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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac
Note:these are notable reports published over the past few weeks on this complex issue that were not able to be covered by LSN. They are presented for readers who wish to acquiring a more thorough understanding of this historic and unprecedented legislative battle.
MOST RECENT NEWS
VIDEO: Key House Dem Declares: 'There Ain't No Rules Here … We Make 'Em Up As We Go Along'…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHTJSu_2Lk
Cao a 'firm no' on healthcare bill
Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) is a “firm 'no'” on Democrats' healthcare bill, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) stressed Friday.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/87941-cantor-cao-a-firm-no-on-healthcare-bill
Phyllis Schlafly: Prayer Can Stop Obamacare!
https://lhla.org/breaking_news/?p=4309
Reports: Deem and Pass is dead; keep the no-mentum going By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/20/report-deem-and-pass-is-dead-keep-the-no-mentum-going/
Even the Administration’s Chief Actuary at HHS cannot provide cost analysis of latest Democrat health spending bill before the vote
https://republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_Id=cbd6f99a-426d-4635-bde1-f28d1afbc057
House Republicans begin victory lap
https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34746.html
America denounces 'Obamacare' threat – 'His bullying and his arrogance can't stop'
https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=130137
Reports: An executive order to pay off pro-life Democrats? By Michelle Malkin
Both Left and Right are hearing rumors that the Dems are drafting an executive order to quell pro-life Democrat opposition to the government health care takeover plan.
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/20/reports-an-executive-order-to-pay-off-pro-life-democrats/
The Health Vote and the Constitution—II
The House can't approve the Senate bill in the same legislation by which it approves changes to the Senate bill.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904575131460390057440.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop
Final health bill omits some of Obama's promises
https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/19/national/w131302D40.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0ikx0KEd3
https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/19/national/w131302D40.DTL&tsp=1
Rules Committee meeting descends into chaos
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Rules-Committee-meeting-descends-into-chaos-88725962.html
ABUSE OF POWER
Authoritarianism in the House, Ruthlessness in the Executive – National Review
https://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTNjZmIwOTQwOWVkZjRjYjMzMjA1MDAxYjkyNGI4ZDE=
Dems: Screw bipartisanship, full steam ahead on Obamacare hara-kiri By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/01/dems-screw-bipartisanship-full-steam-ahead-on-obamacare/
Abuse of Power – Wall Street Journal
What we are about to witness is an extraordinary abuse of traditional Senate rules to pass a bill merely because they think it's good for the rest of us, and because they fear their chance to build a European welfare state may never come again. The vehicle is “reconciliation,” a parliamentary process that fast-tracks budget measures and was created in 1974 as a deficit-reduction tool.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704625004575089362731862750.html
The Democrats’ Contorted and Implausible End-Game – National Review
We are now witnessing the depths to which the administration is willing to sink
https://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDY1Njk1ODEwOWE5ZTc5OWViMjAyMGJkNGQ3MGQ5OWM=
The Chicago Way: Judgeships for Demcare votes? By Michelle Malkin
Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Whatever it takes: Borrow, bully, bribe.
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/03/the-chicago-way-judgeships-for-demcare-votes/
Final 'reform' push: twisting arms – New York Post
There is no doubt that the Obama administration and its congressional allies are willing to use every trick in the book to get this bill passed. Expect the tactics to get even dirtier now.
Those who oppose the president can expect the political equivalent of a horse head between their sheets. But when Obama promised to change the way Washington does business, we didn't think he meant making it a “family” business.
https://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/final_reform_push_0pwRMzHMNshlHQZg8LWmcJ
Repeal: Obamacare as the New Prohibition
There is one startling connection between the drive to repeal Prohibition and the move to defeat Obamacare. That would be the health connection. It is certainly possible to reverse Obamacare if in fact it is passed. By the end of the Prohibition period, politicians demanding repeal were a dime a dozen so politically safe was it support the cause.
https://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/09/repeal-obamacare-as-the-new-pr/2
Nancy Pelosi: Un-merry maid; Update: Pushing March 21 Demcare deadline, no public option through reconciliation, Slaughter House horror By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/12/nancy-pelosi-un-merry-maid/
No Taxation with Misrepresentation?
If Congress passes a takeover of health care via dubious means, flaunting the consent of the governed, the consequences may be far more profound than dreamed by Reid, Pelosi, and Obama.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/no_taxation_with_misrepresenta.html
Obamacare: Unleashing a Constitutional Crisis by Wesley J. Smith
I guess if our government’s Democratic leaders don’t get their way on Obamacare, they would just as soon tear the country apart. If President Obama signs an Obamacare bill that was not actually voted on in the House of Representatives, it will unleash a bitter constitutional crisis of the kind I haven’t seen in my 60 year-+ lifetime. At the end of the day, I believe, Obamacare will be declared null and void because it never actually have passed both houses of Congress.
And that’s the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is that the maneuver is somehow approved by the Supreme Court. Then, we will have lost our constitutional republic, because Congress will no longer have to pass bills. No bill is worth this price.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/03/13/obamacare-unleashing-a-constitutional-crisis
The Slaughter Strategy
The trickery that Pelosi is concocting to get the Senate bill through the House almost defies belief
https://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmE5MDRjNzNjOTk0NmU3MWNjODllZTg4ODg3M2E0YjE=
Constitution Butchers by Michelle Malkin
We have an effort underway by the one of the most powerful chairmen in Congress, the woman who heads the Rules Committee, …openly discussing gutting Congress. Gutting Congress.
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/13/constitution-butchers-stop-pelosis-slaughter-house/
GENARAL HEALTH CARE NEWS
Guess Who's Coming to Your House!
It's all supposed to be voluntary, those “home visits” that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and a stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve.
All voluntary, they say, but once you “volunteer” to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able to get rid of them?
The bill provides for federal funding and supervision for this vast expansion of government intrusion into family life. This is the Nanny State on steroids. One thing is clear: For life and liberty, we must defeat ObamaCare.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/guess_whos_coming_to_your_hous_1.html
Three Reasons Why Obamacare Isn’t Likely to Pass – National Review
Things have changed. They need two-thirds of our 40. Other Democrats are more likely to swing against Obamacare than for it. Obamacare is on the ropes. Let’s keep contacting key Democratic members and deliver the knockout blow.
https://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGUxNTIwYjhmNjRmMDNiZmIyNTNlNzQ4ZWViOGFiODM==
Cramer: ObamaCare Would Rocket Tax Rates to 50-60%
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/03/16/cramer-obamacare-would-rocket-tax-rates-50-60
Obamacare: Driving Doctors Out of Medicine – Wesley J. Smith
This is very alarming. A survey–published in the New England Journal of Medicine!, not a conservative blog site – found that huge numbers of doctors worry they will be forced–or will want–to leave medicine if Obamacare passes.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/03/16/obamacare-driving-doctors-out-of-medicine/
Political sea change?
Californians turn against Pelosi, healthcare reform according to pollster; Boxer could be in trouble too, says another poll
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=6ac8666d-a4d3-407d-885b-5c98e6941d9c
Obama ‘American Agenda’ Flashback: Dems Should Not Pass Healthcare With a 50-Plus-1 Strategy
https://www.breitbart.tv/obama-american-agenda-flashback-dems-should-not-pass-healthcare-with-a-50-plus-1-strategy
Obamacare: Senate Version is Assisted Suicide Friendly! by Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/11/19/obamacare-senate-version-is-assisted-suicide-friendly/
The Big Lie of Health Care Reform
ObamaCare is simply a leviathan of a lie, whose only practical impact for generations to come will be increased welfare state dependency on government, greater government intrusion, and control over people's personal lives and privacy, reduced availability of health care providers as more of them are driven from their professions—all of which translates to higher and higher costs, which only accelerates the country's financial death spiral.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/the_big_lie_of_health_care_ref.html
You can’t hate Bart Stupak
Hating the Michigan Democrat is all but impossible. What’s to hate? He’s straightforward. He’s principled. He’s not vainglorious. His life story, that of a cop turned politician, is admirable and sympathetic.
https://trueslant.com/markstricherz/2010/03/08/you-cant-hate-bart-stupak/
Media Pile on Pro-Life Stupak, Whitewash Abortion in ObamaCare
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/03/16/media-pile-pro-life-stupak-whitewash-abortion-obamacare
The Facilitator-in-Chief Failed Miserably
I would have coached him on the following points had he been my direct report:
1. Never attempt to facilitate a meeting when one has a vested, biased interest in the outcome. This is insulting and disingenuous to opposing participants. The successful facilitator must be transparently objective and unbiased in regard to the outcome reached by the group.
2. It is not the role of the facilitator to openly judge any participant's statements as “legitimate” or not.
4. The room arrangement was all wrong.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/the_facilitatorinchief_failed.html
CATHOLICS AND HEALTH CARE BATTLE
Imbalanced Coverage from Catholic News Service by Deal Hudson on bishops opposition and CHA support for Senate health care bill
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Imbalanced-Coverage-from-Catholic-News-Service.html&Itemid=127
Who Are These Fake Catholic Groups? – Deal W. Hudson
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Who-Are-These-Fake-Catholic-Groups-.html&Itemid=127
5 Questions with Sister Carol Keehan, D.C. on health care reform
https://uscatholic.org/video/5-questions-sister-carol-keehan-dc-health-care-reform
Cardinal O'Malley rips pro-Obama Catholics on health care
The Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, yesterday criticized organizations such as the Catholic Health Association and Network for supporting a health care bill that will halt decades of government neutrality on the issue of abortion.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal_omalley_rips_pro-obama_catholics_on_health_care/
Bishops offer help with Senate
The Roman Catholic bishops signaled Thursday that if agreement is reached with House leaders on anti-abortion language, the church would work to get the votes needed to protect the provisions in the Senate — and thereby advance the shared goal with Democrats of health care reform
https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33962.html
Richard Dorflinger: Powerful Catholic Quietly Shaping Abortion, Health Bill Debate
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124522463
The Media Dead Pool by By Judie Brown
Troublesome: the U.S.C.C.B.'s embrace of Obamacare
https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/brown/100308
House Democrat leaders are hoping to use CHA's dissenting view to their advantage
Catholic Health Association spent over $1 million lobbying on health-care reform
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5716
Taxpayer-Funded Abortion on Demand, Courtesy of a Catholic and a Mormon
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/taxpayerfunded_abortion_on_dem.html