But at least Ms. Snowe can trek back to Maine and say “hey, I read it”….

You, American citizen, aren’t incensed at this mutiliation of Constitutional due process, and just dumbly nod your head, saying “everybody does it”.

No, this isn’t a common practice for a bill with this spending magnitude and reconstruct of the private and current public options health industry.

So I guess my first assessment of you is correct, but somewhat incomplete. Reading and assimilating are not only beyond your capabilities, but magnified by your complacence.

But, didn’t they play this to a tee, griping about the party of no out of one side of their mouths, pumping the bi-partisan Senate Finance Committee out of the other and holding out all hope for the support of that moderate Maine liberal, Olympia Snowe who has also merited Obama’s personal attention. She’s still a player, btw:

U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) today released the following statement regarding the analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the amended Finance Committee health reform legislation:

“I appreciate the hard work of CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation in preparing their projections in such a short time. We just received this report and I still must thoroughly review and evaluate this analysis before deciding how to proceed in the Finance Committee markup. My constituents want – and deserve – decision-making based on facts and figures.”

http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=3148e8b9-802a-23ad-46ad-8e379175c78e

They don’t want her for bipartisanship, they want her body, as long as it votes their way because they know they aren’t getting all their democrats. All in all, the only thing missing in this mess was the lights and cameras, now we know why.

Just read through a yahoo article but accidently lost it, interesting were comments by the most brilliant Debbie Stabenow describing the work ahead for Harry Reid in one word, “tough.” Kent Conrad offered a bit more content in his praise of Harry the Great, but since it was more than one word I’ll pass on trying to remember his comment, one of those had to be there things but he was serious……and, also deceptive.

Anyway, the article was fluff, written to give the idea the hardworking democrats will be working even harder with King Harry leading this bill all the way to Obama’s desk, not giving a hint about the despicable short cut the powers that be, three Senators and their staff, are planning to take. Oh and yes, the White House will get their hands on it too before the dirty trick is pulled off. If this succeeds, watch for Harry and Nancy in front of their podium giving the press the good news while they are proudly standing on our Constitution.

“This partisan Finance Committee proposal will never see the Senate floor since the real bill will be written by Democrat leaders in a closed-to-the-public conference room somewhere in the Capitol.”

I guess we can believe that McConnell will be offering his floor opinions in the form of a filibuster, despite polls supporting reform and an option. It’s also incredible how McConnell was precognitive … He already knows what the ultimately passed health care bill is going to be, even though there are multiple versions of it floating around. He even knows the figures and even the page count.

Look, he wrote bills behind closed doors when they controlled Congress; he knows this. All this crap is political hotair (for your consumption) amazingly.

Ya know, it’s such a twisted version of Congressional loopholes to usurp the Constitutional intent that you have to admire the political criminal minds that came up with this… rather like admiring the strategy and plan of an international jewel thief.

But the reality is we, the citizens, are being shafted by leadership that cares not for the citizens’ opinions, but their own agenda.

Davey… I suspect this Congressional procedure is not that far removed from what you are discussing. LOL

I’m not sure whether enough can lobby the Blue Dog House Dems to stop this in the final House vote. I guess I don’t have your confidence. It will depend on whether they bow to Pelosi/Obama/Reid pressure and their ability to strip them of cherry committee assignments, or they bow to the Constituents.

Either way, there’s an inordinate amount of sleaze is oozing from the federal government in all branches. And Old Trooper is correct. This is not anything that can be easily reversed… it would be like bringing about a supertanker, running full speed ahead, in less than a mile. So many government entities will be created and functioning prior to the 2013 official launch of the O’care.

I’d like to copy your post with full acknowledgment and link at my blog for my Tea Partiers. It is a great explanation of the dems shenanigans.

Robin

Somehow didn’t get the whole picture from your original post commentary. For example how far advanced their “extreme scenario” plot was, and how it totally bypassed public opinion with legal Congressional rules, and made a monster bill nothing but a piggy back rider on a semi-related tax bill shell merely to avoid Constitutional procedure . Guess you didn’t spell it out for us dumb types well enough.

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2009/10/beware-backdoor-deal-to-enact-obamacare.html

Granted, I didn’t go into much detail on it at the time.

No harm in repeating this story over and over. That’s just more layers of texture.

However you did not expound on how that was going to pass Congressional procedural muster , and translate to a bill that got tacked on to a rider that was unrelated and avoid public scrutiny and could proceed directly to the Oval Office.

When you then posted about them not allowing time to read the bill… sans their motives… I figured you, also hadn’t put two and two together as to just how they were specifically dodging this “read the bill” legislation, because it affects their back room strategy.

Now perhaps you did get the gist. But when I read your combination of posts, I didn’t see the strategy outlined. And if I missed it, my apologies.