President Obama, as a Candidate, promised 8 times that he’d make sure all healthcare legislation debates would be aired on CSPAN. Remember that? If not, follow the link at the end of the post for a reminder.

In fact, CNN,which has largely supported Obama & whose commentators have, for a long time, harshly criticized anyone who dares to offend, challenge, or question our current President, has actually challenged HIM to come forth with the promised “open debates” on CSPAN. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pO1oJPps1I

Instead, all recent healthcare legislation has been done behind closed doors. The House did their dirty work near Thanksgiving; the Senate during Christmas week – once, late on a Sunday night. Again, on Christmas Eve, at nearly midnight. They passed their version, but our only hope to get a GOOD healthcare bill now lies in praying our elected representatives will actually open the debate – and that they won’t be able to come up with a compromise bill easily. I think that last has a good chance – both bills are over 2000 pages.

That’s right – EACH healthcare bill is OVER 2000 PAGES! That’s more than the combined page count of both “War and Peace” and “Gone With the Wind” - for each bill!

How many of you have read either, let alone both? I have – I did it when I was in high school, and they were both good novels, not boring “governmentese” bills full of double-talk and boring stuff. And it still took me a while to get through them.

How many of you believe the Senate has read their bill and/or that the House has read theirs?

How many of you believe they’ve read each other’s 2000 page bills?

Before you answer, remember we’re talking two 2000 page bills  full of gobbledegook, doublespeak – and who knows what other unpleasant surprises.

If you try asking them, I imagine you’ll get just as straight an answer as I did – immediate diversion to a safe topic, every time you try to get a straight answer.

Just like what happened with the civil-liberties-trouncing “Patriot” Act’s passage, the Senators and Congresspersons don’t have a clue what they’re passing, except for the bits they might have worked on. And, just like in so much other complex legislation in the past, even our elected representatives find themselves surprised by questions from people who HAVE read the legislation – unpleasantly surprised by embarrassing questions. I’ve done my best to wade through the house version, to which someone found a link to spread around, but so far, my searches for an online version of the Senate bill have failed.

Why so hush-hush on the healthcare debate? Are those so-called “right wing nutcases” and the ever-popular “conspiracy theory nuts” possibly correct this time? If so, why?

Remember the video I mentioned at the start of this? While you might not like the source of this video, it doesn’t negate the video itself. I hope you will listen to the video, even if you dislike the blogger’s politics, and then, please, let’s demand, finally, that our government LISTEN to us: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=31098/