Home  »  Economy  »  Historical Crime: Obama Admits To Plot Against Senate

Historical Crime: Obama Admits To Plot Against Senate



Mar 2, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

obama-jail

A dictator-at-heart will take his dictatorial powers whereever, whenever, and however, he can get them. Passing this set of laws through reconciliation nullifies the Senate and the Constitutional amendment process. With regards to public opinion, his gambit is that simpletons will accept a simple majority vote without regard to Constitutional requirements.

ABC News:

Political Punch by Jake Tapper

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial “reconciliation” rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the “fix” to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been awaiting the president’s remarks direction on how health care reform will proceed.

In his remarks, scheduled to be at the White House, the president will paint a picture of what he will say will happen without a health care reform bill – skyrocketing premiums, everyone at the mercy of the insurance industry as recently seen with the 39% premium increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross in California.

He will note that the “fixed” bill will include the proposal for a new “Health Insurance Rate Authority” to set guidelines for reasonable rate increases. If proposed premium increases are not justifiable per those Health Insurance Rate Authority guidelines, the Health and Human Services Secretary or state regulators could block them.

The plan to pass the bill includes having the House of Representatives pass the Democratic Senate health care reform legislation as well as a second bill containing various “fixes.”

The president will call for an up or down vote on health care reform, as has happened in the past, and though he won’t use the word “reconciliation,” he’ll make it clear that if they’re not given an up or down vote, Democrats will use the reconciliation rules as Republicans have done in the past.

White House officials will make the argument these rules are perfectly appropriate because the procedure is not being used for the whole bill, just for some fixes; because reconciliation rules are traditionally used for deficit reduction and health care reform will reduce the deficit; and because the reconciliation process has been used many times by Republicans for larger legislation such as the tax cuts pushed by President George W. Bush.

A White House official says the president will “reiterate why reform is so crucial and what it will mean for American families and businesses: they’ll have more control over their own health care, they’ll see lower costs , and they’ll see an end to insurance company abuses. He’ll note that his proposal includes the best ideas from both parties, and he’ll restate his preference for a comprehensive bill that will reduce premiums and end discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions.”

The president will also extend a hand to work with Republicans on measures they have pushed, including $50 million for state grants for demonstration projects to explore alternatives to medical malpractice cases, and a crackdown on Medicaid and Medicare fraud as proposed by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

He will also herald the removal of extraneous provisions in the bill such as the so-called “Cornhusker Kickback,” a deal to secure the support of Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., in which the federal government would pay for Nebraska’s Medicaid expansion; and “Gator-aid,” the provision to shield Florida seniors from cuts to the Medicare Advantage program, secured by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

Mr. Obama will say that he will be working on exact legislative language in the next few days. Republicans can join him and Democratic congressional leaders of the House and Senate to makes these changes and to pass the bill, but either way the bill will be moving forward.

-Jake Tapper

*This post has been updated.


  • Bobby E

    I’m still not buying. I want nothing this usurper wants and only a fool would not see that he lost any kind of credibility, if he had any such thing, a long, long, long time ago.

    • thrasymakhos

      Right on.

  • political.fish

    Even if Obama’s subjective proposition that health care is in crisis and requires immediate governmental control were true (which it is not), the passage of a fatally flawed, constitutionally questionable legislative package would not correct the problem. A flawed system is not corrected by a flawed solution. The point is that the myopic effort of the Obama administration has nothing to do with correcting any problems (real or imagined) with American health care. It is about the assumption of power and nothing else. We, the American People, know this and demand an end to the usurpation obsessively pursued by this administration.

    • thrasymakhos

      Very well argued and stated.

  • Odin2012

    If they do pass a watered down health bill and some chicken shit republicans sign on, who’s to say that Obama and his minions add on to the bill later. This health bill is not about healthcare. It’s about total control over every citizen of the U.S. and the slavery that we will force upon our selves and most of all, our children.
    When will this end. When will we start the second civil war? :gun:

    • kim clift

      Its coming :gun:

  • Sully

    Of course Barry wants to destroy the Senate.
    A Constitutional Republic is anathema to the Progressive.
    The purpose of a Senate is to ‘hobble’ a passionate, short-sighted majority. Dictators rely on inflamed passions.

  • HeatherRadish

    “Health Insurance Rate Authority” to set guidelines for reasonable rate increases.

    Yeah, price-fixing always makes everything better. :shock:

  • Reloader449

    However much a hero The Joker thinks Alinsky is/was, Lenin was their first hero. The Lenin who told them to “Lie boldly, and always.”

    “reiterate why reform is so crucial and what it will mean for American families and businesses: they’ll have more control over their own health care, they’ll see lower costs , and they’ll see an end to insurance company abuses.”

    Which from these lying traitors means:

    “reiterate why control is so crucial and what it will mean for American peasants and capitalist pigs: they’ll lose control of their country and their very lives, they’ll have costs that drive the whole nation into bankruptcy, and they’ll see government abuses just like the millions murdered in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, Africa and the Middle East.”

  • thrasymakhos

    This whole “health care” mess is so topsy-turvy as to be unrecognizable as indicative of the AMERICAN legislative process as directed by the United States Constitution. This is not the American People asking for reform but rather a King and his Lords trying to subdue us under their thumb. I consent to your governance NOT your rule. And I remind the Joker and his entourage that I am sworn to protect my country and its Constitution, not its government.

    • EL GONZO

      Great comment, about sworn to protect the country and Constitution and “consent to your governance” I’m in total agreement.. Asides from you and me, and hopefully others, how many in the top tier are willing to say this and follow through.
      The way I see it, this guy deserves to be looked up for TREASONOUS behavior at least. It’s infuriating to me how much disdain this entity has for America and those of us that swear to protect it.
      With this guy at the helm, this is not going to end well. He needs to be canked (legally of course)