“Reconciliation”

Zip asks whether Obama has the balls to try to ram his health care bill through by the process of “reconciliation,” which wasn’t designed to create an enormous new entitlement. Well, yes he does, because his calculus is that it’s a race against time–time in which American citizens will come to recognize the nature of his proposals to increase their dependency on government. Greed for entitlement is to be the bait that covers the cunningly hidden hook of subservience.

How do I know? Obama has intervened directly in the legislative process in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by asking that Governor Deval Patrick be permitted to name an interim Senator, to help him pass health care.

Following up on his congressional address Wednesday night, Obama said he supports rewriting a 2004 election law to allow Patrick to appoint an interim senator to fill the seat.

The move would require many Massachusetts lawmakers to reverse the stances they took five years ago, when they stripped Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of appointment power.

Obama’s Organizing for America committee said in an e-mail that the vacancy would deprive Massachusetts of full representation in the Senate, in turn, “depriving the country of a needed vote in favor of real health reform.”

On Wednesday, Democrats told a crowded hearing in Boston that Patrick should be allowed to name an interim senator to fill the seat.

And who was behind the move to strip then-Governor Romney of his right to name an interim appointee as the law existed at the time? Ted Kennedy, who didn’t want to see the possibility of the seat going to a Republican should then-Junior Senator from Massachusetts, Lurch Kerry, have won the Presidency. The depths of shamelessness are really appalling, but that’s our President.

Jules Crittenden, who lives in the People’s Republic, has related thoughts. And Dan Riehl talks about how Joe Wilson’s outburst has changed things: Love the suit, Emperor Penguin. (He’s white, he’s black, and he’s imperial.)

William Jacobson explains the canard that Sec. 246 prohibits illegal aliens from obtaining health insurance under the House’s plan. In fact, the following is lifted directly from an ACORN document (pdf) outlining the health care “horrors” in California:

3. Health Care coverage for all adults regardless of immigration status
A significant number of uninsured adults are undocumented immigrants that, despite their hard work and contribution to California’s wealth, do not enjoy access to health care services. All undocumentedmimmigrants should have access to public, affordable health care.