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Unrepealable? (DeMint questions about rules changes in bill requiring 2/3 vote and senate adjourns)
NRO ^ | 12/22/09 | Rober Costa

Posted on 12/22/2009 8:56:56 AM PST by cornelis

Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) has thumbed through Harry Reid's manager's amendment and discovered some "particularly troubling" rule-change provisions, especially with regards to the proposed Independent Medicare Advisory Board, which he finds could be unrepealable:


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; demint; healthcare; military; obama; obamacare; palin; ruleschange; senate; twothirds
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

McC will always fold if it intereferes with his holiday. Alan K. Simpson did something very similar to this in 1982 and called Jesse Helms “the Grinch” or “Scrooge” in the process.


181 posted on 12/23/2009 3:45:47 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: x_plus_one

Republican primary voters are hence highly liable for the failure of the American system. They are just too liberal themselves and enchanted with name ID.


182 posted on 12/23/2009 3:47:37 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Earthdweller

A senator can’t “just take it” to SCOTUS. It has to go thrugh a complicated legal process, and I doubt Sotomayor is the least bit interested in hearing this.


183 posted on 12/23/2009 3:48:57 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Been there, done that; the failure is ultimately with Republican primary voters who are too uninformed.


184 posted on 12/23/2009 3:50:48 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: MissouriConservative

Good legal lesson, but the Supreme Court consists of at least five legally-challenged individuals.


185 posted on 12/23/2009 3:52:13 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: ronnie raygun

Yes we do. But my rep is so far left that he leans that way when he walks....


186 posted on 12/23/2009 6:05:24 AM PST by b4its2late (Before you can control a horse, you have to break it. Sound familiar?)
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To: Still Thinking

Still thinking about your scenario and whether it applies. If you’ve been watching the proceedings you’ll notice that this majority in the Senate is breaking rules as they go. So when the minority raises a point of order they simply ignore, table the point of order—even if it is in direct violation of senate rules. Senator Session just now said that senate rules require the name of earmarks to be on record and that no such record has been made. It took the majority to table that in about 5 seconds.


187 posted on 12/23/2009 8:52:25 AM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis

Sessions


188 posted on 12/23/2009 8:53:01 AM PST by cornelis
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To: Man50D
The existence of a constitutional rule/provision that would allow congress to make a law unchallengeable for all time would be so absurdly counter to the spirit of our form of governance that it would be common knowledge to both constitutional scholars and laypeople alike. Therefore no such provision exists. It's that simple.
189 posted on 12/23/2009 4:10:03 PM PST by SpaceBar
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