The Pelosi Congress ignored the voices of the opposition, squelched debate, ran roughshod over the law and proper procedure, and bent every rule to accomplish goals devoid of public support.  When asked about constitutional basis for the mandate of her health care bill she famously replied “are you kidding me?” rather than give a serious answer to a serious question. We had to pass the bill to know what was in it, and when we did by the most narrow of the most partisan vote, we found what was in it and the federal judges, the states and the people rejected it.

The November routing of the Democrats was a rejection of the Pelosi government, but her style of government is at play in the Wisconsin mobs with her full support.  The legislators who have abandoned their seats, effectively shutting down the state government, have shown as much contempt for the voters as Pelosi,  and I predict it will yield the same results.  It will drive more and more independents away from the Democratic party.

Franklin Roosevelt warned of the outcome of unionized public workers.  Undoing the unsustainable benefits of these greedy, self centered, power craving unions is needed to balance the budgets, and supported by the voters.  Is it not enough that the voters spoke last November?

But the loudest votes were at the state level and Pelosi’s contempt for voters is now playing at that level.  The unions have confused their quest for money and power with the quest for freedom in Cairo. There is a big difference:  In Egypt the voters were protesting to be heard. In Madison they are protesting to ignore the voters.

Last May I posted Healthcare 1099s to show just one of many flaws in the Healthcare bill.  Remember that Pelosi stated that “we had to pass this bill to see what was in it”.  This rings as one of the most irresponsibly moronic statements ever from a House leader. Well now that we have passed the bill, we see how recklessly it was constructed.

The change in 1099 reporting has nothing to do with health care except claim it is an effort to raise revenues by capturing income that was not before.  The claim is spurious at best and the requirement is so onerous that it will more likely create new black markets to avoid the paperwork.  This is the result of an administration that has such little experience in the private sector.

In the 1099 Insurrection in the Wall Street Journal Online the authors note that now “we see what is in the bill” we don’t like it and the Senate is trying to change this provision.  Yet the White House is strongly resisting even this change, fearing it will only begin the unraveling of the bill.

An excerpt:

Meanwhile, small businesses are staring in horror toward 2013, when the 1099 mandate will hit more than 30 million of them. Currently businesses only have to tell the IRS the value of services they purchase from vendors and the like. Under the new rules, they’ll have to report the value of goods and merchandise they purchase as well, adding vast accounting and paperwork costs.

Think about a midsized trucking company. The back office would have to collect hundreds of thousands of receipts from every gas station where its drivers filled up and figure out where it spent more than $600 that year. Then it would also need to match those payments to the stations’ corporate parents.

Most Democrats now claim they were blindsided and didn’t understand the implications of the 1099 provision—which is typical of the slapdash, destructive way the bill was written and passed. As the critics claimed, most Members had no idea what they were voting on. Some 239 House Democrats voted to dump the 1099 provision in August, and the repeal would have passed except Speaker Pelosi rigged the vote procedurally so it needed a two-thirds majority. She thus gave Democrats the cover of a repeal vote without actually repealing it.

The race in Massachusetts is stunning.  If Democrat Coakley is unable to beat Republican Brown in the bluest of blue states, then any Democrat is vulnerable. Just the fact that this race is close  should be a startling wakeup call to the Democratic party.

It appears that Brown is doing and saying all the right things and Coakley is doing just the opposite. If defeated the party will blame the candidate , and refuse to see it as a referendum on the current administration. Brown is running against Coakley on her statements, her policies, and her record. Brown is being attacked by invoking references to Bush and “tea baggers.”

Last Wednesday the odd at the trading site Intrade had the odds of a Coakley win at 85 to Brown 15, this morning it 53/47; a remarkable shift.

The Democrats have grossly misread their mandate and their hubris has dwarfed even that of the Bush administration. This mismanagement of their party’s victory should be laid squarely at the feet of their leaders, especially Pelosi and Reid. Their first constructive step to clawing their way back from the abyss should be to quickly replace both of them.  It is their hubris, partisanship and arrogance that are putting the nails in Kennedy’s coffin.