Posted on 03/14/2010 9:14:24 PM PDT by Art in Idaho
I have to say I received this email from a friend I trust. I have not officially verified the claims in the said bill, but thought it worthwhile to put it out there so we could research it.
The impudent tyranny of Sen. Harry Reid!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light.
Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obamacare is Reid's anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation!
Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: ". . it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."
In other words, if President Barack Obama signs this measure into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in Congress wish otherwise!!
Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending."
That is precisely the kind of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people.
And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.
No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the final Senate version of Obamacare before the critical vote on cloture. And no wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m., while America slept.
True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.
The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled Senate Parliamentarian that the anti-repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of Senate "procedures." Why is that significant?
Because for 200 years, changes in the Senate's standing rules have required approval by two-thirds of those voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid's amendment received.
Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules to pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which can never be changed. If this is not tyranny, then what is?
DON'T SIT BY AND LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE DARK!!! FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST!
This is old news and Harry is wasting his breath. It is the kind of language that the SCOTUS has grounds to overturn.
Massive civil disobedience coming. Screw Harry Reid. The people can throw off the yoke of tyranny.
A current Congress cannot pass a law that infringes a future Congress period.
I don’t know what the SCOTUS will do .....but I think their will be many challanges on the constitutionality of this Bill.......
Dems are going to pay a heavy price for this also passing the bill the way they did......
I was reading today that David Axlerod’s mother wrote for a left-wing communist newspaper during WWII.
These folks are scary.
BTTT
Is that even legal?
He’s just blowing smoke up his own a##.
He can’t do anything that will bind a future congress from acting.
I'm truly glad the ass-chimp, Bukkaki O'Bunga and his butt-suck, Harry Reid, are such zealots that they actually included this language. Because now it can (and will) be struck down by the Supreme Court.
Tying the hands of future Congresses in this manner is un-Constitutional in the extreme. They only put this in there because they know how the country is going to revolt when it passes.
Megalomaniacal assh*les, they should all be whipped within and inch, the filthy Kommie dirtbags.
IMHO.
;-/
Okay, thanks. I thought so too, but with this bunch, I figure they will try anything. . .
I think it is true. I read the senate bill a few months ago and remember seeing it there.
Unlike its passage where the VP will have to come in and overrule the parlamentarian over and over as each point of order is raised in reconciliation and having it blazing across the TV sets of an American public that is deeply opposed to the bill, I doubt whoever is VP in 2013 will suffer backlash from doing it on its repeal.
Rules are rules, but they can be overridden. This bit of chicanery inserted by Reid just makes it more of challenge, but not impossible.
Where’s that damn speed-reader when you need him?
This is in the bill so the CBO will make favorable assumptions about how much the bill will cost. If the true cost were known -— ouch. The dems are gaming the CBO. Garbage in, garbage out.
And we know your correct about that.
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It's unconstitutional.
Anything can be repealed regardless what dingy says ... No Congress can bind another.
Did you know that in order to be a native born citizen, both your father and mother must be native born citizens. I don’t think that includes Kenyan fathers.
I know this, but it shows that the communists (yes, communists) are in power.
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