Posted on 03/10/2010 4:31:21 PM PST by Biggirl
Mark Steyn had a pretty good editorial over on Investors.com on Friday. He agrees on my point that Democrats in Washington are perfectly willing to give up control of Congress if they can get federal health care legislation. Steyn writes…
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Harry Reid’s Nevada has the highest unemployment rate at 12.5% - and it’s about to get worse.
They will have riots in the streets over this and a 20% minority in both houses after 2012, and everything they put in place will be repealed.
Trillions of dollars wasted , all because John McCain did not ask the right questions about Obama during the campaign.
NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!
If this passes I don’t want to hear any reasons it cannot be repealed. Anyone who does not intend to repeal this crap should be thrown out!
It will be repealed, both the House and Senate WILL have no choice once the people RISE UP this year and in 2012.
The pro-life Democrats are in between a rock and a hard place on this. They either vote for communism by voting for ObamaCare or they’ll be accused of being homosexuals by the Pelosi and Reid mobsters and thugs. I think their only way out is to vote for ObamaCare with a fake promise from Barry the Kenyan and his Chicago thugs that abortion funding will be removed after the bill is passed. More than likely, Barry the Kenyan has already told them to just pin the blame on him, Piglosi and Dingy when the funding isn’t removed and probably increased.
Stein’s premise is that even if the Democrats lose big this November, it’s all good, because the Republicans won’t have the cojones to dismantle the bureaucracy. Last time I looked, the Department of Education was still there. Ditto the Department of Energy.
Well not this time around, we are keeping an eye on THEM!
Yep, he should quit with the bs.
This is really turning out to be the biggest congressional battle in the last 60 years, since the civil rights legislation in the 60’s. With even more at stake.
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This is doing the rounds, appears to say repeal isn't possible as it binds future administrations:
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?
Will SCOTUS overturn it if the idiots pass it?
I think your post deserves it’s own thread.
How is this going to be repealed? It ain’t - EVER. Republicans will need a strong majority, which they may at some point get, but they will need political courage, which they will never, ever have — ever. It will never get repealed.
Unconstitutional as hell. Either the Supremes will smack it or there will be “very bad stuff”.
It takes 67 votes in the Senate to override Obama's certain veto of any repeal legislation. Republicans are 17 votes short.
“This is doing the rounds, appears to say repeal isn’t possible as it binds future administrations: “
Baloney.
Congress can’t pass a law they can’t undo.
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