Slaughter House 435

The world of health care reform has left the field of socialist realism and entered the genre of science fiction.

What are we to think of the latest brilliant strategy of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her worthless lackey, House Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter, in their hopes of devising some bizarre procedural trick to eke out 216 votes for the trillion dollar train wreck that emerged from the Senate?

We now have not the most ethical Congress in history, but one which seeks to become the most unconstitutional Congress in history.    Instead of voting on an actual piece of legislation, the "Slaughter Solution" is to magically "deem legislation passed" without the trouble of holding a vote.  We don't need Madison and Jefferson when will can use Penn & Teller.

It does seem like this is a science fiction novel.   Are the American people now just prisoners in the Democratic Party's descend into fiscal madness?  Are we living in a place where the normal constraints of time and place have been erased?   Much like the Vonnegut novel, it seems we have relived this episdode before .

The story continually employs the refrain So it goes . . . when death, dying, and mortality occur, as a narrative transition to another subject, as a memento mori, as comic relief, and to explain the unexplained. It appears one hundred and sixteen times. The phrase 'so it goes' is one of the most frequently seen among literary tattoos.

As a postmodern, metafictional novel, the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five is an author's preface about how he came to write Slaughterhouse-Five, apologizing, because the novel is "so short and jumbled and jangled", because "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre"

We know how this is going to end, I'm afraid.  A handful of craven Democratic Congressmen will abandon their heartfelt opposition to subsidized abortion or added deficit spending  after they are promised a judgeship or a lucrative lobbying contract.  Some further bending of the space/time continuum will occur on the House floor to make it appear that for a single nanosecond a majority voted for something remotely like the 2700 page vapor bill out there. It will be signed by the President within hours. Years later, some obscure Democrat hacks will be indicted for bribery. By then we will be well on our way to being a bankrupt socialist nation so that we can give away laptop computers in a health care bill. Our fiscal house will look like WW II Dresden.

So it goes