Another Slimey, Complex Dem Scheme to Force Through ObamaCare… Will Ram “Shell” of Health Care Bill to Pass It Through Budget Committee for Reconciliation
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 11, 2010
All I can say is, thank God Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan is alert at the helm and is steadfast in protecting Americans from our government’s insane, tenacious attempts to willfully go against the majority of Americans’ wishes and ramrod ObamaCare through, no matter how many flaming hoops they must jump through to accomplish it.
Crikey, I need to buy more aspirin.
Here’s the latest hanky-panky in DC, scheduled to clumsily launch on Monday…
From Philip Klein, The American Spectator: Ryan: Dems Ramming “Shell” HC Bill Through Committee Monday:
Rep. Paul Ryan says that Democrats are ready to ram a “shell” health care bill through the Budget Committee, on which he serves as ranking Republican member, to use as a vehicle to impose national health care.
In a phone interview with TAS Thursday afternoon, Ryan said that he expects Democrats to begin the complex process on Monday, under which they would have the Budget Committee approve a phantom bill by midnight, which they will then send over to the Rules Committee. At that point, the Rules Committee will strip out all of the language in the phantom bill, and insert the changes to the Senate bill that Democrats have negotiated.
“They don’t have the votes right now, but they’re creating the vehicle so that they can airdrop in whatever changes they want,” Ryan said.
He said that Republicans are outnumbered 2-to-1 on his committee and don’t have the votes to stop the bill there. Democrats will also be able to prevent Republicans from offering any amendments, but GOP members will be able to offer “motions to instruct” the Rules Committee, that Ryan said will be used highlight problems with the “unprecedented” step that Democrats are taking.
He said he expected Democrats to dust off last year’s health care bills from the Education and Labor and Ways and Means Committees, to use as the vehicle for reconciliation changes.
Ryan said that the Senate parliamentarian’s ruling that President Obama must sign a health care bill into law before the Senate can change it through reconciliation largely renders moot the attempt by Rep. Louise Slaughter to shield members from a direct vote on the Senate health care bill. He said the idea would also violate Obama’s call for an up-or-down vote. “That’s not an up-or-down vote, that’s sweeping it under the rug and into law,” Ryan said.
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Conservative Girl With a Voice: Hypocrisy in America
Michelle Malkin: Endless “Time for talk is over” tour hits Cleveland, Ohio on Monday and The Chicago Way: Judgeships for Demcare votes? and Here comes the reconciliation “nobody” is talking about; Update: Oba-kabuki lab coat props reappear; “Make your voice heard”
NRO: Pass It To Find Out What’s In It
Neoavatara: Pelosi/Obama Go Backwards on Health Care Vote
Patterico’s Pontifications: ObamaCare: Vultures suddenly appear and Pelosi Logic and Democrats’ Newest Strategy: “Chicken!”
Gateway Pundit: Harry Reid Plays Chicken… Dares Republicans to Oppose Obamacare and Rep. Paul Ryan: “This Bill Is More About Ideology Than Health Care Policy” (Video) and Nancy Pelosi: “We Have to Pass Our Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It” and LOCKED OUT!… Obama Won’t Let Public In to Hear His Health Care Speech in St. Louis– PROTESTS PLANNED… and Obama Flashback: Dems Should Not Pass Healthcare With 50-Plus-1 Strategy (Video) and Dems Call to Pass O-Care With Simple Up-or-Down Vote and House Republican Leader John Boehner: Obama’s Health Care Proposal Jeopardizes Summit
The Lonely Conservative: Pelosi: When We Pass ObamaCare You Can Quit Your Job and Pelosi: We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it!
Charging Elephant: Health Care, the Stalingrad of Legislative Efforts
Human Events, Emanuel Helping Obama Unravel
On My Watch — The writings of SamHenry: Obama, Failure-in-Chief
Nice Deb: Call To Action: Final ObamaCare Push-Back March 16 and The Time For Talk Is Deja-vu All Over Again and Stupak Wavering
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