Health Care: Secret Deals, Kickbacks and Carve-outs

Today I am crying in my heart for the free, proud, strong, and solvent America that may have disappeared forever. What legacy do we leave succeeding generations of Americans, as the Hippie Generation in Congress--led by a crazed woman from San Francisco--finally exacts the revenge on our country that they have been working for since their youth? This is the nightmare come true of which previous generations warned.

"After telling Americans in 2008 that they would lower spending, taxes and insurance premiums, Democrats passed a bill that breaks every promise. Using secret deals, kickbacks and carve-outs, Democratic leaders jammed through legislation to control more than one-sixth of the nation’s economy.

"The plan will explode the national debt, raise $569.2 billion in new taxes, force taxpayers to fund abortions, and impose unconstitutional mandates on every American.

"All of this was done in the face of overwhelming public outrage and bipartisan opposition in Congress. This process has been an insult to our democracy and threatens our nation’s prosperity and freedom. . . .

"When a president and a Congress collude to violate the Constitution and ignore the American people, everything our nation stands for is at risk. It’s not too late to undo the damage.

"I, and other Republicans, will work to repeal this monstrosity, and give Americans freedom to make their own health care choices." -Sen. Jim DeMint in USA Today

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"President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power . . . He calls his accomplishment “historic” — in this he is correct, although not for the reason he intends. Rather, it is an historic usurpation of the legislative process — he unleashed the nuclear option, enlisted not a single Republican vote in either chamber, bribed reluctant members of his own party, paid-off his union backers, scapegoated insurers, and justified his act with patently fraudulent accounting. . . . For these reasons and more, the act should be repealed. That campaign begins today." -Gov. Mitt Romney in National Review