By Barry Secrest

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Septic Legislation, The "End" Result

This new genre is most commonly known to the American people as the Healthcare Bill.  This particularly suspenseful realm reminds us of any one of several even more terrifying horror movies than the last one mentioned. The abomination that is the Healthcare Bill can be likened to the frighteningly grotesque beast that amazingly survives all manner of seeming deaths.  No matter whether we burn it up, beat it to the point of mangling it, chop it up and throw it into the sea, melt it in molten lava--even cram it into a spacecraft and launch it into the sun...IT KEEPS COMING BACK !  They should call this particular bill "The Michael Myers Commemorative Healthcare Bill" in its dogged determination to never, ever leave its poor victims alone.

There appears to be no known cure for this wretched idea of socially rationed medicine that the world has adopted to the ultimate chagrin of each of its citizens.  The word that appears to be oozing out now is that the Senate Bill will be voted on by the House and...Viola!  Obamacare is born!  But wait, not quite so fast.  You see, the Democrats in the House do not like the Senate Bill, so, therefore the Senate Bill must be "doctored."  Typically, the House would amend the Senate Bill, vote on it and then send it back to the Senate for a passing vote as a result of the House changes; however, in this case the changes that the House would make would never be passed through the Senate, and the Senate no longer holds a Super Majority (due to Senator Scott Brown)  So the Dems have a bit of a quandary, it would appear.

If the House alterations to the Bill are never passed by the Senate then, hmm... surely the Democrats can find some way to subvert the 234 year old historical process of legislation...Eureka!  New twist; old idea!  They will follow an unconstitutional route around the rules to get the thing passed at the bidding of the "Messiah Himself" (so how could it be wrong)?  If you can't pass it naturally, then you can now take the Democratic equivalent of a "laxative" in the form of Reconciliation and force it through--may not come out in the typical method, but by golly it will come out. Indeed, it is striking that whether by laxative or by Reconciliation the results, in this case, will be indistinguishable.

Non-Budgetary Reconciliation is Unconstitutional

Reconciliation is a relatively new process in US History.  The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was passed as a budgetary facilitating measure that actually eased Senate voting contentiousness with regard to budgetary, tax and other spending measures.  Therefore, in a point of clarification, the Budgetary Reconciliation Act was never intended for any type of legislation other than spending, tax and budget changes or reforms....

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