CA Progressive: Vote on A Bill? Don’t Be Ridiculous!
This is easily the quote of the week.
“I don’t need to see my colleagues vote for the Senate bill in the House. We don’t like the Senate bill. Why should we be forced to do that?” said [Representative Lynn] Woolsey, D-Calif. “But what we need to know, before any Senate bill is passed, that we have enough of the fixes that we’ve asked for, that we will be satisfied with the final product as a beginning for health care [reform].” [Emphasis mine]
Of course, Woolsey would bristle like a Hallowe’en Cat if anyone dared suggest that she and her colleagues vote on the bill because it’s their job. No, to progressives like Woolsey, the Constitution is merely an obstacle to be avoided. Make no mistake, what Lynn Woolsey is suggesting — that the House pass a bill to the President without actually voting on it — is unconstitutional and un-American. She should be drummed out of office for even suggesting it. Instead, she considers it ridiculous that her progressive compatriots should be subject to the requirements of their positions as representatives of the American people.
But don’t you dare suggest she’s doing anything out of the norm. Here’s her response to another issue entirely.
“Shame on all of us if we can’t follow the rules. But yes, I worry about that — not Democrats particularly, but all members of Congress.”
Yes, Representative Woolsey. Shame on you for throwing the rules out the window when they don’t suit your desires. And when I say “rules”, I mean “the Constitution of the United States”.
Stacy McCain calls Woolsey a “contemptible harridan”. I think, probably for the first time in his blogging career, he’s pulling his punches. Woolsey is that, of course, but she’s also intensely un-American and perfectly willing to blow her nose with the Constitution and throw it in a garbage can if it gets her closer to her progressive utopia. That makes her so much worse than contemptible that it may be beyond even Stacy’s considerable skill to express.
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Category: Health Care Craziness, Progressives
And this is why it's critical that we all get Jim Judd elected to knock this nit-wit out of that Representative seat. I know Jim personally — he treats me like a daughter — and I know he's a man of honor, character, and integrity. He believes in the rules and the Constitution.