SOWELL ON THE HEALTH BILL – AT 8:34 A.M. ET:  One of the most brilliant conservative writers of our time has weighed in on what has just happened in Congress.  As usual, attention must be paid to Tom Sowell:

With the passage of the legislation allowing the federal government to take control of the medical care system of the United States, a major turning point has been reached in the dismantling of the values and institutions of America.

Even the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats and advisory panels-- as momentous as that is-- does not measure the full impact of this largely unread and certainly unscrutinized legislation.

Nobody says it better. 

With politicians now having not only access to our most confidential records, and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?

I hadn't thought of it that way.  Now I'm thinking of it that way.

The corrupt manner in which this massive legislation was rammed through Congress, without any of the committee hearings or extended debates that most landmark legislation has had, has provided a roadmap for pushing through more such sweeping legislation in utter defiance of what the public wants.

The problem is that Democrats don't believe the public is smart enough to know what it wants, so more enlightened souls, graduates of our "best" universities, must do it for them.

They say that, in politics, overnight is a lifetime. Just last month, it was said that the election of Scott Brown to the Senate from Massachusetts doomed the health care bill. Now some of the same people are saying that passing the health care bill will doom the administration and the Democrats' control of Congress. As an old song said, "It ain't necessarily so."

The voters will have had no experience with the actual, concrete effect of the government takeover of medical care at the time of either the 2010 Congressional elections or the 2012 Presidential elections. All they will have will be conflicting rhetoric-- and you can depend on the mainstream media to go along with the rhetoric of those who passed this medical care bill.

Finally...

The last opportunity that current American citizens may have to determine who will control Congress may well be the election in November of this year. Off-year elections don't usually bring out as many voters as Presidential election years. But the 2010 election may be the last chance to halt the dismantling of America. It can be the point of no return.

COMMENT:  Tom Sowell is not a man who writes wildly.  Take his comments to heart.  The left has gathered more power in Washington than it has ever had.  It intends to use that power.  If you want to know how ruthless the exercise of that power can be, just look at our colleges and our school systems.  Case closed.

March 23, 2010