RSSUS Representative Alcee Hastings (D-FL): “There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along”
Finally a Democrat speaks the truth …
No truer words have ever been spoken by the Democrats in Congress when it comes to making sure that Barack Obama’s agenda is more important than the will of the American People. US Constitution and We the People be damned. Democrat US Representative from Florida Alcee Hastings stated the following:
“There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along”
We are supposed to live in a Representative Democracy. Might some one tell us who the Democrats are representing these days? How can ever poll taken be against Obamacare, yet President Obama, Pelosi and Reid keep feeding us the line that they are doing this for the American people? Why, because they make that stuff up to as they go along.
It would appear that Democrats have ditched ‘Deem & Pass’.Of course this sadly most likely means they have the votes. Democratic will have three independent votes – a vote on the rule, a vote on the fix package, followed by a vote on the Senate bill. If Democrats had ever attempted such a cowardly act like “Deem & Pass” they would have been lead out of DC on a rail even before the midterm 2010 elections.
Top Democrats confirmed Saturday that the House would hold separate votes on the Senate healthcare bill and the reconciliation bill, making fixes to it.
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), one of the chief deputy whips, Rep. Melvin Watt (D-N.C.), and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), all of whom said that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won’t use the tactic of deem and pass for healthcare reform.
The move effectively kills the “deem and pass” strategy Democrats had been eyeing to make changes to the Senate bill through a rule on the bill, which at the same time would have deemed the original Senate healthcare bill to have passed the House.
The House appears set now to move toward an up-or-down vote on the Senate healthcare bill, as well as a separate, up-or-down vote on the series of changes to that bill. There will still be a vote on the rule, as there always is for a piece of legislation, though it will not package the two bills together.
Make no mistake about it, 50% of American voters are less likely to vote for Congress member who supports Obamacare.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Wednesday night finds that 34% are more likely to vote for their Congress member’s reelection if he or she supports the president’s health care plan. Eight percent (8%) say the health care vote will have no impact on how they vote this November, and another seven percent (7%) are not sure.
Posted March 20, 2010 by Scared Monkeys 2010 Elections, Government, Healthcare, House of Representatives, Obamacare, Obamanation, Politics | 4 comments |
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My grandma called that cheating!
Oh my. What an idiot.
And you are misinterpreting this snippet. This IS new for America. (I don’t mean reconciliation which is point by point in the rulebook, I mean the health care bill, and so does he.)
This is a bill with good intentions, but Democrats are uneasy if this will really work. It is, politically, a bold move. There are examples that the principle is sound. But nobody knows if this is the right way. Criticising them afterwards is easy. Because, most likely, people that are helped by this will sit back contently while the ones who somehow get a worse deal, will cry out as loud as possible.
This is almost a heroic political effort, if it will help them or break their necks, nobody knows yet. Even reps are uneasy if this will be an epic democrat victory or practically hand them the next election.
I think this will end up somewhere in between, on the positive side for dems. This bill shure as hell isn’t perfect, but what is? We’ll have to see. Just sack up and let’s handle this in a fair way, ok.
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SM: “Good Intentions”???!!! Who’s the idiot? If that’s what we base things upon we are finished as a country. Obviously you are a Democrat if that is your mentality.
The intentions of this bill is the government take over of 1/6th of our economy. If you don’t think so all one has to do is look at the fact that Obama has put the IRS in as the pitbulls of this Obamacare plan. Finally, Obama is going to create jobs, 16,000 new IRS agents will be hired to track every single American citizen as to whether they have government “approved” health care. If not, they will be fined $2500 and their tax returns will be garnished.
BRILLIANT! The IRS is already too intrusive in the lives of Americans … do much for HIPAA.
Obama had no good intention with this bill, that is why he had to bribe and threaten Democrat House and Senate members to pass it.
Wanna make a bet the Democrats are not going to lose in historic and epic proportions? They now have the Right and the Independents against them. Obama is at 43% and sinking. After this passes and come the midterms it is highly possible Obama will be in the 30′s.
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Facts don’t lie, only Obama does. When he states that he does not know how this will play politically, he is lying thru his teeth. Obama’s job approval is is the tank and trending down. This years midterms will be a referandum on Obama and Obamacare and jobs. He failed miserably at them all.
1. 54% of Voters Oppose, 41% approve of Obamacare
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform
The partisan divide remains constant as well. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Democrats favor the plan, while 87% of Republicans are opposed. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 34% are in favor, and 59% are opposed.
2. 50% Less Likely To Vote For Congress Member Who Supports Health Care Plan
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/march_2010/50_less_likely_to_vote_for_congress_member_who_supports_health_care_plan
Fifty percent (50%) of U.S. voters say they are less likely to vote for their representative in Congress this November if he or she votes for the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Wednesday night finds that 34% are more likely to vote for their Congress member’s reelection if he or she supports the president’s health care plan. Eight percent (8%) say the health care vote will have no impact on how they vote this November, and another seven percent (7%) are not sure.
3. Generic Congressional Ballot
Republicans Lead Democrats by 10 in Generic Ballot, Highest Lead Yet
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot
4. 50% Say States Should Have Right to Opt Out of Health Care Reform Plan
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/march_2010/50_say_states_should_have_right_to_opt_out_of_health_care_reform_plan
Democratic congressional leaders have scheduled a House vote on their national health care plan this Sunday, but 59% of U.S. voters say most members of Congress will not understand what is in the plan before they vote on it.
5. From Real Clear Politics, average polling Obama under water. More now disapprove of his job than approve.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
6. Every poll in America is against Obamacare with an average of -9%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_democrats_health_care_plan-1130.html
7. Democrat controlled Congress is at 19% approval rating.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html
You wanna bet that we are not going to see epic losses on the side of Democrats in the Fall midterms? Really. When Scott Brown wins in Massachusetts much on the fact that he was a vote against Obamacare, no Democrat is safe in any district.
Get the Kleenix out on election eve because the carnage is going to be of historic and epic proportions. Obama is the most partisan President ever. He and Democrats have refused to listen to the people.
Democrats will pay a dear price and rightfully so.
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jjay: what’s fair about your democrat boy obama ? nothing. strong arming and bribing those who know in their hearts that obama care is death. bribing the mexicans for their vote. your party is nothing but a corrupt bunch of chicago street thugs, much like those of your kind who post here.
come 2012, no more obama, no more democrat thug majority and you lose son.