A Congress today cannot have more power than the Congresses that follow. Reid’s crafting of such language does precisely that.

Why imagine if this congress passed a law that made it impossible for any future Congress to ammend or repeal say healthcare legislation! That is what happens in third world dictatorships and banana republics. Oh wait!!

Huxley? Jimmy J.? About that Constitution. . . .

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/21/we-are-no-longer-a-nation-of-laws-senate-sets-up-requirement-for-super-majority-to-ever-repeal-obamacare/

But, what happens if you can’t get the votes, or the Parliamentarian’s ruling, or a Supreme Court decision for several years and, by the time you win, businesses have been disbanded or moved on, and ways of doing things have been abandoned or changed, many disgusted, angry doctors have left medicine and retired, hospitals shut down, health care insurers abandoned the market, billions of dollars in taxes have already been collected, and–let us not forget–thousands of people are dead before their time due to this bill?

Dead is dead but, how to reanimate and reconstitute businesses, organizations, ways of doing things, to put things back as they were?

I am sure that those in far Left think tanks who really wrote these bills made every effort to insure that, by the time any or all of these bills are repealed, or ruled unconstitutional, it will be too late to go back to the “status quo ante,” and parts, the most important parts of their objectives, will have been achieved.

So, for instance, what about the provisions of these bills that give the Federal government access to all of your medical and financial records, and your bank account, all under the guise of providing you with better medical care, and a convenient way to pay your health care premiums electronically?

Say, that by the time the bill or major aspects of it are repealed, these mechanisms are already in place and working, and have replaced the former systems and methods. Are they going to be discarded if the old mechanisms are gone, and a case can be made that they do provide convenience and efficiency?

If not, then the government has just gotten a tremendous grip– that it did not have up until this bill–on key aspects of your life and history, and more power and control over you–a field for endless mischief.

Again, if the republicans are smart (a long shot, I know), they should make repealing this bill a major campaign issue.

I believe Obama can elicit as much or more rage than Bush. The fear that what Obama and Congress have done, can’t be undone is unfounded. Anything can be undone-anything.

I may be an eternal optimist here, but I think both of these statements are very true. I hope that the helath care deform can be derailed before the 2010 elections. But if not, I urge all who oppose this bill to remember the 1989 Catastrphic Health Care Act which was passed with much fanfare. But then it produced such a backlash that a shaken Congress immediately repealed it.

Here’s a good comparison of the situation in 1989 as opposed to today.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

The sheeple will soon believe.

2700 pages and two talking points. Never mind the tax-payer funded part…