Senate Parliamentarian Kent Conrad says Obama must sign health care into law before changes or reconciliation…

He couldn’t dump it. So it goes to hearing before the whole court. Is Roberts going to follow precedent and do Marbury II? My guess is he would? What would the Indonesian imbecile do? Obey the Supreme Court he just got done insulting in the SOTU address? Or tell them to enforce their own decision, a phrase used after Marbury came down?

This is a deliberate design intended to create a constitutional crisis. The only thing that is not obvious yet is how it is intended to be solved once it’s created.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi actually let this fall out of her mouth: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” Yep. They……

txmomof6 on March 11, 2010 at 9:32 PM

Unlike the abortion provision(s), the union tax hike only requires 50% + 1 to remove in reconciliation. In both houses. And also unlike the abortion provision(s), ALL the democrats will do whatever the unions tell them to. Stupak and his dirty dozen will go along with removing taxes on unions. All the progressive caucus will agree. It would take an afternoon at the most.

Point being, once they pass the senate bill, some of the fixes are easy (union tax break) and some are hard (or impossible, see above abortion references). They all know this, and they will pass it. Now. There is nothing to stop them anymore.

They’re at 216 on the button

No, they’re not. If they were, Nancy would have moved the bill already.

. The issue is now damaging business.AnninCA on March 12, 2010 at 7:55 AM

If the purpose of the bill was to help business, it would have been passed long ago.

If the purpose of the bill was to make Health Insurance more affordable, it would have been passed long ago.

“HA ha!” – Nelson Muntz

We’re not merely getting a pig in a poke, we are getting a whole pork industry in a poke with this metastatic-bureaucratic nightmare.

If they have lost, they will need to admit it fairly soon. The issue is now damaging business.

AnninCA on March 12, 2010 at 7:55 AM

I can’t help but notice that you have taken great pains to ignore what we all have been watching in Congress. The deal-making, the bribes, the conniving use of parliamentary procedure to deem a bill into law….

Surely even people like you have trouble with the way that your people are going about in their attempts to seize one sixth of the economy.

Have you considered that Obama-Pelosi-Reid have targeted businesses?

Can we hurry up and impeach this criminal!

If they have lost, they will need to admit it fairly soon. The issue is now damaging business.

Funny quote from Ezra Klein: “The Democrats are going to make the Republicans OWN the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback and the Florida Deal.”
Marcus on March 11, 2010 at 8:19 PM

Errrrrrrrr how?
The Repubs didn’t have anything to do with the disgusting bribery of President Obama.

BTW does bribery fall under impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors?

DSchoen on March 11, 2010 at 11:57 PM

The leftiest left heads are exploding and reasoning that if the bill was passed, the Dems would remove these provisions. Somehow ObamaCare will be passed and the Republicans will not vote to remove these. Or something. Ezra said they were going to start using this argument probably today.

Dittos to all of the above! Only thing I’d change is that I’d like to see him behind bars for his part in the illegal activities taking place behind closed doors as well as the voter fraud he participated in through ACORN and illegal campaign contributions taken from offshore.

Everything about this man is corrupt and disgraceful.

If I were a House Democrat, I would want it in writing.

percysunshine on March 12, 2010 at 7:03 AM

If I were a House Democrat, I’d be logging on to Monster Jobs and updating my resume’.

I agree she has to keep pushing, at least until Easter break. Just because she doesn’t have the votes now doesn’t mean she won’t keep trying. She is a True Believer, as is Obama.

Wethal on March 11, 2010 at 8:56 PM

In part, I think they have kept pushing because they don’t have an alternative exit strategy to the filthy lying coward having a big signing event in the Rose Garden followed by jack-booted stormtroopers raiding Blue Cross and all the other insurance providers.

They’ve invested so much time and attention to this faux crisis they cannot simply walk away without it looking like a political defeat. This was supposed to be an easy win in August followed by an autumn for Cap & Tax and a Spring filled with securing the Hispanic vote by giving away citizenship to millions of illegals. It all fell apart with those town hall meetings and we are watching the death throes of the whole plot coming to an end. If Nancy Pelosi does not have a signed bill in her gnarled claws by the Easter/Passover break, I think the whole thing will finally come crashing down around the filthy lying coward in the White House and his co-conspirators in Congress. But that’s a long time off in political terms.

If I were a House Democrat, I would want it in writing.

Please, please let me live to see the look on this clown’s face when this entire health “reform” nonsense crashes and burns.

NoDonkey on March 11, 2010 at 8:04 PM

You’ll have to be more specific. There’s a tiny car full of clowns involved with healthcare reform. Pelosi, Reid, Nelson, the ghost of Teddy Kennedy, Robert Gibbs, and of course the filthy lying coward in the White House and his wide-bottomed racist spouse to name just the head clowns involved.

If “reform” fails, look for the talking points to be how they drove the issue closer than ever. They will omit the fact that they were attempting to drive off a cliff and it was only by the American public dragging at the rear bumber that these criminals were unable to get Obamacare put into law. I still think they have about a 50% chance of cheating the system and actually driving off that cliff so any celebration is premature.