Last Halloween, Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave birth to her ugliest child, The Affordable Health Care for America Act. The bill was a 1,990-page legislative behemoth fathered by a slew of lobbyists cruising the red light District of Columbia on the lookout for politicians willing to legislate industry competitors out of the health care market.

With time of the essence, Pelosi quickly made concessions for the Stupak Amendment, which prevented government funds from paying for abortions, giving her pro-choice constituents a Catholic snub and her health care package the support needed to pass.

The bill cleared congress with a 220-215 (D-R) vote on November 7th, which paved the way for a Senate version that passed it’s 2,074-page bill Saturday. Although a vote has been tallied, the bill is not yet final, giving Senators a few weeks to make amendments. There is some speculation that this bill might not pass the Senate, but it seems unlikely that Pelosi would put her name on anything but a sure thing.

Pelosi’s legislation was labeled “The Worst Bill Ever” by The Wall Street Journal due to the half trillion dollars in new taxes that will be placed on income earners. Language added by Pelosi increases the top marginal tax rate to 45 percent. The bill is riddled with smaller taxes and fees on both consumers and suppliers, not to mention a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery. This is far from being the “free” solution touted by it’s supporters.

Between never ending wars that Nancy has repeatedly voted to fund and a trillion dollars worth of new debt that her health care program is expected to add; this woman is recklessly mortgaging our future. The sole beneficiaries to our financial burden are our lenders. China and the private bankers who collect a premium on the massive deficits our treasury incurs will be happy for years to come while our borrowed principle inflates at the speed of compounding interest.

It is blatantly obvious, Pelosi is an agent of huge business. Her constituents are not the free-thinking individualists of San Francisco, but the conformist conglomerates who keep Pelosi elected. She does not want to save our country money; Pelosi hates money, because money is her only constraint now that she has ruled out any constitutional obligation. Debt is a non-issue to Pelosi as long as the interest is paid and the creditors are happy. For interest to be paid, taxes need to be raised, and this is Pelosi’s only fiscal goal.

America’s most powerful woman and her quasi-government social planners want to harness the power of clockwork. Patient in, patient out. They will not pass a public option. Why? Partially, because the American people will never stand for limitation placed on choice, and partially because Pelosi’s high rollers will never allow for a separation of government and economy. They want fascism, they want the private property rights protected by capitalism and to earn a profit by means of a monopoly offered by big government contracts. These cowards do not want to pay for the infrastructure or be exposed to the risk it takes to set up a nation-wide health care network, but still they want a return on it. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

A prime example of Pelosi’s wheel n’ deal politics are the 2 billion dollars worth of taxation she was going to place on the medical device industry. Democrat Senator Evan Bayh from Indiana, whose state is home to prominent medical device makers, including Zimmer Holdings Inc., Biomet and DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., was one of a handful of red state Democrats whose support was vital in getting the 60 Senate votes necessary to advance the health care overhaul. The taxes were removed when Pelosi’s bedfellow, Harry Reid, convinced Bayh to vote for the bill if Reid agreed to slash the medical device taxes. It almost seems like the taxes were added in the House by Pelosi in order to get the vote from Bayh in the Senate. It is one thing to indiscriminately raise taxes in order to fund certain programs, it is quite anther to pick and choose which industries to tax in order to bully Senators into votes.

Health care lobbying exceeded $422 million during the first nine months of this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. An estimated 31 million to 36 million people would be added to insurance rolls because of the mandates in both bills — even if these people don’t use doctors, hospitals or prescription drugs. Now Pelosi affiliated insurance companies will enjoy millions of new forced insurance subscriptions.

Hoards of additional people with health insurance would also mean billions more in drug sales for Pelosi picked pharmaceutical companies. When government is choosing the meds, the free-market is bypassed and Pelosi decides which pharmaceutical drug slangin’ multi-national corporation will be the benefactor. Smaller, generic drug manufacturers who didn’t send a lobbyist to DC on time will be facing language in both bills that lengthen patents on new drugs entering the market. Bully legislation like HR 3962 creates the oligarchs, monopolists, and robber barons of American industry. Pelosi’s bill is not what true health care reform looks like, but a re-enactment of the policies that destroyed a health care system that was once the shining example of the world.

Our country needs term limits, monetary reform, and balanced budgets — these are bi-partisan issues. These are the only policies that will put an end to incumbents like Pelosi wreaking havoc on our country in order to stay in power.  She has won the battle, but not the war. She has passed her re-distributive monstrosity, and will be heading back to San Francisco for Thanksgiving to spend time with her family. Hopefully Nancy gets the wrong side of the wishbone this year, because in 2010, she needs to be DROPPED.