Fact 1 = 59%+ of the American people oppose the bill that passed the House yesterday and the Senate in December.
Fact 2 = Every Republican and 34 Democrats in Congress voted against it.
Our Congress is supposed to be a representative body where both major parties work together to craft legislation, not a Parliament where party discipline must hold over all bills and the ruling party wins every part of its legislative agenda.
Thus, the horror of the bill is best summed up by the great James Taranto of the WSJ:
Normally, politicians sell their programs to the public before enacting them into law. Representative democracy is premised on the consent of the governed, not the idea that it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
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