Healthcare reform is like an arranged marriage

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bought off the votes of several senators in order to ensure the 60 he needed for passage of the healthcare reform bill. Porks and perks dispensed to select areas throughout the nation:

Ben Nelson's Nebraska receives eternal Medicaid financing
Chris Dodd's Connecticut receives a lovely grant for a hospital
Byron Dorgan's North Dakota and Montana's Max Baucus gets more dough for rural health care in their states
In what is being hailed as "Harry Reid's Louisiana Purchase", Mary Landrieu snagged $100 million for her state's Medicare program.

These special provisions that are state-specific may cause the bill to be found unconstitutional, as federal bills aren't supposed to treat states differently.

I saw this morning that some state AG's are questioning this unfair distribution of porks and perks, but Kansas Liberty reports that Kansas officials are not participating.

I'd love to believe that this will go to the Supreme Court someday and find that the final bill is completely unconstitutional. But then again I thought that the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law would have been found unconstitutional as an infringement on free speech, but it was not. My confidence is shaky at best.

What amazes me most is how hell-bent the Democrats are in passing a bill the vast majority of Americans don't want. A Fred Barnes column I read this morning in the Wall Street Journal calls it the "Tyranny of the Minority" -- the legislators know what's best for us so despite our opposition they will vote for it and we will grow to love it once we common peasants understand it better.

Doesn't that just remind you of arranged marriages? "You will marry Abdul here. Sure, he's ugly, fat and gruff, but you'll grow to love him after you're married and you get to know him better."

I, for one, don't want to marry Abdul.