Democrats Hell-Bent On Political Suicide

Democrats Hell-Bent On Political Suicide

by Armand Vaquer

The House and Senate Democrats are hell-bent on committing political suicide by trying to ram through Obamacare. A majority of American steadfastly oppose Obamacare.

According to the Augusta Chronicle:

The numbers say it's a path to political suicide: a whopping 58 percent of the public oppose the congressional Democrats' health-care proposals; 48 percent strongly oppose, while only 19 percent strongly support it -- and 61 percent say scrap the Democrats' cockamamie plans and start over.

They are considering a complex parliamentary strategy that would allow House Democrats to pass the Senate's health care legislation without actually voting on the bill itself.

This would allow Democrat House members, who don't like the Senate bill, to vote on a rule concerning debate that deems the bill passed once a smaller package of "fixes" also had passed. Republicans are solidly in opposition to the bill.

The pressure is on wavering Democrats as President Obama said he will refuse to make any fund-raising visits during the November elections to any district whose representative did not support the health care bill.

According to the U.K. Telegraph:

By a process known as "reconciliation," Democrats would frustrate Republican filibuster obstruction tactics in the Senate and allow the health care overhaul to be finalised before Congress takes a two-week break on March 26.

The Democrats have been forced to unorthodox tactics after losing their filibuster-proof majority of 60 in the Senate in a Massachusetts by-election.

This is tyranny in action.

UPDATE (3/17/10): Talk show host Mark Levin said that if Obamacare "passes" via Rep. Slaughter's scheme to "deem" that the Senate bill passed the House, he will file suit through the Landmark Legal Foundation. For more on this, go here.