The Doctors of the House

The Wall St Journal ^ | Mar 22, 2010 | editorial

[The Raven]

House Democrats last night passed President Obama's federal takeover of the U.S. health-care system, and the ticker tape media parade is already underway. So this hour of liberal political victory is a good time to adapt the "Pottery Barn" rule that Colin Powell once invoked on Iraq: You break it, you own it.

[snip]

We have never understood why pro-lifers consider abortion funding more morally significant than the rationing of care for cancer patients or at the end of life that will inevitably result from this bill. But in any case Democratic pro-lifers sold themselves for a song, as they usually do.

[snip]

While the passage of ObamaCare marks a liberal triumph, its impact will play out over many years. We fought this bill so vigorously because we have studied government health care in other countries, and the results include much higher taxes, slower economic growth and worse medical care. As for the politics, the first verdict arrives in November.

[The Raven]

A good summary -

[happygrl]

The young, who are enamoured with 0bama, will pay for this the rest of their lives.

[Cindy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476679/posts

Inside the Pelosi Sausage Factory
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 03-21-10 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Posted on March 22, 2010 1:57:48 AM PDT by GOP_Lady

Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak sold his anti-abortion soul for a toothless executive order.

Last week Republican Rep. Mike Pence posted on his Facebook site that famous Schoolhouse Rock video titled “How a Bill Becomes a Law.” It’s clearly time for a remake.

Never before has the average American been treated to such a live-action view of the sordid politics necessary to push a deeply flawed bill to completion. It was dirty deals, open threats, broken promises and disregard for democracy that pulled ObamaCare to this point, and yesterday the same machinations pushed it across the finish line.

You could see it all coming a week ago, when New York Rep. Louise Slaughter let leak a breathtaking strategy whereby the House would not actually vote on the unpopular Senate bill. The House would instead vote on a “reconciliation” fix to that bill, and in the process “deem” the underlying legislation—with its Cornhusker kickbacks and Louisiana purchases—passed.

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[GOP_Lady]

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[plangent]

Inasmuch as all revenue bills must originate in the House, (Article 1, Sec. 7) the the tax provisions of the Senate bill passed by the House fail this requirement and are nullities, even if signed into law.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That would be a nice countermove if the courts hadn’t allowed it to be made mincemeat of. The Senate bill started as a House bill about, not health care, but housing! With all the original stuff gutted and the Senate stuff stuck in but who cares? It’s the thought that counts. So the blasted thing is called an H.R.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The young, who are enamoured with 0bama, will pay for this the rest of their lives.

There will be many such who will resist seeing that fact for the rest of their natural lives - just as "Greatest Generation" Democrats have resisted the conclusion that FDR and his "brain trust" were responsible for the duration of the Great Depression.

[livius]

We have never understood why pro-lifers consider abortion funding more morally significant than the rationing of care for cancer patients or at the end of life that will inevitably result from this bill. But in any case Democratic pro-lifers sold themselves for a song, as they usually do.

This was the big mistake the bishops made. They pinned it all on abortion, when in reality there are so many pro-death (and now enforceable) things in that law that abortion was virtually a diversion.

[rlmorel]

"...Democratic pro-lifers..."

No such thing. There are only liberals and liberals who will embrace pro-life as long as it is politically liberally expedient to do so.

Since we can recognize liberalism as a religion having nothing to to with spending or saving money per se, but only as end to which everything else is a mean, and is subservient to without question. I presume Stupak and others like him are not ignoramuses, and could easily see that the executive order was a threadbare cloth to defend them and their Judas-like "Yes" votes from the chill of the electorate. But they decided to play that game and "deem" themselves as having stood up for their "principles". They will find out that the threadbare cotton blanket of your delusion in a late, warm March is going to be pretty thin come next gray November.

[workerbee]

The young, who are enamoured with 0bama, will pay for this the rest of their lives.

To hell with the enamoured! My children will pay for this for the rest of their lives -- and the sickest thing is that they won't know the difference! That's what makes hatred burn a hole in my gut for these communist pig bastards!

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

If only we could capture on film what America is like now and was like in our lifetimes. It should be documented so that future generations in the USSA will be able to see what they are missing.

[Vaduz]

Looks like people from Canada won’t be coming here for treatment any more.

[plangent]

Sorry for the delay, but I thought, since the budget reconcilliantion bill was due Oct 15, 2009,the “Burrito” was the housing bill submitted by that deadline, but hauled out, cleaned out with all the reconcilliation ammendments stuffed in.

Of course, with all of the sleight-of-hands groping around, I may have confused one with the other.