MARCH MADNESS

Politics have always been an arm wrestle, but wasn't the endpoint in previous struggles "doing good for our country"? Now men wrestle openly for personal gain and power. When did we get so crass?

Whoever heard of voting blind on healthcare so you could know what was in it (as Nancy Pelosi said). Congress is also asked to vote blind because "Deem-ocrats" say when they finish tweaking, the bill will be just right. Vote on a promise? Madness.

How about this couple of mad twins: "your healthcare costs will go down with the new healthcare reform"...or..."the deficit will be reduced by the new healthcare reform". Those twins upsize chutzpah.

Our President seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth. He says he is for a single payer option (when he speaks to one audience); he says the single payer option is not his plan (when he speaks to another audience). No wonder people are confused. More madness.

There is assurance after assurance that abortion will NOT be part of this healthcare package. But Mr. Obama has made his philosophy known when speaking to Planned Parenthood. Those thoughts plus his record of troubling abortion votes in the Illinois Senate and the United States Senate speak loudly.

Brett Baier interviewed the President recently. When asked about those sweet deals given in earlier bills (you know, the bribes to Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu) the President never really said whether they were included or had been struck. But he did say that if the deals WERE in there, they were needed to help people recover from the devastation of the hurricane, as well as the earthquake in Hawaii. (Hawaii? OK, so he meant Haiti.) Louisiana WAS devastated, but there were citizens of Mississippi who were hit by the same hurricane and were devastated as well. Was Mary Landrieu going to go next-door to help them with Louisiana money? A "stinky" shouldn't be covered by another "stinky".

The President's job is to run the country the best way he sees fit and be the spokesperson for his particular plan. But the plan...and the plea for the plan...should be for the COUNTRY'S good. Did you hear BHO's plea this week for his healthcare reform? He called in members of his own party to twist arms. (Why would you need to twist arms in your own party to vote for a worthy cause?) He told them he wanted their "yes" because it would "make his presidency". Really. We are down to that? Our country's best interests are not served by motives that stink to high heaven.

Speaking of high heaven, I heard someone say the other day that our country was founded on the belief that man's rights come from God. That would be in stark contrast to the belief that man's rights come from the government. Who said we have a RIGHT to healthcare? Is that a right that has ever been spoken about in the history books? What has happened to other governments who have tried to implement that lofty goal? That is a reasonable question.

I appreciate the line Senator Tom Cogburn drew in the sand yesterday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA0EOugizPY He is saying (my words): "man up! what is done in the dark will be brought into the light!" I believe that is a deterrent to corruption.

Now we go to a showdown on Sunday. Do not miss the irony that the vote comes on the Lord's Day. Will we poke God in the eye on His day?

"So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels." Psalm 81.12 KJV