I
will be uncharacteristically brief about this. Our founding fathers
were very careful to design many checks and balances into our government. Shutting down said government? Not one of them.
We democratically elected the Congresspeople who crafted the PPACA.
The Senate didn't like the House's version, which had a Public Option,
so they changed it. The House agreed. The democratically-elected
president signed it. The Supreme Court, through their power of
judicial review, ruled it constitutional. When given the chance to
elect an all-Republican Congress and president who could have overturned
the law, the American people didn't. The PPACA is law because the
government worked the way it was supposed to work. Attempting to make
the government not work as a way of stopping the law? No. Sorry, guys,
but the checks and balances are all used up. This is the USA, not Burger King.
You can't always have it your way. We elected you to govern, not to
hurt us in the name of furthering your ideology. Representatives
represent, and that means listening to all of your constituents, not
just the ones who agree with you 100%. Further, It doesn't mean using sketchy
geometry to design districts that agree with you more. If I wanted an
unrelenting ideologue who is more interested in telling me what's right
for me than listening to my needs, then I would have hired a dictator
instead.
