Posted on 03/15/2010 8:22:26 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might instead attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would instead vote on a more popular measure that presumes the health-care bill has passed the chamber.
The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the Senate bill.
"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."
Republicans quickly condemned the strategy, framing it as an effort to avoid responsibility for passing the Senate measure, and some suggested that Pelosi's plan for a self-executing rule would be unconstitutional.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503742_pf.html
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IN order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire... for a safe and secure society...
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
I would rather they do this than twist arms, bribe and what all to get the 216 votes. At least the court system will have fun with it. The heck with that pesky Contstitution as it is a “living” document and we can do what we please per the dimoKKKRATS..
This is how most dictatorships form. First they circumvent the laws. Then they flagrantly violate them. By the time the people realize what is going on, they have total control. The only difference here is that the majority of the military despises the Marxist in chief and he will need them to complete the coup.
The have taken over the banks, the auto industry, the education system, trying to take over the food industry and power, ready to seize health care and student loans..... what else is there?
The only way this will stop, short of a civil war, is a military coup of the states start seceding and reclaiming their states rights.
and............ they are doing it out in the open, right under everyone’s nose. What are the people doing? Nothing much. Griping, having some tea parties, and the coup marches on.
They declared war with the American people a long time ago...It’s just coming to a head now.
The DAY OF RECKONING IS UPON US!
Gobbledy-gook intended to conceal the naked power grab.
I hope so! I ‘’SO DESPISE’’ these evil ‘’RATS’’!!!
Con law ping.
Hey, the “recession” isn’t that bad. All the people they know are rolling in money. :)
Isn't this what we, in computer terms, call a *virus* or *malware* or *trojan* or whatever we call this crap nowadays? Either way, it is unwanted, malicious, and a general PIA .. and we spend tons of hours every year either preventing or eradicating this crap from invading our personal computers.
Nancy Botox thinks what she is attempting is the Cats-Ass of legislation .. but what it really is is a bunch of useless trojan virus malware designed to separate your money into her pockets
Title: "Obama: Dangerous Man."
Subtitle: "Facism Arising From Fear"
Which I think is a good explanation of both the election of 2008, and the realities of 2010.
The savvy and sensitive Japanese, with good memories and a good reading of people, have seen it before.
They paint Obama as a DICTATOR-TO-BE.
If they do; they will feel like they are in a place worse than hell.
Didn’t the Senate already say that this won’t fly? I thought Conrad said that if the House doesn’t pass the Senate bill then there is nothing they can act on. The Constitution says that all spending bills must originate in the House.
THE CPC MUST BE DESTROYED AS A LEGITIMATE ABOVE GROUND CAUCUS OPERATING FREELY ON CAPITAL HILL AND ITS TRAITOROUS MEMBERS CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR ACTIONS
Amen to that! I hereby dub them the CCPC, the Communist Congressional Progressive Caucus. Look at the members on that list! The biggest communists in Washington D.C.. Get rid of them in November and also the members of the Communist Congressional Black Caucus - all the same ilk. We need to get good conservative people to run against these "progressives", . aka communists. . .
Next up:
A presumption that outlawing gun ownership is passed, no need to vote on that.
After that? A presumption that all executive fiats would have been passed, no need to vote on them.
All the while the Republicans wail and bluster, but none have the stones to storm the floor and shut this coup down. They instead turn their pants yellow and wet, hoping we the people have the guts to take up arms and do their duty for them. Better to be the Dem’s b*tches than a Joe on the street.
Is it true that "deem and pass" has been commonly used? If so, I'll bet it was never used as an end run around a close vote.
Unusually objective piece considering the source.
Nanny is not going to be happy about this piece of sunshine.
The DAY OF RECKONING IS UPON US!
If they pass this, especially this way, I see there's no going back. . . Live Free or Die!
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