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GOP Rules Chief Resigned to Letting Dems Make Obamacare the Law Without Actually Voting on It
CNS News ^ | 3-16-10 | Matt Cover

Posted on 03/16/2010 11:36:03 AM PDT by truthandlife

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To: PhiKapMom

I had a friend call me this Am, bitching and moaning.
He doesn’t vote.
so after I got done with him I told him. “This whole problem is because people like YOU don’t vote. You don’t vote, you don’t get to B***H. Now everyone else has to clean up the mess.”


61 posted on 03/16/2010 12:02:31 PM PDT by Marty62 ( Marty62)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

“Dreier...told reporters yesterday that he is not a constitutional expert and that he had not spoken personally to any constitutional experts about the issue. “

So why didn’t he keep his dam* mouth shut!!!


62 posted on 03/16/2010 12:02:33 PM PDT by Dem Guard
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To: truthandlife

Drier has been on a daily slide from conservative to socialist for the last 40 years!


63 posted on 03/16/2010 12:02:40 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: truthandlife

Is the healthscare thing getting in the way of a cocktail party for Drier, or is it that he just doesn’t care? I’ve never heard a more defeatist, wussy attitude in my life!


64 posted on 03/16/2010 12:03:13 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (To our Overlords in Washington: "We the People" are fed up! - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If you really hate those Republicans more than anything, vote third party or Democrat.
If you are a clever closet troll, vote third party and encourage other to do likewise, then vote Democrat
If you oppose like the conservative movement, vote third party or Democrat
If you believe in conservatives and you’re sure you can win the lottery tomorrow, vote third party
If you think that third parties have done well throughout American history, vote third party
If Ross Perot, Bull Moose party, Know nothing party are examples of great movements in American history, vote third party.
If you want to promote the conservative moment, get involved in the Republican primaries


65 posted on 03/16/2010 12:03:42 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: truthandlife
Dreier, who is the top House Republican responsible for making sure that Congress follows legitimate rules of procedure, told reporters yesterday that he is not a constitutional expert and that he had not spoken personally to any constitutional experts about the issue.

Then he has no business holding the job he's holding. If your job is "making sure that Congress follows legitimate rules of procedure", then you DAMN WELL BETTER be an expert in ALL the rules, including and most importantly the SENIOR RULES, namely the Constitution.

66 posted on 03/16/2010 12:03:54 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: AutumnFire
"A third party would be the ruination of conservatism....please please please stop the talk of a 3rd party and do what we need to do to influence the Republican Party."

Take a good, long look at the GOP and tell me again that "conservatism" will be ruined without it. If the GOP is the only thing that can salvage whatever you view as "conservatism", it needs to be ruined. The GOP bears quite a bit of responsibility for the situation in which we find ourselves at this point in time and the patience of the people is wearing thin.

67 posted on 03/16/2010 12:03:57 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: MrB

They must be.

They must assume that 40+ years of Great Society-Welfare-Divorce-Feminazism-Men Suck-USA Is Bad have taken the will of the real Americans to fight out of us.


68 posted on 03/16/2010 12:04:42 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Camelot sleeps with the fishes!)
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To: truthandlife

I called the office and the cutie answering phones has said the article is incorrect, he’s been taken out of context, and they are not rolling over.


69 posted on 03/16/2010 12:04:55 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Parley Baer

“I think people are over reacting. I believe David is correct in that it will be come law until the moment it goes to court...”

Agreed.

However, this comment is bothersome:
“(Drier said)...he is not a constitutional expert and that he had not spoken personally to any constitutional experts about the issue.”

These are the folks that constitute our first line of defense in our efforts to defend the Constitution. It cannot be unreasonable to expect them to take whatever political and legal action can be taken to avoid this socialist tsunami.

They arguably ignored the Constitution by sitting on their hands during the Jan 2009 crowning ceremony and now appear to continue to sit on their hands. Some of us are displeased.


70 posted on 03/16/2010 12:05:16 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Wake up America! There is presently a war at home against you and your Constitution)
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To: truthandlife

If laws don’t need to be voted on ... why do we need congress at all???

They better think this through.


71 posted on 03/16/2010 12:05:39 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying Planned Parenthood to murder babies! Cut off their federal funding!)
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To: Marty62

Good for you!


72 posted on 03/16/2010 12:06:23 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Rick Perry - TX Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 !)
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To: rwfromkansas

Where are you coming from? Cybercast News Service has as its parent organization the Media Resarch Center which is well known for accurate research and reporting.

The author of this piece also had researched the Constitutionality of the issue, more than Rep Dreier ever bothered to do.

Your statements are not at all consistent with the facts of the article and the background of the CNS.


73 posted on 03/16/2010 12:07:26 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: Parley Baer
I think people are over reacting. I believe David is correct in that it will be come law until the moment it goes to court and a posible stay is executed. Otherwise we will have to wait for a ruling to come down through the court system.

I agree. The Republicans simply have no power available to them to stop the 'rats from doing this. Only after the deed is done is there an actual issue than can be taken to the courts -- the courts will not preemptively stop this.

74 posted on 03/16/2010 12:08:01 PM PDT by kevkrom (Obama's Waterloo: a "hockey mom" with a laptop and a Facebook account)
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To: Tzimisce

What is he trying to do? Except to say he doesn’t know the Constitution?


75 posted on 03/16/2010 12:08:18 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: truthandlife

Stupid Party rides again


76 posted on 03/16/2010 12:08:23 PM PDT by hattend (The era of John McCain is over, the era of Ronald Reagan is back! Go Sarah Go!)
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To: truthandlife

1.That David Dreier is a limp wrist Rino. I remember when he was on ‘spouting’ about supporting the Normalization of Trade w/China in the 90’s. He is another slick haired rino.

2.Mitch McConnell said this is NOT Unconstitutional? What the hell is the MATTER WITH THESE PEOPLE?!


77 posted on 03/16/2010 12:09:02 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (God IS Coming Back........He WILL NOT permit this evil to continue much longer)
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To: truthandlife
If Dreir can't raise the unconstitutionality of it, who can? That is WHAT HIS JOB IS.

If he means he can't stop the Dems, that is one thing; he CAN fight it to the last ditch and beyond

I'll bet there are a few Dems who won't want to do this.

vaudine

78 posted on 03/16/2010 12:09:59 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Man50D
I called Dreier’s office and let him have it for giving up. I told his office Dreier and the OP(formerly the GOP) needs to grow a spine.

What's he supposed to do? Shoot somebody? Immolate himself? Like he said, the 'rats make the rules.

79 posted on 03/16/2010 12:11:15 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: truthandlife

Can someone disagree with the substance of what Drier is saying?? The Dems have the votes to control the Rules committee, so basically....they make the rules. In that sense, there’s nothing that Drier or the Republicans can do to stop it, except try to sway public opinion against the Dems. They can try to force a vote to stop the process, but again, they don’t have the votes to win that either.

Can someone say Drier is wrong?


80 posted on 03/16/2010 12:11:30 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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