This is just the beginning if we can not make congress listen to us, and there will bad things comming on our part (the people) to make them listen.

1. everybody stop paying taxes. We the people do not have representation.

2. a revolution where we pick up arms and fight for our government  back. we did it before against the British we can do it again. the T.E.A. party is just the beginning. and I will lie down my life for our children to have a better America.

Believe it or not these 2 thing will happen.

[John Gaudio here.  I most strongly disagree.  We have the ability to vote these people out.  If you choose not to pay taxes you may well pay with serious consequences.  If you take up arms rather than arming yourself with the tools to elect those with whom you agree, our current problems will seem very small by comparison.  Our US Constitution is designed to allow bloodless revolutions every time we have elections.  November is soon enough.  Vote to fire them.] 

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John, you write:

"Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama have demonstrated their desire to act as the ruling class, not as the servants of those people who elected them."

As you know, I'm not a conservative republican, but I am very much committed to having a rational, evidence-based world view.  And in that light, I just don't understand the claim above.

I am perfectly willing to acknowledge that you and I have different views on what is the right direction for heath care policy and, no doubt, on other issues as well.  That's simply a fact.  Further, there's nothing wrong with differences of opinion nor with robust debates on how to resolve differences.  But I don't find the statement above as factually accurate.

Consider: I am one of "those people who elected them" and, while I would have much more preferred a robust public option such as Medicare for everyone, I am pleased to see tangible changes that, to me (and I acknowledge, not to you) head in the right direction.  So, in this case, they were acting as my servants, pushing in a direction I would push.  And I'm not a single, non-representative outlier.  Remember, these people were voted into majority position in all three branches of government, not just by me, but by a majority of voters.  They are acting as servants to those millions of voters.

Admittedly, they are not acting as you would direct your servant, and you have every right to want them replaced by folks that would act as such.  But I don't follow the logic that would conclude from this that they "have demonstrated their desire to act as the ruling class."  (In fact, one could probably make the exact opposite point: that had they had such a desire, they would not have spent a year seeking rebublican support; rather, they would have simply used their majority position to push through a public option.)

[from John Gaudio:  Andy, it's great to hear from you.  I too enjoy good intelligent debate, and am happy to address your eloquently presented points.

Barak Obama ran as a centrist, and promised a new level of bipartisan cooperation.  He, and his allies in Congress, proceeded to reject all input from the Republicans, block every Republican proposal, and falsely claim that the Republicans had no ideas and no solutions.  He promised transparency in government, and his allies created bills of unprecedented length, then forced votes on said bills before they could be read, much less seriously debated.

The people objected loudly, and were ignored.  Instead of listening to the people, Nancy Pelosi said, "But we have to pass the [health care ] bill so that you can find out what is in it."  Is that the statement of a civil servant, or the statement of a would be civil master, telling her subjects they'll get used to doing what they're told?

Last Monday Nancy Pelosi's approval rating had dropped to eleven percent.  Harry Reid's had dropped to eight percent.  While you may approve of what they did, clearly the vast majority of the American people do not.

They took a year, not to seek Republican support, but to pass the agenda of a far left minority at all costs, and those costs are considerable.  They resorted to bribery, buying the votes of Senators and House members with the very earmarks Barack Obama promised to veto.  Their "majority position" was not sufficient to pass this legislation without resorting to both this bribery and the "nuclear option."  There was NO bipartisan support.  Zero Republicans voted for this bill.  There was, however, bipartisan opposition.  

This bill is not about health care, so much as it is about the acquisition of power.  Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are Statists.  They want big government that runs our lives.  I want liberty, and a very small government that does only what our founders designed it to do.  Dennis Prager puts it eloquently in his statement, "The biggert the government, the smaller the citizen."

That said, I am delighted to see differing opinions like yours and mine debated openly and with civility.  That tradition goes back to the time of our founders, and beyond, and I thank you for your comments.]