The whole country is watching. The more they hide, the more the country gets to see how corrupt this whole enterprise is.

Let’s make sure everyone knows what they are doing.

Thank God for Sen. DeMint. He seems to be the only Senator with the resal desire to try to stop the monstrosity of a bill.

To my two Senators—Hutchison and Cornyn. Get off your rear ends and DO something. While I long ago gave up on either of you really stepping up to the plate and initiating anything worthwhile, and least I’d like to see you come out vocally in strong support of Sen. DeMint.

Its obvious to me what they are doing. We don’t need to see the actual bill or the negotiations to know that Pelosi and Reid are both corrupt hacks that will screw over their constituents. We know that both care nothing for their oaths of office. And we know that neither the Senate nor House will care what’s in the bill.

Great piece.

I’m with chbroussard, thank God for Jim DeMint.

Here’s an outline of Obama’s SOTU, bank on it:

1. Blame Bush
2. Blame Congressional Republicans
3. Praise Congressional Democrats
4. Take credit for accomplishments that aren’t his, like his phony-baloney Nobel “Peace” Prize

I asked if the senator had taken a public position on the secret negotiations, and was told that he had not. I then suggested that the senator might partially redeem himself, after his wrongheaded vote in favor of Obamacare, by coming out opposed to such dirty and downright un-American dealings.

The staffer seemed very, very familiar with my suggestions, as if he’s heard them a few thousand times already. I hope that’s the case, and that every other Floridian will call with the same message.

Next call is to Charlie Crist Lite, otherwise known as George LeMieux, asking why he isn’t standing on the steps of the capitol decrying the secret meetings.

…but they can’t talk about it in public.

Look, Democrats can pass this if they want, in secret and behind closed doors. That is just a fact. But we as conservatives need to show the public the ugliness of the entire process…a bill that effects 1/6th of the economy and every American, and yet cannot be debated in a public forum.

http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=9379

That those on the left, not the players themselves, but the rank and file lefty or left leaner, continue to accept the lies and tap dancing…..most disturbing.
Then again, snake oil sellers have prospered for generations by always telling/selling the same hope and dream to a willingly blind audience. Said audience, once presented by the unarguable FACT that the snake oil really won’t cure Grandma’s blindness, simply awaits the next ‘explanation’ of how the fault isn’t the snake oil, but somehow the blame falls on the guy who made the bottle. Or the company that transported the bottle. Or the design of the bottle. Or anything, anything at all, except the FACT that the audience willingly accepted a lie, a lie that three functioning brain cells would have told them was a lie.
So the snake oil seller changes the packaging, and now sells “New, improved, Snake Oil Capsules”!!
And the audience willingly buys the lie, again.

You always find cockroaches in dark rooms and behind closed doors. Seems it is the same thing with our congressional clunkers.

… for having the guts to do this!

I seem to recall a posting here as this being the first step toward killing the bill. I was really hoping for Sen. McConnell to do this, but his comments regarding repeal of this potential legislation concerned me tremendously (he seems to be more concerned with his “friendship” with Sen. Reid – of which Reid is exploiting – than he is about principles and the Constitution).

I am so glad and grateful for Sen. DeMint’s actions. God bless that man!

in this foney fraudulent obamacare. We still don’t want the best healthcare in the World destroyed by obamacare that doesn’t fixed anything but will cost every citizen/voter/taxpayer more money for healthcare.
It is time to KILL obamacare and come back after we purge the Senate and Congress in November with real healthcare modification and improvements not DESTROY IT.

I strongly supported DeMint’s move – the strategy was recommended here. However, it appears now that there will be no conference – Reid, Pelosi, and Emmanuel will finish it behind closed doors, then it’s an up/down in the House and then the same in the Senate. With zero transparency of course, as Gibbs dodges over The One’s repeated lie about C-Span coverage.

As noted in Rick’s diary, very little has been said in the MSM regarding Demint’s original objection to the appointment of conferees. Are Reid and Pelosi taking this aggressive tactic to make it appear that the Democrats are in control of the process in order to encourage the perception that if the Democrats “initiated” this strategy (albeit with secret meetings), it must mean the final passage is inevitable. In other words, if the Democrats had complained about Demint’s objection, would this have given the perception that there was a good chance that this bill will be killed?

You think the American people won’t like what you’re up to? One shudders to think what is going on behind closed doors while they try to “negotiate” this thing. I see them sitting around, smoking cigars, trying to outdo each other on who can come up with a better plan to screw over the American public. CSPAN would really like to see what’s going on, and so would I, especially with my two senators, Burris and Durbin.
http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/transparency-is-in-short-supply-and-people-are-catching-on/