House GOP smacks down Democrat censors

Via Roll Call, House Republicans fight back against the gag rules of the majority:
House Republicans on Wednesday filed a resolution that blasts Democrats for preventing GOP Members from sending constituents a mailing that criticizes the majority’s health care proposal.
The resolution cites the “failure of the Democratic Members of the Franking Commission to ensure that the Commission’s Democratic staff carries out its important responsibilities in a professional, fair, and impartial manner.”
The dispute centers on a GOP chart that illustrates the organization of the Democratic health care plan with a convoluted maze of government offices and programs. Republicans are pressing to use taxpayer dollars to mail the chart to constituents, but their request continues to be reviewed by the franking commission.
“The Democrats’ plan would mean more bureaucracy, more taxes, more mandates, more government involvement in your life and fewer jobs in this struggling economy. They’re trying to restrict Members of Congress from showing it to their constituents, and that’s just wrong,” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said.
“I think the American people deserve the truth, and that’s why this resolution is important,” Boehner said.
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This is in the bill to back up my previous statement about illegals.
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
Obama told libtard bloggers in a conference call (Hugh Hewitt had the tape) that if he didn’t have 60 Senate votes to invoke cloture, he’d insist Senate leadership pass Marxist Medicine as a ‘reconciliation item’.
A reconciliation item is something generally approved in the budget, but not specifically authorized, and can’t be filibustered.
Marxist Medicine may not have been generally approved in the FY 2010 budget, but the Senate parliamentarian is of the majority party, aka, a Demonrat, and his rulings are advisory only, the presiding officer of the Senate can choose to ignore his rulings.
So Marxist Medicine really all comes down to Dingy Harry Reid
How is a reconciliation item different than an earmark?
Salt- I have no idea. Except I doubt most earmarks are 1000 pages plus long and get marked up in committee.
To further my distaste for this obamacare bill:
Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.•
Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
Much more like this. If this does not make you sick,scared and down right disgusted, then nothiing will.
Regarding “How is a reconciliation item different than an earmark?”
A “reconciliation bill” eliminates most debate and prohibits filibustering. It is an attempt to move a bill through congress faster.
I suppose that’s the point. They’ll just put the funding for it in the budget and the 1000 pages of details becomes an execution matter and not a legislative one.
We can only hope that this issue is big enough that such procedural smokescreens would cause an uproar.
Rather than beat a dead horse here, maybe a better way to attack the Tax and spend and the Obamacare bills would be the following:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
The Dems must fight during the recess to show an electorate that elected these clowns that Obamacare is the best thing since sliced bread. Fool me once……..
There, Roll Call, I fixed your bias for you. You’re welcome.