By Oscar Y. Harward
While in basic training in the US Army, one of the first lessons is to march in step. The 111th Congress and the newly elected US Senate were sworn into office in January 2009 and Democrat Party leadership on Capitol Hill has led their members down, perhaps, a political road of no return.
President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Speaker of the House Nancy Polosi have kept the Democrat Party members in line to support legislation as ordered.
Capitol Hill Democrats passed ObamaCare while political polls were saying “NO. Many Republican amendments were offered in committee hearings; however, the majority Democrat Party leadership asked their fellow Democrats to defeat all GOP amendments, and usually they did.
Often, Obama would say that Republicans were not going across the aisle to participate with the majority Democrats. The Republicans were refusing to support legislation that a majority of Americans were saying “NO” to this new law. Under the Obama, Reid, and Pelosi team leadership, Democrat Party members usually would never cross the aisle in support of more Conservative amendments offered by Republican Party members.
No Democrat Party member in Congress, Vote #165, or the Senate, Vote #396, on Capitol Hill would say they had read the legislation that each voted for prior to passage. All Republican Party members in the House voted “NO” on this legislation.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, "But we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what is in it."
We are now approaching General Election 2010 on November 2, and the political polls are still in opposition to the ObamaCare legislation that the majority Democrat Party “crammed down (y)our throats”.
With a majority of Americans still in opposition to ObamaCare, Democrats are not campaigning based on ObamaCare as they “forced” on Americans, and other wasteful worsening stimulus economic expenditures at taxpayers’ expense. Democrat Party’s “stimulus” appears to have been legislation feeding the troughs of the Unions, and other allegations of fraud; again, at taxpayers’ expense. The Obama, Reid, Pelosi plan of economic recovery is deteriorating. High rates of unemployment remain unacceptable.
The majority Democrat Party leaders Obama, Reid, and Pelosi team have kept Democrat members on Capitol Hill firmly in their line voting politically, just as a Platoon Sergeant would keep new recruits in line committed to military policy as ordered.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are now becoming Obama’s vanishing support; not to be identified in the same setting. For their 111th, Congressional action, the majority Democrats on Capitol Hill must now face a very angry American electorate.
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