Slaughter Preps Rule To Avoid Direct Vote On Senate Bill (House to pass ObamaCare without vote!)

National Journal via NRO's The Corner ^ | 10 March 2010 | Anna Edney, with Billy House and Dan Friedman contributing

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.

Can they get away with this?

[mad_as_he$$]

The bill the House is talking about today is Obama’s bill NOT the Senate bill. So I have NO clue what the hell is going on or what they are trying to on.

[Army Air Corps]

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[Gene Eric]

>> Can they get away with this?

Only if she points using her elbow. If she uses her finger, she needs to chug a full bottle and wait for the next game.

[Lazamataz]

Slaughter was always a committed lefty.

But I never realized she hated everything about America, including rule-of-law.

[Lazamataz]

By the way, if they are going to simply refuse to follow law and put this bill in front of Obama without voting on it, then I will hereby and willfully violate it, purposely, including dropping my insurance. And I will send letters to all sorts of authorities to come get me.

[arthurus]

If they get it passed this way and then years later the USSC strikes it down the hundreds of thousands of new nomenklatura will have been hired and The Republicans, no matter what their status, will not vote to fire all those new “employees”. We will be stuck with them. The level of government control is directly related to the number of bureaucrats. The legislated control creates the jobs but if the jobs are filled and the powers taken away, the jobs and new bureaucrats won’t go away. They will just be shifted in emphasis somewhat.

[arthurus]

The Social Democrats don’t seem to think so.

[meyer]

By the way, if they are going to simply refuse to follow law and put this bill in front of Obama without voting on it, then I will hereby and willfully violate it,...

I think that passing this monstrosity through such unconstitutional means calls for some very strong civil disobedience at a minimum. I'm not ready to go rambo on them yet, nor am I thinking about overturning parked cars or burning dumpsters near the local university. But I am thinking that if this monstrosity passes regardless of the means, we should be taking very large, decisive steps to shut this economy down.

[Karma Police]

it had better not happen during American idol or reruns of “the office.”

[savedbygrace]

We’re left wondering if this, coming from Congresswoman Slaughter, has any teeth in it.

[Hoodat]

Article I, Section 7 - All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives

The bill currently before the House raises revenue and originated in the Senate.

[Atlantan]

Eric Cantor talked about this on Hannity today.

[guitarplayer1953]

Why is there not a mandatory retirement age in the Government? If there is why is this person still there?

[The Comedian]

If this usurpation is enacted, I'm unilaterally passing an equally-valid law classifying all Democrat and RINO Congresspersons as fire wood.

Harvest, stack, and light accordingly.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[CharlesWayneCT]

How could they. THe media couldn’t possibly let them get away with something like that. The ridicule and scorn would leave the democratic party so damaged they couldn’t be elected dog catcher.

OK, so that’s how it SHOULD be. Who knows how the media would react given their love of all things Obama.

I have no idea how this helps them. Anybody who votes for a bill that passes the Senate bill will have voted to pass the Senate bill. And they still have the problem that the Senate can’t pass a reconciliation that changes a bill that hasn’t been signed.

Anyway, it is clear this is extraordinary, and absurd, because nobody spoke of this before they lost their supermajority.

My bigger question is how the CBO is currently scoring the reconciliation. CBO has already said that they must accept bills at face value, and based on current law. The changes they are scoring must be scored relative to the current law, not based on some other law that hasn’t been passed yet. It will be very interesting to see what sort of score comes back.

[vpintheak]

Agreed. Why does it seem like every day draws us closer to revolution?

[eleni121]

Louuuuise....she use her pure kentucky twang like a badge of honor...seriously I’ve talked to african americans in her district who thought she was black.

What a ridiculous hag...

[GregoryFul]

We ought to organize a national strike to get these F**kers attention. Somebody say when!

[Squat]

whores!