Badges? We Don't Need No Stinking Badges!

This line from Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles' perfectly characterizes the House Democrats' attitude in trying to ram the Senate's health care bill through their chamber. What, pray tell, do I mean? According to the National Journal's Congress Daily (courtesy of the Washington Examiner):

"House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday."

Key line: "...avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill..." Why? Because they don't have the votes! The story continues:

"Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version."

Key line: "...preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed..." Again, why? Because they don't have the votes! And finally:

"Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. 'Once the CBO gives us the score, we'll spring right on it,' she said."

This not only flies in the face of the majority of Americans (of which more than 80% are perfectly happy with their current health care policies), but it is blatantly unconstitutional - and I'm not throwing around this accusation loosely. As Mark Levin so aptly points out, you don't have to be a constitutional scholar (like him) to understand that what the Democrats are trying to do here is entirely contrary to what our Founding Fathers spelled out in our Constitution. Here is the pertinent verbiage from Article 1, Section 7:

"Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a Law, be presented to the President of the United States...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 on the Journal of each House respectively."

To which the Democrats are saying, "Constitution? We don't need no stinking Constitution!" Hell, why bother casting votes on anything anymore? Why not assume that whatever the Speaker's heart so desires, is considered passed? Utterly ridiculous and reprehensible! Their brazenness is truly shocking.

So this is what it must be like living under an oligarchy! No longer do we have a government that represents us. Instead, our current crop of temporary office holders are frantically trying to pass a witches brew of legislation prior to facing their constituents in the next election cycle. Why? Because they know that we don't want any of it!

These imperious lawmakers must be stopped. So what can you do? Take a minute to voice your opinion to your elected representative at Free Our Healthcare Now.

Why? As Edmund Burke once said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."