Deem and Fail

http://delta-man.blogspot.com/2010/03/voice-of-experience.html ^ | 3/17/10 | The Voice of Experience

[Delta Man]

If King Hussein Obama the First’s minions were half as clever at devising solutions to our nation’s problems as they were at utilizing arcane legislature procedures, our nation would resemble the biblical land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey. The latest tactic to thwart the clear will of the American people is known as “Deem and Pass.” I’ll try and explain what Deem and Pass is in a moment but if you don’t feel like plowing through the minutia of this legislative process, here’s a quote from Nancy Pelosi that sums up all you absolutely must know about this latest strategy. Pelosi Quote

It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know. But I like it because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill.

Just stop a moment and let that one sink in for a while. Even for a complete idiot like Pelosi, this quote is a shocking admission. Basically, Pelosi is saying that the best way to pass the Senate bill is to use a process that allows Congressmen not to vote on the Senate bill. At face value, this quote doesn’t even make sense. The perceptive reader, i.e. the non-liberal reader, should be able to deduce that Deem and Pass is actually a way for Congressmen to cover their butts, to deny that they voted for the Senate bill when in fact they did.

So how does that work?

[DrC]

The reality is that any House member who votes for this rule is knowingly undertaking the risk that ONLY the Senate bill will get signed into law (warts and all) and that the reconciliation bill intended to “fix” it will die in the Senate.

There’s any number of analogies one can draw, but it’s akin to playing Russian roulette (with the number of bullets in the gun determined by one’s assessment of the odds that the Senate won’t pass the reconciliation bill: no one can claim with a straight face that the chances of this are zero, so there has to be at least 1 bullet in the gun, but some might argue there are 4-5). If the gun fires and kills someone, no court is going to let the person holding the gun escape punishment on grounds that “I didn’t mean for this to happen: I was hoping/expecting there to be an empty chamber when I pulled the trigger.”

Or pretend you took your car to the mechanic to fix the brakes because every so often they fail completely, but when you picked it up he says “I didn’t have time to fix your brakes.” The next day you embark on a long trip during which you kill a pedestrian because your brakes failed. No court will exculpate you on grounds “Well I TOLD the mechanic to fix the brakes.”

Thus, whether they vote for the rule or for the Senate bill itself, no House member can evade responsibility for the risk they are taking. They therefore can and should be held accountable for being party to such risky business.

[ballplayer]

Thats interesting since I saw King Obama The First say in the Fox Interview tonight when the House VOTES they will be VOTING either for the Package or against the package, now pelosi says she likes this because they DONT have to vote.WHICH IS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11