Mar 22 2010
D’Annunzio: “Today Freedom, Liberty and the Constitution Died”
Today Freedom, Liberty and the Constitution Died.
John Adams said, “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” Today with the passing of the Government’s takeover of the national health care system we have seen the death of the principles that were the foundation of the ratification of our Constitution, the death of liberty and with these the end of national wellbeing and happiness. The result will be the removal of the consent of the governed and the consummation of the desolation of our nation.
Those are some of the words written by 8th District Congressional candidate Tim D’Annunzio this morning on the heals of the unconstitutional health insurance bill that was passed last night by a 219 – 212 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. I have to agree with his sentiment. I have long held the opinion that once the government got their hands fully invested into our personal health care decisions, the fate of a complete Socialist take over would be imminent.
Despite that, I am not upset about the result of last night’s vote. I say I’m not upset because I fully expected it to happen so I was prepared for the result. This country, out of ignorance and gullibility, handed the reins of our nation over to an ideological Marxist who repeatedly claimed a vision of “changing” America. The stupidity on the parts of 54% of the electorate was that they believed this change would be a good thing despite the warnings from people like myself and many others who pointed out that change doesn’t necessarily mean a positive outcome. Well, we’ve seen what change means. It means more corruption and more bribery. It means more lies and more political sleaze. But again, you shouldn’t be surprised by this. All the warning signs of who Barack Obama is were there for everyone to see, but it was easier for many Americans to simply shut it out and embrace the false dreams of hope and change, fueled by a complicit media which did everything in its power to get him elected. I am surprised that so many people are surprised.
D’Annunzio and many other Republicans are already sounding a rallying cry to repeal the bill. I hate to piss all over their parade, but they are only giving themselves false hope. This bill will not be repealed. You can quote me on that. Nothing in D.C. gets repealed. Republicans raised a raucous over Social Security and it even got struck down on its first attempt at implementation by the Supreme Court and yet more than 70 years later it’s still here. Conservatives raised hell about Medicare and more than 40 years later it’s still here bleeding our nation’s bank account along with SSI. If history is any indicator there is no reasonable expectation to see this go away. The best we can hope for at this point is that one of the lawsuits that will be filed by a handful of states will be successful in the court system and result in the legislation being thrown out.
As we’ve heard many times before elections have consequences. We can only hope that the American people remember what happened here, but again as history has shown, we have very short memories.
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Bane, unfortunately I agree that it is very unlikely this legislation will get repealed. I don’t think there’s any way the Republicans win enough seats in November to have a large enough majority to completely overturn anything. One positive takeaway is that most of the “benefits” don’t begin immediately while the taxes do. Once the average Obama voter realizes this maybe, just maybe, a light will go off and they’ll start thinking twice about their saviour. I think the more hopeful scenario is the movement amongst some of the state Attorneys Generals who are now looking at a lawsuit against the federal government based on the 10th Amendment. I heard a caller on WBT say this over the weekend but I’m going to borrow it, the new slogan for Republicans this election cycle should be,”Let’s just Hope for a Change in November.”
Full disclosure, I’m supporting Lou Huddleston in the NC 8th. Here is his statement relating to the bill passed last night:
http://www.votehuddleston.com/news_detail.aspx?newsID=8960
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Logic I have to agree with you on the unlikely event that the leglisation will get repealed and hopefully the state AG’s will persue lawsuits based on the fact that last nights vote violated the 10th Amendment. A slogan that I saw last night that I agreed with was …
“Give me liberty or give me death” has now been replaced by “Give me tyranny and give me debt”
I learned of Huddleston from a previous post about D’Annunzio ripping GOP officials. I have don’t my background research on him and the other candidates (Jordan, Johnson, D’Annunzio, Day and Cornelison) and I honestly feel he has the most qualifications and leadership experience to effectively represent the people. He and D’Annunzio are the only people whom I have heard speak out towards the current administration and Huddleston is the only one who has done it as a gentleman and with respect. Hopefully who ever makes it past the primary will see vistory against Kissell in November and help our nation get back onto the right path.
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