They've got theirs ~ By Erik Rush

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Erik Rush Posted: December 24, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 I've got mine, I don't care … Though somewhat cynical, this is my seasonal offering; no doubt you noticed that the above quote is pretty much the antithesis of the Christmas spirit. The next time you ponder the reason why a president or a Congress would support health-care "reform" measures that threaten to transform the entire nation's fiscal situation into one resembling California's (via making it similarly effortless for illegal immigrants from around the globe to mooch medical care on a cyclopean scale), and neutralize fundamental constitutionally granted liberties, you need simply refer to the above quote. I don't mean to single out the health-care legislation (which is in the final stages of consideration by the Senate at this very moment). The illegal immigrant mooching issue is but one among many malign devices in the health-care bill. That one just presents an extreme example of the profligate behavior that has transpired in Washington in the last year. The instances of creative mismanagement and perversion of elementary American principles we've witnessed at the hands of this Congress and this administration are dizzyingly numerous. Regarding members of Congress' rationalizations for acting as I have described: Well, there are offices to keep, partisans to pacify, lobbyists to pay back and money to make. Obviously, with 61 percent of the American people opposing the current health-care legislation, they aren't looking to please us. Those, however, are merely their rationalizations for behaving in that manner. The reason is that they've got theirs, and they don't care what the ramifications of their self-serving actions will be for anyone more distant from them than their immediate family – if even that. READ FULL STORY >