Comments on: We Deem Thee… LAW!

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:17:01 +0000

Daniel Foster put it trenchantly: "Dems. should be asking how they've gotten to the point of amending a law that doesn’t exist yet by passing a bill without voting on it."

By: madmax

madmax — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:10:22 +0000

Its been said that if the Democrats voted tomorrow to blow up the Capitol Building the Republicans would vehemently disagree and instead would vote for dismantling the Capital over a five year period. Well that same thing seems to be what is going on in health care. The Dems want socialism tomorrow. The Repubs want to phase it in over a longer time frame but with some “free market” bells and whistles.

Its all such a joke. We’re sane men in and insane world.

By: Mike N

Mike N — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:08:06 +0000

I think Mark Steyn is right on the money pointing out that this is not about health care, but about government power i.e. the power of physical force over others. Leftists have always worshiped force not freedom and above all not freedom by right.

“I have not heard any Republican leaders, during an election year, announce such a principled intent.”

Sadly so true. Republican politicians simply are not principled people. They will betray our founding principles for pragmatic reasons. After all pragmatism is an unprincipled kind of practicality. Its adherents fail to understand it is never practical to be unprincipled.

By: JimWoods

JimWoods — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:40:59 +0000

If this Slaughter idea was implemented, then the appropriate response would be for the opposition to file charges against the House leaders and request their expulsion from the House, and to file impeachment charges against the President.

I have not heard any Republican leaders, during an election year, announce such a principled intent.

By: Myrhaf

Myrhaf — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:20:18 +0000

L-C, by the time you get to America, it might be like Sweden or New Zealand.

By: Peter Cresswell

Peter Cresswell — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:13:41 +0000

“Think about it: a democracy consisting of a mass of voters on welfare.”

Unfortunately. I live in one.

It’s called New Zealand. :-/

By: Jim May

Jim May — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:33:10 +0000

I can just imagine the hue and cry if cell phone companies tried that line.

“You want to find out what’s in the contract? You have to sign it first to see what’s in it.”

By: L-C

L-C — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:48:40 +0000

Your Mark Steyn quote resonates with me, especially the second paragraph. You would not believe the momentum/inertia of a dug-in welfare state where everyone but multi millionaires are in the state’s cradle.

It’s like a cancer so entrenched that it couldn’t be removed without disembowelling the whole body. Only an imaginary troupe of immortals, with centuries to spend on reformation, would find meaning in opposing such a juggernaught

Think about it: a democracy consisting of a mass of voters on welfare.

That is why I will move to the US eventually.

By: Benpercent

Benpercent — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:43:39 +0000

Amazing. I didn’t know about this legislative “trick.” Was it previously a part of Congress rules, or is it being invented on the spot for convenience? And I have to admit I still don’t understand this whole “I am my own grandfather” type of logic with the process.