THE US REPORT

Top story today is the healthcare duel in Congress. So many different stories crossed the desk today. I took the day off because I knew the proceedings would drag out and I preferred not to watch Democrats act like “totalitarians,” as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told Sean Hannity Sunday night. I’ll be tuning in throughout the evening and posting mini-stories about the debate.

Blogger says Big Labor helped Pelosi do the whipping on unpopular healthcare bill
Union representatives openly admitted helping with the healthcare bill, and a blogger at a top Democrat supporter website said on Sunday Big Labor helped Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) do the whipping for the votes on healthcare. The blogger wrote, “Just a few members to watch in the final votes. The outcome is now really not in question, but it'll be interesting to see whether Pelosi's continued whipping and labor's continued lobbying, have an effect.”

The US Report has predicted passage of this bill because Democrats tend to line up behind Party ideology regardless of whether it makes sense to do so. We dismissed the idea so-called pro-life Democrats would block passage of healthcare.

GOP charisma in motion with speeches by Ryan, Pence, McCarthy
Speeches Sunday evening on the House Floor about the healthcare bill from GOP members of Congress weren’t your grandmother’s Republican speeches. For one thing, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) exhibit a level of charisma the GOP has often lacked. They’re all good on camera and that is something the GOP absolutely needs.

Ryan spoke so earnestly the veins in his neck were pronounced. I don’t think I’ve seen that level of sincerity in a legislator in a long time. He’s been outspoken about the double-dip accounting Dems have used to tout Obamacare as a cost saver.

Mike Pence said, “Some say we’re making history; I say we’re breaking history.” Pence called Obama “the most pro-abortion president in American history.”

Pence said very forcefully the bill is “a government takeover of healthcare and the American people know it.” The Indiana congressman said healthcare can be reformed by giving people “more choices, not more government.”

Rep. Kevin McCarthy echoed both Ryan and Pence, noting Democrat “arrogance.” He said, “Washington is borrowing 43 cents out of every dollar it’s spending.” Agreeing that today is a “legacy vote,” McCarthy said Congress should “start over.”

Blogger calls out big media on ‘racist’ tea party claims as Obamacare approaches
When I heard congressmen claim Tea Party marchers had insulted them with racial slurs, my first thought was the left wingers must have had plants in the crowd. After all, Democrats have planted fake doctors in townhalls and then denied they knew them.

Several videos exist of an alleged incident when Congressional Black Caucus members made their way through crowds of protesters on Saturday. Some members said the crowd shouted racial slurs.

Interestingly, none of the videos shows anyone making racial slurs. All I hear in the audio is good advice from the crowd chanting, ‘Kill the Bill.’

But even more interestingly, we have to ask why Democrat racism never elicits rage from media. Economic adviser Robert Reich publicly told ‘white construction workers’ not to apply for jobs funded by so-called ‘recovery’ money. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made much of President Barack Obama’s ‘light-skinned’ advantage in politics and media never blinked.

I’ve received dozens of emails from various tea party groups and talked to members personally at  non-tea party events. I have never heard a single person make a racial slur and nor have there been any in releases sent to TUSR email.

‘Totalitarian’ is what IRS enforcement will feel like
Nunes had it right. I think about thousands and thousands of IRS agents—health cops—enforcing the federal mandate and it goes against everything I believe in. Government’s role is not to take charge of my body. The only reason government wants to do that is it wants to take charge of the dollars that I spend to take care of my body—if government has no vested interest in my health, it has no reason to make decisions about it for me.

Critics say we buy car insurance, home insurance. And I’d respond we also buy life insurance. This is all about loss. We don’t borrow money on our bodies. Law says our bodies cannot legally harm others. Our bodies belong to no one but us and that federal mandate suggests a certain form of financial slavery, that the government owns your body.  A federal mandate to buy health insurance is a moral outrage and an insult to the U.S. Constitution.

If government controls healthcare, more bean-counter medicine will be practiced, even more so than now,  and more elderly will be told to just take a pill as President Barack Obama recommended in July, 2009. We may provide care for 31 million more, downsized from the pro-campaign figure cited repeatedly as ’47 million.’ But what that will cost will certainly exceed anyone’s estimates because government programs always exceed projected estimates.

The Democrats will pass the bill. It is the climax of their ideology.

‘Totalitarian’ is what it feels like on Main Street.

I heard from a number of people about healthcare last week. One of my family, a Democrat, supports the bill. He was the lone proponent. Without exception the rest of those who talked to me about this bill were passionately against its passage. Only one of them has been employed in the healthcare industry and she is bitterly disappointed. “I believed in Obama,” she said.

The bill does  not meet their expectations and the spending is the top concern among all.

Of those I talked to, 5 were Democrats. Four of them told me they would never vote for a Democrat again. I congratulated them on their epiphanies.

Some Democrats once lived on Main Street. No more.