While attempts are under way to pull the nation irrevocably to the far left some of those who oppose big government are ignoring the culprits and instead pointing fingers at the feckless. At the very moment when our liberties are on the line and the future of the nation is at stake some conservatives purists are ignoring the real threat and are instead focused on purging the Republican Party of its less than stellar elected officials. For the life of me I can’t understand their logic. What do they hope to achieve by dividing the opposition to the energized and emboldened progressives that are now in complete control of the government? Do they not understand that while the bloodletting occurs on the right the left will busy itself with long-anticipated plans to create entitlements, build corrupt institutions, and ensconce revolutionaries into every facet of government? Reasonable people might wonder what are these purists are thinking; how could they be so shortsighted to think that now is the hour to clean the Republican Party’s house or, worse, start a third party? More lucid thinkers understand that the priority of the moment must be to unite all who oppose big government in a joint effort to defeat the Democrats. Any strategy other than this will serve only to enable the enemies of liberty. Only fools would knowingly facilitate the plans of the progressives.
Scott Armstrong
Once they break the reconciliation rule the rule is broken for good and the rule of the simple majority will become the new standard in the senate. In their fever to pass a flawed and unpopular health care bill Democrat leaders are creating the very precedent future simple Republican majorities will use to enact their own legislative wish list.
Prudent heads within the Democratic Party should be providing this counsel to their colleagues. Has it not occurred to them that the action they are rashly preparing to take will surely come back to bite them? By their own legislative greed they are setting the stage for a new Republican majority to pass legislation roughshod over the soon to be Democrat minority as soon as 2013.
Democrats would be wise to lay off the health care bottle and sober up. Republicans on the other hand may simultaneously express outrage while they quietly prepare their own future senate “to do” list.
Scott Armstrong
Just a few years ago we heard the Democrats condemn the Republicans’ considered use of reconciliation for judicial appointments as the “nuclear option”; now they are hypocritically preparing to use the same process to pass their unpopular Health Care legislation.
I want to be the first to write that now is indeed the time for the nuclear option but the one I’m thinking of should be utilized this fall by the voters against the entire Democrat Party. They who have chosen to ignore the calls, pleas, and wishes of those they serve deserve no less than to be removed from the elected offices they have so thoroughly abused.
It is time to send the message to our elected officials that ignoring the will of the people has a real and immediate consequence. The Democrats’ dictatorial tactics on health care legislation provides the voters the perfect opportunity to demonstrate “who” is the boss and who works for whom. Any failure to make this clear at the ballot box this fall will have dire and enduring consequences. It’s time to take our country back, so do the right thing; hold every Democrat accountable this fall.
Scott Armstrong
To all of my fellow conservatives who hold the opinion that there is no difference between the politicians that make up our two major political parties today’s Health Care Summit meeting at Blair House demonstrated the opposite is true. One party’s elected officials stand ready to flout public opinion, senate rules and their own previous stands against reconciliation to force through an unpopular bill that could radically affect the health care of every citizen and one sixth of the nation’s economy. The other party’s health care solutions keep in mind the rights of private enterprise and personal liberty. One party’s elected officials arrogantly presume to know what is best for us. They believe that the state should be empowered to intrude, for the greater good (?), on the liberties of the individual. This party seeks a one size fits all solution to the very complex and very personal issue of health care and it wants it right now. The other party seeks a deliberate pace and process for any reform.
The Democratic Party, under the leadership of President Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi is the real threat that we conservatives must unite to defeat. Their sins pale the wanton spending indiscretions and general fecklessness of the Republican Party. Failure to acknowledge this imperative will serve to enable the enemies of the constitution. I don’t think that is a course any conservative can choose in good conscience.
Scott Armstrong
Has the chamber raised the white flag on the notion that commerce is their business and taxing and spending is the state’s? Or is it that the leadership of the Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce sees their organization as just another development bureaucracy deserving of tax payer support? Either way the idea that the “voice for business” now wants your tax dollars speaks to an unsettling reliance on public funding rather than private initiative for economic development. Hasn’t the chamber just undercut their own raison d’être with this request? Aren’t they supposed to be the voice and engine of the private business sector? Can they deny the obvious, that by their own action they appear to be merely another redundant and useless government development entity?
Scott Armstrong