Yesterday, the day before to passing the Senate Health Care Reform bill with a vote along party lines: “I don’t see this as 60 Democrats versus 40 Republicans,” Harry Reid said. “I see it as 60 leaders who stood up to insurance companies and stood up for working families all across America.”

Yesterday: “mid-cap biotech stocks and large pharmaceutical stocks… two groups that could rise at least 10 percent over the next month. The legislation currently leaves both industries relatively unscathed…

Shares of large health insurers – the industry probably most affected by the legislation – have soared about 26 percent since the start of October, leading the charge for health stocks. The S&P Health Care Sector index has risen about 10 percent in that time, while the broader S&P 500 index has climbed 6 percent.”

Utter detachment from reality… or just flagrant lying to the American public. Like pointed out yesterday in my post about the government’s plans to destroy free and open competition, today’s passage of the Senate health care reform bill takes us one step closer to socialism. Despite taking flak from the left and the right, the bureaucratic powers that control our nation decided that they know what is best for us… they have resorted to ruling by decree while Americans are distracted by the holidays. We are witnessing the creation of a government program so intrusive that the very concepts of liberty and personal responsibility will completely take on new meaning in one generation; they will come to mean “the freedom government lets you have” and “the government takes care of us all so do whatever you like,” respectively. In less than one year, the United States has come a long way from the Constitutional Republic we once were.

While Imperial Democrats continue to repeat the empty party slogans of change and hope, saying that they have stood up to big business,just glance over at the stock market, where investors are doing backflips over the idea that the government will mandate people to purchase insurance… the lifelong dream of any company CEO: forcing people to buy your product.

While the Obama campaign promised an end to old-style politics, what we saw during this endeavor was the most audacious display of corruption at the highest levels of government. This “new-style” politics is more exclusive to liberal interests and more corrupt than ever before. They cut deals with big pharmaceutical companies. They cut deals with Senators who were on the sidelines by handing them blank checks. They handed out money for votes in a scheme that most people would consider illegal… in fact, a scheme that if carried out by any private individual, it would be called bribery, which carries a penalty of up to 15 years imprisonment and fines.

The losers in this are clear: the American people, but there is a silver lining. This entire display of corruption and disregard for public will has shown to everyone how exactly these Imperial Democrats operate. This means that come 2010, the American public can express their dissatisfaction by throwing out the bums who helped increase the burden on American families through taxation and mandates. Now that they have removed their masks it will be much harder for nice-sounding speeches and Bush-bashing to win the Democrats any votes. All we need to do is point towards their pro-government expansion, pro-taxation, pro-entitlement spending, pro-Wall Street bailout agenda and unleash popular sentiment against these clowns. It’s funny that it only took one year of Democrat control of Washington for them to cram big government down America’s throat… it only shows us that the Left has had these plans in the works for years, they were just biding their time until they got decisive majorities. That said, we need to put them back in the minority ASAP. While political setback may pale compared to what the Democrats have planned for us, it’s something and it should give us hope that there still exists some semblance of freedom in this country.

-AG