"Doomsday" Plan

According to the NY Daily News, it appears that the majority party is going to ensure passage of some form of a health care bill come hell or high water in the event that the Massachusetts race goes to the Republican contender.

To me, this race is probably the best indicator of how the general public is looking at our legislators and specifically how the majority party is taking care of business. Massachusetts has long been a stronghold for the Democrat's. While Ted Kennedy was in office, he was a shoe-in every election no matter what. Mitt Romney helped to build the Massachusetts version of Obamacare for the state that failed miserably. Yet they were still re-elected time after time.

Now why would this race for Kennedy's vacated spot be so contested that a Democrat needs to get the POTUS in to campaign on his wife's birthday? Is this maybe a sign that the public, at least in Massachusetts, has realized the error of their ways by putting the Democrats in power? Considering that Massachusetts is a known Democrat stronghold and the race is almost a dead heat it sure seems that way to me.

Now back to the "Doomsday Plan". According to the NY Daily News, the Dems have a plan to rush the Senate version of the bill through the House without the standard meetings and reconciliation steps. This will ensure that there is some form of framework in place before Brown can make it to Washington to slow down the bill by opposing the mess.

What does this all mean to the average person? To put it simplistically, those in the majority party are once again going to sell out the American public for the sole purpose of getting some form of a bill passed. Since the two bills differ and there have been late-night secret meetings with special interest groups to make sure they are satisfied, then why the hell would it be necessary to rush this bill through if it was good legislation?

So here are my predictions:
1. Brown will send Coakley back to the farm come tomorrow by winning the election.
2. A form of the health care bill will be passed immediately upon hitting Obama's desk thus negating his promise that there would be five days for the public to review and comment before he signs any major bill.
3. The 2010 midterm elections will result in the Dems losing their majority in both the House and Senate.
4. Our legislators spend the next two years battling to get rid of junk legislation that caters to special interest groups instead of focusing on re-building the economy.

Let's hope my crystal ball is defective....