Is it covered???

By Dave Buhlman
Former State Rep.

Our congressmen, Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter, have decided to ignore the clearly expressed will of the vast majority of their constituents and stated they will vote for a health care bill that will lead to rationed care and, generally, a real confusing mess in a vital aspect of our lives.

No amount of letters, phone calls, demonstrations or lawsuits planned by more than 35 states has distracted them from their mission to increase statism.

This arrogance on the part of our elected representatives should disabuse us of the quaint notion that we have a representative republic undergirded by democratic principles.

If Hodes and Shea-Porter want to be members of the elite, some-are-more-equal-than-others vanguard of the proletariat, then perhaps we should just go along with that.

Let's accept this and put aside the passe notion that they work for us. Let us assume the role that they, and many others that haunt the corridors of power in Washington D.C., prefer is that of us as peasants bowing to their awesome noble status.

This subservient demeanor may be difficult to swallow for some, but don't worry about such angst. Maybe treating it will be covered under their nationalized program.

Dave Buhlman

Litchfield