Dear Friend,
Today, in a sad moment for the House of Representatives, members of Congress turned down the opportunity to have a straight up-or-down vote on a costly health care bill that will hurt our economy, and forever alter the doctor-patient relationship. Instead Democrats jumped at Democratic leadership’s “Slaughter Solution,” the ultimate in Washington power grabs, that will allow Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) to pass the Senate health care bill – “Cornhusker Kickback” and all – through the house without a vote.
This move has drawn widespread outrage – the Cincinnati Enquirer recently declared it a “disgusting process” and an “arrogant approach” – because it is designed to protect Washington politicians when it’s American taxpayers we should be looking out for. While members of Congress might not want an up-or-down vote on a trillion-dollar government takeover of health care full of tax hikes, Medicare cuts and taxpayer funding for abortions, it’s clear where the American people stand.
Earlier this week, I welcomed 8th District residents at the Capitol who traveled to D.C. to join with Americans from across the country and scream “stop!” to the Democratic Majority in Washington. I told them I would continue to fight against this bill on behalf of them and the majority of Americans who oppose this bill, while continuing to call for Congress to start over on commonsense reforms to make our current health care system better.
The President and Democratic Leaders today showed that they are going to continue to ram, ram, ram this bill through Congress. But we can still defeat this bill. In the coming days, members of Congress will be asked to make a final vote on this massive government takeover of health care. As I told my colleagues on the floor on Tuesday, this will be the biggest vote that most Members ever cast. And so they will have an important decision to make. Will they stand with Speaker Pelosi and Washington Democrats, or will they stand with the American people?Sincerely,John Boehner
NOTE: Thank you Republican Leader Boehner for continuing to stand up for the American people!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
KUHNER: Impeach the President?
If by some chance the Democrats led by Pelosi/Hoyer acting on the orders from the Dictator Obama are able to pass this bill, we agree it needs to go directly into the Courts because it will be declared Unconsitutional. Have to wonder if Obama was being thuggish toward the SCOTUS both at the State of the Union and after to try and get them to support him. Not a chance this Supreme Court will rule that this healthcare bill that the Democrats want passed is constitutional -- doesn't get any more unconstitutional then what we are seeing. They are also bribing Senators/Representatives with jobs and pork to vote for this bill which is against the law.
We agree with this writer that Republicans need to run on repealing Healthcare and impeaching Obama and expelling Pelosi for high crimes and misdemeanors of ignoring the Consitution and making up their own rules that trash the Constitution and our systems of checks and balances.
We agree with this writer that Republicans need to run on repealing Healthcare and impeaching Obama and expelling Pelosi for high crimes and misdemeanors of ignoring the Consitution and making up their own rules that trash the Constitution and our systems of checks and balances.
KUHNER: Impeach the president?
The 'Slaughter Solution' would violate the ConstitutionJeffrey T. Kuhner
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.
(snip)
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.
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. (snip)
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.
Excerpt: Read more at
Congress mulls breaking constitution to pass health care
NOTE: Must watch this Eric Cantor speech as part of this article from the Examiner. It tells it all about Democrats -- the Constitution means nothing to them.
Congress mulls breaking constitution to pass health care
March 18, 5:46 PM
Portland Civil Rights Examiner
Dianna CotterPrevious
Eric Cantor, Minority Whip 3-18-2010The debate raging in Washington DC and across the nation this week seems to center on Health Care. In reality, it is a fight for the nation's very identity.
In the early 1930's liberal progressives in congress and the White House tried to push the Nation down the road to socialism, and to a fair degree they succeeded. They created generations of Americans dependent on a government check for their income, food, electricity, gas as well as health care.
If those funds should dry up tomorrow, not only would they be destitute, but there would be a whole lot of them. People who are starving are also known to be willing to do whatever it takes to eat including breaking laws.
The individuals that live on this meager existence can tell you that it isn't enough, and to a great degree they are correct. Yet the system can't afford to give them more, there are not the funds to do it with as it stands.
Instead of saving and investing their own funds, a whole generation of seniors entrusted their wages to Uncle Sam and people like Nancy and Barack, who then over-spent it and otherwise robbed the fund blind over decades. Now our seniors live on social security payments that they were told would take care of all their needs in their Golden Years. Very few of those people who supported the massive entitlement program now known as Social Security would call it a success, particularly for those seniors who wait at the mail box for that monthly check so they can decide between food and medicine.
Social Security has failed to live up to its billing in the 30's and 40's. But never mind the fact that the Progressives greatest "acheivment" is an abject failure and bankrupt, lets just repeat it all over again...
In light of this comes the brilliance of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, here to add another 15 million + people to the rolls of Government handouts, and they have the nerve to tell us that it won't cost us anything! Do they really think that we the people are buying into such a blatant and obvious lie? To call it insane is only to touch on the madness gripping democrats in Washington D.C.
To make matters worse, Pelosi et. al. are using the College Student Loan program to cover up the major cost increases this bill proposes, the CBO was not tasked with looking into how the Loan program is effected by and indeed used by the Health Care bill to hide the tremendous costs associated with the Health Care portion of this unconstitutional abomination. This is no different than a con artist's shell game on a street corner, and you and I are the intended marks.
So in comes another wave of Liberal/Progressive/Communist/Socialist ideologues, intending to put so much weight upon the backs of Americans that the entire system collapses (Cloward - Piven strategy of orchestrated crisis) - all the better to be able to "re-build" America in their socialist image, and that means one without that pesky Constitution getting in the way. Yes, that means Obama, Pelosi and Reid are deliberately and specifically doing all in their power to destroy the constitution. There is no other conclusion to be made. They aren't stupid, this is being done deliberately, and they will do anything, legal or not, to get what they want.
Using a parliamentary trick (they had to write a new rule just today for) deliberately, they seek to circumvent the constitution. Why? Because the Democrats don't have the votes to pass the Health Care bill.
The American public is outraged. The House Switchboard is getting upwards of 40,000 calls an hour. The overwhelming opinions of those calls are "KILL THE BILL". If the Slaughter Rule (the Democrats rule so new the ink isn't even dry yet) is used "deeming" the measure as having passed the house, (when it clearly has not and cannot), the public's outrage is going to be something to see.
Not in our lifetimes has the very foundation of our Nation been tested like this. The Health Care bill does not fit in any of the 18 enumerated powers of congress. The very bill itself is not legislation the Federal Congress can legally write. To have our government behaving in blatantly unconstitutional manners is a threat to all of us as citizens.
This isn't a partisan issue, this is an American one. What makes us American is our constitution. Without the protections afforded by this document, America will cease to exist.
It is up to all Americans to fight against the tyranny being offered on a gilt platter by the president and the congress. The meal on the platter appears appetizing, but it is full of poison. It will kill freedom.
Liberal Portland beware, socialism is only good until you run out of someone else's money.
Republican Whip Eric Cantor is correct; the American public does not want this bill. Believe this if nothing else; if it is passed into "law" by the democrats in DC, there will be hell to pay come November. If the democrat party does not change its present course, it will eventually come to be judged as a threat from within. With repeated attacks on the constitution, and blatant shunning of public will, the Democrats are venturing into territory that the English came to regret in 1776.
Beware, the sleeping giant is fully awake now, and it is not at all pleased with what is going on. In fact it is on it's feet now, and it is stepping out to stop what is happening to America, perpetrated by its leadership. The founders are rolling in their graves, they tried so hard to avoid this.
On the bright side, the Giant is awake now, and some real change is coming. Those in power now who vote for this abomination, are not going to like it much.
Source: Examiner
Congress mulls breaking constitution to pass health care
March 18, 5:46 PM
Portland Civil Rights Examiner
Dianna CotterPrevious
Eric Cantor, Minority Whip 3-18-2010The debate raging in Washington DC and across the nation this week seems to center on Health Care. In reality, it is a fight for the nation's very identity.
In the early 1930's liberal progressives in congress and the White House tried to push the Nation down the road to socialism, and to a fair degree they succeeded. They created generations of Americans dependent on a government check for their income, food, electricity, gas as well as health care.
If those funds should dry up tomorrow, not only would they be destitute, but there would be a whole lot of them. People who are starving are also known to be willing to do whatever it takes to eat including breaking laws.
The individuals that live on this meager existence can tell you that it isn't enough, and to a great degree they are correct. Yet the system can't afford to give them more, there are not the funds to do it with as it stands.
Instead of saving and investing their own funds, a whole generation of seniors entrusted their wages to Uncle Sam and people like Nancy and Barack, who then over-spent it and otherwise robbed the fund blind over decades. Now our seniors live on social security payments that they were told would take care of all their needs in their Golden Years. Very few of those people who supported the massive entitlement program now known as Social Security would call it a success, particularly for those seniors who wait at the mail box for that monthly check so they can decide between food and medicine.
Social Security has failed to live up to its billing in the 30's and 40's. But never mind the fact that the Progressives greatest "acheivment" is an abject failure and bankrupt, lets just repeat it all over again...
In light of this comes the brilliance of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, here to add another 15 million + people to the rolls of Government handouts, and they have the nerve to tell us that it won't cost us anything! Do they really think that we the people are buying into such a blatant and obvious lie? To call it insane is only to touch on the madness gripping democrats in Washington D.C.
To make matters worse, Pelosi et. al. are using the College Student Loan program to cover up the major cost increases this bill proposes, the CBO was not tasked with looking into how the Loan program is effected by and indeed used by the Health Care bill to hide the tremendous costs associated with the Health Care portion of this unconstitutional abomination. This is no different than a con artist's shell game on a street corner, and you and I are the intended marks.
So in comes another wave of Liberal/Progressive/Communist/Socialist ideologues, intending to put so much weight upon the backs of Americans that the entire system collapses (Cloward - Piven strategy of orchestrated crisis) - all the better to be able to "re-build" America in their socialist image, and that means one without that pesky Constitution getting in the way. Yes, that means Obama, Pelosi and Reid are deliberately and specifically doing all in their power to destroy the constitution. There is no other conclusion to be made. They aren't stupid, this is being done deliberately, and they will do anything, legal or not, to get what they want.
Using a parliamentary trick (they had to write a new rule just today for) deliberately, they seek to circumvent the constitution. Why? Because the Democrats don't have the votes to pass the Health Care bill.
The American public is outraged. The House Switchboard is getting upwards of 40,000 calls an hour. The overwhelming opinions of those calls are "KILL THE BILL". If the Slaughter Rule (the Democrats rule so new the ink isn't even dry yet) is used "deeming" the measure as having passed the house, (when it clearly has not and cannot), the public's outrage is going to be something to see.
Not in our lifetimes has the very foundation of our Nation been tested like this. The Health Care bill does not fit in any of the 18 enumerated powers of congress. The very bill itself is not legislation the Federal Congress can legally write. To have our government behaving in blatantly unconstitutional manners is a threat to all of us as citizens.
This isn't a partisan issue, this is an American one. What makes us American is our constitution. Without the protections afforded by this document, America will cease to exist.
It is up to all Americans to fight against the tyranny being offered on a gilt platter by the president and the congress. The meal on the platter appears appetizing, but it is full of poison. It will kill freedom.
Liberal Portland beware, socialism is only good until you run out of someone else's money.
Republican Whip Eric Cantor is correct; the American public does not want this bill. Believe this if nothing else; if it is passed into "law" by the democrats in DC, there will be hell to pay come November. If the democrat party does not change its present course, it will eventually come to be judged as a threat from within. With repeated attacks on the constitution, and blatant shunning of public will, the Democrats are venturing into territory that the English came to regret in 1776.
Beware, the sleeping giant is fully awake now, and it is not at all pleased with what is going on. In fact it is on it's feet now, and it is stepping out to stop what is happening to America, perpetrated by its leadership. The founders are rolling in their graves, they tried so hard to avoid this.
On the bright side, the Giant is awake now, and some real change is coming. Those in power now who vote for this abomination, are not going to like it much.
Source: Examiner
Pence: "America, We Can Win This Thing"
We are about to put out the sign -- Mike Pence for President in 2012! This man took to the floor of the House this morning and gave a 1-minute speech which may be the best 1-minute speech I have heard in all of these years watching C-SPAN and reading what they had to say. Mike Pence is representing all of us in America that understand what this bill is all about -- Government takeover of healthcare -- plain and simple.
Transcript of Speech:
Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the Democrats' latest plan for a government takeover of health care:
"This is a remarkable moment in the life of our nation. After years of runaway federal spending, deficits, debt, borrowing, bailouts and takeovers, against the opposition of a clear majority of the American people, the Democrats in Congress and in this administration are prepared to ram through a $1 trillion government takeover of health care.
"It's just hard to believe. Ignoring the will of the American people, twisting the rules of the House and the Senate into a pretzel, we are headed for a showdown this weekend. But I got to tell you, I like our chances.
"The reason House Democrats don't have the votes is because the American people know this is a government takeover of health care. Mandating that every American purchase health insurance whether they want it or need it or not, passing hundreds of billions of dollars in job-killing tax increases, providing public funding for abortions, and setting into motion government-run insurance that will cost millions to lose the insurance they have is a government takeover of health care.
"Let's have the debate. A minority in Congress plus the American people equals a majority. America, we can win this fight."
Transcript of Speech:
Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the Democrats' latest plan for a government takeover of health care:
"This is a remarkable moment in the life of our nation. After years of runaway federal spending, deficits, debt, borrowing, bailouts and takeovers, against the opposition of a clear majority of the American people, the Democrats in Congress and in this administration are prepared to ram through a $1 trillion government takeover of health care.
"It's just hard to believe. Ignoring the will of the American people, twisting the rules of the House and the Senate into a pretzel, we are headed for a showdown this weekend. But I got to tell you, I like our chances.
"The reason House Democrats don't have the votes is because the American people know this is a government takeover of health care. Mandating that every American purchase health insurance whether they want it or need it or not, passing hundreds of billions of dollars in job-killing tax increases, providing public funding for abortions, and setting into motion government-run insurance that will cost millions to lose the insurance they have is a government takeover of health care.
"Let's have the debate. A minority in Congress plus the American people equals a majority. America, we can win this fight."
Democrats are Lying -- The CBO Score, As Reported by Steny Hoyer
Read the title and understand that the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Hoyer and Majority Whip Clyburn are reporting numbers from the Ccongressional Budget Office (CBO) when they havn't finished scoring the bill. Clyburn is 'giddy' about the numbers which are phony and our illustrious media reports the Hoyer numbers as facts never questioning if they are true. What we have from the Democrats is phony numbers to go with the phony bill they want to 'deemed' passed.
Unlike the media, Congressman Ryan chose to call the CBO this morning and this is what he had to say after his call: “The Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that there is currently no official cost estimate.
Are we going to hear from the media that Hoyer's numbers were made up? Probably not as most of the media is in lockstep with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid led Progressive Democrats to pass this bill they don't even know what it is in the bill. Any Democrat voting for this bill is a Progressive whether they want to admit it or not.
Hoyer needs to resign as Majority Leader for giving out phony numbers for the CBO when they haven't finished scoring. Since he is a Democrat, he will stay in office and keep lying while the media will stay silent that they reported bad information. Hoyer and the rest of the Democrats who
Democrat voters for the most part should be getting fed up with the Democrats representing them in DC who will lie, cheat, and steal to get a healthcare bill passed that over 2/3 of America don't want. Americans do want this horrendous bill scrapped and the healthcare debate started over with a bill that fixes the problems not makes it worse.
Unlike the media, Congressman Ryan chose to call the CBO this morning and this is what he had to say after his call: “The Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that there is currently no official cost estimate.
Are we going to hear from the media that Hoyer's numbers were made up? Probably not as most of the media is in lockstep with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid led Progressive Democrats to pass this bill they don't even know what it is in the bill. Any Democrat voting for this bill is a Progressive whether they want to admit it or not.
Hoyer needs to resign as Majority Leader for giving out phony numbers for the CBO when they haven't finished scoring. Since he is a Democrat, he will stay in office and keep lying while the media will stay silent that they reported bad information. Hoyer and the rest of the Democrats who
Democrat voters for the most part should be getting fed up with the Democrats representing them in DC who will lie, cheat, and steal to get a healthcare bill passed that over 2/3 of America don't want. Americans do want this horrendous bill scrapped and the healthcare debate started over with a bill that fixes the problems not makes it worse.
The CBO Score, As Reported by Steny Hoyer
NRO The Corner
03/18/10 at 10:37 AM
Kathryn Jean Lopez
House Budget Committee Ranking Republican Paul Ryan responds to an NRO query about the news this morning: “The Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that there is currently no official cost estimate".
Yet House Democrats are touting to the press — and spinning for partisan gain — numbers that have not been released and are impossible to confirm.
Rep. James Clyburn stated he was 'giddy' about these unsubstantiated numbers. This is the latest outrageous exploitation by the Majority — in this case abusing the confidentiality of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office — to pass their massive health care overhaul at any cost.”
This CBO reporting this morning really is remarkable to me — the news is simply what Steny Hoyer says it is.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Obama: “The Louisiana Purchase would cover an earthquake in Hawaii”?
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln
Obama should have followed those words!
From Hot Air: This moment, from Bret Baier’s interview on Fox News with Obama, might just be one of the biggest “WTF?!” moments from Obama’s presidency yet. Obama is either completely making things up, living in an alternate reality, or really, really confused.
Actually, my guess is that’s it’s probably a combination of all three.
Excerpt: Read More at Hot Air
Obama should have followed those words!
From Hot Air: This moment, from Bret Baier’s interview on Fox News with Obama, might just be one of the biggest “WTF?!” moments from Obama’s presidency yet. Obama is either completely making things up, living in an alternate reality, or really, really confused.
Actually, my guess is that’s it’s probably a combination of all three.
Excerpt: Read More at Hot Air
Pence Urges Congress to Reject the "Slaughter House Rule"
Pence Urges Congress to Reject the "Slaughter House Rule" Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today in support of an effort by House Republicans to force a vote on a resolution that would require an up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed health care bill:
Cong Mike Pence and the House Republican Conference are standing up for all of the taxpayers of America. If you have a chance, please thank your Republican Representative.
Cong Mike Pence and the House Republican Conference are standing up for all of the taxpayers of America. If you have a chance, please thank your Republican Representative.
"The American people know what's going on in Washington. Whether it's the back room deals for special interests or the flagrant abuse of the legislative process, the American people have had enough with the status-quo in Washington. Despite what some leading Democrats may say, the public is demanding a fair and open process. If the Democrat plan for a government takeover of health care is really in the best interests of the country, I challenge Speaker Pelosi to bring it out of the shadows immediately and allow an up or down vote on the bill.
"The American people have a right to watch their elected representatives cast their votes on an issue that will impact every American life. I am proud to join Rep. Parker Griffith (R-AL) and other House Republicans in forcing a fair, up or down vote on the Senate health care bill and I urge every Member of Congress to do the same."
Obama on Slaughter strategy: “I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the … rules are”
Obama could care less if the Democrats follow the Constitution or not. What kind of President did some of the American people elect. If this is an example of Hope and Change, then Americans have gotten shortchanged!
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