How the Evangelicals Helped to Elect Barack Obama
Yesterday, 222 Congressional Representatives, gave there “Yeas” to a resolution to suspend the rules under HR1190. This was sponsored by Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District’s Democrat James McGovern. vote tally here.
This resolution sets in motion the ability for the Speaker to move legislation through the Congress without one member taking a vote. It is known as the Slaughter Rule.
The Slaughter rule is defined as follows :(Benjamin Daniels.com)
“The Slaughter rule is only a simplifying mechanism that allows the House to pass its version of the bill using the reconciliation procedure without having to take a separate vote on the politically difficult Senate bill. In fact, Members will still be on the hook for voting for “health care reform” no matter which way you slice it: they’ll have voted on both the adoption of the Slaughter rule and on the fix bill, which constitute the whole thing.”
In other words, those Democrats who are up for re-election in 2010, would, in essence, be able to pass a bill without voting on it, thereby, saying to constituents: “I did not vote for the Health Care Reform Bill”. The problem with this scenario is that many American’s are paying attention, and understand that by voting to use the bill, in order to dodge having to take a vote on it, is basically the same as voting for this piece of legislation in the first place. To find out if your congressional representative is that type of coward a list of those voting Yea, is to be found at the end of this article.
In addition, one this particularly ill-crafted, patched together, piece of legislation is thrown at the American public (while still be written), all bets are off for the November election. Anyone with a “D” next to their name will be finding it difficult to impossible to retain their seats in November.
Perhaps ironic that the dodge tactic is entitled “The Slaughter Rule”, when it comes to the general election. The angst towards this particular piece of legislation is so high; there is no way that it won’t spill into the 2012 elections. In other words, the damage done to the Democrat brand will be so severe, that they may end up being a third party behind the new Tea Party by the time this is over.
This was predictable in April of 2008. At that time a group of evangelical leaders, including one James Dobson outlined the evangelical plan to bring down the Democrat Party in total - by allowing Barak Obama to become President. The premise: Once Obama and his merry men got their hands on the country, it would be destroyed and the people would be so fed up that they would, in turn, vote the entire bunch out of office. This group planned not to endorse one Republican in 2008, and by doing so, they used their influence on a huge block of voters to either stay home or vote for Obama. It was a set up of grand proportions and it appears to be working.
Although one would point this individual in the direction of a rubber room for suggesting that a handful of Evangelical Church leaders had the ability to outsmart Obama and his handler, David Axelrod, hold onto that straight jacket a second – It is suggested that one view the chilling video of Dobson with Sean Hannity, in which Dobson states his intentions quite clearly. (Available by searching YouTube, or this blog). Therefore, the allegedly intelligent Barak Obama (grades not produced), along with Axelrod (who tried the whole how to elect Obama out on Massachusetts with Deval Patrick, including using the same repetitive slogan of “yes we can”), we’re not the masterminds of electoral politics, but pawns in the broader scheme of things.
Can this health care reform bill (and the immigration reform and the cap and trade), be reversed? Absolutely, once the Congress is in the control of semi-sane men and women, who are not afraid to stand and vote, or not vote if the occasion arises. How hard it is to pull back legislation? Historically, not that difficult, as bad bills passed have been rescinded several times. The most recent rescission was Barak Obama’s rescission of a Bush Bill which did not allow global funding for abortion. The process: Write a new bill over-riding the old bill. This requires a presidential signature, and one must understand that Hades would freeze over before Obama saw a second term. Therefore, any bad bill (and we can expect a host of them) can be undone – it is not a quick fix, but a process is in place to correct mistakes made.
What must be a priority and a lesson to every single American eligible to vote, is that researching ones potential choice for Congress, Senate, or the Presidency, is imperative, before one pulls that lever – and that is regardless of political affiliation, although as previously stated, one might have more choices, rather than fewer, should this bill pass either by straight vote, or by no vote at all. Those choices will be: Republican’s, some form of the Tea Party and lastly, what’s left of the Democrat Party.
House members who voted to use the Slaughter Rule and leaning towards retirement if up for re-election (many of these are retiring) in 2010:
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Barrow
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boccieri
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Driehaus
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ellison
Ellsworth
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Foster
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gonzalez
Gordon (TN)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Halvorson
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kilroy
Kind
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Kissell
Klein (FL)
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney
Markey (CO)
Markey (MA)
Marshall
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McMahon
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Patrick
Nadler (NY)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis (CO)
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Ross
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schauer
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Space
Speier
Spratt
Sutton
Tanner
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
1 comment:
I'm still skeptical that they can pass this. I saw an article By CBS (I think, definitely one of the nets) that showed the vote tally in quite a bit of detail. Their count was not real encouraging for Dems. It didn't rule out passage but it clearly showed that a lot has to break the Dems way to get it passed.
I think two things with this tactic.
-This is going to be a tough sell for someone in trouble in the election
-Members in tough elections know this vote is not fooling the voters.
I think it's going to be hard to get someone on the fence to vote for something sleazy like this.
Finally, the GOP is immobilizing to look for sweetheart deals in the legislation and have put Dems on notice that any of these deals will not go unnoticed in the fall.
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