The Law of the Medes and the Persians

In regard to the Healthcare extravaganza the Democrats are trying to foist upon the American public, I would like to point out an interesting bit of trivia - or what some might regard as trivia - in the Biblical account of Daniel 6:8 "Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."

This is the precursor to the "Daniel in the Lion's Den" story we all know from sunday school, in which Daniel gets arrested and thrown into the Lion's den for praying in defiance of the King’s order to pray only to him.

What makes this noteworthy is the phrase "which altereth not." Even Darius the king was bound by the decree he himself made and was unable to release his friend Daniel from its penalty. God intervened on Daniel's behalf and preserved him, but Darius had no way out of his decree "that changeth not."

What does this have to with Healthcare? It's just that the Senate Democrats have slipped a number of interesting clauses into their bill, which are intended to have the same force as the law of the Medes and the Persians "which altereth not." That is, they have tried to make the Obamacare bill unrevokable by inserting certain language in the bill.

I would have thought we all learned better in the intervening millennia since the kingdom of the Medes and the Persians passed from the scene. Evidently, someone needed to tell the Medes and Persians that they were shooting a bit too high in their attempt to make laws that would stand for all time. One cannot find any remnant of their kingdom nor of their laws except some dusty remnants that are only historical curiosities. Their purposes perished with their kingdom.

Yet we find the sneaky (or haughty) Democrats conniving to imitate them. They have inserted these words in their healthcare takeover bill: "it shall not be in order in the senate or the house of representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."

Aside from the fact that this is a rule change which requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate, which it does not have, it is simply an incredible exercise in hubris.

It is incomprehensible that any given Congress can pass a bill that cannot be altered or repealed by itself or another Congress. This rogue Congress has passed a bill which trumps the will of the people, thus attempting to set itself above the people's power to change it. But in this government, the people are the rulers, and Congress the servants. The system is set up that way, and no Congress can consider itself or any of its enactments secure from the will of the people. Is it then impossible to annul the bill? Not at all.

No Congress can bind another Congress. No law that any Congress makes can be unchangeable. All laws by Congress have the same flaw that the laws of the Medes and the Persians have - they are made by fallible men, and they oftentimes must be unmade by wiser, but still fallible men. To insist otherwise is to claim for our laws the supernatural certainty of Divine Revelation. That might actually be what the Democrats meant to achieve, but the last time I checked, God has not ceded his authority to Congress, especially a Congress filled with practicing Atheists.

If on no other points, this point at least must be challenged in Court. Our very basis of Constitutional government is endangered if it is allowed to stand.

So, taking the long view, whether this noxious healthcare "law" gets implemented or not, it eventually will be repealed or fall to the ground under its own weight. Hopefully, it will be in the very near term, having been felled by the weight of its own unconstitutionality and internal contradictions. If not, it might bring down the Constitution and the rest of our Liberties with it.

One final observation. What are we to conclude about the motives of the writers of the current bill who have been caught red-handed attempting to run something behind the backs of the American people that sounds suspiciously like the machinations of the Communists during the Cold War, in which they always spoke of resistance to their power grabs as "counter-revolutionary". They meant that their new thug regimes had sole legitimacy because they were the "wave of the future', and attempts to unseat them were bound to fail because they were morally and historically "righteous". I conclude that the Democrats have exposed themselves as true enemies of the Constitution, which they have attempted to usurp within this bill.

The irresistible force of the people's will shall break in pieces this monstrosity claiming to be the immovable object. It, like the law of the Medes and Persians, shall be gone someday. Sooner, rather than later. It must not be allowed to stand. And may the Democrat Party, with its present noxious band of arrogant criminals in Congress, perish with it, taking Obama and his thug regime along for the ride.

The Ultimate Party Poopers

One of the great lines in the movie "Kindergarten Cop" is Schwarzenegger breaking into a drug den, smashing the place up, and saying "I'm the Party Pooper."

I suggest that a number of Democrats, some known as the "Blue Dogs" and perhaps a number of other uncomfortable, but unlabelled types from conservative districts, might find a way out of the dilemma they find themselves in with this "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" attack on the American political center in the name of health care "reform".

They could switch parties and vote against it with clear consciences and among friends.

To be sure, the wrath from the Liberal press and the Chicago thug machine run by Raum Emmanuel and Speaker Pelosi will be high-decibel, promising dire retribution, but in fact, what can the soon-to-be-crippled Democratic Caucus do once a elected official has broken firmly from Democrat control and joined the Republican Party?

The problem the Blue Dogs have is that they are in the position of a Sunday school class kidnapped by a bunch of thugs and taken to some wretched roadside strip joint for a "fun party". The scene is not fun; this is not what they went to Sunday School for, and they are distinctly uncomfortable, finding themselves partnered with pimps and whores and a bunch of drunken lushes who are so out of their minds that all they care about is the next drink. They are dismayed to discover that they, like Dorothy, are not "in Kansas any more”.

The solution for them is simple. They will be welcomed with open arms by the Republican Caucus, and they will have escaped the economic bribery and threats of the Democrat machine by abandoning a doomed ship before it hits the reef in November. All the money in the world is not going to spare this particular group of Representatives from the wrath of the voters - especially those voters who foolishly voted for a "change" they now find thoroughly noxious. Their only hope is to distance themselves from the suicidal Democrats under Pelosi and Obama. They, of all people, are doomed if they stay Democrat.

Also, simply voting against the legislation will not save them. They won’t get any help in November from the DNC because they were labeled “turncoats” for not rolling over on command when Pelosi called their number. No, simply voting against the bill won’t solve their problem.

For a Liberal Congressman, such a tactic probably won't work very well, because the awakened voters can smell a hypocrite a mile off now, and will likely jettison them in November no matter what party label they wear. But real conservatives presently wearing a Democrat tag might well find very cordial company in the Republican ranks after they put that tag in the trashcan where it belongs and sew on a new "Republican" identification. They are likely to see such an outpouring of gratitude from the voters who elected them to do the right thing that they might find themselves a shoo-in in November. That has to be a pleasant thought.

Pelosi bragged recently "Kick open that door, and there will be other legislation to follow. We'll take the country in a new direction." It is surprising she would be so candid about her intentions.

Democrat Blue Dogs listen up: there is more, and much worse, to follow. Your Sunday School class is about to get propositioned by an old whore named Nancy, and she won't takn no for an answer. Giving in to her now will only lead to more horrors in the future.

It is time to leave the Dem's sordid party and become the Party Poopers of all time by solidly snatching any possibility of passing this noxious so-called "health care reform" bill out of Nancy Pelosi's hands - and Obama's - and giving your constitutuents the kind of representative that they really wanted when they elected you.

Any takers?

If the Dems do it

If the Democrats decide to use tricks and slaughter techniques to "pass" thier government takeover of the country, then what to do?

First, don't give up. This takeover, even if signed into law by Obama can be tripped up and stalled at every step of the way.

The un-constitutionality of numerous elements of the bill must be challenged immediately in the Supreme Court, while asking for a stay on the implementation of the entire bill.

The stay is requested due to the unconstitutional manner in which it will have been rammed through without a genuine vote in the House of Representatives. It must also be challenged based on provisions which require all Americans to purchase a health care policy. It must be challenged because it deprives the preborn of "life". They are the "posterity" the Constitution was instituted to protect. How can a law be constitutional that authorizes the killing of our posterity? Furthermore, the law violates the conscience of millions of Americans, forcing them to subsidize the killing of babies, and the murder of countless others because of the inevitable rationing that will be imposed due to the influx of millions of new welfare - er, I mean - healthcare recipients. No rationing is needed now, because patients and doctors can make choices without coercion. Under Obamacare, those decisions will be taken out of their hands.

The Bill must be challenged on the basis that Obama has no legal authority to sign it, as he has never proven that he meets the requirements of the US Constitution regarding his eligibility. Yes, many sneer at that statement, but the question will not go away. He has not established his right to be the president of the US.

This power grab must be opposed also by refusing to cooperate with the requirements whether one is a doctor, or a patient, or an employer. Civil disobedience - practiced as only the imaginative American mind can do it - is what is called for. Doctors quitting their practices. people closing their bank accounts so the government cannot seize money out of them, employers laying off all their imployees rather than submit to government requirements to meet certain insurance mandates.

I am not signing on, and I am not paying into the system, and I am going to oppose it with all my strength. They can come and arrest me. I am not going to cooperate.

I am reminded of the persecution that were (and are ) levied against Bbelievers in the True God through out history. Many paid with their lives, or were banished to live in caves and deserts. They refused to deny the Lord, and they paid a heavy price. But at what price would one sell his conscience?

I will remember the promises of God. He shall sweep away their refuge of lies.

Obama pollster: U.S. will like healthcare bill, despite poll numbers - TheHill.com

Obama pollster: U.S. will like healthcare bill, despite poll numbers - TheHill.com
“…Barack Obama's pollster said the healthcare bill will win over public support once it becomes law despite polls showing Americans against the plan."

There is a small but significant segment of the population who have already imbibed the progressive bait and have swallowed, hook line and sinker, the notion that they can gain at the expense of the rest of us - not caring about the morality of the theft that is planned by the Progressives - or the virtual extinction of our Liberties under the heavy hands of the bureaucrats. The Democrats are counting on this number growing as certain segments of the population - illegals, for one, and those who at present are not insured or are underinsured or have pre-existing conditions - benefitting from Obamacare in a way they cannot now because they cannot pay the exorbitant costs.

The Progressives are also earnestly hoping that these same people will only regard the benefits they receive and not understand or care about the massive fraud that is being foisted on the working population of this country and the huge blowout it will cause in our economy.

They are counting on these people to act like pigs, not responsible human beings who can look beyond themselves. They hope they are like the pig in Aesop's fable that rooted up the tree growing the acorns, not caring that he was killing the tree. "Who cares, as long as I can eat acorns."
If this bill passes, it must be opposed and the implementation subverted in every way possible. The fight for repeal will be launched immediately, but that process is too slow. States can declare that they won't participate. Perhaps when individuals are named to the thousands of commissions and councils - the individuals should be targeted for exposure and censure by the public. Make them jobs that no one wants. Don't let them get away with "service" to the system unmolested. The constitutionality of the way the legislation is being rammed through the Congress must also be challenged immediately if it becomes law. Obama's authority to sign it must be challenged. This man has not demonstrated that he has met the constitutional requirements to be president. However much the Liberals and even some so-called conservatives like "O'reilly" sneer at the idea, Obama has never demonstrated that he is a natural born citizen, or that he had citizenship from his mother. Perhaps when it all comes out, Obamacare will be dismissed simply because it was illegally conceived and illegally signed by a man who himself is an illegal alien. No one could make up a story like this that would be believable. In fact, that is what Obama is counting on - that the truth will continue to be perceived as unbelievable.

He and his progressive allies have shown that they intent to ram through this noxious pack of regulations with no regard to truth, transparency, bi-partisanship, or the good of the country. There is simply no way to justify it on either budgetary grounds or health care grounds. The present system is broke, yes, but it is broke because of big-government intervention and control, not despite it. No amount of government will cure the problem with impending bankruptcy, it will only spur it on to ever greater heights.

But according to Cloward - Piven, than is exactly the goal of the Progressives. Smash the system so that in the chaos that follows, some new Soviet Socialist Dictatorship can rise that is based on "social fairness" like government universal healthcare, government enforced sterilizations and abortions, universal and free public education run by the government, and government control of all industry; government control of media, academia, and using the new technologies, total control of our personal lives as well. It will be the death of America - which has been the goal of the Socialists for practically a century. Obama, who hates this country, is leading the charge.

If this monstrosity is signed into "law" - an illegal law - then it cannot be allowed to stand. Like Gandalf said in his stand on the bridge of Khazad Dun - "You cannot pass."

Alice in healthcare

This is one of the most lucid and right-thinking articles that I have seen to date regarding the underlying issue in the whole healthcare debate. It is so good that I wanted to post it on my blog to preserve its wisdom so I can share it with others.

It is full of pithy and succinct quotes like "Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen."

"One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government." I have been making the same complaint for years.

I lived in Virginia during the period when the United Mine Workers Union built and operated its own hospitals that were free to union members and their families. I also lived to see the total bankruptcy of those hospitals by hordes of miners and their families camping out at the hospitals for any number of minor ailments that they simply lived with before. The hospitals were funded by a certain fixed contribution per ton of coal mined under the union contract, but no contribution was large enough to cover the runaway demand for services created by the Union members cashing in on the free healthcare. Within a few years, the hospitals  had to close their doors because the fund was bankrupt. The UMWA leaders realized (like businessmen not welfare recipients) that there was insufficient money to cover the burgeoning demands for service. Their source of money was tapped out. The UMWA finally closed the hospitals and sold them off - wisely, in my opinion - bowing to the reality that human nature had doomed their Socialist ideals to a early death. I wonder how the UMWA explained the hospital closings to their membership. (Probably blamed those eeeevvvil coal companies.)

How about giving everyone a food "credit card" paid by government? (Doesn't everybody have a natural RIGHT to eat?) Think a minute. If you had such a "credit card" paid for by government, do you think that you would tend to buy more and better quality food than if you had to pay the bill? Would you care what it cost? Not a chance. Would food sales go up? Would food prices go up? What would happen to those people who could not get a food credit card and had to pay for their own food? They suffer because of the exhorbitant prices of food.

The problem with healthcare today is the Medical "credit card" in the form of government programs like Medicare and Medicade and "go to the hospital emergency room and demand free services because you are an illegal." The only people paying for services are those who don't have any insurance, have preexising conditions, or those who make a lot of money and can afford to pay the high costs - high costs created by Government medical welfare programs.

The only way to get back to a free market system is to get back to a free market system. Eliminate all government free "credit cards" and reset back to people paying for their own medical care. After a time of serious adjustment, you will see the normal free market reassert itself as prices stabilize at much lower levels, and service demands shrink to levels that the market will provide and that people are willing to pay for. It should never have been otherwise except for the Socialist/Progressive's meddling in the medical economy.

It started when FDR wanted to introduce socialized medicine by giving companies a tax break if they provided free medical services to their employees as part of their employment package. That was not a market innovation - it was a socialist idea slipped in behind our backs by a radical socialist called the great FDR.

We need to unwind this system.