In all the chaos over the years, I’ve known some of this, but tell me if I have this right.
The House passed the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 (SMHOTA) 416-0.
It went to the Senate, where the moral-free Harry Reid kept the first sentence of SMHOTA and slapped the 2,000+ pages of Obamacare to it. A soulless judge deemed this an ‘amendment’, according to the article.
It went back to the House where it passed with 218 votes (not one Republican but including Bart Stupid as the 218th vote).
So, is the “Affordable Care Act” really named the “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act”?
Now you know why Sarah Palin and Freepers have been screaming to not piecemeal immigration reform.
Because the Senate Democrats will gut any immigration bill coming from the House and insert their version.
The comprehensive immigration reform bill that t the Constitution unless it suits their needs. the Senate passed earlier this year had taxes in it too. That’s against the origination clause. But democrats don’t care about the Constitution unless it suits their needs. They expected the House to cower on the heels of the 2012 reelection of Obama. They also had a lot of republican turncoats sign on with them (Rubio, McCain, Graham, etc.).
And Boehner was signaling he would bring the Senate immigration bill to the House floor for a vote until Michele Bachmann and other Tea Party conservatives confronted him with the Hastert Rule.
Keep an eye on Boehner. Keep an eye on Ryan. These are not our friends.