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Heritage Foundation: Obamacare Slaughter Rule is without Precedent
Heritage Foundation ^
| 03/16/2010
| Brian Darling
Posted on 03/16/2010 12:58:01 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
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To: BuckeyeTexan
To: a fool in paradise
To: BuckeyeTexan
The bill has to go to conference to be voted this way. Conference never happened.
To: a fool in paradise
It sure appears that way! Imposing the curiously named “Slaughter” rule is kind of like naming it the “Death Wish” rule.
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:24:27 PM PDT
by
pepperdog
(As Israel goes, so goes America!)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
IMO, it’s more than childish or petulant. Deeming a bill passed is without a doubt “taxation without representation.”
We can’t prosecute Congressional members for their votes. Yet voting them out doesn’t reverse the bill or the damage it does. We shouldn’t be forced to pursue a SCOTUS ruling after the bill is passed to reverse it when there is sufficient evidence up front to question its Constitutionality.
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:25:02 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Great article, as always, from The Heritage Foundation.
Thanks very much for posting.
I MUST become a member of the Foundation.
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:27:27 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
If you’re on Twitter, follow Heritage. They send out some good tweets that are otherwise uncovered.
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:41:38 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
To: BuckeyeTexan
smoking on airlines is the equivalence in importance as gubmint taking over 1/6 of the economy?
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:42:39 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Neil Cavuto said Rush gave out the numbers for congress to his listeners and now the phone lines are overloaded.
The numbers are also listed on Rush’s page.
Here is one of the ones he gave out on the radio that I’m calling. So far it’s been busy but I’m going to burn it up till I get to tell my congress critter to vote NO!
Join me?..... 1-877-762-8762
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:42:54 PM PDT
by
GailA
(obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
To: BuckeyeTexan
I mistakenly thought the Rats were just criminals in business suits. My bad, they are far worse than criminals, they are TRAITORS!!!
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:44:56 PM PDT
by
jesseam
(Been there, done that)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Will do.
I don’t tweet much, but for Heritage I will.
Thanks for the tip. :-)
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:46:32 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: Cold Heat
Did this bill originate in the house as spending bills are required by the constitution to do? No.. a different house bill was gutted and the health bill inserted in it’s place. Nothing... absolutely nothing about this is right. Then of course there is all the arm twisting (AKA bribery) by the white house. I’m gonna need healthcare cause this mess makes me sick!
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:52:09 PM PDT
by
pnut22
To: BuckeyeTexan
This is all very nice, and while I disagree with the author's point, I think it misses the larger question. If, as Frau Pelosi herself puts it, "nobody wants to vote on the Senate bill itself," then this is a subterfuge, an attempt to end-run precisely the sort of accountability the Founders intended when they drafted the requirement that each bill be passed by each house of Congress before being presented to the President for signature.
This, more than anything else, is definitive proof that the democrats know, without any doubt, that they are willfully and intentionally acting against the express interests of the people they are supposed to represent. As such, they cannot claim any sort of good-faith mistake for what they are about to do, and they cannot shelter behind the excuse that "I didn't know it was unconstitutional." As such, if they exercise the Slaughter Solution, they are knowingly violating their oaths of office, and should be removed forthwith.
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:53:51 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
To: jesseam
Yes,
traitors. Always have been. Always will be.
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posted on
03/16/2010 1:56:09 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
To: pnut22
My BP has been impossible to control lately. I fired all my doctors for one reason or another due to this administrations meddling, and even with meds I can't get my BP down below 160 for most of the day.
Obama is killing me!
But what the hell.........I don't think I can take three more years of this crap anyway.
To: Cold Heat
That’s me, except so far my blood pressure meds are doing their job. Now if the constant urge to cry for my poor country would just pass.. or that feeling of living in a constant nightmare. I’m afraid to go to bed cause who knows what you’ll wake up to. Pray. and get more ammo.
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posted on
03/16/2010 2:20:34 PM PDT
by
pnut22
To: pnut22
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posted on
03/16/2010 2:21:57 PM PDT
by
redfog
To: GailA
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posted on
03/16/2010 2:58:15 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
To: Oceander
As such, if they exercise the Slaughter Solution, they are knowingly violating their oaths of office, and should be removed forthwith. Can we not wait until November and just "deem" them adjourned and fired?
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posted on
03/16/2010 3:02:48 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Don't Deem Me Passed!)
To: Theophilus
Can we not wait until November and just "deem" them adjourned and fired? Us older folks know from decades of attempted cleanup elections that once the dust settles the casino re-opens using the same BS but under new management.
It's somewhat better but still stinks and the rats are still there.
I'm more inclined these days to support a total makeover. That means burning all the drapes and furniture along with the rat holes as well.
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