The Privy Council

Earlier US Presidents have enjoyed the advice of "wise men"- a kitchen cabinet who help craft an agenda or shape legislation that will be pondered by the public and deliberated by the Congress. In the past, they have served without official position and without portfolio (or in World War II, as dollar a year men), but in earlier circumstances, they always served for the good of the nation. One would expect in an administration that promised transparency, in fact, that promised to be the most open in history that any process as important as health care would be open to public scrutiny, input, and redress on aspects that the majority in what is (or used to be anyway) our representative republic vigorously disagree with and deserve to have their voices heard but in the event, are shut out and ordered to stand down. We have even lost our right to view the process- we are silenced at this most consequential time for our future welfare and autonomy of our own bodies. There is a "hell care" plan afoot where the people are being spared the process of making sausage, in this case, a blood sausage, where citizens provide all the blood, and our new cabal of elite rulers in our petty tyranny enjoy eating all the sausage in legislation that they are specifically exempting themselves and their own families from- plotting behind closed doors against the people they claim (but only pretend) to represent. The health care consideration which is so crucial to all our lives and affects the freedom of our physical bodies themselves should be, as was promised during the Obama Presidential campaign, broadcast on C-Span with galleries filled with concerned citizens (from every side of the issue), but instead, we have closed, secret proceeding being orchestrated by Nevada's soon to be voted out Senator Harry Reid and Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. This scheme is being hashed out behind closed doors by an anti-democratic cabal. If the plotters were proud of what they were doing, they would not be skulking in a sub rosa effort to put one over on us but out in the sunshine for us to share their brilliance and cheer, but they are hiding in the privy and soon it will be time to do what comes so naturally in the privy- flush. Flush all these conspirators against our interests and our sacred liberty out that are standing for reelection in this year of quiet revolution- 2010.