Can the House pass the Senate healthcare bill without voting on it? If Speaker Pelosi has her way then that may be what happens. It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry, and we keep wondering, can they really get away with it?
You wouldn’t think Congress would need a court ruling to determine this, but they are politicians, so they need lots of remedial assistance with simple logic.
We really don’t think this pig can fly. If the Democrats try to launch it, the courts will sink it. And a differently constituted Congress may also repeal it after the November election. But you never know, so we need to keep pressuring Congress to drop this bill. Please write them another letter. Remember . . .
These people work for you. They also have the power of coercion over you. You have the right to tell them what you think, as often as you want, day after day, or even several times a day. Use this right.
Every letter you send gets counted and reported up the chain of command. And some of these letters will be read by the top staff in each Congressional office. Even President Obama reads 10 letters per day. So your letters DO count. They do matter. Keep sending them. Specifically, today . . .
Earlier today Ron Paul did what he does best: Hammered central government/economic planning during a House committee hearing. He then gets to ask Ben Bernanke a few questions on interest rate manipulation. Unsurprisingly, Bernanke claims the problems were due to not enough regulation rather than admit that regulation was the cause of the problems.
“Central Banking is an art.” – Bernanke
Near the end of the 2nd clip both men get to the heart of their differences:
Bernanke: “You are a gold standard, er, uh…”
Paul: “I’m for the Constitution.”
To put you in the proper frame of mind, consider the following bits of history . . .
* American Revolution: The British won all the early battles, but lost the war
* Napoleon: He won battles for years and years, but he ended up imprisoned on a rock in the Atlantic ocean
* American Civil War: The Confederates won constantly in the early years, but they lost the war
* World War II: The Nazis and the Japanese ran wild at first, conquering vast amounts of territory, but they both lost in the end
* The Cold War: The Soviets conquered half of Europe during World War II, and the CIA even ended up thinking the Soviet economy would eclipse our own, but the Soviets collapsed in the end, without a shot being fired
We predict the same pattern for our own fight. The Statists have won a lot of battles, but they aren’t going to win the war.
We firmly believe that the Statist mindset — which conjures monstrosities like the current healthcare bill — has no future.
Coercion, and top-down social engineering, do not work. They harm people. They are mistakes. And in the long run, people learn from their mistakes. Thus . . .
Ron Paul appeared on Fox Business channel today to discuss Bernanke and his Fed friends leaving interest rates alone, Dodd’s finance reform bill, inflation, and other economy-related topics.
Rand Paul and Andrew Breitbart appeared last night on Fox Business News’ “Nightly Scoreboard” with David Asman to discuss health care reform.
Don’t forget to pledge and donate on March 23rd for Rand Paul’s next money bomb. He went over $2 million dollars last night and needs a lot more to continue to compete and hold his lead in the primary and general election.
The Campaign For Liberty has posted Tom Woods’ excellent speech at CPAC regarding state nullification against unconstitutional federal laws as an avenue for real change in the United States.
Ron Paul was a guest on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” with Ed Shultz. They discussed Chris Dodd’s financial reform package and how it gives the Federal Reserve more power than it already has.
I may be able to get behind this Democratic health care over-reach plan if they adopt an “If we are wrong we pay” approach to it.
In other words, if every lawmaker who votes for health reform agrees to personally pay for everyone else’s health care for any amount health care costs rise above the CBO estimates in the future I could support it.
This would include their “estate” continuing to pay after they die, perhaps from sub-standard government-run health care. If Obama and company really honestly believe that their plan would reduce costs why would they not stand behind that belief?
Oh, that’s right, they aren’t very big supporters of personal responsibility are they?
Blame-shifting is an art in DC, and our representatives are master artists.
Nevermind. Once health costs sky rocket under this plan, they would likely just raise their own salaries enough to cover the costs, thereby sticking it to the taxpayers anyway.
Later this week, the House leadership intends to . . .
* pass the Senate 2,700 page healthcare reform bill, clearing it for President Obama’s signature
* but pretend that they didn’t
It’s a mind-boggling process suggested by Rule Committee Chair Rep. Louise Slaughter. To summarize . . .
* before Congress can pass a reconciliation bill “fixing” the Senate’s bill, the House must first pass the Senate bill and the President must sign it into law
* but the House doesn’t want an up-or-down vote on the unpopular Senate bill
* so instead the House will tie the Senate bill and the reconciliation bill together in a Rules Committee resolution
* which says that if the reconciliation bill passes, then the original Senate bill will be “DEEMED” to have been passed
* the Senate bill can then be signed into law, after which the Senate will (supposedly) proceed to consider the reconciliation bill
How can they do this? Because the House Rules Committee can propose anything that it pleases.
Fortunately, this procedure will require majority approval in the House. Which means . . . Read More »
The Tea Party folks were jumping for joy the day after Scott Brown won the special election in Massachusetts. Brown’s victory was all about stopping the Democrats from passing health reform and little else. His subsequent vote, incidentally his very first vote, supporting Obama’s “stimulus 2″ jobs bill reinforced this reality amongst some of his now formerly devoted supporters.
Rand Paul is everything the Tea Partiers wanted in Scott Brown and more. He is their Reagan fantasy becoming reality. Only they don’t appear to completely realize it yet. Sarah Palin’s endorsement was huge, but the jury is still out on whether Palin is more than just a conservative “Barbie” to Scott Brown’s “Ken”.
Dropping the campaign sweat from Rand Paul’s brow on truly limited government litmus paper reveals two names that would make almost every conservative smile: Goldwater and Reagan. These two icons are at the very root of Rand Paul’s philosophy of governance.
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