The Un-American Nancy Pelosi

I accuse the progressive left of a lot of things, not the least of which is trying, by any means necessary, to get control of your life. But what on Earth am I supposed to think when I read a quote like this?

You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.

But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

That’s what slithered from the lips of Nancy Pelosi today. There is so much reckless power-mongering in those few sentences, so much blatantly un-American totalitarianism packed in it, that I can barely pick it apart.

However, there are two things I think fairly scream for more attention and they both come in the very last sentence.

First is the obvious point, expertly reduced to its component atoms by Smitty and Ace, that Pelosi thinks it’s perfectly fine to ask us to support a bill sight entirely unseen and just trust that it’s all going to be rainbows and unicorns because she says it will be.

There is no precedent in a democratic society for that level of trust. Nothing in any founding document even hints that we should bestow that much faith in our elected officials. No one with even a Schoolhouse Rock-level of knowledge about how our government works could ever think we should simply let Congress pass whatever bill they want without our review and permission. That’s what happens in banana republic dictatorships, or the dystopian progressive “paradises” of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, and China.

However, the worst part of that sentence is the last part, where Pelosi describes the robust and spirited political debate of the past few months as “the fog of the controversy”.  To the Democratic Speaker of the House, debate isn’t a healthy sign of an involved electorate but a confusing “fog” through which she must guide us. How condescending. How blatantly un-American.

Nancy Pelosi needs to be turned out as Speaker and relegated to her rightful place in Congress, a back bench light-years from any position of responsibility or power. Her District may trust her to do well by them, but they do not speak for me, or anyone else with an ounce of sense in their heads. She must never be allowed to get this close to controlling our lives ever again.

Other Posts of Interest:

• Pelosi Says The GOP is Superfluous. She’ll Pass the Budget As-Is.
• I Just Want What Nancy Pelosi Promised Me
• A Little Lesson in Civics

Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Nanny State, Progressives

Category: Health Care Craziness, Our New Democratic Overlords, Progressives, The Rise of the Nanny State