From Sarah Palin's Facebook page:
We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because
Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an
unrecognizable country.
The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and
the car business are now getting us into the health care business.
Despite Americans’ decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the
troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken
her own promises of transparency to ram a health “care” bill through
the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the
2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers
and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read
this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that
Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall
Street Journal has called “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation
ever introduced”?
This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our
economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam
businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates –
the highest we’ve seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new
bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don’t have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.
Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer
one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that.
All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success
of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle
against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic
because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in the bill to
begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us
look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to
trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and
eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great – because
abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak’s
amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership
has already refused to promise that it won’t be scrapped later.
We had been told there were no “death panels” in the bill either. But
look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will
be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.
Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too.
Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent
government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday.
Speaker Pelosi’s promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the
final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C.
establishment’s too-common political ploys. It’s broken promises like
this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned
about the future of their country.
But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close
attention tonight. We’ll keep paying close attention. We need to let
our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and
that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the “reform” they
are pushing. After all, this is still a country “of the people, by the
people, and for the people.” We will make our voices heard. It’s on to
the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in
2010. It’s their choice.
- Sarah Palin
