Common Sense Commentary: Paging Sarah Palin

• December 23, 2009

So after the big-government hijack of our healthcare system in the dead of night on Monday, Common Sense faithful are searching to find some way to defeat this monstrosity. Senate vote was our best shot, but we could still have some good old-fashioned legislative takedown after the Republicans retake Congress, right? Even that, ladies and gentlemen, may not be possible.
Once government is created, it seldom retracts. That’s a political reality. But say an unscrupulous Congress, following lock-step with a President’s radical agenda, were to hammer through legislation that was so bad it cost them the 2010 election. The Republicans could restore some sanity in the Chambers, and begin to repeal this “healthcare crisis” canard, right? Maybe not. Buried on page 1,020 is a provision discovered by Senator Jim DeMint, stating the following:

“It shall not be in order in the senate or the house of representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.”

And what does this subsection entail? Independent Medicare Advisory Boards (otherwise known as “death panels”). Paging Sarah Palin. Your obvious question is this: how could you pass a law co ntaining language that makes it unrepealable? And if this is Constitutional, why wouldn’t every Senate purposing new law include this provision, safeguarding it from future scrutiny? It’s perfectly legal, Democratic lawmakers claim, because certain rule changes are now classified as “procedural changes.” What’s the difference? 2/3 cloture vote is needed for a “rule” change in the Senate. But if you call it a “procedure change,” it’s not needed. Still confused? Here’s the exchange between Senator DeMint and the Presiding Senate Officer:

DEMINT: and so the language you see in this bill that specifically refers to a change in a rule is not a rule change, it’s a procedure change?
PRESIDING OFFICER: that is correct.
DEMINT: then I guess our rules mean nothing, do they, if they can redefine them.

Our forefathers are spinning in their graves.
That’s my opinion, what’s yours?
Listen to the Scott Hennen Show at ScottHennen.com or on AM1100 WZFG.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array sayanything-15427

The first of the “rights granted by government” until government decides to take it away or hold it over your head. The problem with Obama’s “Positive Bill of Rights” that says what Government must do FOR you is that if it is government and not something you are born with that gives you your rights. Then government can feel free to take rights away from you.

If it harms anyone, reduces anyone elses rights, or costs someone else a single penny it is NOT a right. Rights cost nothing because they are things you are born to that affect nobody but YOU. You do not have the right to shelter, but you do have the right to build a shelter or purchase/rent a shelter from someone else. You do not have the right to food but you do have the right to forage and learn to feed yourself, or purchase land and farm for yourself, or purchase food from other people. You have no right to drive, you have no right to Health Care, you have no right to gather in groups and do violence against others or private business though you do have the right to rise up against a tyrannical government who no longer follows the Constitution.
sayanything-287

Nothing says Democrat Party better than more than a million dead babies each year and euthanized and assisted suicide adult victims! They are the party of death and once they can create for themselves more power to kill more babies, they must make it nearly impossible to repeal, it is in their blood lust.
studakota

What if the “Death Panels”, consisting of maniacs like Dino, decide that elderly Conservatives should be transported to Gitmo to await a decision on life or death? If you don’t think that a thumbs up, or down, will be based on your vote , you’re, sadly, mistaken.
sayanything-13784

I have a hard time believing this will pass constitutional muster. If it does I hope some conservative states refuse to participate, whatever it takes.

Paging Richard Smoker?
jimmypop

or what if the death panel says, ‘aids cases cost us too much. let them die in the streets.’ for selfish reasons the gays need to be 100% against bills like this. its those high cost folks that get hurt most when the our now broke government says, ‘there is no money left for you or heart transplants. sorry.’
sayanything-2361

We can pass amendments that would nullify or change parts of the constitution.
So then, what would you call a law that carries more weight (impossible to amend) than the constitution? And what qualifies the people who wrote the law to do it?

The constitution is the written form of the unalienable rights given by the God. What then would this law be?
sayanything-2361

Beat me to it. This will either be purely cost motivated or could have political decisions on top, not how I want my medicine.
sayanything-2361

Alan Keyes spoke here recently on rights. An illustration was up/down, hot/cold and right/wrong. The rights we have are our duty to do good, feed and clothe our children and the needy. Not harm others but protect them from stronger bullies.

Me deciding to take from you to give to someone else (and I get a cut) is wrong (evil) not a ‘right.’
sayanything-2361

I’m afraid constitutionality is not an issue except to the ‘fringe kooks.’ It has descended to whether or not there is the power to do it and that alone decides if it is right.

SayAnythingBlog.com

Common Sense Commentary: Paging Sarah Palin

Create a SAB Readerblog

Recent Comments