Dem caucus chairman: The public doesn’t much care what procedure we use to pass this thing
posted at 8:49 pm on March 15, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via the Right Scoop, this is the second time in as many days that I’ve seen a Democrat shrug off the idea of using the Slaughter strategy on grounds of public antipathy. (Axelrod did it yesterday too on MTP.) Normally I’d agree with them — parliamentary rules are baroque and boring — but these aren’t normal circumstances. This is one-sixth of the economy at stake, to pass a piece of legislation the Democrats have been after for decades, with the public already angry about procedural shenanigans involving backroom deals. A former federal appellate judge appointed by Bush took to the Journal’s op-ed page today to declare the Slaughter strategy flatly unconstitutional, which means there’ll almost certainly be a court challenge to try to undo the legislation if they use this procedure to pass the bill. Given the potential downside of all that, I’m frankly amazed that they’re still considering it instead of simply biting the bullet and having an up or down vote on Reid’s bill. In fact, in light of the parliamentarian’s ruling last week, I’m not even sure how they still benefit from the Slaughter strategy at this point. Even if they use it, the only bill Obama can sign is the underlying Senate bill, not the House’s reconciliation fix (which the Senate wouldn’t have passed yet). If something goes wrong in the upper chamber with reconciliation, we’re all stuck with the Reid bill as law. In which case, why doesn’t Pelosi simply avoid the bad optics and potential court problem and just vote yes or no on the Reid bill with a reconciliation fix to follow separately?
Has anyone seen any polling about the Slaughter strategy yet, incidentally? I’m guessing not, as it’s only a week or so old and is hard enough to explain that it doesn’t lend itself easily to questions. But I’d be keen to see how nonchalant the public really is at the thought of health-care reform passing without an actual yes or no vote on the bill in the House.
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In the words of Wayne and Garth…
Exqueeze me? Bacon Powder?
flyawaybird on March 15, 2010 at 8:52 PM
No, the Dems are well aware.. VERY well aware that the public cares what they’re doing. This is spin strategy because they’ve already decided to do it.
FUBO
Skywise on March 15, 2010 at 8:52 PM
With the complicity of the MSM they may be able to get away with it.
Mason on March 15, 2010 at 8:53 PM
Chickens running scared.
Bishop on March 15, 2010 at 8:53 PM
60 percent chance it passes.
andy85719 on March 15, 2010 at 8:55 PM
I think they know the slaughter rule is just as if not more so than the bill itself. I think they are bluffing. I think they hope they will get a vote before anyone finds out how suicidal this move is.
Lambs going off to slaughter.
cubbieblue25 on March 15, 2010 at 8:55 PM
NO
It is OUR LIFE AND DEATH AT STAKE
macncheez on March 15, 2010 at 8:56 PM
The margin is extremely narrow and they believe that they will be able to peel off a few Democrats by convincing them that their voters will buy the “I didn’t vote for the Senate bill, I voted for the fixes” argument.
Joe Caps on March 15, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Well, if you think the Constitution is a blank page, er “living document”, it follows that you don’t care about legislative procedures either.
To be sure, the Republicans are guilty of much of this too. But not to this degree. Nothing this far reaching.
SteveMG on March 15, 2010 at 8:56 PM
The Slaughter House will go into effect on Wednesday. The likely scenario is that it won’t combine the reconciliation bill and the Senate bill, but will flat out deem the Senate bill as having already passed and send it to the President.
Enoxo on March 15, 2010 at 8:56 PM
“A Republic, is you can keep it”
Need I say who?
Romeo13 on March 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM
I think they know the slaughter rule is just as *toxic* if not more so than the bill itself. I think they are bluffing. I think they hope they will get a vote before anyone finds out how suicidal this move is.
Lambs going off to slaughter.
cubbieblue25 on March 15, 2010 at 8:55 PM
cubbieblue25 on March 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM
This is the second time I’ve been insulted today.
Oink on March 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Bring it, Skippy…!
… WE ARE WATCHING!!!
Seven Percent Solution on March 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM
That’s one of the left’s official talking points. There was a list somewhere today. Anyone remember where it was?
ROCnPhilly on March 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Whatever helps you sleep at night, dude. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
But prepare for a rude awakening in November.
amerpundit on March 15, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Has the Slaughter Option even been talked about in the MSM? I don’t watch them, so I need to ask.
Do most people even know its on the table?
sharrukin on March 15, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Basic common sense, and a passing familiarity with English, is all one needs to understand how illegal and insane this “process” is.
coup noun (TAKE POWER)
/kuː/ n [C]
(also
coup d’état
/ˌkuː.deɪˈtɑː/ (plural coups d’état))
a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power, especially by (part of) an army
a military coup
I don’t see what other desdcription there is for a group trying to illegally seize power in government. Everyone knows that this Slaughter Rule is illegal. This is just a matter of plain English and clear Constitutional language. What am I missing, here?
neurosculptor on March 15, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Well he is right.
I don’t care how they pass the bill, I’m apposed to all of them.
clement on March 15, 2010 at 9:00 PM
When they subvert the Constitution, they’re subverting the document that gives them their authority.
If we’re not supposed to care if they respect the Constitution in passing laws then how can they expect us to respect their Constitutional authority to pass laws or the president’s Constitutional authority to enforce them?
29Victor on March 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Hey Delbert, the public doesn
t want you to pass it at all.
thomasaur on March 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM
These guys are whistlin’ past the graveyard. This is the most ANTI Constitutional move I’ve ever seen made. The Constitution is awfully clear on how legislation becomes law, there is really no room for interpretation. Are they continuing to bank on the failure of public schools to properly educate the citizens at-large on Constitutional issues. If so, even the densest of brainstems understands that a bill has to pass the House, futz around futz around, then pass the Senate or vice versa before the big man signs it.
This is a usurpation of power of We the People. The clarion call needs to go out and loudly. You won’t hear it from the MSM, they don’t understand, nor would even say if they did.
ted c on March 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM
It is either a bad toupee or lack of testosterone if a guy has that much hair at that age.
bayview on March 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM
I got polled tonight by Rasmussen. First time ever. No Slaughter Rule question.
Knucklehead on March 15, 2010 at 9:02 PM
“Thieves in the night” was all I could think over the 2009 Holiday Season. THIS is much, much worse.
TubbyHubby on March 15, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Pass it suckers and you’ll see how much we care.
yoda on March 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM
D.C. has no idea what the American people are saying right now. Everywhere I go, their actions are being discussed. At my kid’s soccer games, wherever we go out to eat, getting my oil changed, all people are talking about is how screwed up D.C. is. We’re all so primed out here, and if this Slaughter rule is enacted, this government will have crossed a line that will place this congress firmly against the American people and our Law, and we will not stand for it. Piss off Congress, we’re watching you and we will never forget what you do. Ever.
Weight of Glory on March 15, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Slaps forehead: Ya thynk???!!!! Holy scmoke Allah, why the heck you think they’re in a rush????? Please-abeez, re-read The Wizard of Oz, and this time, have all those silly notes about allegory, symbolism, hyperbole, and all the udder schtuff ya’ll learned ya’ll in G-yurnalizm skool handy!
I’m not saying you are condescending to the rest of us…I’m just amazed that they continue to act as though “We is all po’ folk.” And, um, y’all in the new media don’t call them on the carpet for it!
I am effing tired of being treated like a (I’m sayin it…don’t stop me…hear it comes…I know I’m using the word)…RETARD!
Chewy the Lab on March 15, 2010 at 9:06 PM
NO, BUT WE DO CARE THAT YOUR PARTY IS REJECTING THE PUBLICS RIGHT TO TELL YOU TO GO TO HELL—ALONG WITH YOUR COMMIE PLOT TO CONTROL OUR LIVES!
STRONGER MESSAGE TO FOLLOW……
Rovin on March 15, 2010 at 9:07 PM
So, they ignore the will of the people. When it comes down to actually getting members to walk the party line to make BO happy they have to promise them with bribes (our tax dollars). Now, they will try to get it through with a procedure that \”deems\” it passed which will definitely be challenged legally and we know the White House will spend millions more of our tax dollars defending this unpopular legislation? What is happening to our nation?
truetexan on March 15, 2010 at 9:08 PM
This moron just doesn’t get it…..notice folks that they are BDDers of the first order: blind, deaf and dumb. They have been lied to and believe
sharinlite on March 15, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Follow up: Yup, I called the NEW media on the carpet, not the NEWS media.
Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Chewy the Lab on March 15, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Does anyone know if, when they pass this with Slaughter, we have to actually pay any attention to it? I think a fat middle finger to the enforcement for this would be fine, right?
John_Locke on March 15, 2010 at 9:09 PM
1) They truly believe they can do anything they want because the folks “don’t understand it”.
2) If this is true, that should be THE reason why they should not go forward with this procedure.
3) They will go forward anyhow.
4) We will then have lost representative government.
Breathtaking
Opposite Day on March 15, 2010 at 9:11 PM
For AP’s poll:
Silly D’rats think the American public can be fooled by the same jerks that sold the snake oil in November 2008. That was laxative and now we are purged. So now we purge the sales D’rats.
The story in the House is, “We will protect you.” The story in the country is, “Never again.” The D’rat reputation is LIAR. LIAR at two levels below used GM car salesman.
HOPE that answered several permutations of possible questions.
Caststeel on March 15, 2010 at 9:11 PM
“A Republic, is you can keep it”
I think of this quote nearly every day.
Missy on March 15, 2010 at 9:12 PM
it really bothers me when i want to email these Reps and i can’t since i don’t live in their districts so i have been simply entering in their own local office address in the form online so i can email them and at least let them know that we are well aware of their dumbass comments.
Hartford, CT Office
221 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Hartford, CT 06106
very easy – you should try. at least you know it will get to their local office and someone will read it.
i’m on it right now.
i’m getting really pissed with what is going on.
poppieseeds on March 15, 2010 at 9:14 PM
How unbelievably arrogant and condescending.
But I guess he’ll find out the hard way how much we “don’t care.”
rrpjr on March 15, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Dems are either obstinant tyrants, who want power so badly, they can taste it….or complete morons.
In either case, this is as unAmerican as it gets. Time to take out this trash!!!
capejasmine on March 15, 2010 at 9:15 PM
It is either a bad toupee or lack of testosterone if a guy has that much hair at that age.
bayview on March 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM
//
Ha! Thanks,all this serious dialoge and you’re worried about his hair:):)I needed that laugh.
ohiobabe on March 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Really?
How about using something FRIGGIN’ CONSTITUTIONAL?
How come – passing this POS at 51% is good enough for them, but the fact that 78% of Americans oppose it is totally ignored?
You can yell as much as you want at these morons, but they have ‘selective hearing’. They can’t hear speech that is within the range of reason.
The elections in November are going to be a bloodbath…
Timothy S. Carlson on March 15, 2010 at 9:17 PM
You can be CERTAIN that the legal paperwork is being completed, as we speak. The filing will be of the “emergency” nature to get it fast-tracked to the Supreme Court and it wouldn’t surprise me at ALL to learn that the appellate court judge is absolutely correct.
The “Slaughter Rule” defies the entire intent of the framers of the Constitution. And, when all is said and done, Slaughter should be SLAUGHTERED.
GoldenEagle4444 on March 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM
The Dems are delusional. Of course we care and we are watching.
Hawthorne on March 15, 2010 at 9:19 PM
How about “Palace coup?” How about Honduras? Wait a minute; Honduras requires their Army to Protect their Constitution.
I really like our way better. Citizens protecting the Constitution is way more effective especially with the first two Amendments.
Caststeel on March 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM
I agree.
This is so much more serious than just the budget or the economy.
Our very lives, how long we may be allowed to live will now be controlled by politicians. What procedures we may be allowed to receive, what surgeries, medicines, care will all now be determined by a few hundred politicians. Whatever party happens to be in power.
This cannot be understated.
Then, it will not even stop there. This will be used as an excuse to invade every other part of our lives. From the products we use to the foods we eat. Everything we touch, do or engage in now may fall under their power if they view it as affecting the cost of health care in America.
JellyToast on March 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM
That’s the very point of this. What Pelosi doesn’t realize is that once she and her goons in Congress delegitimize the entire legislative process, by “deeming” law to simply “be”, then they have by their own actions severed the Constitutional bonds that tie us, as citizens, to that legislative body. At that point, Congress’ authority is no longer derived by the citizens upon the oath to uphold the Constitution. At that point Congress is illegitimate, it is rogue, and the states MUST push back forcefully in order to protect their citizens and uphold the notion, the very idea, of Law. If Congress utilizes the Slaughter rule, they will have crossed a line that can never be “uncrossed”. The states will need to bring order and Law back to the union, and I will spend the rest of my adult life petitioning the great state of Texas to establish and protect the Rule of Law for its citizens, against all attempts to thwart it.
Weight of Glory on March 15, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Sounds like Representitive John Larson is confused and needs to hear from people on this. Please call his office.
Washington D.C. Office
106 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-2265
Fx: (202) 225-1031
Hartford, CT Office
221 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Hartford, CT 06106
Ph: (860) 278-8888
Fx: (860) 278-2111
batterup on March 15, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Hey Genius Caucus Guy – When someone is told the Fed Gov won’t allow him to be cured of a fatal disease that the current system would cure him of, do you really believe he’s not going to hold you and your fellow idiots accountable?
Remember, he’ll have absolutely nothing to lose then. Why wouldn’t he, and many others in his situation, use the 2nd Amendment to settle the score? Eh? Isn’t that human nature?
Josiah on March 15, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Well, they have a lot to be scared of.
/the chicken
LibTired on March 15, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Seems to me that those who thought up, encouraged and are about to employ the so-called “Slaughter rule” are engaged in a felony, to wit: violating the law of the land and their oaths of office, and abuse of power. That calls for warrants, arrests and trials, not all this namby-pamby political BS that’s going on here and on the pages of NRO.
The time for mindless chatter about the processes and implications of this criminal conspiracy has run out. I’m waiting for someone with some authority — moral leadership, at least — to stand up and call for the dismantling of the current government (NOT the form, just the personnel).
and, re AP’s exit question (“Has anyone seen any polling about the Slaughter strategy yet, incidentally?”) I have to say that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve seen a very intelligent — if sometimes a bit, well, “fuzzy” — person ask. If polls actually meant anything in the case, this farce would have been done with and flushed down the sewer of history last year.
Certain other dictators of the past — whose names would probably get me banned if used here — and their enablers didn’t worry about polls. They faked and outright lied about public opinion. They cared for it as little as Osama Obama does.
MrScribbler on March 15, 2010 at 9:26 PM
New Whip Count shows we just need one more no.
andy85719 on March 15, 2010 at 9:28 PM
EPA – Your breathing is harming the environment. Please stop.
Obamacare – Your breathing is costing us too much money to sustain. So sorry, here is a pill to help you stop.
Gotta love these heartwarming Leftists. They don’t care about procedure, they just want to rule you completely.
ajacksonian on March 15, 2010 at 9:28 PM
And I shall move back to the state where I once served with a sense of returning home. Home to serve again.
Caststeel on March 15, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Larsen was my teacher in high school. Liberal to the core then, liberal to the core now. I emailed him a nastygram today. I’m getting real tired of this crap. I hope some Democrat who tells Pelosi under threat of death that he’ll vote her way and then when the sh*t hits the fan he votes no and the whole thing blows up.
jaimo on March 15, 2010 at 9:29 PM
I’m frankly amazed that they’re still considering it instead of simply biting the bullet and having an up or down vote
Obama himself called for an up or down vote. Not an up or down “deemed passed”. Not an up or down parlimentary procedure.
BRING IT FOR A VOTE! It’s the only sure way the thing can be killed once and for all.
All this Slaughter nonsense tells us quite clearly that they don’t have the votes. If they did, it would have been a done deal by now. They need to admit defeat or vote.
kooly on March 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM
one more no and what? linky? por favor
ted c on March 15, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Right on.
Weight of Glory on March 15, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Yeah, keep telling yourself that, buddy.
manofaiki on March 15, 2010 at 9:35 PM
In other words, they’ve chosen to eschew the petroleum jelly.
Mr. D on March 15, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Quite well said…but continue to be very, very, very angry.
Chewy the Lab on March 15, 2010 at 9:43 PM
Dems just do not play by the rules. Plain and simple. I am convinced they are an evil lot, set on destroying this country.
We need a statesman. God help us all.
joepub on March 15, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Hmmmmm.
Sounds like something I’d see written on a tombstone.
See you in November.
One way or another.
CPT. Charles on March 15, 2010 at 9:44 PM
How the Hell did we lose the Congress to these Bozos?
Jdripper on March 15, 2010 at 9:46 PM
I have never wanted to wish time away but right now November can not come fast enough.
sherry on March 15, 2010 at 9:47 PM
If they pass this then voting them out is not going to be good enough.
They must not be allowed to leave congress and retire with tax payer funded retirement accounts and other perks! Something has got to be done to make each and everyone of them financially accountable for this mess! Congress has already set the standard by going after CEO’s bonus’s and retroactive tax increases.
We need to be able to go back and strip these people of every penny of tax payer money they made while in office.
Democrats are setting the example that it is ok to change rules, change polices, ignore laws and procedures and shred the constitution.
Then I say, let it be done to them! The standard they are setting now, let it be used on them once they are removed from office! We need to go back and take all of the money they have taken from us! They do not deserve a retirement! They should be made to pay back their salaries! They have not earned it! They have created a financial mess with our nation and do not deserve to leave office with a golden parachute!
It cannot be business as usual when the Republicans take congress in Nov.! Democrats are at war with America! They are abusing their powers! They need to pay the same way they have made other corrupt CEO’s pay!
JellyToast on March 15, 2010 at 9:47 PM
Rep. John Larson of Connecticut’s 1st District needs to be informed that the People do care very much about the process Congress is using to force Democrat-care on us.
Who is running against Rep John Larson in 2010?
Is there any chance of defeating Rep. John Larson in the Primary election?
Be sure to mention his opponent’s name as the person you will actively be campaigning for when we flood his offices with phone calls and emails!
wren on March 15, 2010 at 9:47 PM
They are quite simply living in a dream world. Not to worry, the November elections will provide a dose of reality. HINT: They are not going to like it.
GarandFan on March 15, 2010 at 9:50 PM
These idiots think by saying sometihng often enough we will believe it.
Idiots.
ladyingray on March 15, 2010 at 9:53 PM
This is a bluff. They don’t have the votes.
Dire Straits on March 15, 2010 at 9:53 PM
I’ll be happy if we sentence each of them — along with the Chicago Jesus and some of his thugs — to, say, 25-to-life at Guantanamo Bay.
Put up a pay-per-view feed showing them breaking rocks and sitting alone in their cells. You would get enough orders for viewing at $39.95 a pop to pay back much of what they stole.
Hell, I’d order the 24/7 premium package and just leave it on in the background….
MrScribbler on March 15, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Oh sure Mr. Chairman, you can just expect to be greeted with a big shrug and a loud “so what?” when you tell people that the House is considering a maneuver where the House votes on one bill, and if that bill is approved, then SOME OTHER BILL is instead considered to have been approved in its stead. Yeah, people don’t care about people playing shell games and anti-Constitutional bait-and-switch tricks in order to get a fiercely hated bill signed into law. Nobody cares about that stuffy old Constitution anyway.
/sarc
Aitch748 on March 15, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Ya know, I’m beginning to think I am either a prime candidate for the looney bin, or they are…one or the other.
I’ll start with them: It is insane, (Yes, insane, no euphemisms, just, um, insane!), that they continue to stand up in front of the American people and spout off about how they (Am ‘Peeps) are BEGGING them to get this done.
It is insane, (ditto my above referendum on insanity) that they really think they can say, “We are going to vote on a bill, that hasn’t been voted on, but we will “deem” that it has been voted on, because another governmental body voted on it.”
It is also insane that they don’t think–or more insanely–don’t care that the American people are white-hot furious about this.
This is either the biggest bluff in the world (choreographed by the bluffer-in-chief), or it truly is insanity. I dread it’s the former, but equally pray it’s not the latter. There is no good outcome: NO winnable situation for these clowns, so to what end are they doing this??? There is only one answer. C-O-N-T-R-O-L.
Regarding the bluff, I think it goes something like this:
“Ah, all you have to do. Is, ah, pretend. Ah like everything is hunky-dorry. I mean it. They’re sheeple. Just keep tellin’ em that I’m wearin’ clothes. Just keep tell’en em you know what they want, and you, ah know what’s best for them. Eventually, they’ll buy it, or, my name isn’t Barry Soto—Um Barack Hussein Obama.”
Chewy the Lab on March 15, 2010 at 9:59 PM
If they pass this, I want to be the first man sentenced to prison for not purchasing their heath insurance.
Wolfen on March 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Democrats are ignoring law and procedure to ram through a take over of our health care system that will fundamentally change our nation! Our freedoms and our very lives!
We are on a whole new level of corruption here.
Just losing the next election is not good enough!
So they take one for the team, lose in Nov. and then go back home with a few hundred thousand dollars or maybe a few million in tax payer funded retirements!?
The American taxpayer funded their salaries to uphold and protect the constitution! Not the destroy it! They were sent to congress to vote! Not to make laws by just “deeming them so!”
They have abused their authority and need to be held financially accountable!
JellyToast on March 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Be prepared to wait for the line will be long.
Dire Straits on March 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM
I will stand behind you!
truetexan on March 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM
There is strong word out there that the Democrats are going to go down the path of the Slaughter rule to “deem” passage of the bill by Wednesday.
The tea partiers need to get some signs ready to display at the rally tomorrow protesting the Slaughter rule.
smartsy on March 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/86941-dem-leader-we-have-the-votes-for-healthcare
Numbness
andy85719 on March 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM
My God, is it November yet so that we can vote each and every one of these SOBs out of office?!!!!
pilamaye on March 15, 2010 at 10:07 PM
One word: Nutzi
Chip on March 15, 2010 at 10:09 PM
Stupak was just on Greta saying he’d be surprised if there are even 200 votes right now.
Now either that’s true and that’s seriously shocking, or he’s out of touch with what’s going on because Pelosi has given up on him e.g. he’s out of the loop.
B Man on March 15, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Will this line be longer then the line at the unemployment office or longer then the line for Government cheese?
There will probably be rehabilitation camps instead.
Electrongod on March 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM
I can only see one benefit to passage of this health care bill: the drop of impacted colon complaints, due to the constant rectum stretching we’ll all receive courtesy of Washington, DC.
All Congressional members will receive “Assman” vanity plates.
HAnthonyWayne on March 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Wolfen on March 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM
I will stand behind you!
truetexan on March 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Thanks, but the ten men aren’t alive that could drag me there.
Want to see an “Army of One?
Wolfen on March 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM
I’m starting to believe Stupak is out of touch, e.g. lost his marbles.
He said he had more people than he realistically does, for one.
Enoxo on March 15, 2010 at 10:14 PM
So, Jelly, how do you really feel? Don’t hold back now!
I’m kidding…you are eloquent in your anger.
I’m talkin’ myself into the bluff theory though…I certainly never believed any group of people could be more brazenly disingenuous. I was Uber-pizzed about it pretty much all day. But a glass or two of wine, some good pre-St. Paddy’s Day corned beef and cabbabbage (as my boys said when tiny), got me ta’ thinkin.
I’m starting to think this is the “Hail Mary Pass” of all “Hail Mary passes.”
They think if they repeat that the bill will pass enough times, it will: a)Make it so, b)make the American people think it’s so and buy them time to pull something miraculous out of their…orafices.
Don’t stop praying, don’t stop calling, don’t stop fighting…they always howl the loudest before they give up.
Chewy the Lab on March 15, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Get it on dick brains! I spoke an to highly esteemed member of the bar tonight. My question was “Do you think we will have insurrection” His answer was ” Bet on it.”Sorry, but these brain dead mo=fos are not going to hijack this country.
katy the mean old lady on March 15, 2010 at 10:16 PM
By the way,I just finished my first of several paintings I am doing on last year’s 9/12 march on DC. I guess I call this my version of “Obama Inspired Art!”
When I first read some thread here last year on Obama Inspired Art, I knew I had to have my own go at it!
Hope you like it!
http://jellytoast.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/p10106371.jpg
JellyToast on March 15, 2010 at 10:18 PM
About the only way this procedure could be worse is if the House adopted a rule that if a bill is voted DOWN in the House, then the bill is DEEMED to have been approved — a “no-means-yes” rule, in other words.
I’m with JellyToast. I’m about ready to see citizens marching into Congress and conducting mass citizens’ arrests on the whole dirty lot of them. I’m ready to see these swine stripped of all their assets so that we can use them to start paying down the almost unimaginably huge debt that these swindlers have helped pile up.
Aitch748 on March 15, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Larson has been a liar since the day he started running for office. He is a puke and he stains my home state.
The contempt that Democrats hold their constituents in is mind boggling.
drjohn on March 15, 2010 at 10:23 PM
I get the nutzi reference, but am compelled to comment that it is a vailed reference to NAZI. The big difference in this “crowd” ahem, that we have representing us in congress and the Nazis?
Sadly, the Nazis didn’t have the American people between themselves and the German population (at least until it was too late).
In contrast, the American people will not let this happen to them! I must believe that! For now, we have the most powerful weapon in the world at our disposal…and it is tool that no other oppressed people in the past have had: our freedom of speech.
(Oh, and that ‘Right to bear arms’ thingy???? It “don’t hurt, neither.”)
Chewy the Lab on March 15, 2010 at 10:23 PM
The Democrats love referring to one of their major gods, FDR. Well, in this case FDR is an appropriate reference “A Day That Will Live In Infamy.”
johnsteele on March 15, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Why you sexist piggy you!:)
katy the mean old lady on March 15, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Exquisite…and I get it! The kid and his expression…an inspiration! Your child or just your great imagination? Maybe both?
Chewy the Lab on March 15, 2010 at 10:26 PM
I don’t know about “the public,” but I am part of that “public,” and I’m pretty damn well outraged myself.
Sekhmet on March 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM
bayview on March 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM
No, not my child.
I went last year and took close to 400 photos with paintings in mind. This was on one of the Grant monuments in front of the capital. I have two other DC 9/12 paintings I am working on now. A few more planned. They are also around the Grant monuments.
JellyToast on March 15, 2010 at 10:31 PM
I guess we’ll find out in November.
Kafir on March 15, 2010 at 10:32 PM
I always like to point out that the NAZIs were National Socialist – and most people can readily figure out who is closet to that moniker.
But the Democrats aren’t just the closet to be National Socialists, they also seem almost insane – doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Hence they are ‘Nutzi’
Chip on March 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM
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