Red Line on December 4.
A peculiar cliff-hanger on Saturday 21 in the Senate that takes more sentences to explain than it takes to say that it come to very little. Will Harry Reid find the 59th and 60th vote to move his healthcare bill to debate after Thanksgiving? It comes to Joe Lieberman, who can be agreeably contrary when he chooses. Yet does it signify? Nancy Pelosi and Herry Reid have turned the healthcare bill into a game of bumper cars. Once upon a time, it was about cost-savings and public insurance plans. But that was before the jobs number went over the cliff. After Thanksgiving, the week of November 30, is also when we will get the November jobs number. Healthcare? Who has patience for that song? If that jobless numbers climbs toward the 1982 high of 10.8%, the Senate and the House will get out of Washington as soon as the Christmas tree is lit on the White House lawn. POTUS has called a Jobs Summit at the White House for Thursday December 3. The next morning, Friday December 4, at 830 am Eastern Time, is the red line for healthcare reform and the 111th Congress. Is it fate or is it a coincidence that Sarah Palin will be signing books at Fort Hood on Friday December 4 -- in a media blackout as designed by the US Army for anxiety that her event will become a political circus. Who is the 60th vote? It's what happens on December 4th that is the 60th vote. I will speak to my professionals all weekend re healthcare, but eyes are on the prize two weeks from now, after the turkey is pardoned, the last mercy in DC if the jobless number touches 10.8.
While the health care bill is being shepherded through Congress, Barrack Hussein Obama is careful to maintain personal deniability. Should something go wrong with this bill - should it fail to pass; should it be challenged constitutionally; should it break the bank; should it be met with overwhelming popular resistance - Obama can always say, "I didn't write it; I didn't know what was in it. It wasn't me." By throwing Congress under the bus, the president declares Congress irrelevant.
And that's been the plan all along: to diminish the role of our elected representatives. Obama is clearly no fan of democracy. No Marxist is. He has no faith in the grass roots. Internationally, he appears to favor nations with strong central governments. His pronouncements, actions and associations over the past year should make it clear to all of us what the man is hoping to achieve during his tenure in office.
Congress cannot figure significantly in Barrack Hussein Obama's plans. In 2010 the balance of power in Congress is bound to shift in favor of the opposition. The president must make sure that the institution will be sufficiently weakened by then.
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