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In the days of the old Soviet Union, there was only one political party -- the leader's political party.  The Communists found one-party rule to be extremely effiicient.  Not a lot of time is wasted in pointless debates when there is no opposition.

It was a great system -- for the leader.  And for Party members.  For everybody else, not so good.  But that is how dictatorships operate -- promise unity until attaining power.  Then create unity -- by silencing dissent. 

It works under any name -- if you don't have any dissent, you have unity.  Simple. 

So, while thousands of Americans rallied on the the West Front lawn of Capitol Hill carrying signs saying "Vote No To Government-Run Health Care" and chanting, "Kill the Bill," President Obama made a surprise, unscheduled personal appearance at the daily White House press briefing.

Obama pre-empted the press corps to give a statement thanking the AMA and AARP for endorsing a health care bill that both exceeds the speinding cap set by Obama himself and that includes provisions for federally-funding abortions.

The bill Pelosi is preparing to offer for a final vote will cost $1.1 trillion ($1,100,000,000,000.00) if it passes. 

But what of the thousands of Americans marching at that very moment in opposition?  The protestors from all across America struggling to have their voices heard?  The White House dismissed them as 'tea-partiers' driven 'by Fox News' personalities'. 

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs smirked, "anybody who watches them is struck by the fact there's a rally going on without a solution on their side."  

Those rallying are still trying to sort out what the problem is the White House is trying to solve.  Providing adequate health care for the 6 million or so Americans the CBO says will actually benefit? 

Seems that could be done cheaper than $1.1 trillion dollars.  Hasn't anybody in Washington ever looked at the debt clock?  (Your share is already more than $340,000 before adding on your share of the extra $1.1,000,000,000.00.)

Speaker Pelosi vows the bill will go up for a vote on Saturday, despite the fact that not a single Republican will vote in favor of it.   It will go from the lower House to the Senate as a one-party bill, where it will receive the same one-party treatment as has the climate change bill.

Ignoring a Republican boycott,  the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee used their majority to approve legislation that would impose crippling limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases. 

Chairman Barbara Boxer took a bow for steamrolling over Republican opposition, saying she was doing it for the good of the country.

"The committee and Senate rules that have been in place during Republican and Democratic majorities are there to be used when the majority feels it is in the best interest of their states and of the nation to act," she said in a statement. "A majority of the committee believes that S. 1733, and the efforts that will be built upon it, will move us away from foreign oil imports that cost Americans one billion dollars a day, it will protect our children from pollution, create millions of clean-energy jobs, and stimulate billions of dollars of private investment."

Wow!  Can that be true?   Then how come the other members of the committee, who read the same bill say it would cripple the energy industry, not to mention the manufacturing industry,  raising costs while wiping out jobs?  

Evidently, since they don't agree, they don't matter. 

When there is one party rule, the majority always rules -- so just shut up and sit back down.

So while thousands rally outside the Capitol Building, inside, there is unity.  Where there is one party rule, there is no dissent.   Only rabble-rousers and angry mobs seeking to perpetuate the insurance industry's rapacious and predatory profiteering.

But in the Land of One-Party Rule, there is unity. 

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