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Obama to write Health Care Bill & use reconciliation - What about the Byrd Rule?
The Examiner ^ | Feb 20, 2010 | Victoria Nicks

Posted on 02/20/2010 7:20:02 AM PST by Clairity

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They must think there is a way around the Byrd rule, or they wouldn't be trying to pass it via reconciliation.

I certainly hope the Republicans have sense enough to invoke the Byrd rule.

1 posted on 02/20/2010 7:20:04 AM PST by Clairity
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So many contradictions. . .didn't Obama say he was leaving this to the experts - after he said, it was 'his Bill', that is. . .Now, HE is writing this; or doing the important final draft? What?

Repubs had better be armed and ready - and willing to fire; for the Obama,Inc. ambuish. . .

2 posted on 02/20/2010 7:26:59 AM PST by cricket (Proud to be the 'Party of NO')
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The GOP could tie it up for a few weeks with Points Of Order and procedural votes but almost all of it can be reconciled. The problem Obama will have is the sunset rule meaning without re-authorization in 5 years all the so-called benefits and taxes die. After the GOP takes over they do nothing with it and then all the Rats can yell is, “Republicans killed it”.
3 posted on 02/20/2010 7:27:21 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: Clairity

Dear Lord, please help us Americans find an ‘out’ for this monstrous Bill.


4 posted on 02/20/2010 7:28:22 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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Amen.


5 posted on 02/20/2010 7:31:48 AM PST by dr_who
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They must think there is a way around the Byrd rule, or they wouldn't be trying to pass it via reconciliation.

A few months ago I might have thought that, but now I'm thinking they are just dumb as bricks.

6 posted on 02/20/2010 7:31:58 AM PST by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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“They must think there is a way around the Byrd rule”

I bet Harry doesn’t have 50 votes, nor Pelosi, 218.

I don’t think the Kenyan can cheat his way through this.


7 posted on 02/20/2010 7:32:54 AM PST by y6162 (q1)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks Clairity. More about this.


8 posted on 02/20/2010 7:33:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“Dear Lord, please help us Americans find an ‘out’ for this monstrous Bill.’

Ditto. I pray and hope so too. Most people even now don’t realize how horrible this is and how it WILL kill many people, due to rationing and delaying medical care, in addition to bankrupting the country.

God gave us Scott Brown, so the Dems wouldn’t have the 60 votes, let’s hope this bill will get stopped.


9 posted on 02/20/2010 7:34:54 AM PST by SmartInsight
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To: Clairity

These gasbags will try any shady, underhanded, anti-Constitutional means to extend the anointed one’s socialist agenda and destroy this grand experiment.

Freedom loving people everywhere should be marching on DC with cauldrons of tar, bags of feathers, a couple miles of good stout rope, and about 535 long poles...while we still have a country to save.


10 posted on 02/20/2010 7:44:36 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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The Senate works by gentleman agreements and unanimous consents.

This can be fought, but we need a wartime Consigliere and that is not Senator McConnell.

11 posted on 02/20/2010 7:45:40 AM PST by AU72
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12 posted on 02/20/2010 7:45:42 AM PST by Touch Not the Cat
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Why do they need a way around the Byrd rule when they can just ignore it like they do other rules?


13 posted on 02/20/2010 7:46:02 AM PST by Zack Attack
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To: Clairity

Welcome to tyranny....


14 posted on 02/20/2010 8:06:48 AM PST by Snow Eagle ("... Against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC")
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I bet Harry doesn’t have 50 votes, nor Pelosi, 218

A big bluff to get the GOP to buy into some of this garbage!

15 posted on 02/20/2010 8:07:45 AM PST by MrDem (Founder: Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
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I think this is all about pressuring RINO’s into coming to the table to make a pork deal in exchange for a vote.

They only need one republican vote and if they can get Snowe to believe they’ve got the ability to pass this without 60 votes she might just blink and take some pork in exchange for her vote.


16 posted on 02/20/2010 8:09:44 AM PST by NotSoModerate
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To: AU72

McConnell thus far has done a masterful job of holding all 40 (now 41) GOP senators together.

The critical objective now is for no GOP member in the House or Senate to give the RATS a lifeline and political cover. They continue to dig this health care political grave for themselves; let them have full accountability for it.

And, we must kill this reconciliation ploy and call it the “nuclear option” for public consumption.


17 posted on 02/20/2010 8:09:46 AM PST by mwl8787
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To: Clairity

i found this interesting i do not know how to post it. So here is the title: Presidential Coups d’etat and regime Change in latin American and Soviet Successor States. It was delivered at the 1998 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois September 24-26 1998. talks about the self-inflicted presidential coup d’etat or autogolpe. In Peru, Guatamela and Russis, presidents closed congress, suspended the constitution and sought to rule by decree until referenda or new legislative elections could be held to ratify a regime with broader executive powers. three contrasting traditions of democratic theory are assessed in light of autogolpes: electoral. liberal and deliberative democracy.

can someone else post it. it was written by Maxwell cameron. i found it as a pdf file when looking up a word slagstad means. A Norwegian word or surname. never did find out what slagstad means though.


18 posted on 02/20/2010 8:16:17 AM PST by hondact200 (hondact200 No to Socialism - Michigan destroyed by Progressive Liberal Populism)
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To: Clairity

The armies of socialism march in only one direction.

That’s the only rule you need to know.


19 posted on 02/20/2010 8:17:15 AM PST by Jim Noble (Hu's the communist?)
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To: NotSoModerate

With all the negative attention about Landrieu’s and Nelson’s pork deals even Maine’s RINO twins wouldn’t touch a pork bribe. If the GOP can’t stop this, they need to expose the summit as Kabuki and they also need to force Reid into publicly using every underhanded trick in his arsenal to pass the bill. Make it all public and dirty.


20 posted on 02/20/2010 8:21:26 AM PST by xkaydet65
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