Snakes in the grass
2022-07-31 18:46:47 UTC
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-upsets-backers-of-bill-to-help-veterans-sickened-by-burn-pits/
Cruzâs office provided a written statement that he is a âstrong
supporterâ of both the legislation and the nationâs veterans but
took issue with a provision in the bill he says could allow Democrats
to spend another $400 billion on programs not related to veterans.
âThe Senator and his Republican colleagues are working to advance
the bill while removing that provision,â according to the
statement.
But all you read about in the MSM is how Jon Stewart is their hero
for getting upset.
Well, here is how typical Democrat Party bullshit works.
(1) Create a bill that (a) helps orphan children, (b) offers free
transgender operations for anyone over 12 years old without parental
consent, (c) taxes small farmers at 50%.
(2) Call it the ORPHAN CHILDREN CARE ACT
(3) Wait for GOP to shoot it down in flames
(4) Shriek "REPUBLICANS HATE ORPHANS!"
(5) Get Jon Stewart to shriek about it
(6) Rinse and repeat
I knew that there was more to it than we were being told.-upsets-backers-of-bill-to-help-veterans-sickened-by-burn-pits/
Cruzâs office provided a written statement that he is a âstrong
supporterâ of both the legislation and the nationâs veterans but
took issue with a provision in the bill he says could allow Democrats
to spend another $400 billion on programs not related to veterans.
âThe Senator and his Republican colleagues are working to advance
the bill while removing that provision,â according to the
statement.
But all you read about in the MSM is how Jon Stewart is their hero
for getting upset.
Well, here is how typical Democrat Party bullshit works.
(1) Create a bill that (a) helps orphan children, (b) offers free
transgender operations for anyone over 12 years old without parental
consent, (c) taxes small farmers at 50%.
(2) Call it the ORPHAN CHILDREN CARE ACT
(3) Wait for GOP to shoot it down in flames
(4) Shriek "REPUBLICANS HATE ORPHANS!"
(5) Get Jon Stewart to shriek about it
(6) Rinse and repeat
Nancy Pelosi pulled the same shit to pass Obamacare.
"Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. If you recall, Nancy
Pelosis Democratic majority in the House of Representatives was unable to
pass their version of a healthcare law. Because all revenue bills have to
originate in the House, the Senate found a bill that met those
qualifications: HR3590, a military housing bill. They essentially stripped
the bill of its original language and turned it into the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), aka Obamacare.
The Senate at that time had 60 Democrats, just enough to pass Obamacare.
However after the bill passed the Senate, Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy
died. In his place, Massachusetts elected Republican Scott Brown. That
meant that if the House made any changes to the bill the Senate wouldnt
have the necessary number of votes to pass the amended bill (because they
knew no Republicans would vote for Obamacare). So Senate Leader Harry
Reid cut a deal with Pelosi: the House would pass the Senate bill without
any changes if the Senate agreed to pass a separate bill by the House that
made changes to the Senate version of Obamacare. This second bill was
called the Reconciliation Act of 2010. So the House passed PPACA, the
Senate bill, as well as their Reconciliation Act. At this point PPACA was
ready for the President to sign, but the Senate still needed to pass the
Reconciliation Act from the House.
Confused?
We all were.
And it got worse.
Remember that the Senate only had 59 votes to pass the Reconciliation Act
since Republican Scott Brown replaced Democrat Ted Kennedy. Therefore in
order to pass the Act Senate Democrats decided to change the rules. They
declared that they could use the Reconciliation Rule (this is a different
reconciliation than the House bill). This rule was only supposed to be
used for budget item approvals so that such items could be passed with
only 51 votes in the Senate, not the usual 60. Reconciliation was never
intended to be used for legislation of the magnitude of Obamacare. But
that didnt stop them.
So both of the Acts were able to pass both houses of Congress and sent
to President Obama for his signature without a single Republican vote in
favor of the legislation. The American system of governance was shafted.
To quote Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee during
the bill process: Were making up the rules as we go along."