Obama Tells FOX News He's Not Worried About Using "Deem & Pass" Trick to Ram Through Obamacare (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 2:44 PM
Barack Obama told FOX News today that he was not worried about using the unconstitutional and unprecedented “deem and pass” trick to ram Obamacare through Congress without voting on it.
FOX News posted a preview:
FOX News reported:
President Obama is not worried about the “procedural” debate over whether House Democratic leaders should go ahead with a plan to approve health care reform without a traditional vote, he told Fox News on Wednesday.
The president, in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, was responding for the first time to the controversy over a plan to use a parliamentary trick to allow the House to pass the Senate’s health care bill without forcing members to vote for it directly. The esoteric procedure has drawn fierce protest from Republicans who say Democrats are trying to avoid accountability, but the president said there will be no doubt about where lawmakers stand on health care reform.
This is criminal.
If Obama allows this to happen, in the words of Bill O’Reilly, “He is done.”
Landmark Legal Foundation will file suit to stop Obamacare if the deem and pass is used.
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kate commented:
Deem and Scheme
Jackie commented:
Well Obama – we’re not worried about impeachment proceedings against you either!!!
Major Kong commented:
Spoken like a true dictator. Uncle Joe Stalin would be so proud of you, Barry.
AuntieMadder commented:
The arrogance of that sorry little tyrant! He just said how it’s going to be and if you don’t like it, then too damned bad for you. Like Daddy just spanked us all and laid down the law. I hate him and everyone who voted for him.
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JPL17 commented:
As Glenn Reynolds suggested this morning, let’s all just “deem” our taxes paid for last year.
gus commented:
I think he’s asking for the Mussolini treatment.
marie commented:
Adolf doesn’t have anything on this arrogant ass. He cockiness is really beginning to worry me….I wonder what he has planned for November.
jenny commented:
Worst. President. Ever. I’m missing Tricky Dick and Jimmah Carter. Heck I’m missing James Buchanan!
Major Kong commented:
Marie @ #7
It’s not what he has planned for November that concerns me. It’s the span of time between now and then. It has seemed to me for quite some time that this miscreant is trying to foment an event by which he could declare martial law. If that happens we’re into a whole new level of hurt.
gus commented:
Marie, he went to a fundraiser for Reid and handed out 1.5 billion as a bribe.
He has HUNDREDS OF BILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIONS in SLUSH MONEY from the PORK BILL that was supposed to save us. He’ll use it to save the LIBTARD PARTY.
gus commented:
Jenny, how was Nixon a bad President?
I mean, Obama is as corrupt and dishonest, but he has NO SKILLS at all.
Rhonda commented:
Well, it looks like we might have to get out pitch forks afterall!
Jean commented:
As President Reagan would say “go ahead, make my day.”
gus commented:
Arrogance is one thing, but this guy has nothing to be arrogant about. He’s a loser.
Always has been. And he’s going out on his a$$ at some point. Being “elected” does not give you talent nor smarts. He’s just a con-manchild. He has accomplished NOTHING in his life.
JJAYNED commented:
There is a website called usofearth.com that has a game called obamacoupe2011.com that shows Obama declaring martial law and cancelling the 2012 elections. Scary. His face has lost that amiable and friendly look, also. His mask is coming off. I blame the media who refused to expose him before the election.
Glenn Beck said on his radio show today that just before his show on stage last night he got a message that someone in the audience was going to shoot him! These people are very dangerous. It is obvious that they all thought that taking over America would be much easier.
mike commented:
Marie, trust the people in america. If that does transpire, we will come through it fine.
BHG commented:
Desperation does make you desperate. We deem him an insolent dolt.
Betsy Ross commented:
Oh-kee Doh-kee then We The People can “deem” you impeachable…
Neoavatara commented:
He doesn’t care if he is done or not. He is an ideologue in the worst way possible. Even if he is a single termer, he will claim to be a liberal hero for passing this atrocity.
http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=10387
Pedro commented:
Damn! How much make-up do you have on Barry?
You have the glow of Idi Amin all of a sudden…
aprilnovember811 commented:
HE WAS “DEEMED” ELIGIBLE BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY/CPUSA ALSO.
HE IS INDONESIAN, AND PELOSI KNOWS IT!
JPL17 commented:
Here’s an interesting update:
Landmark Legal Foundation to File Suit to Stop President’s Health Plan if ‘Slaughter Rule’ is Used
(LEESBURG, VA, MARCH 17, 2010)
Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.
“Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when they didn’t. The Speaker of the House and her lieutenants are temporary custodians of congressional authority. They are not empowered to do permanent violence to our Constitution.”
SOURCE: http://landmarklegal.org/DesktopDefault.aspx
Draft of the complaint that Landmark will file is available at: http://landmarklegal.org/uploads/Landmark%20Complaint.pdf
sybilll commented:
Brett came on during Shep’s show, and said the interview got further agitating, and I say GOOD. I hope Brett exposed the pompous, arrogant, dictitorial man-child that he is.
aprilnovember811 commented:
WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE THE MILITARY REMOVE THESE COMMIES.
alaskan commented:
ohhh…..so now we’ll have the WHOLE Democratic Party voting ‘PRESENT’.
BarleyandRoss commented:
Can I see a show of hands?
How many of you have had just about enough of the pride of Trinity College’s Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi’s tight, leathery, Gold Bond moisturized grip continuing to crush the low hanging “jewels” of America?
Me too.
The first questions that come to mind are:
1) Exactly when did this Botoxed lab reject become Obama’s “Czar of Unaccountability” and
2) Why aren’t there more taxpaying citizens outraged and using http://www.poopsenders.com to show their understandable frustrations for a woman who is destroying the United States of America?
Polling data consistently reveals that a majority of Americans are as interested in this sham of a health care plan as they are in John Edwards being the next “Bachelor” on ABC.
We all know this putrid European-style cesspool will expand America’s debt faster than Oprah’s waistline at a “free wings” happy hour in a Chicago ale house, and yet, apparently most Democrats, whose confusion rivals that of Barney Frank at a Boy Scout National Jamboree convention , are stumbling and struggling and racing as fast as they can to push this monstrosity of a coprolite towards the finish line even though they are fully aware that the winner’s tape has been replaced with neck-high piano wire.
With Obama offering joy rides on Air Force 1 to gutless Democrats, the negotiations have taken on brothel-style proportions that even Client #9 (Eliot Spitzer) would be proud of.. a risqué dance with the devil that will ultimately guarantee the need of a good old fashioned crotch scrubbing with an OXO cheese grater (http://tiny.cc/JBNq8) at the end of a long, hard day of “talks.”
Does anyone at all care what is going on behind the closed doors of Capital Hill. What Eric Massa did was mere child’s play (apparently literally) to what is actually happening as we speak with our elected leaders. There are more favors being exchanged today than during any week of the pants dropping Clinton Era Intern-fest of the 1990s… Keith Olbermann and his restless legs are strangely silent.
Wasn’t this, after all, supposed to be the most “transparent” of all White Houses?
I suppose the lock-step shiny-faced millions of Obama’s Gen X supporters of 2008 and 2009 might be rationalizing this sordid lack of morality and backroom dealings in the same “compartmentalized” manner they use when downloading their hundreds of millions of songs and movies off the internet illegally. It’s all relative, right?
But morality is not relative. Apparently in Washington, it’s nonexistent.
For example, where are those 72 hours Obama once promised? I guess those must have been swallowed up by last Sunday’s day light saving change.
Not only does Washington need a new watch, they need a class in morality, Constitutional law, and a remedial YouTube video tutorial on addition, subtraction and debt.
The facts remain clear. The differences between the parties have only a little to do with healthcare itself. It has little to do with abortion. It does, however, have everything to do with affordability… and America cannot afford this anymore than it can afford to deny Barack Obama’s connection with Reverend Wright who recently bestowed upon himself the honor of “Living Legend.” (Now that is an audacity of ego.)
With trillions of dollars in debt, and another $2.5 trillion with Obamacare waiting in the wings, one can only wonder if the taxes on the sales of John Edwards’ sex tapes would even make a dent in reducing our national obligations let alone Obamacare.
Oh, and for those interested, here’s the address: Office of the Speaker, H-232, US Capitol, Washington, DC 20515
Kevin P commented:
We need to block the streets of the capital – we need to block it so they can’t get to the halls of Congress to vote – I mean shove this down our throats. We need to shut that city down – peacefully.
If they don’t listen to our repeated calls, our repeated NOs and our peacful assemblies… then:
“[W]hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce [the People] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
–U.S. Declaration of Independence
“Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
olm commented:
I really do not think there will be any more elections, I didn’t think about Marshal law but I have no doubt they’ll come up with a way. This is no joke, this is beyond dirty politics.
A revolution is coming because Scary Barry will not be stopped any other way. This is a POTUS like no other.
Kevin P commented:
On Oct. 31, 2008 I was with a group of friends discussing the upcoming elections. One of the group said:
“I don’t see what the big deal is. I mean if the guy is as bad as everyone says he is, we’ll all be so fed up with him that we’ll vote him out in the next election.”
I said, “You’re making one HUGE assumption there.”
He said, “What’s that?”
I said, “That we’ll still have the right to vote.”
MPCpiano commented:
Obama is one unhappy president, the way he talks over Bret Baier to make his point. If the rest of the interview is like this, he should lose points overall for being exposed as the ass he is.
shibumi commented:
I think we’ll still have the right to vote.
However, there is no guarantee that the vote won’t be tampered with. Also, don’t forget all those illegal aliens who are going to be naturalized in the near future.
Obama is going to ram this through hell or high water. If it doesn’t go through this way, he’ll figure out another way to do it. Wouldn’t put it past him to make it an Executive Order if necessary.
I believe the proper phrase is “it’s torch and pitchfork time.”
MPCpiano commented:
Obama states the false choice–Health Care Reform, or the “status quo.” He forgot the third choice, starting over and forming a bipartisan health reform bill.
Sy commented:
So much for defending the Constitution. I’m guessing Krauthammer will have some fun with this tonight.
Callipygian1 commented:
This is why the CIC (Cretin In Charge) isn’t worried:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/37991/
That’s a flow chart anyone can follow, even under-developed Democrats.
Angela commented:
So… he doesn’t “spend a lot of time worrying about what the rules are.” That’s scary. The rules protect liberty, friends.
M Malone commented:
Legislative Derivative Swap.
Rhonda commented:
For those that can, this is sure the time to get to DC.
Snake eater commented:
“…he was not worried about using the unconstitutional and unprecedented “deem and pass” trick to ram Obamacare through Congress without voting on it”
I see the commie pig in the White House has been getting advice from Hugo Chavez again.
although Chavez, at least, has the decency to rig a vote first.
Betsy Ross commented:
Gee, barry, while your’e at it why don’t you “deem” elections illegal…why don’t you “deem” yourself KING of the United States….why don’t you “deem” Congress irrelevant…why don’t you “deem” all your pals, bill ayers…jeremia wright…and all of the South American tyrants to be your new cabinet…I mean, really, just do what you really, really, really want….do it…I double-dog dare…
Joanne commented:
He doesn’t worry about the procedural rules in the House or the Senate? Isn’t this guy suppose to make sure the American people are protected with the following of the procedural rules?
“Ah, who cares, as long as I get to ram it down the throats of all those people who don’t want Obamacare and stand in my way of fundamentally changing America.”
Zachriel commented:
Sorry, it’s not unprecedented.
Dell commented:
The man is shrewd, to a point….I’ll give him that much. But, so was Dick Nixon and Slick Willy Clinton. He’ll distance himself from “what the Congress does” or how they go about doing it just so he can later say “I didn’t tell them to do that, nor did I support it in any way!”. And, if he has to, he’ll throw Pelosi and Reid under the bus just to sever HIS ties to reconciliation, the Slaughter Rule or whatever slight-of-hand they pull next.
He – and his merry band of outlaws – have until next January to pass as much Socialist legislation as possible, before the next congress is convened and he no-longer enjoys the power of total control.
At the rate they’re going, the Democrats could lose control of both the House and Senate.
Ginger commented:
I hope and pray that in November the people will give the house and senate 2/3 control.
Ginger commented:
btw….. It can happen if more demo rats will retire!
Hedgehog commented:
Obama really does not understand the American people. He has spent his life in the cacoon of Communism. He thinks that because he was elected President he can do what ever he wants. He has been protected by the media. He has surrounded himself with Communists. He looks the american people in the eye and lies. He thinks that everyone is going to just roll over and do as they’re told. He is in for a big awakening.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
What a pathetic loser POS we have for POTUS.
Charles commented:
Get over it people! America has elected one of the most brilliant Presidents it has ever had. He just happens to be an African-American!
saxton commented:
I don’t want the government knowing about my exams-or my medical records. Now SEIU-and Unions running health care?? This is the worst president–ever! He destroyed our farms, cattle, diary is being imported, our science program, space programs, now oceans,rivers, no fishing, he supports eugencis, no college loans, all innovation squashed–medical dotors leaving–our military treated like dirt, killing 13 soldiers and he DOES NOTHING! he gives shout outs! And letting more Islamiics come in on VISAS and putting them in the white house! He supports CAIR-and all the radical Islamics who want to kill Americans and Jewish people. He insults Isarel, Poland, on&on. This is revenge for his WHITE-WHITE WHITE mother-and he aint black–he is muletto–BIG difference..and he is a sunni muslim. He is only BSer toastmaster–he just lies, lies, lies..all them are mafia thugs, back door deals, thugs, chicago tyoe thugs–lyin, cheatin…tax, tax, tax and tax!!! Peloski, and all their arab buddies–need to get out of America. I say recede–give them california–
Koreanneonkoan commented:
Oh Jesus God in heaven why are you people so f#*%ing stupid? It’s completely unprecedented! Except..it’s not. At all. http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/03/self-executing-rules-are-common.php
And what’s more, you had a post on thie site the other day saying that it had been used before! Good god, do you even listen to yourselves? I bet the vast majority don’t even know what a Self Executing Rule entails, but when has being completely ignorant of something prevented you from ranting about it before? Anyway, I’ll let you all get back to your impotent spittle flinging.
Koreanneonkoan commented:
And yes, I know the above post won’t do anything to enlighten you frigging basket cases, but it made me feel better.
MJ commented:
sounds like demon pass
AuntieMadder commented:
Koreanneonkoan
March 17th, 2010 | 8:42 pm | #55
Yeah, dumb@$$, it was used before but not to hand over 6% of the economy to the govt for an entitlement program that will effect every American into perpetuity. And that was in the post that you mentioned but obviously didn’t read and has been mentioned in numerous comments posted here. We will not mention it in every comment and post as a disclaimer for the benefit of your worthless a$$. Now, go f@#$ yourself, idiot.