Our Democratic Washington Overlords are just determined to pass a health care bill. So determined in fact, they're trying to pass a health care bill that doesn't even exist.
But wait, there's more!
The long-discussed process, nicknamed the "nuclear option," is known as reconciliation. It's coming into potential play after the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday became the last of five committees to approve health care reform legislation, sending the overhaul proposals a big step closer to the president's desk. Before it gets there, though, the bill has to pass from the committees to the floors of the House and Senate.
Under the normal process, senators can filibuster almost anything and the debate would only be cut off if at least 60 lawmakers vote to do so. For that reason, 60 is considered the magic number in the quest to pass health care reform out of the Senate.
But under reconciliation, typically used in the budget process, no filibusters are permitted and a bill can pass with just a simple majority.
In other words, the Democrats are going to pass this bill whether you like it or not! And if it takes dirty tricks to do so, then so be it. This is an EMERGENCY! It must be passed now!
Even though none of it will go into effect until 2013 (after the next election cycle of course).
Hey, corrupt Harry Reid (D-NV) says the health care bill will only cost a mere $2 trillion! Of course we all know that $2 trillion is Washington-speak for $10 trillion. Chump change for a bill that doesn't even exist.
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held a hearing this morning to certify that H.R. 3200 -- the main House Obamacare bill which was the subject of all the town hall rage in August -- has met all requirements to pass as a “budget reconciliation” measure.
Under reconciliation, the bill can be passed by a simple majority vote in the Senate -- just 51 votes -- and will be given preferential treatment on the House floor as well. The Dems have apparently invoked the “nuclear option” to shut out Republicans and ensure the bill is passed before the end of the year.
The bill certified for “reconciliation” is the Ways & Means version of H.R. 3200 that was passed out of committee before the August break, and before it was read aloud at town hall meetings across the country and blasted by voters across the country.
The bill then goes to Pelosi and the Rules Committee where Pelosi will do the same thing Reid is doing right now: merge the three House versions of H.R. 3200 together into whatever she wants it to be ...
Oh, I see ... they're going to merge 3 different bills together into whatever Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants. I think I read that somewhere in the Constitution ... Or was it the Declaration that said:
"To hell with the people, it's all about whatever Pelosi wants."
And with Robert Reich admitting the Democrat Health Care Plan includes rationing, telling the elderly "we're going to let you die" ...
It looks like Soviet Gulag Health Care is coming to the United States!
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