If you think Democrats went to extraordinary lengths to jigger the CBO scoring on health reform bills,  you’re right,  and there’s a CBO memo which proves it.

Republicans are doing their job in forcing Senate Democrats to take hard votes,  this one on health care reform.    They have to keep it up.   The bonus is that vulnerable Dems will vote with Republicans on many of them in order to improve their re-election chances,  allowing Republicans to claim bipartisan opposition to,  or support for,  a particular piece of legislation.

Michael Barone has some  observations on retiring House Democrats.    You’ll especially like the last paragraph.

The Washington Examiner has a related editorial  here.

I’m never glad to disagree with Byron York,  who so often gets matters exactly right,  but  here I think I must.   Democrats are saying they must pass health care reform because it will be good for the American people.   I’m sure they really do believe that at some level,  because logic is not a progressive strong suit,  but that’s merely their stated excuse for having the government control all access to health care.

Even if they drop the public option and the Medicare buy-in,  their goal of single-payer health care has not changed.   With the feds determining what has to be in a health plan,   “private”  insurers will just be a feeble front.   And if they get this camel under the tent flap,  they can simply regulate the rest of it into being,  so now is no time to sit and rest.    Spare 5 minutes out of your busy schedules to call your Congress critters and impress upon them that you expect them to do what has proven to work instead of following the Massachusetts model.

Republican Whip Eric Cantor has helpfully produced a list of the 69 Democrats who have expressed reluctance and concern over the health reform bill Speaker Pelosi is trying to browbeat them into voting for.

Print it out and start calling,  especially if you’re in one of their districts.    The goal is to keep the bill off the floor,  not depend on Senate wusses to kill it.

Hoyer is  pushing back the vote.   Call!!

I’ve just talked to a cousin who is amongst the thousands who have descended on Capitol Hill — aren’t cell phones wonderful?   Someone leaked Speaker Pelosi’s plan to use the Capitol Hill police to block protesters,  so that idea was squashed.   I’m serving as an unofficial clearinghouse to look up office and phone numbers for Congress critters and staffers.

The lines are apparently very long to get into the office buildings, but the only people arrested thus far are the 9  Code Pink members who refused to leave Sen.  Joe Lieberman’s office, though MSM has refused to identify the group.

I suspect a number of Democrats have fled to avoid the taxpayers who are making enough noise to be heard even by His Oneness a few blocks away.

I have now completed calling all of the Blue Dogs,  but it was difficult getting through.    The Capitol switchboard hasn’t crashed as it did twice the week of the last amnesty for illegals push,  but it is certainly staggering under the call volume.

KEEP IT UP!!

UPDATE:   Philip Klein has a post up at the American Spectator about this dangerous,  destructive, totally out-of-control mob.

Brian O’Connell also has a post up with some links.

And a reader at  The Corner sends in a lovely photo with a hopeful sign.

UPDATE II:  WorldNetDaily has some  good pictures as well.

New Jersey Democrats are terrified about the gubernatorial race, so they’re doing exactly as you would expect — putting a convenient fix in place just in case the luminous,  repeated presence of His Oneness and all the behind-the-scenes help of his staff aren’t sufficient to convince Jersey voters to re-elect Mr.  More-of-the-Same.

Do you think it Is unreasonable to ask the citizenship status of  those filling out the census?   Democrats do,  more particularly what’s  being described as a “coalition of black, Latino and Asian” Democrats,  who falsely claim that Republicans don’t want to county everybody.   Read Andy McCarthy’s  explanatory post at The Corner.

And then consider just how seriously any of the Democrats have taken their many oaths of office.   Most of the states with high illegal immigrant rates are under Democrat control.    They depend on wrongly inflated population numbers to get more federal dollars and to retain undue influence.

For those of you harboring any faint hope that Congressional Democrats care what more than half of America is saying, FORGET IT!

They’re off on a junket to Honolulu — they need to check on stimulus spending, you know,   and they need to get rested up for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays,  and really,  what better place to escape all the stress and tension of DC as it deals with unreasonable taxpayers than the perennially sunny beaches of Hawaii?

The line of the week comes from Sen.  Tom Coburn:

‘What is it we don’t want the American people to see?’

God bless Dr. Coburn!

And in a display of rank cowardice, rather than allow Rep. Darrell Issa  (ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee) to call for a vote on whether to subpoena documents involved in the program that gave sweetheart mortgages to at least four Democratic officials,  the  Democrats fled out a back door to avoid the meeting.