The Voice of the People
The House of Representatives is sometimes called “the lower chamber”.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the House version of health care reform legislation last week, but most voters are still opposed to the effort.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down from 45% a week ago but unchanged from two weeks ago.
Fifty-four percent (54%) now oppose the legislative effort, up three points since last week.
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Only 23% of all voters Strongly Support the plan while nearly twice as man (44%) are Strongly Opposed.
Voters finally saw the bill, and swerved away from it—yet the House, in its wisdom, passed it.
If I had to guess, I would say that the honorable members thought they could get away with voting yes, thereby getting Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama off their backs, safe in the knowledge this beast will never pass in the Senate and actually become law. They held up the White House and the House leadership for favors and perks, but won’t have to live with the consequences of their treachery.
I’m trying to decide how low the lower chamber really is: the 8th circle of Hell, reserved for fraudsters; or the 9th, reserved for traitors?
I think if Dante dug a little deeper in the fetid, fiery pits of hell, he might just have scraped the top of the Capitol dome.
Democrats celebrate passage of historic health care bill in the House chamber.
And if that image doesn’t chill your blood to the freezing point, this one might:
