While I absolutely hate the new healthcare law, there is a bigger issue and Sowell has said it better than I could have.

Quote:For all its sweeping and scary provisions, ObamaCare is not nearly as important as the way it was passed. If legislation can become laws passed without either the public or the Congress knowing what is in those laws, then the fundamental principle of a free, self-governing people is completely undermined.

Some members of Congress who voted for ObamaCare, and who are now telling us that they realize this legislation has flaws which they intend to correct, are missing the point.

The very reason for holding hearings on pending legislation, listening to witnesses on all sides of the issue, and having Congressional debates that will be reported and commented on in the media, is so that problems can be explored and alternatives considered before the legislation is voted into law.

Rushing ObamaCare into law too fast for anyone to have read it served no other purpose than to prevent this very process from taking place. The rush to pass this law that would not take effect until after the next two elections simply cut the voters out of the loop-- and that is painfully close to ruling by decree.

This has bothered me a lot because, in a way, it sets another precedent. What one administration and its' lapdog Congress gets away with will inevitably be surpassed by the next administration. I fear we are witnessing the breakdown of our system right before our eyes. It is by design. Obamacare is bad enough but the process to get it passed is an affront to the rights of all of us. Not enough time and energy has been focused on that perverted process.

Quote:We have a strange man in the White House. This election is a crossroads, because either his power will be curbed by depriving him of his huge Congressional majorities or he will continue on a road that jeopardizes both our freedom and our survival.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...07769.html