McCain was Sane

... when many other Republicans were nuts. Just a few years ago, Senate Republicans threatened the "Nuclear Option" where they would do away with the filibuster rule so that they could get past the obstructions of the Democrats. John McCain rightly saw this as a weapon that would get out of control and be used by whatever party was in power to ram things through. Now we have the Democrats doing the same thing. The whole "deem and pass" thing is something that will come back and bite us all if it succeeds.

The day is coming (in November, most likely) when the Democrats will lose control of the legislature and then (perhaps in 2012) the presidency. All of the hideous, unthinkable weapons they are unearthing right now to pass Obamacare will be available for the Republicans with a monstrous precedent set in this gigantic bill. There will be nowhere to hide then. Nothing will be off the table. With legislation this sweeping being passed by chicanery, how will future opponents to similarly huge changes in our nation be able to stand up against it? Each election cycle will become more and more important as control of the legislature and presidency will give the victor control of the machineries being created today. Every election will look like the last few minutes of Beneath the Planet of the Apes where the two sides fight over the control of the Doomsday Bomb.

If you thought elections were bad before, you haven't seen anything yet.

Worship at the altar of almighty political power for it is the Alpha and the Omega!