wall street’ to redistribute their wealth. It is so obvious when you see the distributive state entitlements that bought many Members of Congress (all liberals) to vote for the “Healthcare Act”. About 230 years ago there was a ‘tipping point of tyranny’ for the America Revolution to become official. This healthcare bill may become our new tipping point of tyranny.

--by PJanny on 12/23/09   Lives: USA  

Thank God that the Republicans did such a TERRIBLE job for the last 8 years or so and the Democrats gained enough seats to pass this health care bill. My only concern is that it did not include a government run plan.

--by Obama is a Saint. on 12/24/09   Lives: Detroit area  

I must confess that the more I read of the health care reform bill that just passed the senate this morning, the more it grows on me.

Unfortunately, that growth is a cancerous tumor, one that will be impossible to excise once this God-awful monstrosity becomes law.

If the Democrats had stuck to their original intent - covering more people, covering those who are chronically ill and denied insurance, and trying to bend the cost curve on Medicare - I would probably have supported it. These things are necessary goals for America and legislation was desperately needed to address these problems.

--by R Moran on 12/24/09   Lives: USA  

Speaking of TERRIBLE jobs. Spell that OBAMA !

--by Anti Democrat on 12/24/09   Lives: Detroit area  

Obama is a bad joke. As a union man I voted for him. Never again will I vote for the Democratic Party.

--by j Zolcowick on 12/24/09   Lives: Michigan  

Bravo, Senator DeMint! I have a new hero. At least one Senator took the time to read the ENTIRE proposed Health Care Reform bill. I honestly can't believe that there isn't more outrage over this "plan". Who do all of the Obama-celebrating "gimmecrats" think is going to fund this? The government? Where does the government get IT'S money? From US!!! Wake up America!!!

--by Allen Park Republican on 12/24/09   Lives: USA  

Lets face it, 1/2 the votes in the last presidential election were not FOR Obamma, they were AGAINST the Republicans.

In 8 years of Republican rule, the country did not go in a direction that was of benefit to the majority of people. The media treated the American people as though they were not smart enough to dump the Republicans after stripping us of half of our civil rights and privacy, marching us off to war on a lie and driving our economy into the ground with a third world war over nothing.

All people knew in this last election was that they knew what they were going to get with Republicans, Obamma was an unknown. I guess most people, like zolcowick, only knew what they didn’t want.

You all want to blame someone for Obamma, blame the Republican Party for picking the least charismatic candidate to represent them. Thank the Republicans for propping guys like that awful war monger vice-president and Rush Limbaugh up as their poster children.

Than picking a mouthpiece who was nothing more than a "token black guy" to represent the Republican Party.

The simple fact is that Republicans do not represent Main Street. They never did. They are the party of the wealthy and powerful. It really does not matter what Democrat they propped up there, Obamma proved that even a chimp could have gotten the job after 8 years of Bush.

--by No more Republicans on 12/25/09   Lives: Dearborn  

Wat a laugh. The Republicans are the party of the wealthy.LOL. Take a look at the DEMOCRATS and the billionaire's behind them..... George Schwartz, real birth name of George Soros, the Kennedys, A.Huffington and The Kerrys.. and on and on. Now your talking real money pulling the strings of the DEMOCRATIC Party.

--by Reader on 12/25/09   Lives: Dearborn  

Two things;

A guy gets on the plane with bomb making materials, in a foreign country and its the TSA and every other governmental agency that let him get a visa. The countries that he traveled through should take the responsibility of letting him on the air plane in the first place. You noticed that OBama expects to have a report to him while on vacation in Hawaii today. After 11 months of apologizing to the world for all the things that America has done wrong, we still get attacked by our friends.

Second Point, 11 months later, are you any better off than you were with Bush?

--by Anonymous on 12/31/09   Lives: Detroit area