| Why is the mainstream media attempting to hide | | | | prevailing bill, were obviously so provocative that |
| the complete truth of what went on in U.S. | | | | the Democratic members of the Senate Finance |
| Senate Finance Committee meetings this past | | | | Committee voted unanimously along a political |
| week regarding debate on an Obama-connected | | | | party line (saying essentially that political alignment |
| healthcare bill? After scouring the newspapers and | | | | is more important than what is right or wrong), |
| the Internet, via a Google search, the only media | | | | this past week to defeat an amendment |
| source of complete information I discovered | | | | presented by Kentucky Senator Jim Bruning to |
| regarding the current status of the Baucas | | | | allow the American public at least 72 hours to |
| Healthcare Plan (an innovation to the current | | | | examine and study the Baucas Plan on the |
| healthcare bill moving through the U.S. Senate | | | | Internet before a vote is taken. Such an amount |
| presented less than a week ago by Sen. Max | | | | of time would have also given the Press the |
| Baucas, wealthy and influential Democratic senator | | | | opportunity to get out special editions of their |
| from Montana, and Chairman of the powerful | | | | newspapers with copies of the Baucas Plan; but it |
| Senate Finance Committee) was provided by | | | | didn't happen. Yet, World Net Daily carried an |
| World Net Daily. | | | | almost immediate accounting of the vote |
| Some respectably objective political scientists | | | | defeating the Bruning amendment as described on |
| might say that "WND" is an unreliable source of | | | | the Center for Individual Freedom website. |
| news information because it is unfavorably | | | | Earlier in American history, there was a renown |
| slanted, and biased, toward the conservative | | | | American statesman from Kentucky, a lawyer, |
| Republican perspective, as they might also assert | | | | who served in the U.S. Senate from 1831-42 and |
| that "The Washington Post, CNN, and the bulk of | | | | is remembered mainly for his having brought |
| the mainstream paper and electronic media are | | | | about a conciliatory peace between the Northern |
| biased unconscionably in favor of the Obama | | | | and Southern States at a time, in 1850, when an |
| administration. So what news organization is | | | | American civil war was imminent, eleven years |
| consistently reliable in reporting unbiased news | | | | before Fort Sumter. This person was Henry Clay, |
| facts to the American public? The BBC? I don't | | | | who became known as "The Great Compromiser" |
| think so. | | | | for his oratorical ability to bring about agreement |
| When I look for reliable news coverage, political | | | | between the worst bickering federal legislators. He |
| party endorsement and presidential favoritism are | | | | was Abraham Lincoln's role model and an |
| not included in my compilation of salient | | | | independent thinker who saw a certain value in |
| considerations. These two characteristics of any | | | | political organization leading to appropriate |
| slanted news reporting organization immediately | | | | compromise, but a much greater value in |
| removes any such entity from my very short list | | | | contending for what is right according to the |
| of reputable news offerings. It isn't easy in | | | | majority will of the people. Perhaps Sen. Bruning's |
| today's gilded and binge-oriented world to | | | | appeal to the Finance Committee for time in |
| ferret-out the truthfully accurate facts about | | | | order to allow the American electorate an |
| what is really happening in the political arena. An | | | | opportunity to study, and to express their |
| informed voter must read critically and pick and | | | | opinions, about the Baucas Plan (which was |
| choose wisely among the most reliable news | | | | considered as a full-fledged bill after Tuesday, |
| sources. Paraphrasing what actor Michael Douglas | | | | September 22) was a clarion call for an exercise |
| quipped in the movie, "The American President," | | | | of legislative wisdom, much like Henry Clay's |
| "being a good American is all about advanced | | | | emphatic pleadings, in 1849 in the Senate, for a |
| citizenship, and it isn't easy." It is good to | | | | proper time to study the economic and political |
| remember that Obama was elected with only 54 | | | | effects of sectionalism, and the consensus of the |
| percent of the popular vote. That means that 46 | | | | American people regarding them. |
| percent of the voting age population voted | | | | It appears that the overall lack of compromise in |
| against him, and that's a lot of people; and of that | | | | the Senate Finance Committee has ultimately led |
| 46 percent there were quite a few voters who | | | | to an adjournment after an evocation of serious |
| didn't consider themselves Republican or | | | | doubts about the Baucas Plan. Nonetheless, the |
| Democrat, just as there were quite a few | | | | contempt that I have for attempts in Senate and |
| Independent voters among the 54 percent | | | | House committee meetings to create legislation |
| majority. Hence, there is currently a profound | | | | that directly affects the lives of countless millions |
| disparity in the way people view Obamacare and | | | | of Americans, without the knowledge and consent |
| the trillion-plus dollars he thus far added to the | | | | of the electorate, cannot be expressed in |
| federal deficit. | | | | publishable rhetoric. Shame should only rain on |
| The facts, uncolored and undistorted by the | | | | those plutocratic U.S. Senators who have sought |
| sophistic effect of politically biased news punditry, | | | | to keep the facts away from the American |
| are the vitally important elements which lead to | | | | public; and the media, the trusted avenue upon |
| public opinion. Undoubtedly, the current facts about | | | | which true facts should travel, should feel equal |
| the Baucas Plan, as contained in the preliminary | | | | shame. |
| text of the formally unwritten adjunct to the | | | | |