Posted by
EWRoss on Monday, March 15, 2010 8:00:00 AM
In a final attempt to pass
Obamacare, it appears that Democrats will resort to legislative obfuscation to
convince a handful of House Democrats they’re not committing political suicide
by voting for it. At last count Democrats were five votes short of the 216
necessary.
In a last-ditch effort to get those
votes, Nancy Pelosi plans to use a maneuver dreamed up by House Rules Committee
Chairwoman Louise Slaughter
of New York.
The “Slaughter solution,” would allow House members to vote on a new bill with
changes to the Senate's that includes language stating that the Senate bill was
“deemed passed.” A reconciliation measure then could to go forward on the
original Senate bill without a separate roll call vote on it in the House.
Assuming Speaker Pelosi finds the
fearless five, Obamacare passes, and the Democrat base is reenergized, it will
super-energize Republicans and Independents who oppose Obamacare to turn out in
droves in November. The Slaughter solution will become the Slaughter-House
suicide.
Read my full column at http://ewross.com/Slaughter-House_Suicide.htm