The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.Ooo, a threat from Harry Reid. I'll bet McConnell laughed his head off when he got that. I'll take that dare.
The Senate Parliamentarian’s Office was responding to questions posed by the Republican leadership. The answers were provided verbally, sources said.
House Democratic leaders have been searching for a way to ensure that any move they make to approve the Senate-passed $871 billion health care reform bill is followed by Senate action on a reconciliation package of adjustments to the original bill. One idea is to have the House and Senate act on reconciliation prior to House action on the Senate’s original health care bill.
Information Republicans say they have received from the Senate Parliamentarian’s Office eliminates that option. House Democratic leaders last week began looking at crafting a legislative rule that would allow the House to approve the Senate health care bill, but not forward it to Obama for his signature until the Senate clears the reconciliation package.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moved Thursday to put Senate Republicans on the defensive over health care, sending a letter to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in which he dared the GOP to vote against reform.
Some folks, like Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades thinks the Parliamentarian's decision will spell the end of Obamacare. I don't think so. According to Senate rules the Parliamentarian can be overruled by the President of the Senate, and that's Joe Biden. I wouldn't put it past him.
This bill will be the unkillable zombie that keeps coming back in different forms.
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There's gotta be a way, and Americans have to find it. It isn't just our freedom that we're defending, but the freedom of everyone who has ever looked toward this country as a beacon.
It strikes me as chillingly meaningful, also, that the Democrats persist in making abortion a fundamental plank of this bill. At the heart of their idea of "health care" is killing. Killing first, and then everything else.
I also ask has there ever been a dictator who didn't kill on a mass scale? For Obama, the killing of the unborn is a mark of his power. Even when he was a nobody in the Illinois assembly this was his signature issue. And are the "death panels" that Sarah Palin sparked attention to not also implicit in the Democrats' "reform," beginning with "Principles of the allocation of scarce medical interventions"?
This is one zombie that needs to be stopped. If you cannot kill the zombie, perhaps you do something else ... neuter it.
I don't know what happens next but I think if they persist the American people will restart the American revolution and pull the plug on Obamacare.
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