I fear the Democratic majority in Congress is starting to feel the heat building up around them as the American people begin to see that all the campaign rhetoric was just that – rhetoric.  To understand that it is the administration’s intention to destroy this country.

And so in all due haste to do as much damage as possible before the Democrats rightly lose their Congressional majority in 2010’s mid-term elections, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now pulling out the final stops and making the decision to include a little procedural tactic called “reconciliation” in legislation intended to, this time, nationalize health care and institute cap and trade.  What this does is allow extremely limited time for debate about a bill, effectively preventing a fillibuster by the minority party and forcing something through to law. 

This is a budget-targeted procedure, and there are provisions to call for exceptions.  You know, those invaluable checks and balances upon which this country was founded and intended to operate.  It could be argued that the fiscal changes to the budget that would accompany nationalizing health care is an exception.  As could the “trickle down” effect of implenting cap and trade in the form of higher prices for everything (since what will be considered “dirty” energy production and therefore become a commodity to be traded for profit will impact the cost of everything from utilities to transportation costs of goods).

Some Democrats are actually – and rightly – concerned about this particular bit of high-handedness from the man who personally supersized the deficit through his heavy hand in crafting the TARP and stimulus packages.  Guess they’ve been reading those cards, letters, and emails from their out-of-change constituents.  There is hope that enough Democrats have begun to recover from their Kool-Aid stupor; however it needs to be a good number because should there be a tie vote, guess who gets to break it?  Yup.  The President’s own little shadow, Vice-President Biden.

We can only hope that his propensity for misspeaking will cause him to say the wrong thing when it would really make a positive difference.

But I’m not going to hold my breath.  It’s time to put pressure on those who work for us – particularly if they are of the Demon-crat persuasion – to stop this one in its tracks and tell Harry that this time he’s gone way, way too far.