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Democrats aren't suicidal. They're self-executing
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
March 15, 2010
It's
not every day you hear a sentence like this on the House floor: "Madam
Speaker…they are hiding behind blooming algae as they twist arms and
try to work their backroom deals."
Those words were spoken by Rep. David Dreier, the ranking Republican
on the House Rules Committee, and they were true. As the House
Democratic leadership struggled to come up with a procedural shortcut
to pass the unpopular national health care proposal, they scheduled the
House floor to discuss the "Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research
and Control Amendments Act of 2010." However important algal blooms
and hypoxia research might be, Dreier was pointing out that the water
bill was simply cover, something for the House to do while, the powers
in the Democratic party devised a plan to push the Obamacare bill
through the House without Democrats having to take a public, roll-call
vote on the measure.
As Dreier spoke, Democrats were refining plans to use something
called a "self-executing rule" to pass the bill approved by the Senate
last December 24 on a party-line vote. The House must pass that bill,
as is, for Obamacare to become law. But since the bill contains the
Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, Gator Aid, and other
special deals, House Democrats are wary -- no, terrified -- of voting
for it, even if they pass a separate bill "fixing" the Senate bill's
problems. That's where the self-executing rule -- sometimes called the
"Slaughter solution" or the "Slaughter sleight-of-hand," after House
Rules Committee chairwoman Louise Slaughter -- comes in.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Democrats-arent-suicidal--Theyre-self-executing-87641422.html