Is Beck right?

Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid once again shocks the American public by announcing the latest version of a Health Care Bill. “While the public option is not a silver bullet, I believe it’s an important way to ensure competition and to level the playing field for patients with the insurance industry,” Reid said. The question on Capitol Hill is does he have the votes to get it passed? Are you kidding me?! Getting “it” passed shouldn’t even be on the table. How about, “what is my constituency saying about this? “

Columnist Michael Barone sites a recent Rasmussen Report by saying, “As Europeanizing policies receive more attention, they become less popular. June's 50 to 45 percent approval of Democratic health care proposals morphs to a similar margin of disapproval in October. And satisfaction with one's own health care arrangements rises from 29 percent in 2008 and 35 percent in May 2009 to 48 percent in August.”

In their “Mood of America” section Rasmussen states that only 23 percent of Americans say that Health Care Reform is important to them.

This is what I don’t get—that is unless Glenn BeckGlenn Beck is right. If clearly seventy-five (75) percent of the American people say that Heath Care Reform isn’t at the forefront of their concern, why is Congress pushing Health Care Reform as if it had to be passed yesterday? If thirty-eight (38) percent of the American people (Rasmussen—same October 23rd poll) say that cutting the Federal spending is important, then why in America are our elected officials ignoring what We the People want?

I think that Barone’s article explains it when he says, “As Europeanizing policies receive more attention, they become less popular.” “Europeanizing policies,” translates into Socialism—an ideology that has been pushed by the President from the very beginning of his campaign. If pushing Socialism is the agenda, then “Voter be damned” could well be the motto of our elected officials.

It is my hope that the American people will pick up the banner, “Politician Beware” as we begin looking for people who will actually represent us in before we lose the title as the Greatest Country in the World.