By FITSNews || Echoing comments made last week by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-South Carolina), U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that his administration will be able to muster enough votes to pass socialized medicine through the U.S. Congress via a procedural loophole typically reserved for budget negotiations.
“We will get the votes,” Obama told ABC News during a trip to Ohio to promote his plan.
In fact, House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt – another Democrat from South Carolina – got the ball rolling on Obama’s procedural end-around on Monday when he introduced a “reconciliation resolution” which will serve as the vehicle for Obamacare’s final push. Spratt’s resolution passed his committee by a 21-16 vote, and now heads to the House Rules Committee.
Assuming it passes the House, Spratt’s resolution would permit the U.S. Senate to bypass any Republican attempt to filibuster the legislation – meaning Obamacare could end up getting rammed through the Congress within the next two weeks.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) blasted Spratt’s committee for its “extraordinary and unprecedented abuse of the budget reconciliation process.”
“Never before has the House committee process been so grossly exploited,” Ryan said.
He’s right.
Democrats lost their ability to block a GOP filibuster in January when Scott Brown was elected to the fill the term of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, an epic upset that should have meant the end of “Obamacare.”
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By thirdworldrathole March 15, 2010 at 8:56 pm
They don’t call liberals fascists for nothing…
I’m sure once Rhammy’s brigade of shower “nut-twisters” are let loose in Washington, these “Blue Dogs” will roll over for Obama.
It’s absolutely revealing that the Democrats must resort to rogue and illegitimate tactics to cram communism down American’s throats.
America will never recover, and America will lose the world’s best healthcare system.
Fortunately for the elite rich Americans like Obama and Spratt, Costa Rica will offer subspecialty procedures at private hospitals that average, middle-class Americans now take for granted but will soon miss.
By James F. March 16, 2010 at 8:52 am
I do not doubt they will get the votes. Obama was elected telling lies and he will die doing the same. The American public are suckers for a slick talker. Spratt’s district eats him up and he sells us older folks out daily. Obama and Congress are going to insure us for less money and add another 31 million to the rolls. This isnt fuzzy math it is an outright lies that only idiots can believe in. We older folks did not get a SS raise the past year and the year to come but Spratt and cohorts received around $5000.00 each. Not only that, our premiums are going up and Congress is going to take $500 Billion out of Medicare to start this new lock box that wont be used for 4 years. The CBO says this will only serve to weaken the system that is already failing. Maybe we all should invest in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.Spratt and Clyburn screw over the old and uneducated and laugh at us.
By CNChapin March 16, 2010 at 8:58 am
If they pass this it will be an act of war against the citizens of this country. We’ll be within our right to respond in kind.
Lock and load. They’re going to pay for their actions.
By ClemsonAlum06 March 16, 2010 at 9:48 am
Our Founding Fathers’ words still can apply in today’s world…
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
By countryboy March 16, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Spratt has turned into an arrogant SOB like Pelosi, Reid and Hussein Obama. He doesn’t think the people in his district are smart enough to know how f*cking liberal he has become.
By BC March 18, 2010 at 3:30 am
Normally I would comment in length, but all you people are stupid and in need of a civic lesson. These postings prove exactly what the rest of the United States think about everyone in SC……dumb. Everyone talks about government being ran like a business but when it happens….oh no! The ability to have health care will reduce the incentive that insurance companies use to prey on the insured. Wake up people! They’ve done this crap for years and now that someone is calling them on it….your ready to defend them. Please don’t become seriously ill anytime soon, you’ll find out how much your insurance company really cares!