From Maine to Hawaii, Americans send people to Washington, D.C., to be their representatives. Let me repeat that – to be their representatives.
That means casting votes that reflect the will of the people who elected them to do the job.
In that spirit of Hope and Change, that's all going out the window.
Vote? What's that?
Obama has spent his entire first year getting around the congress and that pesky voting thing. If he can't push it through legitimately, he does a go-around and gets his Will implemented through another agency – like the FCC, the EPA.
But now, the most daring of tyranny and despotism — Queen Nancy will be pushing that Healthcare bill through – without a single vote!
Never mind the unconstitutionality of the whole thing. She does not give a crap about you — or Social Security recipients. That's going to be cut drastically to fund this. Certainly
But Pelosi and Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. are hard at work, plotting to pass the Senate's health care bill without forcing rank-and-file Democrats to go on record by voting to support it.
Here's how the process would work:
Under a tactic known as a "self-executing rule," the House could simultaneously approve the Senate bill while voting on a package of changes to it. This would "deem" the Senate bill to be passed, without having any members to vote for it directly.
That violates Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution, which states that a bill becomes law when it "shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate" and the president signs it.
Does anyone care?
