Health Care Reform II - Democrats get their 60 votes

Well, It is the beginning of a new week and the Democrats just applied enough pressure to Senator Nelson (Neb), or greased his palm sufficiently, to go along with his other Democrat buddies to vote for this mytery bill. They say it will be good for us. They say it will save lives. They say it will save money...lots of it. They say it will save Medicare. Soon it will go to reconciliation with the House of Representative's plan. Neither conservatives nor left leaning liberals are happy with what they have heard about this mystery bill. So we will see what happens and where this goes. They say they want it finished before Christmas so that President Obama can sign it. The pundits of Fox have called a spade a spade over the weekend calling the Senators and President Obama what they have been in this whole process...liars. Can a good bill come from liars, cheats and from people who use strong arm tactics to get a bill quickly through? That is a great question. I believe that Jesus said something about building a house on a foundation of sand versus on the rock.
I say it again, health care needs to be reformed. The Republicans have some good ideas on these matters. But they have been shut out. The Democrats have committed themselves to do this even if it costs them in the coming election cycle. The liberal Democrats refuse to listen to the people and do not really believe that the common people know what is best for them. We obviously need the intellectual elite to show us the way (sarcasm dripping here). Ha, Ha. It is a shame that this is the attitude of the Democrats. I don't think so. But the Republicans also need to be careful. They are not on the side of right just because they are Republicans. If a politician or a person chooses to do right and then acts on it they can be right and perhaps even righteous whether they are republican or democrat. I don't see this in the current set of politicians much. We are being threatened and cajoled into thinking that if this doesn't get done now it won't get done in this generation. Both the President and others are using this hurry up mantra. The Democrats say it is the Republicans that are trying to frighten and threaten the people of this great land.
Hopefully, this bill will not be reconciled in anything like its current form. Hopefully, this bill will die a quick and painful death that will teach politicians a lesson. Maybe 2010 will be a good year to replace many of these people. Once the bill is killed, then hopefully the Republicans and the Democrats could come togther and re-start this important conversation for the true good of the people and our country and not wait for a generation to do something that needs to be done. Health care reform, yes. Insurance reform, yes. Tort, reform, yes. Control the unions and special interests, yes. But each in an upfront manner that doesn't try and present itself as health care reform when it is really about another agenda.
Obviously Republicans and Democrats have different world views on this, climate change and a host of other issues. America is divided on these matters. Intellectuals and liberals are not the sole source of insight and truth for what needs to happen. If we come togther, really, then maybe we can listen and not operate out of the politics of power...but out of a desire to do the right thing in health care that doesn't break our economy or our civilization. May God guide us into the right path.