Top shelf stuff from Bise again.  You’ve linked him before and I meant to bookmark him – didn’t forget this time.

When Obama – who had spent the better part of a year talking about the advantages of “my plan” and why it was so much better than the status quo or Hillary’s idea – turned up with no plan at all, and let Pelosi write the thing, it was destined to be a huge failure. 

Those huge bills have to be presented, it’s work to do a real budget (not that Obama’s team would know), in a functional Administration the departments and budget team spend months planning and trying to get it right, at least.  Congress operates more like a huge dumpster that isn’t locked at night – anybody gets to throw in their own garbage, nobody is really watching.

And despite all that Bise mentioned, and he still left off some egregiousness, we’re likely just one man’s vote (Kennedy) away from redefining forever the relationship between individual and State.

That’s how perilously close we are to quite literally catastrophic, irreversible consequences. America cannot survive this pernicious threat that looms on the horizon as the Progressive/Communist/Fabian Socialist monster eases in and out of hibernation waiting for the right season.

These Statists will never stop. It’s what they do. It’s all they do. Governments grow. Period. These Statists will never leave a void. And if we remain “stupid” or cavalier for a second too long, our American experiment is over. We need a reversal of our course. This ratcheted stop which happened only because the contemporary SCOTUS is 56% “Conservative” at best will not hold. It’s going to move and we better force it to empower the individual for a while.

 “Congress operates more like a huge dumpster that isn’t locked at night -
anybody gets to throw in their own garbage, nobody is really watching.”

Well said!

Recall, W. spent his re-election capital on trying to reform Socialist Security, and was wrecked for it.

 Because every time they tried to do something about it the Democrats and progs on the streets all threw collective hissy fits and blocked them at every turn. The Democrats are determined to have some form of socialized medicine, and they aren’t going to rest until they get it, and they sure as hell aren’t going to allow any Republican or market-based reforms to pull the rug out from under them.

Adj just summed up the legislative process in the Congress in one sentence.

 Well its hard to get that sixty votes to stop a fillibuster, or override a veto, especially when you’ve always got a handful of RINOs ready to join in with the progs.

The problem is these attempts at comprehensive solutions are always incomprehensible. Changing health insurance and how it’s paid doesn’t lower health care costs it just makes them more expensive in different ways.