Monday Morning Digest

Go to sleep one night, wake up with your world changed (again).

The Stupak amendment passed. Unbelievable. William Jacobson:

This is a stunning development, one which anti-abortion activists could not have imagined just weeks ago. The Speaker of the House and Democratic majority, notwithstanding their lip service to women's reproductive rights, were willing to throw those rights aside to hand the Obama administration a temporary legislative victory.

Of course, this is nothing new. The Democrat party threw women's rights from the train long ago, just about the time that Ceegar Willie was conducting job interviews under his desk while his female cheerleaders were degrading feminism into what Ann Althouse called "a dull, uninspired argument for keeping Democratic politicians in power."

ObamaCare passed the House by five votes. Yukio Ngaby:

It is unreasonable to vote for $1 trillion dollars of non-essential spending amid a recession and a 10.2% unemployment rate, while two mostly ignored wars are being fought. It is unreasonable to believe that the U.S. government could do a better job of regulating the medical industry than it did regulating the housing market and manipulating interest rates. It is unreasonable to release a 2000 page bill on Oct. 30, force a vote on Nov. 7, and then claim due deliberation and transparency. It is unreasonable for a president to stand before Congress and the American people, declare that he will not sign a bill that increases the deficit by one dime or requires cuts in Medicare benefits, then essentially renege on that promise within two months, and believe that the American people will not notice.

Now the bill goes to the Senate to be re-rammed down America's throats, some willin' and the majority not so willin'. More Yukio Ngaby:

. . . I firmly believe the response of the Senate will depend on the response of the American people to this bill's passage through the House. If we behave subdued, defeated, tamely distraught, then the bill will pass largely unchanged. If we stand idle and mutely confirm that we believe Washington knows what is best for our individual lives, then the bill will pass largely unchanged through the Senate. And if we show that we are not disinterested in the political process, despite our lives, families and careers, that we will hold those responsible accountable to their votes, then it will be unlikely to pass at all.

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We can allow ourselves to be discouraged by elected officials unresponsive to the concerns of their constituents. We can allow ourselves to be bullied into silence. We can allow ourselves to lapse into a listless malaise amid baseless accusations of racism and extremism, and disingenuous questioning of our patriotism. But it defies the basic precepts of representative democracy to do so.

I know that ObamaCare and Cap'n Tax and Copenhagen Conference approvals and whatever other legislative vampire bats the Democrats have temporarily caged in committee, ready for release on the American public, are vitally important, and I will not allow myself "to be bullied into silence," but my heart and mind have been with the families of Ft. Hood.

Via Constant Conservative, an eye-witness account.

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