A Revolution on the Horizon?

We're hearing that the House leadership is considering a maneuver to pass the Senate Obamacare bill without actually voting for it. It's known as the "Slaughter Solution", named after the congresswoman who is trying to put it together. I wrote about it yesterday in this post.

Dan Riehl thinks such a move could spur an uprising among the states unlike anything seen since the Civil War:

As for this so-called Slaughter Solution, my first impression is, it could go two ways.

Rather than Obama signing the Senate bill, it having been illegitimately deemed as passed by the House without a vote, the bill with fixes could go back to the Senate. That would allow Pelosi to punt, having not been able to muster enough votes for the Senate bill in the House - and setting up a final showdown in the Senate.

Now, if that doesn't happen, or it doesn't work, than we have a far more significant problem I hate to even contemplate. If the Senate bill, fixed or not, goes straight to Obama, we will have a law, a legislature and an executive branch the people would have every right to consider as illegitimate. From there, the people and, or some numbers of states, could choose to ignore them.

In short, all hell could break loose in parts of America the likes of which we haven't seen in 150 years. It's an extremely troubling thought. But I'm genuinely at a loss to see how doing anything else wouldn't consign future generations to what amounts to out and out tyranny. If one rules-making House member and one chief executive are empowered to establish law in America, then we cease to be anything resembling a democracy. Obama would be no better than a tyrant and the people would have every right to pursue his removal from office, or, as I said, consider the entire government illegitimate and in need of prompt replacement.

How we get to that point is about the last thing I want to contemplate. But it's impossible to see another path. Hopefully this all goes back to the Senate if this silly, non-democratic Slaughter Solution is employed and Obama never considers signing the Senate bill as voted upon by the Senate but not the House. Revolutions have been sparked by much less. And at best, we seem headed for the courts no matter what. One can hope, anyway.

Some states are already working on legislation that would give their states the ability to ignore certain provisions of the Obamacare bill should it pass. If the bill is passed through unconstitutional rules changes or fishy parlimentary maneuvers I'm not sure Dan is at all wrong about what the reaction might be.

The secession movements that are starting to build in various states could really take off. I don't see anyone leaving the union, but things will certainly get very tense and very tough for those promoting the unconstitutional actions.