Healthcare Reform – The Constitution be Damned
Not quite two weeks ago Common Sense University posted an article entitled ‘Health Care Reform - The People be Damned’ and we follow it up with the apparent ‘trampling’ of the Constitution. In Article 1, Section7 it clearly spells out the following “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States.”
Later on in this Section it specifies the following “But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered into the Journal of each House respectively.
For well over two hundred years, this was followed in Congress but now, the Democrats in the House of Representatives found themselves in a situation where they could not get enough votes to pass the Senate version of the massive Healthcare Reform legislation and so, they simply changed the rules! What else are the liberal fanatics currently running Congress to do? The Chairperson of the House Rules Committee, Democrat Representative Louise Slaughter from New York therefore devised a new Rule by which the current version of the Senate Healthcare Reform bill can be approved without voting on it. If this sounds confusing, it is not! By approving this rule, the House of Representatives can simply ‘deem’ this bill as having been approved (without an actual Up or Down vote).
Ms. Slaughter’s claim this to be absolutely constitutional, Article 1, Section 7 notwithstanding. This rule change is at best an enabler to circumvent a clearly stated provision in our Constitution and is only the latest example of how far liberal fanatics are willing to go to get their way! Shameful is not an adequate word to describe this action. It borders on criminality in our humble opinion. When the precise wording of the founding documents of America can be thwarted by simply adopting a rule in Congress to achieve a goal in clear violation of the Constitution, what do we have left on which to count and depend?
We are convinced that the legality and constitutionality of the Democrats rule change will be challenged in the country’s courts but that will take time and in the meantime, the damage is done and we have to live with it. It does not at all surprise us here at Common Sense University that President Barack Obama does not care how he gets to sign healthcare reform legislation into law, after all, Congress is a different branch of the Government and he has stated that he does not want to tell them how to do their work. If these kinds of rule changes are acceptable or justifiable, we can see all kinds of mischief in the future in all aspects of life.
And just to show the absurdity of it all, here is our example: In a future Baseball World Series, the most powerful and influential (money wise) team is behind in the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game and is trailing by four or five runs, why not quickly change the rule and DEEM that a home run will be scored like a touchdown in football, in other words be rewarded with six points (runs). And wouldn’t you know: The last batter hits a homerun (bases empty) and low and behold, his team wins the World Series of that year by way of a rule change! We say, if they can make last minute rule changes in Congress (in violation of the Constitution) so that the Congress men and women do not have to vote and yet approve major legislation, why not make this type of rule, the DEEM rule, the law of the land?
America, are we really getting there, is this our future? Can we just DEEM this country’s multi-trillion dollar debt one day as non-existent and wipe the slate clean? We sincerely hope not because it would be anarchy and the end of our great country!
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I totally agree with your interpretation of the constitution, however, this is not a new rule. The “Deem in” process has taken place for many years. That being said, Your website is like many others in the same way as you tend to report partial information, complain about procedure and give facts after the effect. Can you please continue your articles with solutions to the problems we face not just the problems we are all aware of. It is great that you are helping to let the people know of the criminals in politics but how about using all of your knowledge and the information you gather to let us know of a way to change it. There must be a way that the people can change the procedures that are continuing to encroach on our freedoms. Years ago I remember hearing one high ranking politician in DC stating that the American people were to stupid to understand government. That is only true because of the policies and procedures they use to continue to destroy our constitution and the American people are unaware of the destruction and do not have the means or education to change the ways our government creates laws. So again instead of complaining. Please give us the information, as you do, but follow it with the means to correct the problems. The only way to beat the liberal conscience of using emotion to enact policy is to to it with hard facts and yet the media, including FOX, and many political websites do not consider that. I realize there is not enough time or space, let alone patience, to report all the facts in one article or a 1 hour TV show but how about creating dialog with a series of articles on the same subject. Such as What is really in this huge Healthcare package we are being forced to digest. I believe there are good protions of this bill but the bad out weigh the good. If you do not give all of the facts then the people will only see the good and will vote with their emotions.
March 22nd, 2010 at 3:00 pm