I have heard many statements of despair over the past day in regards to the terrible Healthcare “Reform” Bill that passed Congress last night. This bill is truly a terrible bill and it will likely have immediate consequences on our Constitutional liberties. I am young, however, at no point in recent history can I think of a bill that was more socialistic in nature than the one that passed Congress last night.
The short term pain of this bill is indescribable and the suffering that it will cause is disgusting, however, I would urge my conservative collegues not to despair completely, there is a silver lining to this massive cloud.
First, this increases the likelihood that the newly TEA Party dominated, Republican Party will take control of Congress at the end of this year. This will give us an opportunity to make some real fundamental reforms, in regards to putting our nation on a course of freedom. The American people will get the opportunity to see how well free market reforms work and new and innovative ideas will have the opportunity to blossom. This, of course, comes with the stipulation that the GOP does the right thing and governs from a conservative perspective. If we fail to do so, the Republican Party will likely cease to exist.
Lastly, the progressives have done for the conservatives what the conservatives could not do for themselves; they united conservatives. There has been a deep divide among conservatives who are fiscally focused and between other conservatives that are socially focused. Both often correctly claim that the other side cannot exist without them. These petty fights often came down to a matter of semantics in which one conservative group did not like how another conservative group worded something. The healthcare fight united these two wings of conservatism as they united against a bill that has both fiscal and social ramifications. We should take this lesson and apply it in the future.
Although we are mourning the loss of some of our liberty today, we can take heart in the fact that we have been battle hardened. We must get off of our sackloth and ashes and begin the steep climb toward a repeal of this leviathin. To quote Newt Gingrich, “this will not stand.” we must stand by our Attorney General as he contends in court for our Healthcare Freedom on behalf of the Commonwealth. The next few weeks will be contentious. Let’s avoid the usual infighting that so easily besets us and take the lessons of last week’s fight with us.
