SEN. BYRD SINGLE-HANDEDLY STOPPED PRESIDENT CLINTON FROM USING RECONCILIATION
Mar0
How times have changed. Senator Byrd (D), 4/5/2001 (video), transcript:
The Democratic Leadership pleaded with me at length to agree to support the idea that the Clinton Health Care Bill should be included in that year’s reconciliation package.
They came to my office on the floor below. President Clinton got on the phone and called me also and pressed me to allow his massive health care bill to be insulated by reconciliations protection. He called me on the telephone.
I felt that changes as dramatic as the Clinton health care package which would affect every man, woman, and child in the United States should be subject to scrutiny. I said Mr. President I can not in good conscience turn my face the other way. That’s why we have a Senate, to amend and debate freely. That health bill, as important as it is, is so complex, so far reaching that the people of the country need to know what’s in it. And moreover Mr. President, we Senator’s need to know what’s in it before we vote.
And he accepted that. He accepted that and thanked me and we said goodbye.
I could not, I would not, and I did not allow that package to be handled in such a cavalier manner. It was the threat of the use of the Byrd rule. Reconciliation was never, never, never intended to be shield, to be used as a shield, for controversial legislation.
Even ignoring the un-Constitutionality of the bill – which the
Obama’s behavior at State of the Union “very troubling” – Roberts
Mar0
“On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum. The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling.” – Chief Justice John Roberts, March 9, 2010
Pelosi – we have to pass the [health insurance] bill so that you can find out what is in it.
Mar0
“ Prevention, prevention, prevention—its about diet, not diabetes. Its going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the Presidents economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation—innovation. ” Nancy Pelosi, March 9, 2010
Senator, most people prefer to know what is in a bill before their representatives vote on it. What happened to transparency?
The health insurance socialization bill is like one of the packages you see in horror movies that you just know you do not want to open! Kind of like Pandora’s box since we knew of the evil in there!
Professor Lisa Wade projects her own racism on everyone else!
Mar0
Professor Lisa Wade projects her own racism on everyone else when she says “Most white parents wouldn’t think to buy a black doll for their child, even if they believe in equality and all those things.” “Most white parents“???? Talk about a sweeping “racist” generalization. Professor Wade, perhaps in your world you would be as “racist” as you think everyone else is, and perhaps the people you socialize with are that “racist,” but “most white people” are not as “racist” as you appear with that remark! Professor Wade, please stop projecting your own “racist” views about “most white people” on the rest of the population and take a look in the mirror.
Lisa Wade is an assistant sociology professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the founder of the blog Sociological Images.
When the parasites can vote themselves a bigger bite from the host…
Mar0
President Obama has proposed a 1.4 % pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is the LOWEST since 1973. Nice to know that during a time of rampant inflation, while a war is fought in 2 theatres, our men and women in uniform get a LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS. – from K.P.L.
When the parasites can vote themselves a bigger bite from the host, they will do so. The law is supposed to protect you and your life from being voted into subservience, but when the law is used instead to steal from a disarmed population, the law has been perverted. Today many people believe the concept of personal responsibility means expecting someone else to pay for you and what you believe you “need.”
Today, the parasites are in control and the parasites have realized they can vote themselves a bigger bite from the host. And the chief parasites in Washington want to maintain control by directing where the rest of the parasites can take their bite based on how you are favored – from the filet portion or the keister.
The difference between a free society and a nation of parasites and hosts are bills like the health care bill.
Mar0
The difference between a free society and a nation of parasites and hosts are bills like the health care bill.
“Anyone who stands in the way of the health care bill is going to be smeared” – Dem Rep Massa
Mar0
“Anyone who stand in the ways of the health care bill is going to be smeared” – Democrat Rep. Eric Massa, March 7, 2010
“When I voted against the cap and trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff to the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn’t heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. And I gave it right back to him, in terms and words that I know are physically impossible.” Democrat Rep. Eric Massa, March 7, 2010
“Hoyer lied.” – Democrat Rep. Eric Massa, March 7, 2010
“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill. And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.” Democrat Rep. Eric Massa, March 7, 2010
“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.” Democrat Rep. Eric Massa, March 7, 2010
“He’ll get rid of me. And this bill will pass and that’ll end…and I, I, don’t know what we’re gonna do in this country.” Democrat Rep. Eric Massa, March 7, 2010
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34051.html#ixzz0hbCsBZXY
Democrat Representative Massa says Democrat Leaders set him up. The Washington leadership will indeed “stop at nothing” to get the health care bill because it will make dependents of everyone, leaving Washington with power over everyone and everything in the United States. Instead of a nation of free people, we will have become a nation of parasites and hosts except that everyone will be both to one degree. Washington will be our masters and the country as their slaves.
See also:
Massa Hints he could Rescind Resignation.
Obama ends “leave internet alone” policy
Feb0
“The US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce.” Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, The Register and see the NTIA presentation.
The internet is too powerful for governments that want to control the thoughts of their population to leave alone. Along with the extension of the Patriot Act (WashingtonPost.com), the Obama Administration arguing in Federal Court that there is no “reasonable expectation of privacy” on cell phones – funny, we missed the ACLU, EFF, and the press having conniptions about the Democrat controlled Congress and Democrat President signing the extension – Washington has a nice tight grip on the communications of the country.
But, it is nice to have “government oversight” over everything – you wouldn’t want to do something without permission would you?
Obama on why Democrats had twice as much time to speak-”Because I’m the President…I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”
Feb0
You’re right, uh, there was an imbalance on the opening statements because I’m the President and so I made, uh, I didn’t, I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly. President Obama, February 25, 2010, 11:43am EST.
Detroit Mayor wants to force people to leave homes!
Feb0
“Detroit Mayor Dave Bing
said Wednesday he “absolutely” intends to relocate residents from desolate neighborhoods and is bracing for inevitable legal challenges when he unveils his downsizing plan.”
Detroit News, February 25, 2010
With all due respect to the Mayor, the time has come to break Detroit up. Big cities that can’t support themselves are ripe to be broken up into smaller, more responsive, less corrupt areas that will take into account the will of their residents.
Moving people out of “blighted” areas by force? This sounds like something out of East Germany and the USSR. Mr Mayor, this is a free country and this type of action is something that Stalin or Mao would do.
Pro-growth policies and smaller government are the only way to save and revitalize Detroit (and other large cities). More of the same old failed policies -and worse, as this one is- will only lead to more people leaving the city.