The national debt apportions out to each citizen at about 40K apiece. This would not be counting any off-ledger shenanighans, whose name is no doubt Legion, and it is not counting the bender that the president yesterday signed into what passes for law these days.
It was good that no Republican voted for the health care in either chamber. Yay. But before we hand out the trophies, there are a couple of things that the Republicans have to do before they convince me that they really got saved at that tent meeting, and weren’t just there checking out the girls. If you are of the same mind that I am, it would be premature to declare everything jakesy-jukesy.
So here is a simplified congressional scorecard that you can readily memorize, and use
1. It may be lawful, under certain limited circumstances, to vote for a Republican without fear of lawful church discipline. It can be done. Under no circumstances should you vote for a Democrat, not even the ones who allow themselves to be photographed hunting pheasants with a shotgun. Any Democrat is susceptible to the kind of pressure we saw applied to that Michigan feller before he Stupaked it in. As one analyst observed, the current administration is a potent cocktail mix of Springfield corruption, Chicago thuggery, and Alinsky radicalism. Don’t vote for anybody who feels any kind of loyalty to that.
2. Do not vote for any Republican who uses the word bipartisan in a positive way. If a Republican says bipartisanship, and then spits and crosses himself, he might be okay.
3. Here is where it is possible to walk over to the sunny side of the street. If the congressional elections in the fall of 2010 go the way they are quite possibly going to go, and the Democrats lose control of the House, all that is necessary to thwart this debacle is for the House, which controls the purse strings, to refuse to fund anything about it. So don’t vote for any candidate who is not solidly on record saying that he will not vote to apportion “one thin dime” for the health care reform bill. This thing can be stopped dead eight months from now — but only by newly minted congressmen who have promised to stop it dead. Ask your congressman, and ask your candidates, if they would vote to provide no funds for this.
4. And last, don’t vote for any congressional candidate who has not promised to fight for, and vote for, eventual repeal of this ugly quivering lump of legislation. By the time your grandkids hit kindergarten, you shouldn’t really want each citizen’s debt load to be a quarter million.