ObamaCare is not popular. The people don’t want it. The people have rejected it. Yet President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are going to ram it down the throats of the American people using a special Congressional procedure that avoids a filibuster in the Senate - The Health Care Nuclear Option. The Obama Administration and Leaders in Congress have shown contempt for the opinions and views of the American people. They just don’t get it and they don’t care what people think about this plan.
Townhalls, Tea Parties, 9-12 demonstrations, ObamaCare low polling numbers and the election of Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) are all products of an unpopular health care idea by President Obama. The Declaration of Independence states, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Consent of the governed is an important concept, yet politicians in the Federal Government seem to believe that they can pass unpopular legislation and work to get the consent of the governed at some future date. This is not how this democracy is supposed to work. Members of Congress are supposed to be responsive to voters and the American public. I truly believe that many Representatives and Senators believe that the American peoples only are allowed to participate in this democracy when they vote every other November. This ObamaCare should not pass without the consent of the American people.
Erick Erickson
Erick Brockway
Aaron Gardner
Dan Spencer
Jeff Emanuel
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