This Week’s Challenge

As we all know, President Obama and his administration have been so relentless on passing healthcare legislation that they have coerced the bill through the Senate at lightning speed. Of course, this has outraged the majority of Americans who have been so vehemently against rushing such a sloppily drafted bill into law (according to Gallup and Rasmussen polls).

Now, maybe it's just me, but with over 2,000 pages being rushed through the legislative process in a year's time span without much meaningul revision, this bill is a ticking "disaster bomb," inevitably laden with countless (and potentially dangerous) loopholes.

That said, let's ask how many pages make up the U.S. Constitution. Answer: With modern 8.5x11 pages, the entire document amounts to about 15 pages. In 1778, it passed into law after nine months of continuous revision and debate (keep in mind, 15 pages).

The Constitution was ratified over 220 years ago, and loopholes are still found to this day; yet, President Obama is pushing to ratify over 2,000 pages in less than a year. For having had such an opulent Ivy League education, he obviously missed the lecture on "patience" in kindergarten … or maybe it's pre-school; sue me. Rushing legislation that affects this many Americans is outrageous.

As it turns out, public opinion has expressed the same logic during the last year, which has been promptly ignored by the Obama administration. However, the voice of the public was heard last week (by the citizens of the highly liberal state of Massachusetts, no less), on Jan. 19th, 2010, as Republican Scott Brown was voted into the Senate over Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election.

On a normal day, my goldfish has a better chance of getting elected into office than any Republican in Massachusetts. The message couldn't be any clearer if a flock of seagulls flew in and let it loose on President Obama's pancakes: Even liberals have had enough of the current administration's pompous attitude toward public opinion.

As many readers were likely already aware, the Democratic Party controlled the majority vote in the Senate; this awarded Democrats the power to block a fillibuster from the Republican Party on just about any issue on which they wished to do so. It was the threatened use of this very power which allowed the Democratic Party to pass such a haphazard bill through the Senate on Christmas Eve.

But again, last week the people of Massachusetts voiced their disapproval by depriving the Democrats of the late Ted Kennedy's seat in the U.S. Senate. As a result, President Obama's disorganized healthcare bill has now been stopped dead in its tracks. This shows that the power of public opinion still supersedes those in power, even when they choose to ignore it. Hopefully this election has served a profound rebuke to the arrogance of the Obama Administration.