Democrats using back-room negotiations on health care

You just can’t take Congressional liberals anywhere. After Sen. Harry Reid cut deals with Sens. Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson – basically a legal bribe – to get the Democrats’ health care bill through the Senate, they want to hammer out differences between the Senate and House versions in what can only be called a back-room deal.

Normally, the bill would go to a conference committee, which would give conservatives another chance to halt the Democrats’ latest attempt to grow government and waste your money. In order to get around this basic part of the legislative process, top Democrats in both chambers are planning to reconcile the bills among themselves. The move is being driven by Reid & Co. in the Senate, which is really not a surprise considering his antics since becoming majority leader.

The House Democrats, fortunately, aren’t sold on the idea yet. Of course, the only reason is that they wouldn’t have as much power as the senators, not that the effort is inherently undemocratic or shutting out the input of the 254 legislators who have voted against the plans. Liberals under the Capitol dome seem willing to do anything to pass a bill that will end up as an unmitigated disaster as policy.

It should have come as to surprise to anyone that liberals’ campaign promises of government transparency were just that – promises. They apparently haven’t turned on a television in the past year, as Americans from coast to coast rose up and voiced their opposition to even more spending and bloating of government.

President Obama said during his campaign that he would broadcast the health care negotiations on C-SPAN. That plan definitely went by the wayside. Maybe he realized the public has no want of a government takeover of our health care system. The Washington Times pointed out in a recent editorial that a Georgia Republican filed a bill in October to make all health care debate held in public. The bill went nowhere. It’s almost like Democrats want to lose their majority, and doing everything they can to reach that point. The problem is, there will be a big mess to clean up when they’re gone.

Conservatives worked hard to defeat these measures, but the numbers worked against us. Sweetheart deals to get yea votes didn’t hurt the liberal cause, either. Fortunately, those numbers are likely to change after the November elections, as people make their opposition to the Democrats’ free-spending ways known at the ballot box. Vladimir Putin would be proud!