An Open Assault On The Constitution

Many of us Americans have said over and over that this administration has been circumventing our Constitution to get legislation passed. However, the latest brazen assault on our founding document is an outright attempt at usurping its authority and it's pass time that something be done.

The "Slaughter Solution", as it's being referred to, is a plan created by Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY). It's sole purpose is to ram this health care train wreck through both houses of Congress by ignoring the Constitution. How they are doing it works like this:

"The rule would declare that the House “deems” the Senate version of health care to have been passed by the House. The House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself. Thus, Congresswoman Slaughter is preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill “passed” once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes. Democrats would thereby avoid a direct vote on the health care bill while allowing it to become law!"

This is an outright, blatant and brazen attack on the Constitution:

Article I, Section VII, Clause II states:

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

This clause goes to the very foundation of how our laws are created and enacted. If these crooked democrats get away with doing this, it will create the biggest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War and would start a government that rules by fiat, better known as a tyranny.

This is proof positive that democrats will use whatever means necessary to get their way, even if it means that many of them will not be re-elected this coming November.

Luckily, the House Parliamentarian killed it.