Didn't think it could get any worse?

I honestly didn't think legislation could get much worse than HR3200, the House socialized medicine bill. But that was before anything slipped out about Baucus's Senate socialized medicine "concept."

Congress has hit a new low. I didn't think it was possible. They just keep getting more and more despicable. It boggles the mind.

From www.Politico.com, the NewsPulse section for Sept. 25:

Ensign receives handwritten confirmation

This doesn't happen often enough.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.

Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."

The note was a follow-up to Ensign's questioning at the markup.

Excuse me, but what country is this? If I don't buy a government-approved insurance policy, I go to jail?

Kinda makes you wonder what the hell else they're writing into this piece of shit legislation. 'Course, if the Comrade has his way, we'll never know until after they vote on it. And now we know why all the secrecy and intrigue: they don't dare tell us.

Let's see... Probably those who fail to give up flavored water in plastic bottles will be stood up against the wall and shot at dawn. Smokers will be kneecapped with an automatic weapon. Failing to disclose income... good grief! I don't even want to think about it. Castration? Drawing and quartering? Keel-hauling? The Rack?

Here's a promising business opportunity for the forward-looking entrepreneur: computer-aided-design of cats-o-nine-tails. The manufacture of black hoods and jack boots already is likely behind the economic recovery, such as it is.

No wonder the rotten bastards went home early this weekend. They didn't want to be around when this news got out. They don't even have the balls to defend their own tyranny.

But, hey, this is their very best shot to destroy the USA. "Jeez, we can anihilate all their freedom with this one vote! And we don't even have to try to explain it to them!"

For those with a certain psychopathology, it's an irresistible temptation. We've already heard the White House crowing about the miracle of the crisis. (And apparently if the White House can't find a crisis, they will manufacture one.)

On the bright side, maybe Abracadabrajab will nuke Washington.

To paraphrase Netanyahu, who is one of very few to emerge from the U.N. this week looking like a respectable person, "Doesn't anyone in this chamber have any sense of decency and humanity?"

Hey, Maxhole Baucus, what did the Comrade promise you for selling out the nation? Is he gonna give you a tingle up your leg? Maybe with a cattle prod? Hope you enjoy it. It'll cost the human race an awful lot when the light goes out of the world.

These pathetic bastards should be tried for treason. But it would be too much like whipping an animal that has no capacity whatsoever to understand what it did wrong. The congresscritters are apparently just too damn stupid to understand the value of political freedom. And if they can't grasp that, they'll never figure out that they're supposed to be defending it, not putting us in jail for refusing to fund their "good" intentions.