Cornhusker Kickback And Other Special Deals Still In Health Care Bill

Final health bill omits some of Obama’s promises.  AP/Yahoo.

…President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes.

Yet when Democrats unveiled the final, incarnation of their health care bill this week, the proposal was nowhere to be found.

Ditto with several Republican ideas that Obama had said he wanted to include after a televised bipartisan summit last month, including a plan by Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to send investigators disguised as patients to hospitals in search of waste, fraud and abuse.

And those “special deals” that Obama railed against and said he wanted to eliminate? With the exception of two of the most notorious — extra Medicaid money for Nebraska and a carve-out for Florida seniors faced with losing certain extra Medicare benefits — they are all still there.

Broken promises and much wheeling and dealing remain an indelible part of the current White House administration that has consistent failed in its promise of transparency. 

See:

• http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_obama_s_promises

ACORN Funds Flow Again

Breaking: While An Anxious Nation Is Transfixed By The Healthcare Debate, The Obama Administration Restores ACORN Funding.  Big Government.

In a March 16 memo Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag quietly ordered federal agencies to resume funding the group whose employees were caught on hidden camera videos last year condoning a variety of crimes including child prostitution and tax evasion.

How wonderful of the government to start funding this group again, after their own self-styled illegal promoting ways brought them reputation-staining status.

See:

• http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2010/03/19/breaking-while-an-anxious-nation-is-transfixed-by-the-healthcare-debate-the-obama-administration-restores-acorn-funding/
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-12.pdf

Congressional Voting Rights Resolution To Fight Deem And Pass

From Dan Perrin at Red State, who asks that the following be reposted throughout the internet to let the legislators in Washington, D.C. know exactly how America feels. 

“Mr. President, I send an unprinted Amendment to the desk,”

“Mr. President, I send an unprinted Amendment to the desk, and ask for its immediate consideration,” are the exact words that any U.S. Senator can say when offering this amendment on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

This amendment, below, should be walked down to the floor of the U.S. Senate and voted on prior to any vote on the floor of the U.S. House, in order to prepare the legal battlefield for the court challenge against the Alice-in-Wonderland-like-Red-Queen, Speaker Pelosi, and her dictatorial and unconstitutional scheme to pass the Senate Health Care bill without voting on it. While we are uncertain that we will be fighting on this ground, it is essential to prepare the battlefield, if we do.

This amendment, I am reliably advised, was written by a former judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals who was on President Bush’s short list for the Supreme Court (Roberts beat him out) and is recently retired and is teaching Constitutional law at one of the most prestigious national law schools at University on the west coast.

So, in other words, don’t mess with the language of this amendment. Just launch it, now on whatever bill is now pending on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

START OF TEXT OF THE AMENDMENT:

Unprinted Amendment No.___ .

Intended to Proposed by Mr. _________.

Viz:

Add at the end of the bill the following new Section:

“Sec.___ . a) Inasmuch as Sections Five and Seven of Article I of the United States Constitution mandate a certain process for the enactment of a federal law and do not allow a measure to become a law by “deeming” it passed by either House of Congress, it is the Sense of the Senate and its judgment that the House of Representatives is required by the Supreme Law of the United States, to vote directly and up or down on H.R. 3590 in order to send that measure lawfully to the President, if, and only if, it shall have been approved by a majority vote of each such House taken on an identical measure; and, more particularly, it is the Sense of the Senate that, in conformity with Article I of the Constitution, the House of Representatives, unless the measure is returned to the Senate with an Amendment by the House, must vote directly on the language sent to it by the Senate precisely as it was duly enrolled at the direction of the Senate by its Enrolling Clerk, certified as an Act of the Senate by the Secretary of the Senate, and thereupon transmitted by the Senate’s Messenger to the House Chamber while the House of Representatives was in actual Session.

b) It is the further Sense of the Senate that the exact words that the Senate caused to be enrolled on parchment and taken by messenger to the House of Representatives, constitute the sole document and the only document upon which Members of the House can lawfully cast their vote, whether Yea or Nay, under the process expressly mandated by the United States Constitution; and it is also the Sense of the Senate and its judgment that to do otherwise by “deeming” rather than voting would void any purported enactment, deprive it of the force of law, justify disobedience to it, and cause irreparable violence and harm to our system of government and its fundamental law through fraud, deception, abuse of power, and usurpation of the civil rights of the People.

c) This Section maybe cited as the “Congressional Voting Rights Resolution.”.

END OF AMENDMENT TEXT.

Additionally.

I further ask all patriots and Americans who care deeply about the U.S. Consititution to re-post the text of this Amendment every where possible on the internet. Specifically, wallpaper the web with the text of the this Amendment, today.

See:

• http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2010/03/18/mr-president-i-send-an-unprinted-amendment-to-the-desk/
• http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2010/03/call-for-help-dan-perrin-of-redstate.html

Health Care Votes For Sale Makes America Ill

The House Of Ill Repute is open for business!  The employees crawl out of their Rat Hole when called to work.  The proprietor then proclaims I won. 

But the people know the ObamaCareLess Card is a bottom-less expense pit  sham.  Obamo Abysmol might serve some temporary symptomatic relief.  A comforting thought, until Dr Nobama appears before you.   

The mere thought of  the Top Ten Indicators That Your Employer Has Changed To Obama’s Health Care Plan, is enough to make anyone wonder what happened to all the real doctors.  Humor aside, what really sticks in the craw is the mortifying thought of a trip in the Obamacare Pace Car.

See:

• http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=19690
• http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=19682
• http://furiousdiaper.com/?p=2404
• http://www.freakingnews.com/OBAMO-ABYSMOL-Pictures-77946.asp
• http://www.freakingnews.com/Dr-Nobama-Pictures-77981.asp
• http://quipster.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/top-ten-indicators-your-employer-has-changed-to-obamacare-plan/
• http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/912-invisible-no-more-millions-on-the-mall.html

Fiendish Democrat Health Care Bill Calamity

And the health care debacle continues to deteriorate.  Democrats Go Kamikaze Over Health Care! 

• Democrats Against Democracy.  AS.
• There’s No ‘I’ in ‘Deem’ – Dems pushing ObamaCare look increasingly desperate and creepy.  WSJ. 
• ‘Deem and Pass’ Shows Democrats’ Healthcare Arrogance Problem.  USNWR.
• CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion.  WS.
• Thought of the day: “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing”.  HA.
• Democratic Health Care Plan Means $520 Billion Cuts in Medicare & $200 Billion in Taxes on Individuals & Small Businesses.  GP.
• ObamaCare is Tyranny, Not Legislation.  AT
• Fox News Poll: 55% Oppose Health Care Reform.  Fox.
• Now for the Slaughter.  WSJ. 

…Barack Obama. It revealed his primary weakness in speaking of health care, which is a tendency to dodge, obfuscate and mislead. He grows testy when challenged. It revealed what the president doesn’t want revealed, which is that he doesn’t want to reveal much about his plan. This furtiveness is not helpful in a time of high public anxiety.

The president—every president—works for us. We don’t work for him.

Staggering and inexplicable.  The Democrats are maniacally consumed in a quest to spend taxpayer’s dollars on their health care agenda which will live in infamy.  And in the process, destroy themselves.   

See:

• http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/17/democrats-against-democracy
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704743404575127690939847922.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
• http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2010/03/16/deem-and-pass-shows-democrats-healthcare-arrogance-problem.html 
• http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbo-obamacare-would-cost-over-2-trillion
• http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/18/thought-of-the-day-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-tie-our-hands-we-will-keep-stealing/
• http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/democratic-health-care-plan-means-520-billion-cuts-in-medicare/
• http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/obamacare_is_tyranny_not_legis.html
• http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/18/fox-news-poll-oppose-health-care-reform/
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704207504575130081383279888.html

Voters Will Take Health Care Supporters To Task Come Election Time

Obama says he will be vindicated by history.  USA Today.

“Somebody who votes for this bill, they’re going to be judged at the polls,” Obama says. “And the same is going to be true if they vote against it.”

The delusional mind fails to see the danger he himself has set into play, just as much as the delusional mind willingly submits to the same.

Voters do remember and do hold accountable those who have failed in their elected positions, to represent their constituents’ best interests.  November is just a short time away.

“Deem and pass.  Self-execution rule.  Dems:  Health care fix versus November elections.  Nancy Pelosi:   “‘Trust me. You won’t feel a thing.’”
Image courtesy of Gary Varvel via http://blogs.indystar.com/varvelblog/archives/2010/03/deem_and_pass.html.

See;

• http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/03/obama-says-he-will-be-vindicated-by-history/1

Congress Plays Sleight Of Hand On Health Care While Neglecting Constituents

Arrogant approach to health care.  Cincinnati Enquirer.

Democrats are devising an elaborate set of sleight-of-hand tricks to get this bill on Obama’s desk this week, including Senate “reconciliation” to avoid a GOP filibuster.

Yes, both parties have employed reconciliation in the past – it has been used by Republicans in 14 of 22 instances since being adopted in 1974 – but its purpose is supposed to be resolving budget issues, not making far-reaching policy decisions that will alter one-sixth of the U.S. economy.

Its blatant abuse is yet further damning evidence of congressional leaders’ arrogant, condescending attitude toward the people they ostensibly were elected to serve.

Congress is serving themselves.  They will get a reminder of who they actually serve November 2010. 

See:

• http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100316/EDIT01/3160365/Arrogant+approach+to+health+care

Democrats Go Kamikaze Over Health Care

Health Care Reform.  Rasmussen.   53% Oppose versus 43% Favor Health Care Plan

Overhaul Splits Party Faithful.  WSJ. 

Half of Americans, if they had the choice, would vote to replace every member of Congress, including their own representative, the survey found.

Not Even A Vote?!  IBD.

Using a parliamentary trick ironically known as the “self-executing rule,” Democrats plan on passing their massive health bill without voting. In November, they’ll learn just how “self-executing” it was.

‘Nobody Wants to Vote for the Senate bill’.  WSJ.

In ramming through an unpopular 2,700-page health care bill using brute force tactics, Democrats are in danger of passing what amounts to the longest suicide note in history. Their own pollsters are telling them the public has rebelled against their tactics. So their response is to press their foot down even harder on the gas pedal. We’ll see how that works out for them.

“Kamikaze attack.”
Image courtesy of http://www.ww2incolor.com/japan/KamikazeAttack+copy.html.

See:

• http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reformhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704688604575125992538227492.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704688604575125992538227492.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
• http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527493
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703734504575125693906113572.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Slaughter Rule Allows Health Care Bill Passage On Reconciliation Corrections Only

Slaughter House Rules - How Democrats may ‘deem’ ObamaCare into law, without voting.  WSJ.

The Slaughter rule is confusing?  Not according to the Dem’s new rule.  The House is currently considering the Senate version of the health care bill,  but do not want to vote on the bill.  Forget about it!  Just pass it using a sidestep maneuver instead.

House votes on the reconciliation CORRECTIONS only (NOT the actual bill).  If corrections pass, then the whole Senate bill passes.  But never a direct vote on the Bill itself.  That is the Slaughter rule. 

So at the Speaker’s command, New York Democrat Louise Slaughter, who chairs the House Rules Committee, may insert what’s known as a “self-executing rule,” also known as a “hereby rule.” Under this amazing procedural ruse, the House would then vote only once on the reconciliation corrections, but not on the underlying Senate bill. If those reconciliation corrections pass, the self-executing rule would say that the Senate bill is presumptively approved by the House—even without a formal up-or-down vote on the actual words of the Senate bill.

The bill is sent to the President and he signs it into law.   That simple.

This two-votes-in-one gambit is a brazen affront to the plain language of the Constitution, which is intended to require democratic accountability. Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution says that in order for a “Bill” to “become a Law,” it “shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate.” This is why the House and Senate typically have a conference committee to work out differences in what each body passes. While sometimes one house cedes entirely to another, the expectation is that its Members must re-vote on the exact language of the other body’s bill.

“The Slaughter solution attempts to allow the House to pass the Senate bill, plus a bill amending it, with a single vote. The senators would then vote only on the amendatory bill. But this means that no single bill will have passed both houses in the same form.”

And that is how partisan politics work in “the most transparent administration ever.” 

No need to represent all those constituents that are against the bill.  Just those of the Democrat majority Congress with their own underhanded ambitions and goals.  Let the record reflect their actions.  For posterity.

See:

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909804575123512773070080.html/

Mindless Drones In Congress Beckoned On Health Care

Dead Congress Walking.  The Weekly Standard.

A stranger moment in politics has seldom been seen. A vast expansion of government that affects every one of the country’s 300-plus million inhabitants may be passed by a hair against fierce and fiercely repeated public opposition by a Congress that no longer speaks for its voters—most of whose members are angry and scared. They are afraid of their voters, and mad at each other, or rather, the Democrats are… also mad at Obama, for picking the wrong cause (health care and not the economy), doing it in the wrong way (big and expensive, not incremental and smaller), and pushing them to risk their careers in backing a cause and a program neither they nor their constituents want. 

Common sense has obviously been tossed aside in lieu of joining forces with an ego driven agenda, all emanating from one community organizer.   

Jump.  Jump freely. 

“Mindless Drones.”
Image courtesy of http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_gifs/8354/mindless+Drones/.

See:

• http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dead-congress-walking