Obama: 1, America: 0

Alot of people are confused about what has transpired over the last few days so I'll take a paragraph to explain the process before my usual commentary.

Last year, the Senate passed their version of the health care bill with 60 votes prior to the election of Scott Brown. On Sunday, the House passed the measure without using the Slaughter solution (also known as deem-and-pass). Today, the bill will be signed into law by the President. The House also passed a second "fix-it" bill that must be voted on by the Senate and will pass by reconciliation although possibly with many changes. The "fix-it" bill will supposedly allay the concerns of pro-life Democrats like Stupak although Senators like Boxer have implied they will remove that language from the Senate version. The main bill will become law today and will be challenged by the state attorney generals of at least 7 states regarding the mandate that everyone must buy coverage.

Unfortunately because the bill was not passed using the Slaughter solution, we cannot appeal to the courts for it to be rescinded. We can still challenge parts of it and attempt to take it down piece by piece. The individual mandate may be found to be unconstitutional and that could be our first victory.

Already people are demanding that the bill be repealed, this is no simple task. Obama would veto any attempt to repeal this legislation so even looking at it optimistically we are stuck with the new taxes until 2012. If Obama wins reelection and remains until 2016, people will start receiving the benefits and then repealing it will be absolutely impossible. A simple majoritarian vote in both houses of Congress (if the Dems ignore the filibuster to pass the "fix-it", then we can do the same to repeal it) and a Republican President are the necessary ingredients kill this bill in its cradle. And we need both by 2012.

By passing this bill, Obama has gone against the 60%+ of Americans who wanted to see the process either forgotten about or restarted with true bipartisan support. Although Obama has repeatedly said that this will lower your premiums by as much as $2500 per family per year:



Too bad Obama didn't tell his Majority Whip, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) who says that anyone who tells you premiums is going down is lying to you:



But wait, Obama claims is also a deficit reduction measure as well! Not only are we going to insure every man, woman and child and reduce premiums but it is also the largest deficit reduction in over a decade:



None of the American people could possibly believe the litany of lies that the Democrats have issued regarding this bill. The truth is this is massive new entitlement for the federal government and an unfunded mandate to the state governments and all this in the midst of a recession. As a rule, when the public sector expands the private sector contracts. This is not something that can be argued or something that is not always true. The public sector lives of the private sector by siphoning money out of it like a parasite! While everyone recognizes the need for some government, this latest bill will increase the bloodletting to a point that we as Americans have never seen before. Before this bill passed, government spending was 45% of GDP. Now add the 1/6 of our economy that is health care spending (+~16%) and we are over 60%. 50% is the threshold for socialist nations. Sweden's government spending only equals 52.5% of GDP.

Welcome to one of the most socialist nations on the planet, The United States of America.