December 21st, 2009, a day that will live in disgrace.

Last night or rather early this morning, a procedural vote set the stage for the biggest rip off in history. It wasn't a train full of gold bound for the city by the bay to be minted into coins, and it wasn't Wall Street manipulating the stock prices to pull billions from Uncle Sam. And believe it or not, it wasn't even the Federal Reserve, who can operate in the darkness without consent of the people or their representatives in Washington.

No folks, it was Washington itself that dealt this one to us, the victims of the biggest heist in history.

While the actual passage of this abomination is yet to officially be presented for the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave to sign, it is all but a done deal. Last night the one Democrat I actually thought had some guts caved like a little girl hit in the boob with a fast ball. Senator Nelson, remember that name, placed on display the true cost of freedom and it only cost him $100 million to hand it over; not just his own, but all of ours as well.

For we will be slaves to this system as we are to Medicare and Social Secrewity. We will be slaves to it like we are Welfare and every other "we will do for those who can't (won't)" programs mismanaged by the Federal Government for decades to come. In fact, I am willing to go on the record right now, this very moment in time and I want the entire world to mark these words, "It will cost 10 times what they claim within 30 years". I pray someone calls me on this December 21, 2039, I really do. For at that time I will become the new Nostradamus, but I will still be alive, hopefully, to see it.

Unless, by the shear will of the people, the election cycle of 2010 puts into office real Americans who can strip the teeth from this disaster and return us to some level of normalcy wherein we deal with the actual problems concerning health care costs. That's right, the costs. Remember those, the thing that was originally bantered about as the reason for a need to address this in the federal halls of our once great nation?

As I listened this morning to this pathetic excuse for a leader we currently have to refer to as "president", I heard him go on and on about this being the key to reducing the deficit. How exactly, he would not elaborate upon, as usual. And how exactly will it reduce costs of medical services? Again, the silence was deafening.

So between now and Friday, the day when most Christians celebrate the birth of Christ, we will no doubt be subjected to the usual suspects spinning the usual tripe about how Democrats have once again fought hard and won for the little man. It makes no difference that it is the little man who can least afford the massive tax increases attached to this abortion of a bill. Nor does it matter that they will find themselves even less capable of affording the very coverage that the government itself will now offer; or will in four years.

Nor will it matter that if these tax increases don't finish the little man off, the Cap and Trade legislation, sure to be slated for the next major debate in Congress, certainly will if passed as written. All the way however, you and I will be expected to continue to pick that cotton and pass that money on up to Uncle Sam; the only one who knows how properly to utilize it.

Yet hope burns eternal. Across this nation Tea Parties continue to grow in size and this latest, rather large middle finger to the American people should continue to fuel these gatherings. More and more Americans are seeing with their own eyes how little their opinion after November 2008 really matters. Well it has been said before and I will take this opportunity to say it yet again; elections have consequences.

I hope people keep that in mind as they continue to speak out. I also hope they remember what happened just a few short decades ago when another movement burst upon the scene fueled by discontent with our government. It lead to 8 years of Democratic control of the White House and its leader's name was Ross Perot. And although the GOP wrestled control of Congress from the Democrats in 1994 following the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, which would not have happened had Perot not siphoned millions of votes from George Bush Sr., they did little after the first 100 days with that very power.

In 2010 we are faced with a familiar narrative. The Tea Parties now fill the role made famous by Perot and his Perotiacs. Will we again try to hire people who sound great and whip the lights out of the GOP candidate but fail to capture the seats of power leading to the installation of additional terms for the very people who just rammed us against the wall and rapped us of our future? Or will we be smarter this time and instead of splitting the ticket, force the GOP to put the right people on the ballot so that we can vote with faith that they will represent us as we desire?

While I support the Tea Parties fully in their message, I believe we need to use the existing party and its infrastructure to defeat the Democratic Party next November. A split house of TP, GOP and DEMs will only serve to strengthen the party that handed us this mutation of our constitution.

The time to organize is here, the time to end this madness is here. If we do not, we may find ourselves sharpening out pitchforks and lighting our torches; with much the same effect in the end.

But what would I know; I'm just an Average American.