Hidden Clause: Reid Bill Says Future Congresses Cannot Repeal Parts of Reid Bill

The Weekly Standard: The Reid bill declares on page 1020 that the Independent Medicare Advisory Board cannot be repealed by future Congresses.

December 22, 2009 at 9:26 am - Sen. Jim DeMint
Dateline: Washington, DC

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Don't Tread On Me   December 22nd, 2009 - 9:42 am

G-d damn this awful bill and Harry Reid too.
CALL YOUR SENATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

claspur   December 22nd, 2009 - 9:43 am

Dingy Harry is out of his mind.

Anything can be ammended and changed. These traitors are proving that now, on a daily basis.

Cindy   December 22nd, 2009 - 9:58 am

I almost feel sorry for this guy. He’s almost like a child yelling Look atme, look at m! I’m with the guy who is praying that God intervenes in this by keeping one of the 60 away from the vote.

Are you kidding me??   December 22nd, 2009 - 9:58 am

Sen. DeMInt and the GOP: Keep on them. Don’t take the “president’s” definition of “rule” at face value. Follow-up. March on…

BullDawg   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:02 am

This Pimp is a super Moron, they say he was a boxer, I think he took to many shots to the head. Harry you can make this a SUPER SUPER Majority requirement to override it, but guess what anything can be changed when We the People take back our country. http://www.givemeliberty2010.com

JF   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:02 am

WOW, you people in Oregon must be so proud you elected this idiot merkley in office.

Obama   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:04 am

Pretty soon ya won’t be able to get rid of ME either!!!

LOL HAHAHA HEHEHE LOL

THANKS SUCKAS!!!

Gusgus1958   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:15 am

What happened to integrity in government?!? We need to replace the corruption on both parties and replace them with legislators who value the constitution.

RobbieK   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:24 am

UNCONSTITUTIONAL and the biggest farse ever. If the Democrats think this Bill will ever become anything, they are sadly mistaken.

Obama   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:25 am

RobbieK December 22nd, 2009 – 10:24 am
UNCONSTITUTIONAL

WE HAVE REDEFINED ‘CONSTITUTIONAL’ SIR!!!

LOL HAHAHA HEHEHE LOL

THANKS AGAIN SUCKAS :O)

Scott   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:26 am

They are making of mockery of democracy. When long standing rules are ignored to advance a political agenda it can only be described as tyrannical government. It’s frightening. 235 years of democratic principles flushed.

R.I.P. democracy. It was great while it lasted.

Obammy_is_krap   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:29 am

***WE HAVE REDEFINED ‘CONSTITUTIONAL’ SIR!!!***

MARX/STALIN/MAO/POL POT/CHAVEZ/PUTIN/OBAMMY etc… WOULD/WILL BE SO PROUD!!!

Marx   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:42 am

The wealthy ruling class called “The government” knows what is best for you.
Aint Communism grand!

Marx   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:44 am

The wealthy ruling class called “The government” knows what is best for you.

Lindsay   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:49 am

Is this true??????

awr   December 22nd, 2009 - 11:13 am

And they called George W. Bush Hitler???

Annie Aghast   December 22nd, 2009 - 11:14 am

Reid is a fascist. This is TYRANNY!

WE ARE ALL JOE WILSON!!

http://www.cafepress.com/JoeWilsonSpeaks?CMP=CJ-CLICK-10461796&sid=skim725X8761

Buford T Justice   December 22nd, 2009 - 11:17 am

This is precisely why you need to READ THE BILL before you vote on it, you freakin flying munkees in Congress!

Go green – RECYCLE CONGRESS!

BJC   December 22nd, 2009 - 11:28 am

Well if they can change the rules we’ll change them when we win in 2010. We’ll repeal the law that say’s we can’t repeal…seems to work now, just make up the rules as you go.

FastFacts   December 22nd, 2009 - 11:36 am

This is just evil that they would stop the bill from being repealed. Can that technically be done. What if there is a problem, do we just forget about it. This goes for the Republicans or Democrats doing it. This is just part of the Democrats Agenda and Corruption. After the investigation of Reid yesterday, this seems to be something he would come up with in his back room dealings. Vote him out in 2010.

NEWSBREAK:
Nancy Pelosi is under investigation today by http://www.americanparchment.com for all the shady deals, bribery, slander, etc that she has done. She will be tried by the people her next election period, except for the fact that her area is full of liberals who don’t care about ethics and just want their agenda passed. #22 of the ‘31 Corrupt Politicians in 31 Days.’

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Toby   December 22nd, 2009 - 11:44 am

What is happening to our country????? Will someone PLEASE wake me up from this nightmare and tell me it was all a very bad dream!~ The libs are so out of control and unless we vote them out in 2010, this will only get A LOT worse!!!

Mick   December 22nd, 2009 - 12:14 pm

George Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas eve on the notion of “Liberty or Death!”
We are in danger of another Christmas eve situation that threatens America’s liberty. Will not
anyone march again in the dark of night, through two feet of snow on this Christmas Eve to block this vote?

LIBERTY OR DEATH!

txmike   December 22nd, 2009 - 12:14 pm

GW Bush was so much better than this crap.

txmike   December 22nd, 2009 - 12:19 pm

When Reid and many fellow demoturds get fired in 2010, we will see how long his illegal legislation will remain in force. I say that it will not last long at all because it is currently being forced upon the American people and they do not like that at all.

Obama   December 22nd, 2009 - 12:25 pm

Mick, we’ll be waiting, we’ll wait up!

XX OO

THANKS SUCKAS

Jeffrey Davis   December 22nd, 2009 - 12:31 pm

Where is the line forming for the Revolution?? This is pure B.S. The people of America need to unite! Our voices are falling upon deaf ears! Them stupid bastards work for us! This is blatant abuse of power! Enough is Enough!

Mike   December 22nd, 2009 - 12:37 pm

Can these people be any scarier? They make this up as they go. This is becoming tyranny in it’s finest form. This president, this senate and this congress all, elitists, rulers. None of them consider themselves public servants. In their eyes, we will serve them.

brilliance   December 22nd, 2009 - 12:38 pm

We need separation of School and State, of course they will brainwash in order to advance their Big Government Agenda. We need separation of Labor Unions and State. We already pay their salaries, why would allow them to bargain for benefits? We need Volunteer Statesman to run for all political Offices. We need to remove all career Politicians from Public office’s.
Clinton was corrupt, but he was no Communist. Obama is Marxist, that is why the goons think he is a Messiah and why all Conservatives must be destroyed as if this is War!

White guy   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:00 pm

These dirty liberal lawyers are attempting to undermine the constitution. This is why they try to rush the bill thru, this is why they dont want the public to know whats in the bill. We the people must not let this stand, the mere thought of this is an attack on our liberty, yet the Dems want to make it law.

Obama   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:03 pm

White guy December 22nd, 2009 – 1:00 pm
These dirty liberal lawyers are attempting to undermine the constitution

WE HAVE REDEFINED ‘UNDERMINED’!

YOU LOSE!

LOL HAHAHA HEHEHE LOL

THANKS SUCKAS :O)

JOYCE BOOTH   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:03 pm

Senator Demit: thank you standing up for the truth,,,DON’T let this go…
formalize it and push for a JUDICIAL RULING…IGNORANCE OR ARRGANCE…
the rule stands no matter who say it, in or out of government…thank you

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:21 pm

Yep…Yep…there it is!

The hidden clause! How many more are there America?

This is a dirty government…the dirtiest in the history of our great Republic and all of those Democratzi that voted for this bill to pass through the Senate at this point…need to be thrown out of office immediately!

America…do not give up calling your State reps.

Some say it is futile…it is not! It is never futile to fight for what you believe in and hold to be the truths of your very being and the existence of your lives!

Never, ever give up and never, ever give in!

When they come home for the holidays…march in front of their homes! Get in their faces and make their holiday as miserable as they want to make your lives and destroy the future of your children and their children!

This is just another battle in this war with insanity!

America…fight on…we are in the right…and we are right!

GOD BLESS AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE…BRAVE ENOUGH TO TOUGH IT OUT WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH AND THE ROAD AHEAD IS DARK AND DREARY!

THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS LONG TUNNEL, AMERICA, KEEP MARCHING TOWARDS THE LIGHT…UNTIL IT BECOMES BRIGHT ENOUGH TO REMOVE THE DARKNESS!

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THE REVOLUTION OF THE SILENT MAJORITY!

1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED
3. GETTING OUT THE VOTE

IMPEACHMENT OR THE ‘ORIGINAL’ KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE…IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME!

Breeze   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:24 pm

“the Independent Medicare Advisory Board cannot be repealed by future Congresses.”
Why bother to repeal what can be immediatedly defunded, as in it’s budget slashed to zero? Ditto for staffing, etc.

Obama², I have the Constitution that you’re going to get to eat, from the opposite direction!

BBub   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:28 pm

Don’t worry, even amendments can be changed. Harry Reid is an EFfing idiot.
All that’s needed is a new law that says the old law -where is says it cannot
be changed– can be changed. Done.

First, second, fourteenth, even tenth are no longer relevant and are ignored.
I do see where a little tree needs to be watered again, though!

Stacy   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:30 pm

Wow. This is shocking. It is a fever dream.

GiveMeLiberty   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:32 pm

I found this on another website,(sritten by an angry constituint) regarding Tom Harkin’s saying bribes and payoffs are no big deal as long as the healthcare is passed, and thought it was worth posting here:

I have reached the point where I am so frustrated and disgusted by the words and actions of Democrat politicians that I have lost all hope for the future of our country as one of a free country with a free enterprise system. If the Democrats continue to ignore Senate rules, spend money on bribes for votes, etc., what hope do the people of the country have. We made our voices heard about the health bill. We did not want it, but because the Dems do we will be stuck in a quagmine within a few years. I hope and pray it is not too late to undo much of this mess if we can elect enought politicians who actually have integrity, honesty, and enough respect for the citizens to do what the majority want- not what just the president and their party want.

TulsaMark   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:33 pm

The insidiousness of this trick by Reid and the Dems is evil; putting a clause
in a bill to change a Senate rule so that future congresses cannot ammend or
repeal a bill. This is fascism. This is un-American. Republicans in the
Senate and people of America, stand up! Call and email your senators and
congressmen and share your outrage! This is a dictatorial move, inserting into
a bill language which says basically: if this bill passes, future generations can’t
change it! This is what a Chavez or Castro would do! Call your representatives now and
pray for our Nation!

Rick   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:39 pm

A Call To Arms !

Obama   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:43 pm

Rick December 22nd, 2009 – 1:39 pm
A Call To Arms !

HAHAHA

Rick, we’ll be waiting for you and Mick, come on down an party on the lawn!!

WE GOT THE GUNS AND WE GOT THE NUMBERS!!

WE’LL WAIT UP!!

LOL HAHAHAHA HEHEHE LOL

THANKS SUCKAS

Ern Malley   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:44 pm

This is an example of how our freedom is being stolen. Democrat politicians read the polls and know current public opinion. Yet, they are willing to give up their seats and even majorities in both houses of Congress to attain their goals. French revolutionaries, Russian revolutionaries, and even Nazi brown shirts were willing to give their lives to promote their causes. One is reminded of Chile in 1973 when Salvador Allende and the legislature went too far. It cost them their lives. I wonder if liberal Democrats would be that brave.

White guy   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:46 pm

Obama, have your cake and eat it too.

How convenient for the Federal Government to exempt themselves from participating in this health care racket. I wonder how many Dem’s would vote for this bill had they not been exempt. Very very few if not Zero. Eat your own cake Obama! Eat your own cake!

Shawnet   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:50 pm

Go ahead and tell us it cannot be repealed. We can disband, dissolve, decertify, and or declare it unconstitutional. And let’s do it on Reid’s birthday, whenever that is if anyone gives a damn! ;-)

The Nature of My Game   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:50 pm

TulsaMark December 22nd, 2009 – 1:33 pm
This is what a Chavez or Castro would do!

EXACTLY!!

Please allow me to introduce myself

I’m a man of wealth and taste…

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name…

Hey dimwits, don’t EVER ferget who is the god of this world!!

LOL HAHAHA HEHEHE LOL

YOU LOSE!!!

there is no fear of God in their eyes   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:58 pm

The Nature of My Game December 22nd, 2009 – 1:50 pm
don’t EVER ferget who is the god of this world!!

He’s right you know, “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not” 2Corinthians 4:4

Satan knows how to read, and he knows how use what he reads against you!

And you fine folk thought there was such a thing as a Christian Nation! < – - that is an oxymoron, see Hebrews the Eleventh Chapter, King James ONLY!

Thunder   December 22nd, 2009 - 1:58 pm

Tis the season to be….One quality handload round $.50…one quality factory round $1.00…used correctly, the results, perfect…come on, it’s the holidays….reach out and “touch” someone…give them the “gift” that they will enjoy for eternity

Breeze   December 22nd, 2009 - 2:01 pm

Nullification – read up on it. Some states are on the way there now.

“Funding – the strike at the knees that cripples the strongest runner. Obama & Reid may make them, but WE, the People, can break them!”
~Breeze, 2009~

lamchops   December 22nd, 2009 - 2:04 pm

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   December 22nd, 2009 - 2:20 pm

America…copy the link above to this page and email it to your friends and family so that they know the truth of what the ‘mentally unstable’ Democratizi have hidden.

They not only use bribes and extortion to get the vote…they are hiding things from those who vote who don’t even know what they are voting on!

This is criminal!

Send it out to all…America…let the truth be known…if this passes…there is no turning back regardless of their lying and saying it can be!

I just sent it to my friends and family…please do the same!

—————————————–

THE REVOLUTION OF THE SILENT MAJORITY!

1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED
3. GETTING OUT THE VOTE

IMPEACHMENT OR THE ‘ORIGINAL’ BIRTH CERTIFICATE…IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME!

YOU ARE NOT MOSES!   December 22nd, 2009 - 2:37 pm

Who the HE11 do those a$$holes in WASHINGTON DC think they are?????
They are NOT MOSES, and their B.S. is NOT etched in stone!!!

KEEP AFTER THEM, MR. DEMINT!!!

P.S. WHERE IS ANY NEWS ABOUT GRIFFITH SWITCHING PARTIES FROM DEMO TO REPUBLICAN???? IF ANY OF THE EXISTING DEMOS HAD A SOUL OR CONSCIENCE, THEY TOO WOULD JUMP SHIP AND BAIL OUT OF THE CORRUPTION & DECEIT & EVIL THAT IS NOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

Independent Medicare Advisory Board = DEATH PANEL !!!

Think Again   December 22nd, 2009 - 2:54 pm

“Global War on Terrorism” – The government gains more power to intrude into your privacy.

“Global Financial Crisis” – The government gains more power to regulate financial markets.

“Global Warming…errr… Climate Change” – The government gains massive power over more of your day to day life.

Hello stupid… do you think this is going to change because you vote out the corrupt ones in there now to replace them with more corrupt politicians? You idiots… this is a game of chess where you only see the pieces and not the players. You are being fooled into watching the board and not the hands that are moving the pieces. WAKE UP!!! You’re well on your way to being enslaved. Welcome to the brave new world.

Gary A   December 22nd, 2009 - 2:59 pm

If this administration keeps up this crap, we had all better ammo up, and get ready to give a good ass whooping.

HUH??   December 22nd, 2009 - 3:19 pm

If it takes a two-thirds super-majority vote for “cloture,” WHY ARE THEY SAYING THEY ARRIVED AT CLOTURE WITH ONLY 60 DEMO VOTES?

Wikipedia quote:
“The Senate may end a filibuster by invoking cloture. In most cases, cloture requires the support of three-fifths of the Senate; however, if the matter before the Senate involves changing the rules of the body, a two-thirds majority is required. Cloture is invoked very rarely, particularly because bipartisan support is usually necessary to obtain the required supermajority.”

Breeze   December 22nd, 2009 - 3:55 pm

The mockingbird can change its tune 37 times in 7 minutes. Politicians regard this ability with awe.

Merry Christmas   December 22nd, 2009 - 3:57 pm

Reid, I read somewhere that you were going to get an a s s pounding when you leave Congress for good. You better buff up some.

Sage   December 22nd, 2009 - 4:00 pm

when the dhimicrats get the boot then there will just have to be a reinterpretation of the rules and then make another rule change that eliminates the previous rule change

KRB   December 22nd, 2009 - 4:05 pm

These are the most vile of people. I really hope there is a hell; these people (not Sen. DeMint) really need to be there. No shame, no respect for our history or for rule of law.

testicular man   December 22nd, 2009 - 4:26 pm

This shameless bunch who are so despised need an good ass-kicking…

PunditPawn   December 22nd, 2009 - 5:40 pm

That’s not going to happen. Laughable they wasted time putting wishful thinking into the bill. If congress could handcuff the future it would have been done long ago. No court will ever uphold this and if Harry’s smart, he won’t let them lay down a restriction on congress and will withdraw the language before it gets a ruling.

Skydancer   December 22nd, 2009 - 5:54 pm

I just doesn’t matter. As this congress has shown, no precedent matters…everything is fair play. If they can summarily dismantle the Constitution as they have done, then anything can be dismantled. Even the bill. Make sure you vote this 2010!!

done   December 22nd, 2009 - 6:53 pm

I’m done…Ya know what…pass the f*cking thing…crash the country…Why should I really give a flying f*ck anymore??

SlowMoe   December 22nd, 2009 - 7:40 pm

This guy is making me sick. My head is spinning. Reid should be repealed!!

dac   December 22nd, 2009 - 10:44 pm

Well if Nancy can take away a tax cut and then say that what results is not a tax increase, then sure we can redefine any word we want. Theyre LIBERALS… THEY LIE!! Rules dont matter…Rule of Law doesnt matter and they are the ones WHO MAKE THE LAW!!!

JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, ALL!   December 23rd, 2009 - 12:00 am

They might as well pass a law saying “Mr. O. IS GOD and NOTHING YOU CAN DO WILL EVER CHANGE IT!”

HOW JUVENILE ARE THESE IDIOTS????

WHERE IS “SUPERMAN” WHEN YOU NEED HIM????? WE NEED A CLARK KENT WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH & SMART ENOUGH TO PUT A STOP TO THE INSANITY GOING ON! (Jim deMint looks a little like Superman, doncha think?)

clifftheedged   December 23rd, 2009 - 12:02 am

Wake up America! this is another blatant constitutional attack. The whole bill is unconstitutional! We the people need to ignore these jerks and their supposed laws that are unconcstitutional. The constitution requires the government to do certain things and passing laws that can’t ever be changed isn’t one of those things! Passing laws that excempt the politians from the law or allows them to be above it isn’t in there either. Nor is it conctitutional to force us to paya global tax! we the people need to stand on the constitution and refuse to follow this total madness. They work for us and we need to point this out to them as painfully as possible. We kicked out the british for this type of crap, lets’ kick out Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Obama too! Along with Acorn, SEIU and COI they are all criminal conspiracies that go all the way to Obama and the congress! Wake Up American! it is time to take back our country!

Registered Independent   December 23rd, 2009 - 5:56 am

If it’s true that the bill specifically indicates a rule change, then “Mr. President” simply lied. No wonder he kept hesitating before answering the questions.

Desiree   December 23rd, 2009 - 9:31 am

For Hire:

Islamic Extremeists to fly into the Capitol in Washington DC while congress is in session. Don’t worry, no one would bother downing the plane in a
Pennsylvania field.

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