NEWS FLASH!!!! HEALTH CARE---DOWN TO THE WIRE AND HISTORY IN THE MAKING!!

It’s countdown time for the Health Care bill. Word on the street is that they will vote on it this Sunday--or "deem" it passed in the House, then vote on it in the Senate. Deem it?? What does that mean? Can you say "side-step"? Deeming it so in the House language is a tricky way of getting around having to cast an actual "yes" vote, thereby circumventing the normal transparent procedure and not risking possible negative fallout in the mid-term elections resulting from a "yes" vote---ah, you gotta love politics. It's like saying "I think so", when you really want to say "yes" or "no". The Senate will then most likely gather together enough votes, one way or the other, by compromising, bribing, begging, and political conniving; if all else fails, they will implement the very controversial “reconciliation" tactic, which will force this law through, enough votes or not! It all seems unbelievably manipulated and unprecedented in terms of democratic process. Some are calling it unconstitutional. The Republicans will do everything they can to stop this law that will affect one sixth of our economy and infuriate many. Not at all happy about having the government gain control of yet another aspect of our lives, they are in the trenches now trying to stop this bill. People are being encouraged to go to Washington D.C. and stage a sit-in on the Capital steps, or at the very least, call their representatives and let their feelings be known.

It is probably too late. This president, by pure force of his personality, his party’s one sided power, and the coincidental collision of his election with our weakened economical state, has had the benefit of “the perfect storm”. All things have seemed to come together for him, as he set out to make, as promised, a major change in this country. But the storm will rage on, as there are too many opposed and too many questions left unanswered. More than anything, this bill has proven to be a battleground between two different ideologies--- a people cared for and controlled by the government; or a people allowed to care for itself with minimal control by the government .One provides more entitlement programs, but heavy taxation to pay for them; the other allows the free market system to work, with fewer taxes, and counting on the people to take care of them themselves and their own. Pick your side. The war has just begun. Does this strike you as being at all familiar? Can you say Tea Party? I mean, the original one, not the current one. Think about it---it's not too late to call in your feelings!