Howard Dean Admits That the President is Planning a Trojan Horse

Political Castaway ^ | 8/17/2009 | Selkirk

[MeekOneGOP]

A-I-I-I-I-I-E-E-E-E-E-E!!!!

[Lady Jag]

Dean-o! Still hollerin’ I see.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yeppers!

Somebody call the ASPCA !!!

[devolve]

[PhilDragoo]

Excellent.

I recognize Ezekiel Emanuel the new Death Care Czar.

[potlatch]

Not one I made;

[MeekOneGOP]

Death.Panelty@Whitehouse.gov !!

Perfect!

[MeekOneGOP]

hehehehe ... a-a-i-i-i-e-e-e-e-e !!!

[Lady Jag]

SCORE!!!

[kabar]

“What is going on here is nothing more than politics. The President knows very well that you aren’t going to have healthcare reform without a public option. But he also knows that he has to get this out of the Senate.”

So, what Howard Dean, former Chairman of the DNC (and in that capacity, one of the chief architects of the Obama presidency) is telling us is that the recent comments coming out of the White House, that it is prepared to take the public option off the table is nothing more than a trojan horse. He knows he has the votes in the House, and he knows he can squeak it through the Senate so long as the public option is off the table. But he also knows that once the sanitized version passes the Senate, he no longer needs to overcome a filibuster, which means that the reconciled bill between the House and Senate bills (which will likely end up with something that resembles the House version and will certainly contain a public option) will only need a simple majority in the Senate.

He will play nice for the cameras and for the moderates in the Senate, but in the end, those public option soldiers will come spilling out of that horse.

[kabar]

The Dems have the votes to pass anything they want and the Reps can’t stop them. Elections have consequences.

[MeekOneGOP]

“FAILED”

Yes !! :)

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Howard Dean is a vile POS.

[Political Junkie Too]

What check does Congress have on that executive power, what if one or more czars abuses, violates the law, Constitution as you say, who has standing, the ability to challenge? And would the Supreme Court recognize their legitimacy/illegitimacy or would they say since there is nothing about them in the Constitution, they have carte blanche to do whatever they want, however they want, "We have no opinion on the matter, since the Constitution is silent on the question" ??

The typical answer to your question is that the three co-equal branches of government were set up to cross-check each other in a political manner.

A Republican Congress checking a Clinton Administration, or a Democrat Congress checking a Bush Administration, is a political fight, varying the degree to which one branch allows the other to get away with things.

During the first two years of the Bush White House (after 9/11), the Democrats were subdued in blocking Bush because he had huge political capital.

An Obama White House with a Democrat Congress is essentially letting him do whatever he wants, which is also a political decision.

-PJ