Key Democrat Says Using Slaughter Rule Is "Wrong"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 2:46 PM
One democrat sees the light… Or, the approaching train at the end of the tunnel.
Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) says using the Slaughter Rule to ram through nationalized health care is just “wrong.”
No kidding.
The Hill reported:
A plan that would allow House Democrats to bypass a direct vote on the Senate’s healthcare bill is causing “discomfort,” a key centrist Democrat said Tuesday.
Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.), a member of the Blue Dog and New Democrat Coalitions, said that the plan to pass the plan using the so-called “deem and pass” procedure is “wrong” and unpopular among his constituents.
There’s a lot of discomfort with the reconciliation process, the self-implementing rule, where you wouldn’t have a formal vote on maybe the most important policy of the past 40 years,” he said on Fox Business Network. “I have a big issue with the way they’re doing the process. I think it’s wrong and my constituents don’t like it.”
Altmire, a no vote on the House’s healthcare bill in November who is now undecided, is seen by many as critical to passage.
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gus commented:
Oh crap now Opie won’t campaign for him.
Imagine your consciense (or fear of being sh!tcanned) getting in the way with MARXISM.
Major Kong commented:
“I have a big issue with the way they’re doing the process. I think it’s wrong and my constituents don’t like it.”
The “big issue” wouldn’t be that this maneuver displays complete and total disdain and contempt for that nettlesome speed-bump known as The Constitution, would it Congressman?
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olm commented:
Wait a minute. I thought I read that no tea partiers showed up.
I think the quote I read was that one liberal said he’d seen more people at a birthday party. That picture sure looks like alot of people to me.
Ladue Pundit commented:
gus
Is O-Bow-Mao threatening Dems by withholding his presence at their campaign stops?
I guess this is his way of explaining why he won’t be seen with any Dems…their choice, not his.
Opus #6 commented:
More Dems should speak out against this. It is wrong. Whatever rules were bent to get us to this point need to be unbent.
A Casual Observer commented:
This whole healthcare legislation thing has been so sleazy. Meetings behind closed doors. Excluding Republicans. Dirty tricks to ram it through. I’ve never seen such slimy politics. The politician in Washington are out of control. This is the worst that I’ve ever seen it.
A Casual Observer commented:
It’s the economy and jobs, stupid. Screw healthcare for the time being.
gus commented:
Ladue. He is toxic. One year and THE HOPE AND DEAD ENDERS have dumped DEAR LEADER from their guest lists.
Epic EFF-UP Obama.
It can only be explained by the misjudgement of the left. They thought he was “one of them”.
Most of them are just garden variety LIBTARDS.
Obama is a committed, deluded, retarded Marxist.
Major Kong commented:
http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2010/03/16/there-will-not-be-an-up-or-down-vote-on-obamacare/#comments
The left is upset that the major news media is reporting that the “Slaughter Rule” may have some constitutional problems.
“…major news media…”? Asking uncomfortable questions? Wonder who rattled their cage?
DINORight commented:
“Tea Party activists from across the country rallied outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion health care bill.”
Why did Politico say today that Dems are laughing because only 200 or 300 protesters showed up!? It is GREAT! to see so many were there to send the message, loud and clear: KILL THE BILL!
Dead. Forever. Dead.
A Casual Observer commented:
This president seems to have an obsessive-compulsive mental disorder; a one-track mind. Needless to say, he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
The guy doesn’t have any leadership skills, none whatsoever. The guy is an empty suit.
Thanks 52%ers. You dimwits. You’ve really done it this time.
David Johnson commented:
Michelle Obama trying to feed our children apples with pictures of Karl Marx is also wrong:
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/03/16/why-is-there-a-picture-of-karl-marx-hidden-on-this-apple-in-the-latest-newsweek-cover-of-our-fashion-icon-first-lady/
Patman commented:
I really hate what’s going on. Even more, I hate the political rats behind all this.
These politicians are so sleazy and unethical that I can barely look at my neighbors who voted for them.
Nothing in political history, and this includes Nixon, stinks like this does.
Willow Rose commented:
They forgot to report that only a couple hundred showed up for Mao’s visit to Ohio with Dennis reported on Fox. There were thousands at the protest today again according to Fox. So who has the 200 again??
FedUp commented:
If this travesty passes, then it’s time to “disolve” the government for a vote of no confidence! One of the few things that the old world does best!
James Gibson commented:
Where I come from, the “Slaughter rule” is something used in Little League baseball to end a game when a team is leading by 10 or more runs after four innings.
A Casual Observer commented:
What did Richard Nixon do wrong? G. Gordon Liddy and John Dean were the juvenile bozos who orchestrated Watergate. Nixon was a good man, and a pretty good president.
Chisum commented:
Report: CBO set to score House reconciliation fix as more expensive than thought
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/16/report-cbo-set-to-score-house-reconciliation-fix-as-more-expensive-than-thought/
Melvin Winter commented:
Picture parody: Speaker Pelosi Announces Procedure for Passing Government-Run Health Care Bill http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/03/speaker-pelosi-announces-procedure-for.html
Patman commented:
To Casu Obs,
used Nixon as a metaphor….
thought about metaphor-ing Clinton/Lewinsky but I didn’t want to confuse orgasm with O-gasim.
A Casual Observer commented:
From what I’ve read, Michelle and Barack have always lived sheltered and privileged lives, and now without even having the qualifications to be where they are today, they are living like royalty, even beyond the American dream ….., and Michelle once snidely remarked that it was the first time that she was proud to be an American??? What is wrong with that picture?
That is one snotty broad. Another Hillary Clinton.
Laura Bush had class. So did Nancy Raegan. So did Pat Nixon, and so did Mamie Eisenhower.
Democrats are trash.
pm commented:
Newsweek has cropped the picture of Michelle with apple. (David J.’s link #16). But it should still be at Hillbuzz.
Have fun with what image you see in the apple…definitely a bearded one, not so sure it’s Marx.
Carol Herman commented:
I suspect, since Nancy Pelosi put down her pole vault (without using it), to this “I’m gonna kick in the door!”
Ya know what? The bamster shut the door! And, this woman is using her foot to get back at him! (Of course. While Rome burns.)
She doesn’t have the votes. And, some democraps are not in love with the bamster; anymore than, say, Representative Rodino (republican of NJ) “liked” Nixon. He’s the guy who went to the White House to tell Nixon if he didn’t resign, he’d be Impeached.
So, I don’t think that just because someone’s a democrap, they’re in bed with the bamster. But I think the opposite is true! Especially, now. After Massa got hung out to dry.
If you didn’t know this, the cannibals have returned to eating each other.
Militant Conservative commented:
Ignore the Constitution of the United States at your own peril. We have Constitutional remedy to remove your sorry asses. It is not pretty but it WILL be YOUR choice of the remedy. voted out or carried out feet first. You have no idea what flyover country is capable of. powder is dry
opaobie commented:
Welcome to the Obama “SLAUGHTER” House….Will the Democrats “SLAUGHTER” the Constitution?
Jo commented:
NAncy Pillslosi ( she is very medicated!) wants the BOzo to have the house vote on a different bill, then claim by precedence that the Senate would-have passed the bill — so there is no need to have the Senate vote. In otherwords, this is bullSh*t, and while this has been done many times, never before has it been done to a historical bill. Demoncrats are like the SS NAZIs.
squeaky commented:
……like a growing number of doctors, he had stopped taking patients with Medicaid…. it’s one thing to have healthcare coverage and another to find a physican.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35898906/ns/health-the_new_york_times//
Hedgehog commented:
This is nothing short of an attempted Communist coup. If this abomination passed by some backdoor procedure, IT IS GO TIME.
bitterclinger commented:
I went to DC today. AT first, the day started slowly and it looked depressingly like a low turnout. Then, after lunch, look out! The congressional halls were filled with constituents and non-constituents alike stopping in the offices to have their say and drop off letters!
We went to the “good guys” too, to tell them to keep up the good work. Louie Gohmert was a trip at the rally speeches this a.m. If you ever get a chance to see him, go!
Sojourner commented:
….any Democrat who thinks he or she is going to get political cover by back dooring the Constitution (Article 1, Sec 7)
http://www.hoover.org/pubaffairs/dailyreport/archive/87642827.html
through an Alice in Wonderland ‘deeming’ on Obamacare either has a political death wish, is brain dead or both.
This maneuver’s never been used for an issue of such sweeping magnitude in the history of the Republic (of course, the statist malcontents aren’t screwin’ the pooch enough by co-opting 1/6th of what’s left of our economy, add the student loan takeover).
… roll the clock back: 2005: Nanzi/ Lou & Co. were against it before they were for it: Pelosi/Slaughter Go to Court. File Amicus Briefs Against Use of Self-Executing Rule:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Pelosi-Slaughter-went-to-court-against-GOPs-self-executing-rule-in-2005—87773712.html
So, if you’re a Democrat, you can ‘deem’ yourself slaughtered because that’s what you’ll be…commit political suicide or KILL THE BILL.
Hedgehog commented:
Think about “The Intolerable Acts” that led to the American Revolution. This is an Intolerable Act. This is it! The Communists thought that they could run this through. If they succeed, the Republc is dead. This is it! It is time to bring these Communists down. Pull them up root and branch. No more discussion. As they like to say, “The debate is over”. Let’s roll!
Militant Conservative commented:
Hedgehog
March 16th, 2010 | 7:16 pm | #35 too many not willing to face the facts of the situation Hedgehog. we are at a flashpoint and the objects of our ire are in complete control of the punishment they get. voted out or constutional justice. POWDER IS READY!
joseph commented:
I am sorry that as a conservative I want to see that monstrosity called Obamacare passed in Congress.
It is the same reason I wanted to see Obama win in Nov 2008 which is that the incremental takeover of your country by liberalism/secularism/progressivism/socialism had to be seen for what it really is.
For 50 years it has been “One step forward two steps backward” for conservatism and even the Republicans (RINOs) were helping to destroy America. Even now the Republicans in Congress are only seeing the truth because if they did not, they would be toast in November. Once they win they will be quick to go back to their old ways – turning ther back against the pro life and family movement and spending their way into oblivion.
Now the truth stares you in the face. Now you know that elections have consequences. Now you know you elected a resentful, narcissitic Third World Dictator who intends to bring you down to the level of other nations.
Maybe now you will wake up.
Miss me yet ?
Sojourner commented:
…..from Paul Ryan:
http://www.redstate.com/saul_anuzis/2010/03/15/paul-ryan-speaks-out-against-the-washington-way/
….’the arrogance, the paternalism, the condescension to the American people is just breathtaking.’
joseph commented:
Rush made today exactly the point I made repeatedly from December 2008.
You all voted for a Third World President. What does that cause:
The political climate becomes poisoned – Yep that has happened.
National Debt soon overtakes GDP – Yep -that is on the way to happening.
The public service becomes a part of the ruling party- Yep- That is happening.
The constitution soon gets trampled – Yep -that is happening.
The law courts are used to legitimize the ruling party’s transgressions – They are on the way to doing that.
Law enforcement starts to become an arm of the ruling party – I bet that is taking place under your noses right now.
miss me yet ?