Start Your Engines – Reconciliation Markup Begins Monday

Thanks, Kate. Will you and your colleagues do liveblogging this week, or are the events really kinda less dramatic until the final votes? I hope all of the arm-twisting is out in the open (literally, including the twisting of arms) and NOT behind closed doors. I’d imagine it gets tiring to don Clouseau-esque disguises and sneak into conf. rooms as caterers, couriers, lost tourists, etc.
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…and congrats on your “Call” audio thingy with KT. It was good.

How is Obamacare like a stool sample?

You have to pass it to see what’s in it.

Public flushing on March 16

http://teaparty.freedomworks.org/events/march-16th-the-peoples-surge?id=3578713:Event:68714

Recently, newspapers were suggesting that states like Virginia might secede from Obama’s healthcare union. This is at best an idea that wastes a great deal of energy with little or no positive payback. We must formulate strategy that relies on the U.S. Constitution not secession.

The argument that within our Constitution one is hard pressed to find an argument for compelling anyone to buy health insurance seems to have validity. Yet nullification of an excessive healthcare plan that spends us into oblivion while cutting Medicare benefits over 500 billion while effectively creating a public option is a poor strategy. To nullify anything is to admit to its potential for permanence in law. That decision is yet to be resolved by that reverent group, the Supreme Court, who Obama, in poor taste recently lectured at the State of the Union 2010 edition.

Several Congressional procedural issues seem in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and will be ultimately decided by the judicial branch of our government. Yet, awaiting that day of legal revelation which will no doubt effect Obama’s healthcare reform miasma, there is another more effective strategy available to the majority of Americans who oppose this legislative detour which has kept the nation’s attention off recent massive unemployment numbers.

This basic strategy to eliminate Obama healthcare reform and his misdirection of national resources are the looming elections of 2010 and 2012 and the recognition by all of us of the possibility for change. The Senate majority leader earlier in the year proclaimed that bills unread and quickly passed in the dark of night cannot be amended or changed. Sorry Harry, a nation who put men on the moon can change any provision you have crammed though the Congress. All types of issues are at work with the administration’s abrogation of legislative procedures including, due procedure, constitutional compliance, and the ability to change the political configuration of both houses of Congress. Elimination of this new healthcare bill can be accomplished easily in full not later than 2012. The extra taxes take from us soon on income to pay for this plan not even in effect can be refunded by a new Congress and American President in full during 2013. Harry Reid, cram down is always beaten by pay back and when that day comes Americans should get their money returned with interest.

Finally, this bad bill will be reversed by the will to see things changed by most voters. What if we had accepted as a nation the conquests of the Nazi’s and Japanese forces in WW II. I assume that some voters probably exclaimed during those horrendous times, these things can’t be changed. That’s not the way it happened with Americans, we were determined at all costs to defend freedom and ultimately the wars were won.

Assuming this healthcare reform bill is passed, all we need to overturn it is hope and change. Sound familiar, but this time voters are determined to make it more than an empty cliché.

Dr. Alan Phillips
Bloomington, IL

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I have to agree I know more people who really haven’t been interested in Politics deeply emerged in it.. we already have someone to replace the rep in our area with more people having voted for him in the primary than the person who won last time had total to get the seat..
This bill is so bad people are watching how this president does this.. if he does manage to pass this he will be a lame duck for the rest of his term.. and the education bill to be attached is outrageous.. this will take over not just health care but education as well..