{"id":413374,"date":"2010-03-10T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/video-week-we-have-pass-bill-so-you-can-find-out-what-40655\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:18:53","slug":"video-of-the-week-we-have-to-pass-the-bill-so-you-can-find-out-what-is-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413374","title":{"rendered":"Video of the Week: ?We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 03.10.10 12:30 PM posted by Marguerite Higgins<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>You might have seen this week <ahref="http:\/\/www.breitbart.tv\/nancy-pelosi-we-need-to-pass-health-care-bill-to-find-out-whats-in-it\/">a stunning demonstration of political condescension on the health care front. In remarks at the 2010 Legislative Conference for the National Association of Counties, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, \u0093But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.\u0094<\/p>\n

This revealing comment reinforces a patriarchal (or in Pelosi\u0092s case matriarchal) attitude Congress has taken with the American public: What lurks within the House and Senate health care bills will be revealed in the fullness of time, and it\u0092s really good for us if we only knew better.<spanid="more-28508"><\/span><\/p>\n

Ordinary Americans have had a common-sense resistance to Washington\u0092s feverish attempt to overhaul one-sixth of the U.S. economy. But Congressional leadership has ignored the public\u0092s concerns and instead clung to the idea that if they simply ram the bill through the legislative process \u0097 using <ahref="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/10\/health\/policy\/10health.html?ref=politics">unprecedented tactical maneuvers that may not even pass the parliamentarian\u0092s smell test\u0097Americans will finally understand and embrace ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

When it\u0092s law, then Americans can finally grasp the \u0093goodness\u0094 of what\u0092s in the <ahref="http:\/\/fixhealthcarepolicy.com\/key-documents\/the-house-and-senate-bills\/">2,700-plus-page Senate bill, which is the most likely legislative vehicle that Congress will push to President Barack Obama\u0092s desk. The problem for Pelosi and congressional Democrats is that Americans have been reading these bills, and they don\u0092t like what they\u0092re reading.<\/p>\n

The more the public learns about <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/HealthCare\/bg2350.cfm">the taxes, <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/HealthCare\/cda1002.cfm">individual mandates, <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/14\/more-taxpayer-funding-of-abortion-in-the-senate-health-bill\/">taxpayer-funded abortion coverage, and <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/HealthCare\/wm2774.cfm">the potential breakdown of the private health insurance market, the less jazzed they are about ObamaCare. But politicians have blithely waved away little details <ahref="http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/print\/51610">like reading the actual bill and instead said \u0093trust us\u0094\u0097at a time when public trust for Congress is at <ahref="http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/03\/10\/ap-gfk-poll-obama-more-popular-than-congress\/">an all-time low during Obama\u0092s presidency.<\/p>\n

This whole dynamic helps explain why Obama and congressional leadership are insistent on <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/09\/deja-vu-all-over-again\/">another artificial deadline of March 18 for final passage of ObamaCare. They know that members of Congress, particularly those in the House, could see another wave of townhall protests when they go on a two-week recess starting March 26. That\u0092s because the American people do know what\u0092s in these bills. Popular discussion and debate\u0097that \u0093fog of controversy\u0094\u0097has helped to enlighten them.<\/p>\n

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