A HUGE SLIDE DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TO GUBMINT CARE

This past weekend the U.S. Senate, well, 60% of it anyway, voted to continue the process of setting up government-run health care. Officially, the Senate's vote sends their bill to a conference committee to combine its 2000+-page bill with the 1000+-page bill of the Congress where representatives form both houses get to take their favorite parts of both bills to make one large s*!t brick.

During the process, several Senators who were vehemently opposed to this bill received billions of dollars of federal (our) tax money for their respective states in exchange for their affirmative votes. Two states got their entire medicaid and medicare bills paid for by the rest of us! This begs two questions:

1. With what were these Senators threatened for their votes and
2. What were my two Senators, Fiengold and Kohl, doing while these other states got all this graft? Where's MY money!?

As for leadership, the President has been quite silent on the hole deal, especially the part where he promised that the negotiations would be in the open, televised in their entirety on CSPAN, and the bill given a week's airing on the internet, when in reality, the whole mess was decided by a small group of Democrat Senators, in private, with only "talking points" released to the public, part of which was released to the rest of the body only thirty-eight hours before the vote, and, most amazingly, the entire bill STILL has yet to be written. Even the request for a hearing as to the constitutionality of the process, let alone the bill itself, will be denied by a simple majority vote, even if only a small minority of the body is present. Our tax dollars at work.

VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!