Congress Goes for Rationing

Voters are taking a dim view of incumbents who try to convince them that they are now “anti-Washington.” These are the members who just months ago voted for the biggest power grabs by the federal government in our history. They did not just vote to take over health care, they gobbled up college student loans. They rubber stamped the Obama administration’s takeover of banks, insurance companies, and auto makers.

Many in the in the majority in the House of Representatives voted for so-called Cap and Trade legislation that will have the effect of letting the federal government run every industry in the country. If businesses have to clear every decision on energy consumption with federal bureaucrats, it’s the end of anything resembling free enterprise. It isn’t just a socialist bill; it establishes a socialist system for the first time in this country.

The Senate in this case performed well its constitutional role. George Washington once showed how the Senate would function by pouring some hot tea from his cup into his saucer. The Senate is the saucer and the Senate allowed this hot socialist measure to cool.

It is as a result of all these unwise and very likely unconstitutional measures that the congressional liberal majority finds itself in such trouble. The polls have never shown such lopsided numbers of disapproval and voters ready to vote the ins out.

Still, political rationing only mimics health care rationing. The members whose campaigns are flat lining will not suffer anything more than the loss of political office. As one who has held public office and who has suffered political defeat, I can assure the worried incumbents there are great days ahead of them. It is better for them to lose office than to continue pushing America toward real health care rationing. The losers in that game are not just “left for dead” politically. I personally would rather be voted out than participate in such a public disservice.