Elected last year as a candidate who would do a better job of staying in touch with North Carolinians and representing their interests, Kay Hagan has voted to impose upon us a gargantuan bill that every objective analysis finds will in many respects make health care more costly and yet lower in quality. She put up no resistance to the crusade by the Democratic leadership to pass the bill before Christmas.
Her support for Harry Reid’s astonishingly arrogant bill demonstrates very poor judgment as to its merits and the fact that she uttered not a peep of protest against the still more arrogant tactics employed to pass it shows political cowardice. Alas, both characteristics — poor judgment and cowardice — are common among politicians.
But there are extraordinary features of the so-called health reform bill that put it in a class by itself. It contains several provisions that are blatantly unconstitutional (among them, the mandate that we must all buy health insurance) and it sets the terrible precedent that federal legislation can treat citizens of different states differently, depending on whether party leadership needed to buy a senator’s vote. The bill tramples all over the people’s constitutional rights and makes a mockery of democracy.
Kay Hagan merely nodded her approval to all of that.
In my view, she has proven that she is unfit to represent the people of North Carolina. Unfortunately, there is no provision for a recall election for a U.S Senator. Therefore, all that those of us who feel that Kay Hagan has acted despicably can do is to call for her to resign.
She should do that immediately, then offer an apology to the people of the state for violating her oath to uphold the Constitution. Then she should apologize in advance to the many people across America who are going to be harmed by this legislation. Finally, she should try to make an honest living (that is, outside the cocoon of politics) in the nation she has played an important part in ruining.
