As expected, Senate Democrats pushed Obamacare over the next legislative hurdle at approximately 1:00am this morning at the tail end of the worst snowstorm to hit the capitol in years. Perfect timing if the goal was to sneak the vote past the American people who time and again have voiced their opinions against this version of health care reform. But a little thing like the American people isn't going to stop Mr. Obama and his accomplices from remaking the country and they have the nerve to say we'll thank them for it later.

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Not willing to acknowledge they have done something the majority of their own constituents didn't want them to do, Democrats are now claiming poll numbers for Obamacare, and by extension for Obama and his cronies, will rise soon. According to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York), "When people see what is in this bill and when people see what it does, they will come around. The reason people are negative is not the substance of the bill, but the fears that the opponents have laid out. When those fears don't materialize, and people see the good in the bill, the numbers are going to go up." (source)

That's awfully difficult to believe when the Democrats have kept what's in the bill away from public view for as long as possible and when they themselves haven't even read the 2,000+ page bill. If, as Senator Schumer claims, the people will come around when they see what this bill will do why did other Senate Democrats such as Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) need to be bribed with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to vote for it? Why couldn't the Democratic leadership convince just one Republican - even the usually agreeable Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) - to vote for it?

After two more procedural votes, the final Senate vote on Obamacare is planned for 7:00pm on Christmas Eve. Another fine example of the Democrats ability to schedule votes when no one is watching. Then the Senate measure must be harmonized with the health care bill passed by the House in November before final legislation can be sent to the president. So the Democrats have another fine opportunity to solicit more taxpayer funded bribes just so Mr. Obama can declare a temporary and purely political victory.

As Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) warned, "There will be a day of accounting. Perhaps the first day of accounting will be Election Day 2010." (source)