tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4924392915564296358.post9080134652837296069..comments2023-08-21T02:29:21.326-05:00Comments on St. Louis Activist Hub: Tea Party No Longer Pledges the Allegiance: "The American Experiment is Over"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4924392915564296358.post-76338601005528317492010-03-19T15:32:07.344-05:002010-03-19T15:32:07.344-05:00It can be helpful to remember the current health c...It can be helpful to remember the current health care bill amounts to basic fixes in the individual health insurance market. Not the life insurance market, not the car insurance market, and nothing whatsoever relevant to national defense, education, the banking system, interstate tariffs, or even enfranchisement. Health insurance.<br /><br />And people (including some elected ones) use this occasion to rumble about secession and civil war. Jefferson Davis would likely be ashamed.Ben Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662894573682795215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4924392915564296358.post-12978994778590103212010-03-19T12:45:54.590-05:002010-03-19T12:45:54.590-05:00Agreed, this is very scary. This is once again a ...Agreed, this is very scary. This is once again a regrettable situation in which conservatives have resisted majority rules. Clearly the majority of the House of Representatives want the health care bill; Nancy Polosi is just using a method to let that be the outcome. In Florida in 2000, the majority of the voters wanted Al Gore (3,000 mistaken votes for Pat Buchanan), yet SCOTUS ruled for Bush/Cheney. And perhaps the most egregious recent violation of majority rule was that very election (2000) when Al Gore received a half million more popular votes than George Bush and was not elected.<br /><br />Arthur Lieber<br />www.occasionalplanet.orgArthur Lieberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114650075355555541noreply@blogger.com