Posted on 03/11/2010 5:37:29 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?
Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal's Congress Daily:
"House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday.
"Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.
"Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. 'Once the CBO gives us the score, we'll spring right on it,' she said."
Each bill that comes before the House for a vote on final passage must be given a rule that determines things like whether the minority would be able to offer amendments to it from the floor.
In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House "deems" the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.
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Sheik Adnan El Casey is not amused.
Never going to happen. Make absolutely no mistake: if/when the big totalitarian takeover becomes official, the military will side with the government.
our government is nothing more than a hostile, totalitarian thugocracy. Reading this latest plan of theirs merely proves me right.
What else could come out of Chicago politics?
Slaughter is an appropriate word.
So much for the “up or down vote” Bammy been whining about all week.
Rotten to the core. Every last one of them.
Shameless.
There *might* be a silver lining here. It’s possible, although by no means certain, that the SCOTUS would overturn such a bill due to being passed unconstitutionally...
Perfidy.
I’ve got a dozen or so military friends who would beg to differ...
Isn’t Slaughter the one who weepily described a lady having to wear her dead sister’s false teeth because she had no health insurance?
Note to Slaughter: most health policies ain’t gonna provide false teeth to that lady, either.
This time let's bring pitchforks, torches, and...weapons.
Because people like us own most of them, a fact they may be tempted to forget at their peril.
The Oath Keepers have started a pro-American movement. Somehow, I don't see our own sons and daughters supporting a government out to destroy everything we hold dear. I believe most will side with their families. The majority of enlistments are moderate or conservative. A progressive/Socialist/communist would never have the courage to enlist.
The military might help the government at first, because they'll be in a state of confusion, but once that dies down and they come back to their senses, I believe they'll side with the people and Constitution they vowed to protect.
It will be the patriots and the U.S. military fighting against SEIU, ACORN, Black Panthers, etc. Should mop them up in a day or two. But first, need to cut off the head of the snake.
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“Slaughter is an appropriate word.”
You bet. The Dems are willing to slaughter every semblance of a reasonable and fair process for resolving this issue in their single-minded pursuit of a progressive Holy Grail. This is not about bipartisanship or even what’s good for America. It’s “my way or the highway” time on Capitol Hill.
In all likelihood, voters will reciprocate with a slaughter of their own next November. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Really, this is just another sign that they don’t have the votes for the Senate bill in the House, and is simply yet another ploy to delay that inevitable moment in which the Obama agenda (and Presidency) is declared to be dead.
Slaughter, eh? What an appropriate name.
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