No truer words have ever been spoken by the Democrats in Congress when it comes to making sure that Barack Obama’s agenda is more important than the will of the American People. US Constitution and We the People be damned. Democrat US Representative from Florida Alcee Hastings stated the following: |
“There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along” |
We are supposed to live in a Representative Democracy. Might some one tell us who the Democrats are representing these days? How can ever poll taken be against Obamacare, yet President Obama, Pelosi and Reid keep feeding us the line that they are doing this for the American people? Why, because they make that stuff up to as they go along. Read more at scaredmonkeys.com |
Key House Democrat: “There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along” |
From CBS News: The White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle has been feverishly sending out unsolicited email messages to federal employees in an effort to build support for President Barack Obama’s health reform package over the last several weeks[...] |
The Department of State employees, who receive hundreds of official government emails every day, have complained about the annoying and partisan emails but are nervous to go public for fear of retribution. The emails are addressed to the federal employees by name and use the official .gov address. |
| The unsolicited emails also request that the federal employees take action in order to ensure that Obama’s health reform package is passed and the federal budget isn’t at risk for bankruptcy. One federal employee was so concerned about DeParle’s language in one email that he questioned whether his department’s budget would be cut or eliminated without passage of Obama’s bill.Read more at anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com |
The Right Scoop catches Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) explaining some of the deficiencies of the CBO analysis of the House reconciliation package on Fox & Friends this morning. Not only does the CBO play along with the double-counting of Medicare cuts — which argues that the money will go both to shoring up Medicare while also funding the expansion of Medicaid — it fails to include the “doctor fix” that Democrats plan to pursue after ObamaCare passes: |
The double counting is pretty bad too, but the worst part is the fact that they delayed the benefits, but not the taxes, for 4 years to make it seem like it will save money. Are Americans really going to fall for such a blatant gimmick? 6 years of benefits for 10 years of taxes? |
| Just what we need - 15,000 more IRS agents tasked with making sure that as per Obama’s decree everyone buys a private product - insurance - to the government’s liking. From HotAir: |
| The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends).
Read more at www.rasmussenreports.com |
| The House will likely adopt a “self-executing” rule that “deems” passage of the amendatory bill as enactment of the Senate bill, without an actual vote on the latter. |
This enables the House to enact the Senate bill while appearing only to approve changes to it. The underlying Senate bill would then go to the president for signature, and the amendatory bill would go to the Senate for consideration under reconciliation procedures (meaning no filibuster). |
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D., N.Y.), chair of the House Rules Committee and prime mover behind this approach, has released a letter from Yale Law School’s Jack Balkin asserting that a “rule which consolidates a vote on a bill and accompanying amendments, or, as in this case, a reconciliation measure and an amended bill, is within the House’s powers under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2.” |
| But that does not actually address the point at issue. No one doubts that the House can consolidate two bills in a single measure; the question is whether,Read more at online.wsj.com |
I guess Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli didn’t listen to Obama’s latest lecture on health care. |
The Washington Post: A spokesman for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) said this afternoon that Virginia will file suit against the federal government if the Democratic health care reform bill is approved by the U.S. Congress. |
Cuccinelli has long said he was examining the legal issues and suggested he would likely file suit. Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for the office, said this afternoon that a lawsuit is now a definite. Gottstein would provide no details of the legal rationale for such a suit, indicating the process is “still being worked out.” |
Virginia last week became the first state in the country to pass a state bill declaring it illegal for the government to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a key part of bills under consideration on Capitol Hill. Read more at www.lonelyconservative.com |
House Democrats have released the text of their reconciliation
bill, which you can view here.
There’s a lot to go through, but it’s immediately worth noting
that one of the ways in which they will finance the increased
spending in the latest version of their bill is to hike the
Medicare payroll tax again — making that the fourth time the tax
has been hiked even before Obamacare becomes law.
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| Back in November, Senate Democrats unveiled a plan that increased
the Medicare payroll tax by 0.5 percent for individuals earning
over $200,000 and couples earning over $250,000 (thus a marriage
penalty). The following month, to raise additional revenue for
the costlier version of the Senate health care bill that ended up
passing, the tax was raised to 0.9 percent. But in the White
House proposal released last month, President Obama decided to
keep this tax, and then impose an additional 2.9 percent tax on
income “from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and
rents…”Read more at spectator.org |
The nasty car crash that is Obamacare is dragging down Barack Obama’s presidency. The cancellation of his visit to Indonesia and Australia to stay at home offering pork-barrel enticements to doubtful House Democrats is the kind of desperate expedient we expect from Third World dictators apprised of a potential coup at home. It advertised to the world the precarious nature of a presidency that has all but lost control. |
In his obsession with his healthcare fantasy, Obama is prepared even to allow the subversion of the US Constitution. For what else is the so-called Slaughter Solution? Leaving aside the grim irony of this name being associated with legislation that seeks to promote an explosion of abortions in America by injecting billions of dollars into state support of that abomination – and thereby making every taxpayer complicit in abortion – the fact remains that the fundamental purpose of the Slaughter Solution is to bypass the American Constitution. Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk |
Americans for Tax Reform has a good breakdown of the bill by the numbers. |
New tax mandates and penalties included in Obamacare will cause the greatest expansion of the Internal Revenue Service since World War II, according to a release from Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas. |
| A new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee minority staff estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will be needed to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses in the ‘reconciliation’ bill being taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives this weekend. |
Scores of new federal mandates and fifteen different tax increases totaling $400 billion are imposed under the Democratic House bill. In addition to more complicated tax returns, families and small businesses will be forced to reveal further tax information to the IRS, provide proof of ‘government approved’ health care and submit detailed sales information to comply with new excise taxes. Read more at www.washingtonexaminer.com |
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the Congress once again rallies to pass healthcare reform legislation, momentum is growing in many states to pass laws to block the changes — a move that could lead to a legal battle over states’ sovereignty. |
Bills and resolutions have been introduced in at least 36 state legislatures seeking to limit or oppose various aspects of the reform plan through laws or state constitutional amendments, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. |
“There’s going to be a big free-for-all lawsuit about this,” said Michael Bird, legislative counsel for the NCSL. |
Democratic House leaders on Friday voiced growing confidence of winning a close vote. If the bill passes the House, it would then only have to pass the Senate by a simple majority under the planned procedure on the legislation. |
| So far, only two states, Idaho and Virginia, have enacted laws, while an Arizona constitutional amendment is seeking voterRead more at www.reuters.com |
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We don’t need no stinkin’ rules, we make up stuff as we go
