A rose, by any other name... is still but a cover for thorns

Last night, as I hauled a load of cars and SUV's to Cincinnati, after intruding on a candidate forum in Findlay, I'm listening to Fox News on my Sirius satalite radio.  I hear Senator Orrin Hatch... At least it SOUNDED like Orrin Hatch, (I didn't catch the beginning), say that the way the Health Care Bill should have been done, was for Congress to include the things Republicans and Democrats agree on, then compromise on the rest.  Yet another illustration of the fact that THEY STILL DON'T GET IT, and possibly more importantly, the members of the Senate don't understand the Constitutional role they play in our government.

The true problem with the SENATE version of the Health Care Bill, was not what was contained in it, but that it existed AT ALL.  I know,WE THE PEOPLE, elect our Senators the same way we elect our Representatives, thanks to the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, but their Constitutional role still remains the same... TO REPRESENT THE INTEREST OF THE STATE!  Our Representatives serve the interest of the people.  Our Senators serve the interest of the state.

IN SO MUCH AS, there is nothing about the health care bill that serves the best interest of ANY state,  (this fact is demonstrated by the many states acting to keep it on the other side of their lines), the bill should never have passed out of the Senate.  Never mind that the imposition on individual liberty and state sovereignty should have kept it from ever being so much as a topic of discussion, on Capitol Hill.

The fact that the interviewer seemed to agree with Mr. Hatch, demonstrates that many, if not MOST, of us don't get it either.  We HAVE GOT to start really listening to what our leade...? ...? ... politicians are telling us.  We MUST start weighing those words on a Constitutional SCALE.  The mindset in Washington is that government IS the solution, but that one side has better ideas than the other.  Government is NOT the solution... WE THE PEOPLE are the solution.

ELECT PATRIOTS, not POLITICIANS!

I'll get back to ya...