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Posted on 03/12/2010 8:10:09 PM PST by GVnana
“Game on,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, to National Review Online. “The Democrats are moving on reconciliation. They are revving up their machine, even though they don’t yet have the votes to pass the Senate bill in the House. This is their do-or-die moment. They know can’t let their members go home for Easter with this hanging out there.”
Ryan says that, come Monday, Democrats “will bring a shell piece of reconciliation legislation” to the budget committee. “The reconciliation process has to begin there,” he says. “Here’s what they’ll do: They will take the House health-care bill and mark it up so that it can become a reconciliation vehicle. Republicans will make runs at this via motions to instruct, but since we’re outnumbered, their package will get through the committee. Then they’ll send that shell of a bill to the House Rules Committee. The rules committee will then gut the budget committee’s reconciliation bill and drop in all of the deals that Speaker Pelosi arranges with members who vote for the Senate health-care bill in the House.” Those deals, he adds, “will be hard to scrutinize, and we may never know their full extent, since many of them will be orchestrated outside of health-care legislation.”
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History will condemn this, and those who concocted the means to pass this bill.
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi look to join the unemployed ranks very soon.
Perhaps, but the ultimate victors write the histories.
This must be stopped. We need millions in the streets all over the country. Activate NOW!!
This is also the GOP’s do or die moment isn’t it?
I vote for “Die”.
I’m there!
It's a problem for the Democrats because the whole thing stinks so badly they don't dare reveal it to the public.
I curse Olympia Snowe.
Fine, but how do we STOP this?
No, the GOP, in terms of members of Congress, can only do so much at this moment.
This is a do or die moment for the American people.
This is our Representative Democracy do or die moment....
A move such as the democrats are considering shreds the premise of the USA Constitution, or what was left of it anyways.....
If the Slaughter methods of passage is allowed to stand, precedent is set for expansion of Obama’s power to Dictitorial levels.
I’ve heard so many “this is it” scenarios before.
Hussein is staying on an extra, what, 3 days—so he can try to intimidate more legislators? What a friggin’ chump.
Suppose this time they fail again. So, you’ll see Nazi Pelozi reiterate they’ll go over the wall, they’ll dig a tunnel, they’ll parachute in....anything, ANYTHING to thwart the will of the American people.
Ryan Ping!
You know, if a REPUBLICAN speaker of the House urged the “passage of the bill so you can see what is in it”, Brian Williams and his smug colleagues would be screaming at the top of their lungs.
Instead, these jerks make sitcom appearances and pretend to be journalists.
Nancy Pelosi unemployed...are you kidding??? The people of SF won’t ever throw her out unless she becomes a Republican.
YUP!!!
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