Inmates, Asylum—You know the Drill
Not five hours ago, I wrote on another subject: “I think there are only a few lonely, arcane paragraphs in the House rule book that have not been violated by the leadership.”
I guess I’m just that good:
Behold the “Slaughter Solution.”
The twisted scheme by which Democratic leaders plan to bend the rules to ram President Obama’s massive health care legislation through Congress now has a name: the Slaughter Solution.
The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and a key ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to get the health care legislation through the House without an actual vote on the Senate-passed health care bill. You see, Democratic leaders currently lack the votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill through the House. Under Slaughter’s scheme, Democratic leaders will overcome this problem by simply “deeming” the Senate bill passed in the House – without an actual vote by members of the House.
Okay, somebody explain to me how this isn’t Liberal Fascism. Or the end of the American Republic and the inauguration of the American Totalitarian State. My apologies to all anti-Bush moonbats. You got the decline right, just the wrong administration.
Nobody wants this bill, nobody wants this Congress, and fewer and fewer want this president.
With statements like this, from Speaker Pelosi, it’s not hard to figure out why:
“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.”
We’re doomed.
Buck O'Fama said,
March 10, 2010 @ 3:42 pm
I think this is a sign that the Kleptocrat Leadership (if you can call it that) does not have the votes for their heatlhcare abortion and is starting to realize that they are not going to get them. This may be a “Hail Mary” play to “pass” the POS under any pretense possible. It is a sign of dirtbag desperation. If they attempt to do it this way and claim it is legitimate, I think all hell is going to break loose.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
March 10, 2010 @ 4:09 pm
“Dirtbag desperation”: Why, I do believe you’ve defined this whole sad spectacle, Buck.