As most of you politically savvy individuals know, the health care bill passed the house along partisan lines.  This could not have happened without pro-life democrats caving in and being appeased by Obama promising to write an executive order not allowing federal funds to be released for abortions.

Now there are several things that are wrong with this idea.

1)  Executive orders are very controversial.  It is an implied right from the constitution in article II, section 1, clause 1 for “executive power”.

2) Executive orders only apply to agencies in the executive branch.

3) Funds are only controlled congress.  Hence the executive branch has no control over what the congress spends money on.

To use a quote from Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox’s senior Judicial correspondent:

“An executive order is a direction from the President to employees in the Executive Branch of the Government to do something or not to do something.

For example, when Bill Clinton was President he ordered that whenever outside vendors are hired by the government they have to be unionized. When George W. Bush was President he ordered that you don’t have to hire unionized people.

How could they do that? Because the law itself is silent, and the President has discretion in that area; and a subsequent president, as Bush did with Clinton, as President Obama did with President Bush, can undo a presidential executive order.

And this President could undo his own executive order – if he wanted to – the day after he signed it. But the legislation that the House passed last night, which the President will sign tomorrow, uses federal dollars to pay for insurance policies which provide abortion coverage for any reason permissible under the state law of the state in which the abortion is to occur… If Congressman Stupak thinks that the President’s executive order can stop that, he is sadly mistaken, because the performer of the abortion and the payer of the abortion is not the federal government. It’s a doctor employed by an insurance company whose policy has been purchased by the federal government. So the President can’t stop that with an executive order… So what did Congressman Stupak and the other so-called pro-life Democrats get? They got a fig leaf. They got a little political cover.”

I could get into how that whole thing works, but basically just know that it’s something that is outside the executive branch’s control.

Also let’s talk about Obama’s track record.  According to obamapromisewatch.net he has made approximately 342 promises since he began campaigning on his 142nd day of federal service.  He has only “addressed” 98 of these promises.  This does not mean he “kept” those promises, only addressed them.  This is about a 29% rate of “addressing” issues.  Additional research is needed see what he promised to address within his first year, or during his administration.

Obama is also the guy who said that things relating to when life begins is “above his pay grade”.  Remember all the times that Obama voted “present” in his state senate seat?  According to factcheck.org, he voted “Present” 130 times as an Illinois state senator.  However on some of the key issues he did vote on help establish his views on Abortion.

He voted “No” on the Born Alive Act, which would recognized babies that were “born” in a botch abortion as living.

He voted “No” on prohibiting minor children from going across state lines to seek an abortion without their parents knowledge.

He appointed Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.  He has a 0% rating on abortion issues from the National Right to Life.

He appointed Sen. Tom Daschle as the Health and Human Services secretary, who has been a long standing pro-abortion advocate.

He appointed Emily Moran as the White House communications director, and she was a director of the pro-abortion group Emily’s List.

The Department of Justice Review team had Dawn Johnsen appointed as a member.  Later she was appointed as Assistant Attorney General of the legal counsel for the Obama Administration.  She is a former legal counsel for NARAL.

The director of the Domestic Policy Counsel was appointed Melody Barnes, she is a former board member of Emily’s List.

Sen. Hillary Clinton was appointed Secretary of State who has a long record of pro-abortion stances.

Jeanne Lambrew was appointed as the deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform.  Health reform?  didn’t the congress just ram that through?

The record goes on…and on.  Obviously as part of the socialistic agenda Obama has attempted to stack the administration with pro-abortion advocates.

Read into it what you may.  I believe it is an attempt to dismantle the conservative frame work of America.  If we completely submit to the socialist will and surrender our dissent to the federal government, we begin to lose our individuality.  The more reliant we become on the government, the smaller we become as individuals.  The bigger the government, the smaller the individual.  Soon they will begin to dismantle the rest of our individual rights.

We have to take a stand as conservatives and make sure the government understands that they derive their power from the people!

In the previous post i mentioned that this whole health care situation is similar to the divisiveness that was experienced over slavery in the lead up to the civil war.  Little did i know that there would be such a gradual backlash on each side.

First the democrats were alleging that the “tea partiers” were taunting some of them with racial slurs and threats.  Yes i’m sure that some things were probably said.  If there were those things going on I want to make sure everyone knows i find those sorts of things counterproductive.  All they do is create a rift and reflect negatively on the party.

Then today i read that the house minority whip had a shot fired at their office.  So now there’s physical violence going on against republicans, threats against democratic reps, and a general discontent in the political arena.  Let’s add that to the event at the University of Ottawa where Anne Coulter had two thousand students threaten her with violence, burn her books, and the dean wrote her in advance to warn her about hate speech laws in Canada.

No wonder there is such discontent.  Even people in the democratic party are not happy.  Kent Conrad (D-ND), the Senate Budget Committee chairman said:

(the health care bill is) a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of.

There are so many things that people aren’t happy about with this bill.  I don’t want to rip off fox news, so read about it here:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/25/jon-kraushar-obamacare-questions-medicare-congress-white-house/

I honestly expect this to continue to be the single largest issue to be going on in the political atmosphere for the next several years.  It will directly affect the 2010 mid-term election.  It will be a big point of contention in the 2012 election.  I wouldn’t be surprised if it even continues to be an issue going forward from there.

The Bureaucracy is bullcrap, which has lead to bullets…and hopefully no more of them.