As the health care bill passed the 216-vote mark in the House a little before 11:00 pm, there was wild applause and cheering in the Chamber from Democrats. It brought to mind Star Wars:
"So this is how liberty dies ... with thunderous applause." -- Padmé
Immediately what I was thinking! I live in Stuarts Draft and can't believe what I just saw.
ReplyDeleteA democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. " Thomas Jefferson"
ReplyDeleteExperience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. " Thomas Jefferson"
The exact same quote came to my mind. Last night was very disheartening.
ReplyDeleteI have never been so ASHAMED to be an american!
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