Yesterday, Democrats on the Senate Finance committee tackled the first of about 500 health care bill amendments queued up for a vote.  The measure in question would have forced them to publish the final health care bill online for 72 hours and provide a complete cost estimate before making the national health care system law.  According to  Senate Dems, John Kerry in particular, the 72 hour window was nothing more than a “delay tactic” and was immediately voted down.

That’s right.  According to Senate Democrats you have NO right to read the bill that you are paying them to craft.  You have no business knowing what’s in it, and no need to see the final language of a health care system that you will be living under.  Why?  If this new system is so wonderful, shouldn’t they be proud of it?

Obviously it’s just easier for this bunch of cowards if you have no idea what they’re up to, especially since so many of you don’t support their “reforms.”

Instead, Pelosi has decided that they should release “conceptual” language, and a far less stringent CBO cost estimate.

Look, whether you’re for the new health care system or not, this should be a disturbing wake-up call to every American.  The people YOU put in power are now telling YOU what legislation they think you ought to be able to read before passage.  The inmates are running the asylum, and Obama, head of the “most transparent administration in history” is markedly silent on the issue.

We’re sure the far left are proud of the cowering children they’ve put in office, but the moderates and independents are another story.  If the DNC thinks that this behaviour is going unnoticed by their more centrist membership, they’re in for one hell of a rude awakening. 

- Robert Laurie