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Speaker Pelosi walked Blue Dogs off a cliff with the Cap and Tax bill earlier. It was a tough vote for many of them. Then Harry Reid said that Cap and Tax wasn’t a priority and that they likely wouldn’t debate it until 2010. now she’s trying to ram another job-killing bill down our throats. She’s even ignoring the message voters sent Tuesday night.

Karl Rove’s WSJ article is just the latest to predict gloom for Democrats if they support this bill:

Looking ahead, the bad news for Democrats is that the legislation that helped lead to the collapse of support for their party on Tuesday could yet inflict more pain on those foolish enough to support it. The health-care bill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to vote on this week could sink an entire fleet of Democratic boats in 2010.

For starters, the bill is a lot more expensive than advertised. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs its cost at $1.055 trillion over 10 years, not the $894 billion Mrs. Pelosi claims. Politico reports that “the legislation is projected to create deficits over the second five years” by front-loading revenue and benefit cuts and back-loading costs. The real cost, according to a Republican House Budget Committee report, could be $2.4 trillion for its first decade of operation.

Two Clint Eastwood lines from the Dirty Harry movies leap to mind for some reason. The line that most applies to Blue Dogs thinking about voting for Pelosicare is actually this question: Well, punk, are you feeling lucky? Here’s the Eastwood line that applies to Pelosi: A man’s got to know his limitations.

Speaker Pelosi claims that she won Tuesday night because Democrats picked up 2 votes in Tuesday’s elections. Technically, she’s right. Democrats did gain 2 votes. I’m betting, though, that Blue Dogs noticed the sea change amongst independents. I’m betting that they noticed the difference in intensity of people voting for GOP candidates. Politicians aren’t listening to these voters, which is pissing the voters off something fierce. The Democrats will be making a mistake if they think that this intensity is disappearing sometime soon. IT ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE ANYTIME SOON!!!

These voters are mad as hell and they aren’t putting up with Washington’s games anymore. NO MORE is these voters’ rallying cry. King touched on it in his speech at the St. Cloud 9/12 TEA Party when he talked about William Graham Sumner’s Forgotten Man:

Today is a reminder to those we send to St. Paul and City Hall, and to those in Congress and the White House, that we feel forgotten.

“Forgotten?” you ask.

The economist William Graham Sumner wrote a century ago about the way in which we are forgotten by those who would help others in the name of humanitarianism but not with their own money.

A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes…is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C’s interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

Look around you and say hi to Mr. C and Mrs. C.

Forgotten no more. Since that day, We The People have pledged each other that we won’t be forgotten or ignored anymore. We’ve realized that They Work For Us. Most importantly, we know that WE OUTNUMBER THEM, which is why we’re sitting in the power seat.

If Speaker Pelosi wants to vote on this abomination, then she’ll be staring at a political disaster within a year.

Mrs. Pelosi’s bill will drive up premiums. A family of four with an income of $78,000 would pay $13,800 for insurance a year by 2016, according to CBO. Their tab would average $11,000 without the bill.

ONLY IN WASHINGTON could Pelosicare be considered reform. It’s Reform In Name Only!!!

If people support Pelosicare, then they’re idiots. The good news is that they’ll soon be unemployed if they vote for Pelosicare.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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