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 Reids 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 whats 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Reid and friends have changed the rules of the Senate so that the section of the bill dealing with this board cant be repealed or amended without a 2/3 supermajority vote. Senator DeMint said:
This is a rule change. Its 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. Im not even sure that its constitutional, but if it is, it most certainly is a senate rule. I dont see why the majority party wouldnt 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 theyre 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?
Oprah Winfrey is a successful businesswoman who has some influence with her audience, but she has not 'changed the world', except maybe her own. I'm not saying she's not popular. She's certainly become very wealthy through her astute business dealings, and has done some good things with her earnings, but she's not THAT important in the grand scheme of things in this country, or the world.
She’s VERY GOOD.
Lame stream will rage over her use of death panels, not once, twice!
You’re right. She has the media standing watch at her FB page 24/7.
Great to have her on our team.
FINALLY, Sarah! I was waiting for your reaction to this.
You did not disappoint. Nailed it.
If ONLY the media would report on this, instead of every word dripping from Hairy Reid and Pelosi’s slimy mouths.
Two months after me, congrats, fellow Decade Freeper! :)
The Dems have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. We have Sarah Palin on Facebook. I like our chances!
Sarah is a modern Joan of Arc.
Actually I think that Oprah was pretty instrumental in getting the ONE elected. That certainly changed my world... and not for better.
So, remind me again, which city and state has Oprah governed?
Nice sentiment, but I prefer Queen Esther since Joan ultimately met a very unpleasant fate.
Yes, a lot of people would have been "chastised" and pulled their horns in. She sharpened hers instead.
God bless this good, good woman.
The only Harvard guy I ever met who wasn't like that is from Taiwan.
The rest of them, when you ask them a question (even the time of day), look at you speculatively for a second before replying, as if calculating how much to tell you, or whether to reply at all.
Voted McCain but wish SPalin had been on top of the ticket.
She is a breath of fresh air.
She tells it like it is.
Whatever name is applied to this advisory board, it doesn’t matter, their aim is to ration care in the name of the bottom line.
Happy tenth, newbie! ;^)10 YEARS OF FREEPING! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EEE!!!)
A lot of that going on lately . . .
we love Madame President because she understands the same things we all do, including the liars in DC, and states them like we do, unlike the liars in the cesspool.
ROTFLMAO! Oprah is successful because she appeals to a segment of our population incapable of forming their own opinion without someone else formulating it for them...like public school 'teachers'. ROFL!
That's why New England is hell...high taxes, cold weather, and Harvard grads. :-)
Haven’t seen that before. Is this hot off the backhoe press?
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