As Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) recently said:
"This Is Why the People Have Thrown You Out."
As Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) recently said:
"This Is Why the People Have Thrown You Out."
What Obama has been doing to get around this requirement (that tax bills originate in the House) is to get Pelosi to pass the Senate tax bills like Obama-care as-is. I have also seen Reid take DOA bills passed by the House, gut them and amend them with the new tax provisions. That way they technically originate in the House. In this case the House Democrats are really upset with the Senate Democrats for letting so many of Pelosi’s great bills die, like Cap and tax and are showing it.
The constitution is irrelevant to elected officials, beyond using the term as a political weapon to attack the other party. They sometimes worry what the courts will do, but that is it. Each minority party accuses the other but then ignores it when in power.
There is a conventional wisdom supported by the MSM that the party that gets things passed wins no matter how they do it. But we saw with Obama-care that this was NOT true, the bribes in the bill help make it poison.