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Healthcare reform bill shaping up for vote

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Saturday 20th March, 2010

The on-going saga of the US healthcare reform bill may be put to rest Sunday as preparations are made for a historic vote.
A controversial healthcare reform bill in the United States will finally come to a vote in Congress on Sunday, as President Obama and his administration work all out to get the majority needed to see the bill passed.

"I feel very sure that we will vote sometime after 2 o'clock on Sunday and the bill will pass," Democratic Representative James Clyburn, the top House vote-counter, told reporters.

Obama has postponed, to June, a planned trip to Asia in order to weigh-in in the 11th hour and make personal appeals to undecided members of the House of Representatives.

The bill aims to extend medical coverage to 32-million Americans who currently don’t have any. The US is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not offer universal healthcare coverage to citizens.

According to the Democratic plan, the House must approve the Senate’s version of the legislation on Sunday, so that both chambers could approve whatever ‘fixes’ are implemented to make the bill more to the House’s liking.

Republicans in the House of Representative emphasized their united opposition to the bill.

"We're going to continue to work closely together to do everything that we can do to make sure that this Bill never, ever, ever passes," said Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner.

Obama’s team has used figures from the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) which shows that the Bill would cut the US budget deficit by $138-billion by 2019 and $1,2-trillion the following decade.

"This is but one virtue of a reform that will bring the accountability to the insurance industry and greater economic security to all Americans," said Obama.
 

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kawahchan
03-20-10, 11:37 AM

US healthcare bill coming down to the wire

Republican US Congress and Senate: Once you have double-digit number of UNEMPLOYMENT rate nationwide, (D) Sen. Barbara Boxer led 12.5% UNEMPLOYMENT rate resulted of Boxer’s 18 years of mis-senatorship in California; what the Democrats to choose to GIVE UP their political career on 2010 General Election to EXCHANGE an immature Obama’s healthcare/insurance bill ? Is it worth to the Democrats ? In the United States, many households are still short of family-budget on their dinner table to meet the law required to purchase a premium of health insurance. The 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s White House will PROMISE TO AMERICAN PEOPLE, the Obama’s healthcare reform will be VETOed on January 23rd, 2013 before Obama’s healthcare legislation huring our American middle-(low) class. Republicans and the American Tea Party + the start-up American Coffee Party will START ALL OVER to draft another PRACTICAL healthcare reform bill to suitable everyone, but NOT to ask your “next door” to burden on your sickness bill like Obama’s Socialism.

* 2010 (R) CARLETON S. FIORINA (Carly) for 2010 US Senator of California.
* 2010 (R) MEG WHITMAN for 2010 California Governor.

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03-20-10, 01:06 PM

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registered
03-20-10, 01:26 PM

Healthcare being rammed through illegally.

The Democrats are assaulting the very pillars of our democracy. As the debate on Obamacare reaches the long, painful end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confronting a political nightmare. She may not have the 216 votes necessary to pass the Senate’s health care bill in the House.

Hence, Mrs. Pelosi and her congressional Democratic allies are seriously considering using a procedural ruse to circumvent the traditional constitutional process. Led by Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, New York Democrat and chairman of the House Rules Committee, the new plan - called the “Slaughter Solution” - is not to pass the Senate version on an up-or-down vote. Rather, it is to have the House “deem” that the legislation was passed and then have members vote directly on a series of “sidecar” amendments to fix the things it does not like.

This would enable House Democrats to avoid going on the record voting for provisions in the Senate bill - the “Cornhusker Kickback," the “Louisiana Purchase," the tax on high-cost so-called “Cadillac” insurance plans - that are reviled by the public or labor-union bosses. If the reconciliation fixes pass, the House can send the Senate bill to President Obama for his signature without ever having had a formal up-or-down vote on the underlying legislation.

Many Democrats could claim they opposed the Senate bill while allowing it to pass. This would be an unprecedented violation of our democratic norms and procedures, established since the inception of the republic. Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution stipulates that for any bill to become a law, it must pass both the House of Representatives and the Senate. That is, not be “deemed” to have passed, but actually be voted on with the support of the required majority. The bill must contain the exact same language in both chambers - and in the version signed by the president - to be a legitimate law. This is why the House and Senate have a conference committee to iron out differences of competing versions. This is Civics 101.

The Slaughter Solution is a dagger aimed at the heart of our system of checks and balances. It would enable the Democrats to establish an ominous precedent: The lawmaking process can be rigged to ensure the passage of any legislation without democratic accountability or even a congressional majority. It is the road to a soft tyranny. James Madison must be turning in his grave.

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Mr. Obama is imposing a leftist revolution. Since coming to office, he has behaved without any constitutional restraints. The power of the federal government has exploded. He has de facto nationalized key sectors of American life - the big banks, financial institutions, the automakers, large tracts of energy-rich land from Montana to New Mexico. His cap-and-trade proposal, along with a newly empowered Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to impose massive new taxes and regulations upon industry. It is a form of green socialism: Much of the economy would fall under a command-and-control bureaucratic corporatist state. Mr. Obama even wants the government to take over student loans.

Yet his primary goal has always been to gobble up the health care system. The most troubling aspect of the Obamacare debate, however, is not the measure’s sweeping and radical aims - the transformation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy, crippling tax increases, higher premiums, state-sanctioned rationing, longer waiting lines, the erosion of the quality of medical care and the creation of a huge, permanent administrative bureaucracy. Rather, the most alarming aspect is the lengths to which the Democrats are willing to go to achieve their progressive, anti-capitalist agenda.

Obamacare is opposed by nearly two-thirds of the public, more than 60 percent of independents and almost all Republicans and conservatives. It has badly fractured the country, dangerously polarizing it along ideological and racial lines. Even a majority of Democrats in the House are deeply reluctant to support it.

Numerous states - from Idaho to Virginia to Texas - have said they will sue the federal government should Obamacare become law. They will declare themselves exempt from its provisions, tying up the legislation in the courts for years to come.

Mr. Obama is willing to devour his presidency, his party’s congressional majority and - most disturbing - our democratic institutional safeguards to enact it. He is a reckless ideologue who is willing to sacrifice the country’s stability in pursuit of a socialist utopia.

The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy.

It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment. The Slaughter Solution would replace the rule of law with arbitrary one-party rule. It violates the entire basis of our constitutional government - meeting the threshold of “high crimes and misdemeanors." If it’s enacted, Republicans should campaign for the November elections not only on repealing Obamacare, but on removing Mr. Obama and his gang of leftist thugs from office.

It is time Americans drew a line in the sand. Mr. Obama crosses it at his peril.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute, a Washington think tank. He is the daily host of “The Kuhner Show” on WTNT 570-AM (www.talk570.com) from noon until 3 p.m

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03-20-10, 05:43 PM

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` ~galljdaj+
03-20-10, 05:52 PM

Poster 1:26 PM is almost too funny!!

He speaks down to American Citizens, claiming they need to learn Civics 101 !!!

But he has steadfastly over the the years denied, Our Rule of Law!

And he now speaks down to us claiming illegalities in the Congress! He totally accepted lil bush’s scratching out portions of legislation and then signing it into Our Law without so much as a headsup! Those and lil things like war crimes were of no issue, and if complaints were heard by the poster he often countered 'traitor' accusations! And a few other unpleasantries!

Ironic! isn’t it! He’s getting bad legislation shoved down his lil nose ears and eyes! along with all the crap in the panties he wears around his head!

Anonymous
03-20-10, 07:06 PM

November will tell

I won’t need to be reminded of this when I go to the polls,I’m so disgusted.I would go so far as even voting for galljdad before voting for a democrat.

nregistered
03-20-10, 07:18 PM

FIRST your not an American no matter your claims

` ~galljdaj+;192609:
He speaks down to American Citizens, claiming they need to learn Civics 101 !!!!




Nope thems your words not mine!


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But he has steadfastly over the the years denied, Our Rule of Law!![/QUOTE:





Your proof?
Rule of law you don’t even know what the true meaning of the term is!
Your idea regarding rule of law is what ever the dictator demands AS LONG AS HE IS LEFT LEANING!

[QUOTE]

And he now speaks down to us claiming illegalities in the Congress! He totally accepted lil bush’s scratching out portions of legislation and then signing it into Our Law without so much as a headsup! Those and lil things like war crimes were of no issue, and if complaints were heard by the poster he often countered 'traitor' accusations! And a few other unpleasantries!

Ironic! isn’t it! He’s getting bad legislation shoved down his lil nose ears and eyes! along with all the crap in the panties he wears around his head!



Your so full of crap your eyes are brown now go back and tell your Cuban bosses the mean Conservative has called you out and exposed your lies once again.
Like it or not Bush followed the laws he had a majority and used them.
Obama can’t even get the job done with a massive majority with out resorting to lying, bribing, threatening and breaking the law!
He is a Marxist through and through and when he is finally tossed out of office muy hope is he will be tried for treason.
Once the current criminal clan is dealt with the last group should be investigated for 9-11 and bankster fraud.

canuck
03-21-10, 03:49 AM

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When the healthcare bill passes, the USA will finally fall in line with all the other civilised western countries. It is very unpatriotic to leave 32 million Americans without coverage. Jesus teaches the following: " What you did to the least of me, you did unto me”. Right now, there is no such thing as a free market system in the Health Care industry. There is little competition! America is not a free democracy, if it straight jacketed by a few insurance corporations.

` ~galljdaj+
03-21-10, 07:40 AM

While its easy to agree with the 'canadian' quip...

... . I find very little evidence that the US Capitalism is still in a 'free market system', and that the topic of healthcare/insurance is alone or stands out!

Our Government sold out the Peoples with wonderful ronnie, and the Peoples failed in their Duties by electing him and his gang repeatedly. While the Democrats were/are a rival gang, they too became a gang against the Peoples and the Peoples again have failed by electing simply another gang!

Today, we have three gangs running capitalism and it has gone global into Globalization. Republican, Democrats, and the Wealthy Elite Masters now control the Major League of Wealth. Yes if you want to start a lawn business cleaning houses or some other service on the cheap, its a free market where you can be taken! However, work the other end of the system and expect to find locked vaults and eager to hear idea theives! Anything but a free market system.

Look at what the free market system has done to Cuba, is doing to Venezuela, and has done to the whole of South America!

Extreme Wealthy and extreme poor! Where the poor had no education no health care no jobs and food. The Majority had or has Poverty! The Resources of South America went to the very few! And the USA ELITES CONTROLED THE MARKET SYSTEM! THE GOVERNMENTS AND THE WAR MAKING!

nregistered
03-21-10, 11:28 PM

And the criminals have illegally passed the bill!

Look for Mark Levin to take them to the supreme court over it.
It is high time Americans take an active role in Government.
After thirty years of arm chairs T.V. BEER and footbal we hae earned an out of control criminal government that is now deaf to the will of the majority.
There is no free ride!
Look for these criminals to now force another vote for amensty bankrupting America with 40 million illegal aliens.
Look for them to repeal the 22nd amendment and stick us with this POS Obama for thirty years.
Our very own tin pot dictator.


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