The US Congress and our president are engaged in a full court press to achieve their Holy Grail political objective –the control of the US health care system. The president and the Senate leadership in the person of Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) are pulling out all the stops…making promises and giving huge monetary considerations to fence sitting legislators and making not-so-veiled threats to those senators who oppose the legislation as it stands due to the inclusion of abortion funding, etc.

They are oh so close…they can taste victory and they are counting the millions of new and grateful voters that their naked exercise in largess redistribution will acquire. The end game is upon them, and they don’t want a few principled and stubborn senators standing in the way of their supposed celebration.

But these hardened politicians are forgetting two facts in their single-minded quest for perpetual political primacy — the opposition of the American people to their scheme and the questionable constitutionality of the forced acquisition by the government of health insurance for individual citizens. The constitutionality issue will certainly be sorted out by the courts, but this leaves the opposition of Americans to this plan. All major American pollsters show that a majority of Americans are opposed to so-called Obamacare in either of it’s congressional incarnations. In fact, the Rasmussen organization has consistently shown a plurality of Americans opposed to the health care “reform” since late July. The latest poll, done December 12-13 reveals 40% in favor and 56% opposed to Congress’ labors on health care “reform.”

This differential would be coveted by any of the incumbent vote whores as a margin of victory in an election campaign. But as a measure of the will of the American people in opposition to health care reform, they show disdain, defiance and disrespect to our wishes. See, they know what’s best for us…even over our best protestations. But it’s not so much what’s best for us, it’s what’s best for the Democrats and their future political ambitions. This is less an exercise in protecting the uninsured from catastrophic health expenses as it is floorplanning the sub rosa socialist conquest of the USA.

Right now, Obama and the Congressional leadership are willing to lose a few Democratic members in the upcoming mid term election in order to capture the gold ring known as health care reform. Again, it’s not about us, it’s all about them.

I say let them turn a deaf ear to our wishes. Let them live in a political vacuum while eying only the prize at hand. Their actions are completely within their own power and purview — they can do what’s in our interests or in theirs. But I caution them to do so at their own peril. They may think that they can bully the heretofore timid puppy called the American voter because they control the presidency, the House and the Senate. But I assure them that this year will be different: Rather than a timid puppy visiting the polling places this fall they will instead encounter a bared-fang pit bull ready to rip out their political throats!

So, ignore and defy the will of the people, but do so at your own peril. Because I feel that your legislative victory will be short-lived, but at a great cost to the Democratic party and to individuals within it. I suspect that the Republicans will repeal this legislative monstrosity at the first opportunity that they get. And the architects of this whole mess will be left on the outside looking in…wondering in awe about the will of the American people that can, at the right time, surpass petty political ambitions.