House May Try to Pass Senate Health-Care Bill Without Voting.

This country was founded on the premises of “one man, one vote”. Blood was spilled on this land in order to free ourselves from tyranny and oppression.

In 2010 we have a president and a political party—the Democrats who believe in a “soft tyranny” where government can rule by fiat and impose on it’s citizens policies and programs the citizenry openly rejects.

If President Obama and the Democrats are successful in imposing health care reform on the nation using skullduggery, bribery, and deception, then mark your colanders for the day America died!

The Washington Post reports:

After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it. Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.

The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.

It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."

Republicans quickly condemned the strategy, framing it as an effort to avoid responsibility for passing the legislation, and some suggested that Pelosi's plan would be unconstitutional.

"It's very painful and troubling to see the gymnastics through which they are going to avoid accountability," Rep. David Dreier (Calif.), the senior Republican on the House Rules Committee, told reporters. "And I hope very much that, at the end of the day, that if we are going to have a vote, we will have a clean up-or-down vote that will allow the American people to see who is supporting this Senate bill and who is not supporting this Senate bill."
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Latest Gallop Poll: 45% Favor, 48% Oppose Obama Healthcare Plan

As more and more information about ObamaCare is learned by the American public through alternative news outlets like talk radio, conservative newspapers, Fox News, and the blogosphere, the more people reject President Obama’s desire to turn the United States into a European-style social democracy.

The people are rejecting the idea of government run health care because they all understand that government can’t run the Post Office very well.

So keep your stinking hands off our health care!

But, be that as it may, President Obama is on the campaign/deception trial misrepresenting a bill that he himself has not read.

He says the bill will cut premium costs, but he flat out is lying through his teeth, like he usually does,

Gallop reports:

As President Obama begins a final push on healthcare reform, slightly more Americans say they would advise their member of Congress to vote against rather than for a healthcare reform bill similar to the one the president has proposed.

These results, based on a new Gallup poll conducted March 4-7, confirm the generally divided nature of public opinion on healthcare legislation that Gallup has found in recent months. The high point in public support was 51% in October.

President Obama has called for a final up-or-down vote on healthcare legislation, which has dominated the domestic agenda for much of his presidency. Most of the Republican leadership in Congress would prefer that Congress begin work on a new bill rather than try to pass Obama's proposal, which is based largely on a bill the Senate passed last year with no Republican support.

The president and Democratic leaders in Congress are trying to pass healthcare legislation in the coming weeks, and if they succeed, they will likely do so by a slim margin in the House and possibly the Senate.

In some ways, this corresponds to Americans' division over the legislation, though Gallup currently finds slightly more Americans wanting their member of Congress to vote against rather than for a reform bill similar to the one Obama has proposed.
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