Sarah Palin's Warning To Congress

They do look like they are in love don't they?

Late last night House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Barack Obama bullied Health Care through the House of Representatives.

They called it a major victory.

Oh Really? It seems like a major mistake. The late night theatrics will only anger Republicans, Independents and Moderate Democrats who didn't trust the bill in the first place.


The Democrats needed 218 votes to pass the legislation, they strong armed 52 Blue Dog Democrats and got 13 of them to vote against the wishes of their districts and ended up with 220 votes. They are calling it an historic bill - it is historic in the fact that this major overhaul of Government passed with the slimmest margin in history.

Do the Democrats really want to put their names to something that is so divisive going into the 2010 elections?

39 Democrats voted against the bill - one Republican (Joseph Cao of Louisiana) voted for it.

The fight is not over yet as the bill still has to get through the Senate. Debate will begin next week and Sarah Palin has issued a warning on Facebook.

I believe Sarah Palin should personally visit the districts of the 13 Blue Dog Democrats who voted for the bill and threaten to campaign against any moderate Democratic Senator who votes for the bill?

Here are some Democratic Senators to key in on - Michael Bennett in Colorado will have a difficult time keeping his job anyway - an unpopular healthcare bill could end it for them. But even Democrats who won in traditionally red states and were thought to be safe are now in jeapordy - Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas - Evan Bayh in Indiana and Bryon Dorgan in South Dakota will be feeling the heat. (Harry Reid in Nevada, Chris Dodd in Connecticut and Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania are also in trouble.)

The majority of Independent voters in last weeks elections in New Jersey and Virginia voted Republican and they told pollsters their #1 concern is the economy - healthcare was fifth or sixth on their list.

Now the Democrats risk losing both the House and the Senate because they pushed their own agenda instead of what the majority of Americans wanted.

Of course, it's not too late. Blue Dog Democrats should read Sarah Palin's post and realize that if you push through a healthcare bill that Americans don't want right now - Sarah might just come a callin to your state or district.

Here is Sarah Palin's post called The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming

We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country.

The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.

Despite Americans’ decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken her own promises of transparency to ram a health “care” bill through the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced”?

This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates – the highest we’ve seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don’t have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.

Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that.

All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in the bill to begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great – because abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak’s amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership has already refused to promise that it won’t be scrapped later.

We had been told there were no “death panels” in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.

Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too.

Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday. Speaker Pelosi’s promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C. establishment’s too-common political ploys. It’s broken promises like this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned about the future of their country.

But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close attention tonight. We’ll keep paying close attention. We need to let our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the “reform” they are pushing. After all, this is still a country “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” We will make our voices heard. It’s on to the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It’s their choice.

- Sarah Palin

Here are the Democrats who voted against the bill:

Scott Murphy(N.Y. 20)
Bobby Bright(Ala. 2)
Frank Kratovil Jr.(Md. 1)
Walt Minnick(Idaho 1)
Eric Massa(N.Y. 29)
Parker Griffith(Ala. 5)
John Adler(N.J. 3)
Glenn Nye(Va. 2)
Chet Edwards(Tex. 17)
Travis Childers(Miss. 1)
John Boccieri(Ohio 16)
Larry Kissell(N.C. 8)
Jason Altmire(Pa. 4)
Harry Teague(N.M. 2)
Betsy Markey(Colo. 4)
Jim Marshall(Ga. 8)
Suzanne Kosmas(Fla. 24)
Dennis J. Kucinich(Ohio 10)
Lincoln Davis(Tenn. 4)
Allen Boyd(Fla. 2)
Heath Shuler(N.C. 11)
Tim Holden(Pa. 17)
Michael E. McMahon(N.Y. 13)
Brian Baird(Wash. 3)
Jim Matheson(Utah 2)
Ben Chandler(Ky. 6)
Ike Skelton(Mo. 4)
John Barrow(Ga. 12)
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin(S.D.)
Mike McIntyre(N.C. 7)
Dan Boren(Okla. 2)
Collin C. Peterson(Minn. 7)
Bart Gordon(Tenn. 6)
Gene Taylor(Miss. 4)
Mike Ross(Ark. 4)
Rick Boucher(Va. 9)
Artur Davis(Ala. 7)
Charlie Melancon(La. 3)
John Tanner(Tenn. 8)