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Spending measure OK minus provision
Pubs are trying to say it was an inadvertent error. Someone posted the actual paragraph on FR last evening. It didn't appear to be so 'innocent.'
The linked article says:
Senate Democrats who inadvertently discovered the income tax wording blamed House members for what they said was a "breathtaking arrogance of power."
Had the Senate Dems not 'inadvertently' discovered this, it would have become law and been a tremendous weapon. [Pubbies need watching, it seems; and they got caught with their pants around this 'inadvertent' blunder, thank goodness.]
If Hillary has slipped this into the bill, FR/Rush/Hannity and the whole conservative establishment would be ballistic. Well, it was a Pubbie who did it and Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., should receive the same. Wrong is wrong whether it was done by a Dem or Pub.Hold yer fire partner.
Lets wait and see if this was really a non-issue that grew legs.
There were all sorts of attempts to derail the omnibus bill, and this may have been a syntax or error of some kind, and not anything as ridiculous as it sounds.
They get into these language arguments all the time and in a bill this big there must be dozens.
I cannot imagine why someone would blatantly require this type of authority and it may have been taken out of context for effect.
The fact is, that putting this in the bill for any reason does not make it legal.