Obama, Congress, and Treason Against the Constitution

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Obama, Congress, and Treason Against the Constitution
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 19, 2010
On Thursday, Robert Gibbs, Obama?s press secretary, responded to a question about the so-called ?Slaughter Rule? (named after Rep. Slaughter, who sits on the rules committee) that will be used by Democrats to force through Obama?s totalitarian care bill, probably over the weekend.

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Gibbs? answer was deliberately opaque. By not addressing the question, he essentially said ?deem and pass? will be used in the future to enact unpopular legislation, including a bill that will legalize millions of illegal immigrants.
It is now official ? the Constitution is dead. It may as well be used to wrap fish.
Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that both houses of Congress hold recorded yea-or-nay votes on a bill before it can be presented to the president for his signature and before it can become law.
Obama approves of sabotaging the Constitution. He said he does not ?spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are,? in other words violating the spirit and law of the Constitution is not a biggie for him. ?What I can tell you is that the vote that?s taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform,? he told Bret Baier of Fox News.
?These constitutional rules set forth in Article I are not mere exercises in formalism,? former federal appeals court judge Michael McConnell told the Wall Street Journal earlier in the week. ?They ensure the democratic accountability of our representatives.?
Author and talk show host Mark Levin?s Landmark Legal Foundation plans to file an immediate lawsuit if House Democratic leaders try to use the unconstitutional maneuver to pass the Senate version of Obama?s totalitarian care.


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Good for Levin. However, according to constitutional experts, the underhanded procedure is unlikely to be reversed by the courts.
In short, Obama and Congress will not be called to task. The Constitution is now about as relevant as the Sunday funnies.

 

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Buying Votes for Health Care Bill With Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

Buying Votes for Health Care Bill With Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

Buying Votes for Health Care Bill With Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
PRNewswire-USNewswire
March 19, 2010
President Obama, yesterday, succeeded in winning the Congressional Hispanic Caucus?s endorsement of his health care reform legislation by pledging to push an overwhelmingly unpopular amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens. In this apparent quid pro quo, the president?s promise to push amnesty in 2010 came just hours after members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus promised their support for the health care reform bill. The announcement also coincided with the release of an outline for amnesty legislation authored by Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

According to the outline, illegal aliens would be required to admit that they broke the law, pay an unspecified fine for having settled illegally in the U.S., pay back taxes (which should have been paid anyway), and fulfill some minor civic requirements. In addition, the outline calls for increases in future immigration to the United States. The concrete benefits for the people who violated U.S. immigration laws are offset by vague promises of future immigration enforcement.
?The Schumer-Graham plan appears to be a near carbon copy of the McCain-Kennedy-Bush amnesty legislation that was resoundingly rejected by the American people in 2007,? said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). ?The public believed amnesty was fundamentally unfair, harmful to the interests of law-abiding citizens and legal immigrants, and prohibitively expensive to American taxpayers. Since the last attempt to pass amnesty, U.S. unemployment has more than doubled, the size of the federal deficit has grown tenfold, and nearly every state government is facing a fiscal crisis.?
The release of the Schumer-Graham outline is timed to appease the thousands of illegal aliens and their supporters who are expected to gather on the National Mall this Sunday. ?While Congress and the Obama administration ignore the concerns of millions of American families who are struggling through the worst economic crisis in 75 years, they appear remarkably responsive to the demands of people who are in the country illegally,? Stein said.
In 2006 and 2007, FAIR led the national opposition to efforts to enact amnesty for illegal aliens. Based on the general outline of the legislation being proposed by Senators Schumer and Graham, FAIR believes that this latest attempt sells out the interests of American citizens and taxpayers and will be similarly rejected by the American people.