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:
So far DeMint is the only Senator I respect.
Of course there is no such thing as irreversible. They cannot bind future Congresses.
If Congress makes this mess future Congresses can undo it especially if liberal Democrats are banned from our shores. Congress in passing this has just made legal in the US what Dr. Mengele was doing at Auschwitz...determining at whim who will live and who will die.
Did you watch DeMint?
especially after that dirtbag McConnel did his best trent lott impesonation in responding to Reid’s “can’t we just get along” He is all pal’s with reid all of a sudden. Did his best to give Reid a Lewinski in the senate chamber.
Makes me want to puke.. but a RINO is a RINO and we will keep getting more of the same until we get rid of all these little “r” dirtbags
Not NOTHING.
See tag line.
Heh Claire, is it time YET?
Senator DeMint - take this bill down, either as it stands or take it to the SCOTUS, and the 2012 GOP nomination is yours if you want it...
The Republicans’ “my dear friend so-and-so” needs to stop, too. Hey, if you guys want a “friend,” get a dog. The current party in power is not your friend! I guess the Repubs are afraid of not being invited to all the right cocktail parties. Most of them haven’t learned the life lesson that it really is better to be respected—and, dare I say, feared—than smarmily loved and popular.
I agree. That nonsense about not descending to the level of Democrats and remaining “above the fray” has resulted in constant losses to the Democrats.
I am thouroughly disgusted with the Republican Party. It is going to go the way of the Torys and other extinct political Parties.
If this bill includes a senate rules change (which it does), it would require a two thirds vote to pass. They’d never get it if the Republicans hold together.
Go DeMint!!
Unless Jim DeMint IMMEDIATELY leaves the GOP and joins my Third Party, he’s a rotten, stinkin’ RINO!!!1!1!!
Good idea
and we should act before odumbo gets his new federal troops in place. he signed the order for it in late spring.
been trying to get hold of McConnell’s office to tell him to grow a pair and stand up for the people instead of playing nice with Reid. Lines are busy - email contact form is not working. Did get a fax to go through. Slam his damn office with faxes if need be - don’t let him get away with this “rodney king” impersonation.
Vote third party because bug > windshield.
uh...... did you hear the mealy-mouthed Mitch McConnell... the GOP is not going to do anything, they are a bunch of spaghetti-spine wimps.
Unbelievable. I have never seen such tyranny in our legislative process.
Yes, but with a two-thirds majority. The Dems haven’t been below one-third in this or the past century.
I meet people like that chair (Sen. Merkley) more and more— teacher, realtors, bankers, contractors, the list goes on. We have a disease that is growing.
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