Gibbs Dismisses Slaughter Critics as Playing 'Legislative Process Game'

The Hill ^ | 03/16/10 | Sam Youngman

[BarnacleCenturion]

There will be no doubt where lawmakers stand after the dust clears on healthcare, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who dismissed the controversy over the so-called Slaughter Solution Tuesday.

Republicans are crying foul over a proposed rule that would allow for House passage of the Senate healthcare bill without an actual up-or-down vote.

Gibbs called the complaints "a legislative process game."

[BarnacleCenturion]

[johniegrad]

Getting rid of this tub-o-lard can’t come soon enough.

[facedown]

Apparently “process” is the word their focus group pollsters told them to use. It’s all over the place today.

[Roccus]

Roccus dismisses Gibbs as ‘irrelevant’.

[Republic]

Are we supposed to be silly if we care about the process of our legislature as they vote for bills that IMPACT OUR LIVES?

WTF?????

[Irenic]

uh-uh Just uh-uh go to uh-uh hell, Gibbs.

[a fool in paradise]

Why bother with the Constitution? Socialist dictatorship is much more efficient.

[throwback]

Yeah, there’s a process game coming in November too.

[dennisw]

This snide POS is always full of putdowns and smart Alec remarks. One day he’ll get his comeuppance

[a fool in paradise]

http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Bill.html

Boy: Woof! You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington. But I wonder who that sad little scrap of paper is?

I’m just a bill.
Yes, I’m only a bill.
And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it’s a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It’s a long, long wait
While I’m sitting in committee,
But I know I’ll be a law someday
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.

Boy: Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage.

Bill: Well I got this far. When I started, I wasn’t even a bill, I was just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed, so they called their local Congressman and he said, “You’re right, there oughta be a law.” Then he sat down and wrote me out and introduced me to Congress. And I became a bill, and I’ll remain a bill until they decide to make me a law.

I’m just a bill
Yes I’m only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Well, now I’m stuck in committee
And I’ll sit here and wait
While a few key Congressmen discuss and debate
Whether they should let me be a law.
How I hope and pray that they will,
But today I am still just a bill.

Boy: Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you?

Bill: Yeah, I’m one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far. I hope they decide to report on me favourably, otherwise I may die.

Boy: Die?

Bill: Yeah, die in committee. Oooh, but it looks like I’m gonna live! Now I go to the House of Representatives, and they vote on me.

Boy: If they vote yes, what happens?

Bill: Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.

Boy: Oh no!

Bill: Oh yes!

I’m just a bill
Yes, I’m only a bill
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill
Well, then I’m off to the White House
Where I’ll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the president to sign
And if he signs me, then I’ll be a law.
How I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.

Boy: You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?

Bill: Yes, that’s called a veto. If the President vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that time you’re so old...

Boy: By that time it’s very unlikely that you’ll become a law. It’s not easy to become a law, is it?

Bill: No!

But how I hope and I pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.

[Lazamataz]

When Axelrod was on the Sunday shows, he was asked if they would have this bill sown up this week. He lied, and it was obvious.

Axelrod is a poor liar.

When Gibbs was on the Sunday shows, he was asked if they would have this bill sown up this week. He lied, and it was convincing.

Gibbs is a terrific liar.

[shankbear]

Everybody else dismisses Gibbs as a steaming pile of yak dookie.

[TigerBait]

So the “simple up or down vote” has been replaced by ‘passing it without voting on it’?

Hope the idiots in the soft middle of American politics have had their fill of Demunists.

[roses of sharon]

Telling that he and Hussein feel they can slap us hard across the face, day in and day out.

They are not afraid of being slapped back.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I call it a Constitutional Mandate game!

[Redleg Duke]

This moron is the poster child for the whole damned Obama Klepocracy.

[Oceander]

Hmm, words of "wisdom" from a paid propaganda mouthpiece - a person so low, if Obastard ordered him to, he would gladly admit in public to being a lifelong practitioner of coprophagia.

[massgopguy]

Punch. Kick. Thud.

[Tribune7]

“God will roast their stomachs at the gates of Hell,” Gibbs said.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Hmm, words of "wisdom" from a paid propaganda mouthpiece

You think this man would have a little pride and wouldn't be shilling for the punk in the White House.