That most certainly sounds both like a perfect scheme for abuse on the part of the federal government on one side as well as – on the other – another step towards the ultimate physical mark of the Beast that ALL Mankind will be subjected to very soon!!!

This is THOROUGHLY EVIL!!!! Particularly in the hands of a communistic, total-control government that just simply can NEVER be trusted!! This truly could result in a revolution – God Forbid…

Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. The House is planning to “pass” a bill it didn’t actually pass? Obama took a solemn promise to defend the Constitution of the United States. Signing and attempting to implement such a bogus “law” would violate his oath. We are reaching banana republic status at a rapid pace.

… and the card will come in two colours: blue, and red.

Cheers

Slaughter MUST be a ‘pisky who had studied deeply the works of +KJS. She has the moves down perfectly for when the rules don’t let you do what you want.

I guess they thought decades of liberal propaganda sprinkled throughout news and entertainment had done its job by now and pickled our collective consciousnesses to the point where we would actually support this nonsense, or at least be too neutered and apathetic to do anything about it. They miscalculated. The spirit of ’76 isn’t quite dead yet.

Oh, and way to go, Missouri, for that huge protest turnout! The lefties thought they had “the masses” on their side. Wrong.

Dang. The House Democrats have already pulled stunts like this. The House Rules Committee can do just about anything it wants to, invoke the rule in the middle of the night, and pass a massive societal change like this by stealth. Unbelievable. These people should all be voted out. Every one of them.

Today’s Post-Dispatch ran a column by its reliably liberal columnist…okay, all their columnists are reliably liberal…who came out against Obamacare. If Bwana has lost McClelland, he’s lost period. I’m really hoping we can finally flip the MO 3rd District to the R column this year.

Oh dear Christopher, I thought perhaps you were calling for us to enlist to protect our bishop in SC. Whew!!!

Hope this old lady can stand two “revolutions” at once.
Cause, in SC, like in grammer school, there’s gonna be a fight should her mittness try anything funny.

Grandmother in SC

What Tregonsee said.

Unfortunately, Ms. Slaughter claims to be Catholic. However, she has never seen an abortion she didn’t like and has little regard for Church teaching. In practice she would probably fit in quite well with many current Episcopal congregations. However, I suspect she tries to hang on to the Catholic brand because it will bring in more votes than calling herself an Episcopalian.

Nice thing about the half baked house idea though… If it goes through the law can be challenged on the basis of the unconstitutional nature of its “passage”.

Thankfully, the US Government (unlike some “churches” which will remain nameless) has a functioning Supreme Court which actually takes the Constitution seriously and will rule accordingly.

Somewhere, some Republican legislator is chuckling to himself and saying “Go ahead, Louise. Make my day!”

Denise -

Pro-choice Catholic politicians will, in time, be seen as the defining scandal of American Catholicism; it’s evidence that the bishops’ “reforms” following the sex scandals were window-dressing – purely public relations – rather than a genuine repentance from the corporatist, clericalist, materialist mind-set into which they have fallen.

This is just totally disgusting. Does the Democratic (now there’s and oxymoron if I have ever seen one!) really think this is going to help their party’s chances in November? Or do they just not care any more?

These people are dangerous and need to be run out of Washington. Time for term limits for these arrogant autocrats!

Thankfully, the US Government…has a functioning Supreme Court which actually takes the Constitution seriously and will rule accordingly.

Unfortunately, I think Obama would pull an Andy Jackson: “So Justice Roberts has ruled; so let him enforce it.”

YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?

No.

The American Public should follow the lead from the 1960′s ECUSA House of Bishops who were fearful of a supposed “revolution” if they had excommunicated Bishop Pike for heresy.

Peace at all costs.

The price of peace can never be too great. If the House Dems succeed with this maneuver, the American Public should not do what the anti-Prop 8 folks are doing in California (they are continually trying to overturn the law against same-sex marriage).

Instead, conservatives should just try to live within what the lawmakers and the judiciary and the executive branch have decreed.

Peace at all costs. Have a Perrier Party instead.

I am no constitutional scholar or lawyer, so I could have this wrong. It seems that to challenge the constitutionality of a law, someone who has standing, that is, something at risk or some effect of the law, has to challenge it. So, for what I think is the unconstitutional requirement that citizens buy approved insurance or face a fine, someone will have to refuse and file suit. This couldn’t happen until 2013 when the first insurance exchange is open for business. However, in the case of this Slaughter maneuver, the taxes which are charged would hit immediately, and someone who is required to pay the tax can sue on the basis that the law was not legally passed.

What a bitter irony it will be if we are forced to fund abortion and euthansia because the Catholic bishops enabled the House to pass a bill the Senate remade in their own image. As if they didn’t know how politics works in Chicago DC.

Minuteman is a confirmed landlubber but “some of my best friends are” commercial fisherman and they don’t like the interference and gentle hand of NOAA even one tiny bit. Shades of government regulation of healthcare to come. Speaking of commies … Shasha did you see that the Russians plan to celebrate the anniversary of winning the Patriot War against the Nazis by putting up ten or more billboards with Stalin’s face on them?

There’s going to be a huge uproar, I hope, over a recreational fishing ban. Wow.

Let’s just give up some things for the price of peace.

That’s not asking too much.

Wow! This sure as hell ain’t your fathers America or is it Amerika?
Katherine, I pray you are right about the uproar.

So perhaps this Slaughter won’t happen. “The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.” From here, via the Corner at NRO.

Ah, Minuteman, why am I not surprised about Stáljin’s pictures being as part of the commemoration for Russia’s suffering in World War II??

1) That monster of all monsters was the head of the Russian – and above it, the Soviet – government (actually his reign is credited as lasting 1924-53); 2) MANY Russians (as well as Grúzians {Georgians}) are very nostalgic for those days given how much their country has been humiliated. Be it in sports, scientific, cultural or militaristic achievements – Russians have been historically trying for a patriotism where everybody must bow to them.

They’ve not as of yet understood how their working instead on local, regional and national tasks would accrue to Russia’s glory and benefit by proper work and definable goals (including keeping their Navy ships spotlessly clean, which they all too often don’t do properly!) which would raise their spirits in smaller but yet quantifiable ways…

Instead, conservatives should just try to live within what the lawmakers and the judiciary and the executive branch have decreed.

Surely the conservatives must finally exercise the constitutional option afforded by the Second Amendment?

If the US does not merit action now – when will it ever?

Nice try, Sinner. But you really need to learn to recognize sarcasm when you see it.

Shhhhhhhhh….

I think Sinner’s frightened. What’s wrong Sinner? As long as you behave yourself, no law abiding citizen would do anything to you. Carrying firearms actually deters crime.

Re: “Thankfully, the US Government (unlike some “churches” which will remain nameless) has a functioning Supreme Court which actually takes the Constitution seriously and will rule accordingly.”

The Constitution, like the Bible, is a written document. It can be rewritten under the guise of interpreting it. This has been going on in the Supreme Court for quite some time now. You either try to ascertain the original meaning (what it meant to the authors or the hearers at that time or however you would say it) or you are basically making stuff up. Of course, they do not speak in such bald terms. They couch what they are doing in all sorts of noble rhetoric, but they are basically rewriting it to implement their agenda. This is why we have Rove v. Wade, et al. While you may be sure of the four conservatives on the court, the liberals will interpret the constitution according to their political bent.

It has been often stated that the people are the essential guardians of constitutional limitations. As Judge Learned Hand said, “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…” Both Madison and Hamilton argued that the people would be the ultimate guardians of the constitutional system. The Federalist, No. 15, 17, 44 & 45. Quite frankly, the people have been content to see their liberties leached away for some years now.

Sasha has morosely reminded me of a saying in those countries between Berlin and the Eastern Front:

“Come, O Red Pest, and save us from the Black Death.”

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