Posted on 02/20/2010 7:20:02 AM PST by Clairity
I certainly hope the Republicans have sense enough to invoke the Byrd rule.
Repubs had better be armed and ready - and willing to fire; for the Obama,Inc. ambuish. . .
Dear Lord, please help us Americans find an ‘out’ for this monstrous Bill.
Amen.
A few months ago I might have thought that, but now I'm thinking they are just dumb as bricks.
“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.
Thanks Clairity. More about this.
“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.
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.
This can be fought, but we need a wartime Consigliere and that is not Senator McConnell.
Why do they need a way around the Byrd rule when they can just ignore it like they do other rules?
Welcome to tyranny....
A big bluff to get the GOP to buy into some of this garbage!
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.
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.
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.
The armies of socialism march in only one direction.
That’s the only rule you need to know.
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.
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