Nancy Pelosi is reported to be scheduling a vote on the Slaughter rule: where a rule vote will consider the Senate bill a passed bill, WITH AMENDMENTS!
This is reported in last night’s RedState briefing under the ominous title: Constitution Be Damned – ObamaCare Vote Next Week.
If you haven’t been concerned about this very unsavory process up until now, you should be. The constitution is clear:
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.
If these maneuvers by the White House and Pelosi are pushed into the Senate, the Parliamentarian must rule them out of order.
At that point, Vice President Biden can overrule the Senate parliamentarian. As Charles Krauthammer states:
But if he does that, that’s not a nuclear option. That’s a thermonuclear option. That’s Krakatoa. That’s 100 megatons.
That will be a catastrophe if it is seen that the bill is pushed through by overruling a ruling of the neutral parliamentarian and passing what would otherwise be illegal.
Jimmy Gee made some scarey comments on the RedState Article:
I now understand why Obama used the State of the Union Address to ridicule the Supreme Court of the United States. He is trying to use Alinsky tactics to marginalize the Supreme Court of the United States; Obama knows full well that this unconstitutional power-grab will not stand and that they will be deciding on numerous parts of it this year. This will make the Gore/Bush election debacle look like a girl scout meeting!
As a nurse, I fear that once this becomes law, Obama, will soon after HCR is passed, will federalize all health care workers and put them under the SEIU. We will be forced to pay union dues to the SEIU.
Something else I fear. Someone is going to be killed in this mess. Some Senator, or Congressman will be shot at a town-hall, or even while out for pizza with their family. I fear something akin to the riots of the 1960’s.
But what I fear most, is that if the democrats get this bill through, and successfully pass it, they can, and will, do anything else they want to do.
But what they don’t understand is this; they see this as a means to continuous political power for how ever the United States exists. We, the people, see this as the death of the Constitution and the death of the United States.
Never corner a caged animal…you have not idea the fight in them!
This will end badly…
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero – 55 BC
Obama, like all “progressives” (formerly known as avowed socialists), believes in rule by an elite class.
An IBD column yesterday has some stunning quotes, dug up by George Will.
Professor Obama, who will seek re-election on the 100th anniversary of Wilson’s 1912 election, understands, which makes him melancholy. Speaking to Katie Couric on Feb. 7, Obama said:
“I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn’t have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go ahead and have that passed. But that’s not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people.”
Note his aesthetic criterion of elegance, by which he probably means sublime complexity.
This reminded me of a political conversation with a friend of mine, who strongly felt that government should be run by PhD’s only. Well folks, this is what we have got!
Obama regularly lectures us on the right answer. He tells us where we and his opponents are wrong. He does not like having to explain his reasons to the “little people”.
Obama wants to “fundamentally change” America .. even if he can’t get the votes fair and square through the Senate and House.
Vote “no” for health care reconciliation. Vote YES for America!
Nancy Pelosi said, “But we have to pass the [health care ] bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
(Why Obama desperately wants to pass healthcare, and the help he gets from this guy.)
The number 1 visitor to the White House, according to public WH disclosures, is SEIU President Andy Stern.
Stern was recently appointed by President Obama to be a member of the 18 person commission to reduce the national debt.
How has the head of a radical labor union like SEUI been able be the number 1 lobbyist to Obama? He just didn’t register. BigGovernment.com reports that:
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and me [Brian Johnson], as Executive Director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) formally requested an investigation by the acting United States Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Esq., into the potentially illegal lobbying activities of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern.
But why should we be worried about Andy Stern? Why is he the most dangerous man in America?
Well, first, he has the ear of, and now obviously, power through Obama, so he can influence and push an agenda. He has advised Obama on his health care tactics (see his involvement in a YouTube video here.) Obama said repeatedly during his campaign that he calls SEIU and Andy Stern “first” on every issue.
But more importantly is what this man believes. In earlier decades, he might have been called a communist, certainly a socialist, but radicals these days prefer more benign labels, like “progressive”.
Let’s look at Andy Stern through his own words and actions:
“We’re trying to use the power of persuasion. And if that doesn’t work we’re going to use the persuasion of power.”
“We took names. We watched how they voted. We know where they live.“
Sound like a thug? Well, yes, SEUI members have beaten up people they don’t like. But does that make him a socialist?
“Workers of the world unite, it’s not just a slogan anymore. It’s the way we’re going to have to do our work.”
Hmm .. where did that slogan originally come from ? Gee, it is directly out of the Communist Manifesto (1848)!!! This man is in FAVOR of the dis-assembling of American capitalism in favor of a government run society (with himself and Obama in charge, of course!)
“I happened to be at Davos and I say they are going to rename this year’s Davos as the revenge of the countries over the companies. Because all of a sudden we realized we let Global Capitalism run amok and reap global regulation and today we began the process in London of actually putting in place those regulations.”
“We have a new metric. The president says he wants to judge the new economy, whether it increases the number of people in the middle class, whether we have shared prosperity, not just whether we have growth, which is that we’ve seen in the country of today. “
So Andy is preaching straight up Socialism to us, and he says the President is on board!!! No argument from the White House here … and with a selection as 1 of Obama’s 6 picks to the debt commission …. seems that the White House is OK with the Communist Manifesto.
So why is the health care plan of Obama’s so important? So important, he is asking Democratic House members to walk the plank, risk their political future for the bill? OK, let’s go back to Andy Stern:
“Now, how do we distribute wealth in the country? And this is sort of my last big point. And clearly government has a major opportunity to distribute wealth. Through tax policies, through minimum wages, through living wages, the government has a role in distributing wealth or social benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, certain health insurance.”
Andy Stern is an avowed Communist, with more access to Obama than anyone else, receives contemporary support from Obama himself, and is committed to redistribution of wealth, world government and the “revenge of countries over companies”.
Ladies and gentlemen: Andy Stern is the most dangerous man in America.
