Bill: Do you realize how that sounds if you change the subject and phrasing from the deficit and government salaries to healthcare and all the issues surrounding it?

What would you have done if Obama used Executive Orders and "Any Means Necessary" to nationalize health care (as so many conservatives said he was trying to do)?

Would you look at it as an effort to at least improve our health care system to the "middle of the pack" of industrialized nations or to cut costs (since we pay more than anyone)? Or would you scream about it infringing on your rights?

I don't mean to sound snide and I realize it will, but I think we know the answer to that.

So "you can't do that because there's a law against it" is ok to run roughshod over when it comes to laws governing salaries, but not ok when it's *your* axe being gored?

That's a double standard.