Think you're not getting Government Run Healthcare?

[Tarheel]

Think again. 

I'm sure everyone on the X is excited about the start of College Football Season (well...so am I, too) but..while you were distracted...the nefarious criminals in DC who we know of as Congress and The ONE were busy today.  And after all of the Town Hall Meetings, the Tea Parties, and the Rally in DC last weekend with 1.5 million or more (arguably more than attended The ONE's Immaculation) loud, 'evil-mongers' (aka the real taxpayers of Amerika) telling these clowns that we don't want Nationalized Healthcare...they're going to do it anyway.  I knew it.

[excerpt from Redstate.com, all emphasis is my own]

[Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) is about to Screw Amerika]

Posted by Erick Erickson

Wednesday, September 16th at 5:04PM EDT

Meet Bob Bennett. He is a Republican United States Senator. He is up for re-election next year.
Bob Bennett is about to screw America.

Bob Bennett is a fiscally irresponsible Senator who prides himself on being a Senator’s Senator. He was the only Republican who stood up and clapped when Barack Obama attacked Sarah Palin in his Joint Session of Congress speech last week.

And Bob Bennett wants to cut a deal on healthcare. Why? Because that’s what Senators do. The compromise. And if you are a Republican Senator, you capitulate.

Bob Bennett is working with Ron Wyden on Oregon on a healthcare alternative. They’ve proposed this plan for a while. The plan is terrible. As the Heritage Foundation correctly notes:

despite many attractive tax reform aspects, a troubling feature of the bill is that it would replace the current health system with one that is heavily regulated by the federal government: Individuals would have access only to plans permitted by the government and would be required to purchase such a plan.

Likewise, the Wyden-Bennett plan supports abortion funding, imposes federal mandates on citizens to have insurance, increases federal regulation...

This is Bob Bennett’s pet snake. He wants to rap it around the American public and constrict us while championing his having done something.

And today, Barack Obama called Bob Bennett and Ron Wyden to the White House to chat. One guess what that’s about.

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Full Story:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/09/16/it-is-time-to-go-to-defcon-1-bob-bennett-is-about-to-screw-america/

If this goes down due to a Republican I'm leaving the Republican Party and never sending them another dime of what's left of my hard-earned money.  I've really had it up to my eye-balls with the self-serving nitwits on Capitol Hill.  Needless to say I've written Chairman Steele about this issue for whatever good it might do.