Fitting: Nancy Pelosi To Use Same Gavel Used To Hammer Medicare Into Law
And we all know what a roaring success Medicare has been. You know, that massive entitlement program that we’re all required to participate in and that drives away private health care providers by rationing payments.
(CNN) – Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, will preside over the House health care reform vote Sunday night with a special gavel that’s already a part of congressional history.
Pelosi will use a gavel borrowed from fellow Democrat longtime Michigan Rep. John Dingell. Dingell used the gavel when he presided over the House as it passed the Medicare bill in 1965.
“A treasure in the Dingell family that was used in the enactment of the Medicare law”, Pelosi told reporters, “I will use it this evening when we cast a very successful vote for this important legislation. This has been a complete team effort, not only a team effort, a partnership with our leadership and every member of our caucus and we look forward to making this historic day known to the American people.”
Sure this is historic, if it happens. But then, so was the Titanic hitting an ice berg.
It is ironic, though, that after telling us that this isn’t a government take over of health care that the Democrats would be comparing it to program we’re forced to participate in.
This health care bill forces all of us to buy our health care through government-run health care exchanges, where the only policies we’ll be able to choose from are those approved by the government. This isn’t an improvement of health care. This is a power grab.
Just like Medicare was a power grab.
