Obama & Democrats set to Cram Health Care Through

WASHINGTON -- Democrats moved one step closer Wednesday to using a controversial budget procedure to speed passage of President Obama's health care legislation.

House Democrats went on record again in favor of advancing the legislation while allowing only limited debate, which would hobble the ability of Republicans to wrest concessions on one of Obama's top domestic priorities.

By a 227-196 vote, the House affirmed Democrats' plans to move health care legislation under rules that block Republicans in the Senate from being able to slow progress of the legislation -- or even stop it, through a filibuster.

The vote came as senior House and Senate Democrats negotiated the issue in private talks on the 2010 budget. Republicans are passionately against the idea of putting health care on a "fast track," saying it is too important and too complicated to be rushed through Congress under rules permitting just 20 hours of Senate debate.

But the White House is insisting on having the fast-track process -- known as "reconciliation" under the arcane rules governing the congressional budget process -- available to them, though it claims a preference is for a bipartisan measure. - FOX News Story

You know that something is wrong when there is such a rush to push something through that you don't want to have proper debate and everyone in agreement.

I am going on the record right now, and I will tell you that if this is how they get Health Care through it will be the end of the Democrats rule at the next election cycle. It will end Obama's chances of re-election as well. The American People do want reform, this is not how they want it done. The Stimulus and Bailouts that were passed by Democrats has already bitten them and they haven't learned.

Important Legislation requires that it be bipartisan. If you do it on party line vote, you pay the price. No Legislation is perfect and when you pass it on a party line vote, when the imperfections are exposed the party that passed it pays the price. The bonuses for AIG Execs fell squarely on Obama and the Dems. It was a party line vote for a majority of the bailout and they got the fall out. They passed the massive 90% tax on those bonuses in a party line vote. When it came out that it would cripple the Economy Recovery, they got the fall out.

That is why bipartisanship is so important. That is also why if this goes forward in this manner, it will be the Dems who will pay at the polls in the next election cycle.