Comments on: House Dems: We’ll Pass Senate Obamacare Bill By Voting On Something Else (Updated)

By: From TheHayride.com: Pelosi, Democrats Descend Into Full-Fledged Insanity With Reconciliation Bill « Stomping Lightly…

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:40:22 +0000

[...] Nancy Pelosi and her acolytes in the Democrat leadership couple this action with an attempt to force the Senate bill through via the Slaughter Rule – in other words, just deem the bill passed by voting on something else – it would indicate [...]

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Pelosi Supports Breaking Oath Of Office In Acting On Slaughter Rule — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:02:42 +0000

[...] Rules Committee chair Louise Slaughter concoct a legislative Frankenstein now being called the Slaughter Rule whereby the current 2,309-page Reconciliation Bill (see it in all its destructive glory by [...]

By: Pelosi Supports Breaking Oath Of Office In Acting On Slaughter Rule | The Hayride

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:01:58 +0000

By: Bachmann Advocates Civil Disobedience If Dems Pass Obamacare Using Slaughter Rule | The Hayride

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:24:14 +0000

[...] Americans to refuse to comply with the Obamacare law on health care if the Democrats use the Slaughter Rule to “deem” the Senate bill passed without actually voting on it. Bachmann said that if [...]

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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:15:18 +0000

By: Ryan Booth

Ryan Booth — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:56:48 +0000

I just noticed that Obamacare has dropped to 46% on Intrade, down from 53% earlier today. I agree with the market that Obamacare is now likely to fail, and I wouldn't even give it a 46% chance now.

By: Ryan Booth

Ryan Booth — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:56:00 +0000

I just noticed that Obamacare has dropped to 46% on Intrade, down from 53% earlier today. I agree with the market that Obamacare is now likely to fail, and I wouldn't even give it a 46% chance now.

By: Ryan Booth

Ryan Booth — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:53:13 +0000

http://cdn.rollcall.com/media/44110-1.html

This would seem to be a death blow to the Slaughter maneuver. The Senate parlimentarian has said that a bill must be signed by the President before it can be reconciled. The House can't "deem" the Senate bill passed at the same time they reconcile it. They have to pass the bill first. I'm glad that the U.S. Senate has a parlimentarian who can read the Constitution.

I really liked Yuval Levin comment over at National Review Online:

"Democratic leaders should be asking themselves just how they have gotten to the point that their strategy is to amend a law that doesn’t exist yet by passing a bill without voting on it. Surely it’s time to start over."

By: Ryan Booth

Ryan Booth — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:53:00 +0000

http://cdn.rollcall.com/media/44110-1.html

I really liked Yuval Levin comment over at National Review Online:

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:48:55 +0000

There's still no guarantee the "fixes" to the senate bill will be fixed in the senate. This is just another sucker play for the dimmest of the Dems.

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:48:00 +0000

There's still no guarantee the "fixes" to the senate bill will be fixed in the senate. This is just another sucker play for the dimmest of the Dems.

By: macaoidh

macaoidh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:18:43 +0000

The fact that this thing got out onto the internet and generated a fresh round of outrage didn't help the cause at all. That much is certain.

By: macaoidh

macaoidh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:18:00 +0000

The fact that this thing got out onto the internet and generated a fresh round of outrage didn't help the cause at all. That much is certain.

By: Ryan Booth

Ryan Booth — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:42:02 +0000

I still suspect that using the Slaughter method of "passing" the bill won't work, because some vulnerable Dems who are otherwise bound to Pelosi would use this as an excuse to vote no and save their hides. If she fixes the abortion language so that Stupak and his gang of 12 agree, she would only have a margin of one, based on the way the votes went last time. Even if she can switch another vote or two, it's likely that this un-Constitutional power grab would be rejected by more than two of those 216. This is all very creative of Pelosi, but I still am skeptical of her ability to line up the votes. We still have a very good chance of defeating Obamacare.

By: Ryan Booth

Ryan Booth — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:42:00 +0000