Posted on 03/24/2010 6:32:28 PM PDT by JohnRLott
With legislation encompassing almost 3,000 pages, it will take time to find out exactly what the mandates in the newly passed health care law mean for America. After all, it wasn’t until the end of last week that the reconciliation bill was even made public. But here's something we already have uncovered. And it's shocking. -- In addition to all the special favors doled out to various congressional districts, it turns out that the congressional staff who wrote the health care bill put in special favors for themselves, too.
While everyone else in the United States -- from the top corporate executives to the grocery store checkout clerk -- will be forced to buy their insurance through heavily regulated state-run exchanges, the health care bill excludes one group: the leadership and committee staff. Yes, that’s right. The very people who wrote up this bill are refusing to be included themselves. Given the narrow definition of “congressional staff” on page 158 of the health care bill, the Congressional Research Service memo believes that courts will not require “professional committee staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as potentially those staff employed by leadership offices” to go through the exchanges. President Obama and his family are also exempt from the law. . . .
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What is to be done about the HILL RATS? These are the allegedly “professional” staffers who are so named because after the election their current boss loses, they scurry like rats to a new member – ANY MEMBER (his politics frequently don’t matter) – just to remain close to the power. Most are flaming liberals and, after the “experienced” staffer shows the new guy where the john is, because they have been up there for decades, far too many of these new members rely on them for how to vote and get along in the thoroughly corrupt system of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” that has caused the mess in which we now find ourselves.
IT GETS WORSE!
Let’s say the new guy needs an “expert” on tax policy. Well, son-of-a-gun, the professional staffer JUST HAPPENS to have a college chum who works at the IRS! Need an “expert” on education policy. Darned if that secretary he just hired doesn’t just have an old teacher friend who works over at the Department of Education!
NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME – ESPECIALLY IN MALFUNCTION JUNCTION.
Looks like we will also need TENURE LIMITS on the Hill Rats with stiff penalties for breaking the rules!
I recently heard Gingrich tell Hannity that—horrors — the alleged Health Care Bill was almost certainly written at 3 am by 25 year-old liberal staffers, groggy on beer and pizza. Not sure why that was so shocking. HELL, that’s how nearly ALL the so-called legislation has been done up there for decades. It’s why there are two things one should never watch being made: SAUSAGE AND LAWS.
One of the KEY THINGS we all need to do BEFORE we get behind a new candidate to replace the 8 term retread who has sold us out nearly every term up there is to INSIST THAT HE DRAW HIS KEY STAFFERS FROM LOCAL FOLKS WHO MAY STILL HAVE A GRASP ON REALITY OUT HERE IN FLYOVER COUNTRY — THEN HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE ON THAT PLEDGE — OR REPLACE HIM NEXT TIME!
Sadly, it’s the ONLY WAY THINGS WILL CHANGE UP THERE!!
As wel, Muslims seem to qualify for the religious exemption - there is an Islamic ban on insurance as a gambling concern that has previously prompted Muslim lawsuits and the creation of alternative pseudo-insurers over the auto insurance laws.
But given an actual escape clause written exactly as meets their religious beliefs, they won’t need to sue on this one - they’re already specifically exempt.
These sorry bastards have no shame. Tonight they voted down being subject to the same tyranny as you and me. My hope is that we throw off this yoke very soon.
I’ve had several Democrats tell me that they will NEVER vote Democrat again. They’re disgusted beyond words other than profanity.
The USSR had its “nomenklatura” class, and so will the USSA.
Let us make it easy for you, Zippy...get the f*** out of our lives. That’s not too complicated, is it?
This is all a bad dream.........this is all a bad dream........this is all a bad dream.....
When was the last tine MSM pinned double standard on the Democrats?
Article 1 Section 9No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Christian Scientists and the Amish (and some Mennonites, too) are exempt for religious reasons. Hmmm.... I’m Christian, and I’m an engineer/scientist, so maybe...;)
this is all a bad dream... if it is, it is the first dream that caused me physical pain.
Me too. I’ve had a heacache that began with the Stupak duping...just wont go away :( and I never get headaches........Democrats may just kill me.
What is wrong with these people? They think we are so stupid yet it is they who refuse to accept reality.
People want health care reform but not the democrats version of it -
Is this a true statement from her?
They’re not hypocritical to their socialist ideals.
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