Republican Deception

The republicans would have us believe they are so different from the democrats. After all they stood together and didn't vote for the Health Care plan.

Did they not vote for it, or did they vote against it because they read it and understood what it would really mean? I don't believe this was the reason. They didn't read the bill any more than the democrats did.

Did they not vote for it, or did they vote against it because They knew the people didn't want it? This is possible and we will probably never know.

If they were so convinced that it was a bad thing for the nation why is it that not one of the republican candidates is now mentioning it in any of their races? Do they really intend to do anything about it? I do not believe they do. I believe at best they will treat it like Social Security. They will make changes to it, but they won't get rid of it. They know that once it really kicks in no one will want another entitlement to go away.

Call me cynical but I believe the republicans knew it would pass without them and were only planning to be the ones to pick up the pieces and smooth things over once it passed.

There is no indication that the goals of the republicans are any different from the goals of the democrats. The only difference is their methods and timing. The republicans are not really that opposed to health care. They would have voted for it, but saw how angry the people were and knew it would pass without them so just decided to stay out of the fray. It is much the same as what some democrats did. Those democrats whose offices were viewed as in possible danger were allowed to vote against the bill unless their vote was needed.

The republicans always leave the major changes to our rights as citizens up to the democrats, but if they really opposed them they would see them overturned once they got in power. Instead they move on to other things.

Has there been a single word from the republicans regarding repealing ObamaCare since the midterm elections started? I haven't been able to find a single one from the republicans.

By their silence they are simply hoping the issue goes away. They are happy to be able to claim there was nothing they could do about it and they are hoping the American people forget that once they take power there is something they could do about it, but they won't!

Neither political party seems to really represent the people any more. consider that 95% of the bills being passed are passed with less than 5% of our representatives having actually read them. They don't even seem to know who's written them.

Though this ought to cause a great deal of concern it doesn't. I believe the reason for this is the complicity of the media to hide the fact that they don't even know what's actually in the bills.

Do we really need more than 100,000 pages of bills a year introduced into congress? Do we need a tax system so complex that even those who "wrote it" don't understand it and won't fill out their own taxes? That is of course when they file their taxes at all. It seems many of them feel that as government representatives they are immune from having to pay taxes.

There is some outrage regarding this, but not nearly enough.

We ought to be holding any that run for office to a written and signed agreement as to what they will do with the agreement they will not run for office again unless they can show that they've done everything they can to fulfill the promises they've made to the people.

Yes, it has come to be accepted that politicians lie. This does not make it right.

We hear all too often in the media from both sides as though it were a real justification that the other side did the same thing they did as though this somehow makes it OK. It is not OK and we need to send that message to our representatives!