Heritage Foundation: Obamacare Slaughter Rule is without Precedent

Heritage Foundation ^ | 03/16/2010 | Brian Darling

[mad_as_he$$]

bttt

[mad_as_he$$]

Good.

[Cold Heat]

The bill has to go to conference to be voted this way. Conference never happened.

[pepperdog]

It sure appears that way! Imposing the curiously named “Slaughter” rule is kind of like naming it the “Death Wish” rule.

[BuckeyeTexan]

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.

[GOP_Lady]

Great article, as always, from The Heritage Foundation.

Thanks very much for posting.

I MUST become a member of the Foundation.

[BuckeyeTexan]

If you’re on Twitter, follow Heritage. They send out some good tweets that are otherwise uncovered.

[WOBBLY BOB]

smoking on airlines is the equivalence in importance as gubmint taking over 1/6 of the economy?

[GailA]

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

[jesseam]

I mistakenly thought the Rats were just criminals in business suits. My bad, they are far worse than criminals, they are TRAITORS!!!

[GOP_Lady]

Will do.

I don’t tweet much, but for Heritage I will.

Thanks for the tip. :-)

[pnut22]

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!

[Oceander]

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.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Yes, traitors. Always have been. Always will be.

[Cold Heat]

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.

[pnut22]

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.

[redfog]

Slaughtercare

[BuckeyeTexan]

Sure. I’ll help.

[Theophilus]

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?

[Cold Heat]

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.