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This Line Doesn’t Add Up

By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President

I get the part where the Democrats in Congress want to spin their message this way. The problem is that it doesn’t make any sense that the point of view connects the dots. The only way for this approach to “save money” or “reduce the deficit” is to have stuff that’s not being talked about in the bill that’s either cutting benefits, taxing more – and likely a large combination of both. This is the untold story which doesn’t get reported or presented in any of the bunk provided by the media or those who are advancing the cause of ramming and cramming this program for socialized, government take-over medicine on us.

It is also interesting to continue to receive these types of information pieces (this example provided to me as an e-mail message) which might have as much reality as anything being promoted by those who want to sell us their point of view that what’s being done is good for us…but, also still possibly having more exposed truth than those operating behind the closed doors want us to actually know!

Sen Harry Reid Hid this deep in the Health Care Bill

THIS IS A MUST READ AND FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST. NEVER FORGET WHAT AN UNDERHANDED, CRIMINAL EVENT HAS OCCURRED HERE!

They never stop, they will keep trying to shove this down our throats until they get it through...please pass this on to everyone you know...

The impudent tyranny of Sen. Harry Reid Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light. Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obamacare is Reid's anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation!

Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: ". it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."

In other words, if President Barack Obama signs this measure into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in Congress wish otherwise!

Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMA to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending."

That is precisely the kind of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people. And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.

No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the final Senate version of Obamacare before the critical vote on cloture. And no wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m., while America slept.

True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.

The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled Senate Parliamentarian that the anti-repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of Senate "procedures." Why is that significant?

Because for 200 years, changes in the Senate's standing rules have required approval by two-thirds of those voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid's amendment received.

Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules to pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which can never be changed. If this is not tyranny, then what is? It is also the reason why every incumbent Senator and Congressman, who did not read the bill before voting on it, should be voted out of office. You and I would be fired from our jobs for this type of job performance.