Posted on 12/22/2009 7:57:09 PM PST by Bigtigermike
Last weekend while you were preparing for the holidays with your family, Harry Reid’s Senate was making shady backroom deals to ram through the Democrat health care take-over. The Senate ended debate on this bill without even reading it. That and midnight weekend votes seem to be standard operating procedures in D.C. No one is certain of what’s in the bill, but Senator Jim DeMint spotted one shocking revelation regarding the section in the bill describing the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (now called the Independent Payment Advisory Board), which is a panel of bureaucrats charged with cutting health care costs on the backs of patients – also known as rationing. Apparently Reid and friends have changed the rules of the Senate so that the section of the bill dealing with this board can’t be repealed or amended without a 2/3 supermajority vote. Senator DeMint said:
“This is a rule change. It’s a pretty big deal. We will be passing a new law and at the same time creating a senate rule that makes it out of order to amend or even repeal the law. I’m not even sure that it’s constitutional, but if it is, it most certainly is a senate rule. I don’t see why the majority party wouldn’t put this in every bill. If you like your law, you most certainly would want it to have force for future senates. I mean, we want to bind future congresses. This goes to the fundamental purpose of senate rules: to prevent a tyrannical majority from trampling the rights of the minority or of future congresses.”
In other words, Democrats are protecting this rationing “death panel” from future change with a procedural hurdle. You have to ask why they’re so concerned about protecting this particular provision. Could it be because bureaucratic rationing is one important way Democrats want to “bend the cost curve” and keep health care spending down?
Sarah Palin tells it like it is.
Hmmm supermajority to overrule their scheme. Well folks now we know we need a supermajority in Congress and no less. Let us all get busy and make sure only Constitutional Conservatives make there way to DC. Nothing less.
The democrats of today make me want to vomit.
Michael Reagan was right... she is his father in a dress!
LLS
She certainly make a big hoopla introducing Obama, but after that, she was fairly silent, as far as I could tell. It was the MSM that got him elected by never questioning him closely about ANYTHING, and never reporting all they knew about his thug politics background.
Oprah has enjoyed being feted at the Whitehouse. Her silence is telling... perhaps she senses a loss in her audience if she goes to far. Does not change who and what she is and supports.
RE: Sarah Palin comment use of term “death panels”...
Palin actually speaks to the way most of America thinks. Certainly not lofty and elegantly misguiding us into believing fairy tales (a la Al Gore). Simple fact is that when they need to cut costs and bring their program into budget there will be decisions made as to distribution of care and thus... voila~ DEATH PANELS. Sorry to see the Dimwits agonize over this... but it IS what it IS!!!!
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