Each month, I receive dozens of emails and phone calls from people all across South Dakota struggling under the weight of ObamaCare’s broken promises. One couple from eastern South Dakota contacted me to let me know their premiums would be going up nearly 60 percent due to ObamaCare. Another family from eastern South Dakota wrote me to let me know that their monthly premiums would be jumping 232 percent.

“[W]e are not just going to be waiting for a legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need.” That was Barack Obama speaking at a Cabinet meeting on January 14, just hours before the U.S. Senate failed to advance twin proposals to extend long-term unemployment benefits, one by a year at a cost of $17 billion, and another for three months at $6.4 billion.

Democrats in the US Senate are concerned, it seems, that not enough Americans are buying into the hoax of global warming/climate change. So they propose doing what Democrats always do when the public refuses to accept their lies … ram it down our throats.

Picture yourself waking up Monday morning to see the news media proclaiming that over the weekend, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid had convened a secret meeting at Camp David to discuss how to make our government better. With Democratic leaders and union bosses in attendance from each state, they called a “Convention for Social Justice” and drafted a new Constitution which provided for universal healthcare, guaranteed housing, a free college education, a gun-free society, food stamps, social security, a right to a job with a living wage, a limit of CEO pay to $250,000, and a subsistence stipend up to $500 per week for all who don’t earn that much.

Thomas Jefferson, in his draft of the Kentucky Resolutions, explained “[i]n questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Can we honestly say that our contemporary elected representatives, comprised of Democrats and Republicans, in Washington, D.C., are bound from their mischievous actions “by the chains of the Constitution”? No, it appears that the chains have been broken.

When my congressman held a “town hall” meeting in my hometown, I attended. The congressman read my question from a card on which I had written, “Are you aware of the problem of Medicare not helping senior citizens to pay for ‘SELF-ADMINISTERED DRUGS’ when they are admitted to a hospital and how much money this is costing senior citizens?” The congressman was honest and said that he did not know of it.