Reid casts wrong vote on health care for second time.

Way to go. This is the Senator who is the Majority Leader! And you Nevada folks? What were you thinking when you voted this guy into office? Or did the dementia set in after the election? He can’t even get a vote right, but you trust him to represent you and your state?

The tea party is from 1 to 3 on Saturday at the Fargo Civic Center and the Take back Washington rally is at the UMM campus.

You can get more details for both events (e.g. times, locations, maps, etc.) over at Sayanythingblog.com. Here’s a handy link to the info on the Tea Party in Fargo.

First. Let’s get something straight. Every single American has access to healthcare. Any one of us can walk into any Emergency Room and receive healthcare irregardless of our ability to pay. Will they ask you to pay? Probably. But they’ll still treat you first. So, quit trying to use that silly argument.

Second. Those of us with insurance or money to pay for our healthcare will likely receive better treatment. It’s a reality in every single capitalist economy. Free = lesser. Sorry, but that’s the way it works. If you don’t like it, get a job that offers insurance. And if you do have insurance? Quit going to the doctor so darn often. I firmly believe that you are capable of treating your own splinters.

Third. You do NOT have a right to health insurance. Affordable health insurance? Yes. But, expect your affordable health insurance to not cover as much as the “Cadillac” plans do. This goes back to the Free = Lesser argument. The quality of something (In this case, what it covers and how much it pays) is directly relational to how much you pay for it. If I can afford a health insurance plan that has a premium of $4000 a month, I can expect it to pay everything. If I’m only paying $400 a month, I cannot.

To recap: Health Care does not equal Health Insurance. You do not really have a right to either. What you do have the right to is the “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. None of those three things can be construed as meaning health insurance or health care. Very simply, I cannot take your Life from you. I cannot take your Liberty from you, and I cannot keep you from pursuing happiness. Period. Stop trying to give it meaning that doesn’t exist, or I’ll start doing the same. Did I mention that I can make a very good argument for my pursuit of happiness being ruined by people who don’t do what I tell them to?

The more liberally you take these things, the more liberties you’ll give us to use them against you later. You keep saying it, and maybe it’s true, but we conservatives are a warring bunch and when we are not allowed to war with our real enemies, we’ll naturally turn on our domestic ones.

Finally, you all are acting like a bunch of children. You aren’t getting your way, so you’re trying to find ways to break the rules without getting caught and to bend the rest of them so that you’re stuff gets pushed through. Grow up already.

Part of the reason for both of those things is what hangs in the balance. If the Republican candidate wins, he would be the pivotal 41st vote that could throw the cog in the gears of the health care reform bill. There’s a third party (Libertarian) candidate, who doesn’t really stand a chance, but I think he would caucus with the GOP as far as the health care bill would go. Either of these candidates could end the bill’s run. Not to mention that the district has been a Liberal hot spot for centuries. And, despite that, all the polling leading up to the vote indicate that the Republican has a better than good chance of coming out on top.

So many conservatives are rallying to the side of their candidate. There have been tons of money flowing in from around the country on both sides of the line.

But, where were all of those people in 2008? There’s been a huge awakening in this country and we’ve seen an influx of new blood, so to speak. If even half of those people had been active in the last election, perhaps we wouldn’t need to be going to the extremes that we are now.

An excellent reason to stay active as best you can. What better incentive than loss of liberty.

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