Dear Congress:

I remember when President Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox and the simultaneous resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson on a Saturday night. It was quickly dubbed the Saturday Night Massacre. The press took the story and ran with it, and never relented until the day Richard Nixon died.

Now, in the tradition of Richard Nixon, we have witnessed two major health care votes and a $300 million bribe take place Saturday nights. If the Democrats are so proud of this legislation, why are they taking key votes on Saturday nights? It’s because these folks are flipping the bird to the American people. They are sneaking it through. They are thieves in the night, gutting Medicare; stealing your tax money, and your health care, and your children’s future.

First, they tried to ram it through with no debate. Then they lied about it. Then they tried to change it behind closed doors. When the truth became obvious to anyone that can read, they stopped lying about it, and are now trying to sneak it through in under the darkness of a weekend night.

And when it looked like the Senate did not have enough votes to bring it to the floor for debate, they put in a $300 million dollar bribe for Senator Mary Landrieu and Louisiana. Now we know what Mary Landrieu is…and her established price. As an Ohio boy, I would like to ask my Senator Sherrod Brown…where is the $300 million for Ohio?

Meanwhile, out in the real world, the popularity of this type of health care reform is sinking like a lead weight. Currently, only 37% of the American people support this bill, and a full 70% believe that this bill will raise their taxes, raise the insurance premiums, and raise the cost of health care.

The Senate vote to bring this bill to the floor was pitiful if you were watching. Those old decrepit men hugging each other hopefully out of the eye of the camera was disgusting. Those that voted for it wouldn’t show their enthusiasm to the public with applause. At least the House showed their glee to a disbelieving public. The Senate hung their heads and quietly slinked away.

Joe Lieberman said it best. In this country, we don’t take things over. When the private sector fails, we litigate and we regulate; both of those approaches would have been a good step to alleviating any perceived wrongs in our health care system.

Instead, we are on the verge of passing a financial debacle that has already failed in Massachusetts and Tennessee. It guts $500 billion from Medicare and makes Medicare taxes a source of revenue to the general fund rather than the Medicare program. It forces you to buy expensive health insurance or go to jail. It will increase the deficit. Taxes will go up, and it collects them for 4 years before the benefits of the plan kick in, and then it pays for only 6 years of benefits. At the end of the first ten years, the cost falls off a cliff. It will dictate what health care you are entitled to, and more importantly, what you aren’t entitled to.

Bill O’Reilly gave good warning on his television show the other night. If this bill passes, there will be open revolt in this country. I hope Congress comes to its senses before it’s too late.

Dear Congress: You are elected to serve the people, not your pipedream ideology. If you insist on flipping the bird to the public that sent you to Washington, the public just might flip the bird right back at you.