Obama Pushes Death-Care Bill Forward Behind Closed Doors

October 9, 2009 (LPAC)—According to Senator Harry Reid and other Senate Democratic leaders, the US Senate Finance Committee will vote on the Obama/Baucus death care bill on Tuesday of next week. Once approved by the committee, Reid and other Senate Democratic leaders will merge the Finance Committee bill with the one passed by the Senate Health, Labor and Pensions Committee behind closed doors.

In his press conference on Thursday, Republican Minority Leader Boehner disclosed the kind of process which can now be expected from the desperate Obama crowd. According to Boehner: "This week, the Senate HELP Committee released the text of their health care bill after a mysterious two-month delay. There was a two-month delay in the Senate HELP Committee's bill while they made 75 changes to the bill. Now, think about this. They spent weeks marking this bill up in committee, and then the staff gets a hold of it, and whoever, we don't see the bill for two months, and they make 75 changes to what the senators voted on. I don't know what kind of process is this, but I think it's outrageous. And that's why we intend to offer a resolution requiring that all committee-passed bills be posted online within 24 hours so that members and the American people get a chance to read these bills and understand what's in them. I don't think the American people can be left in the dark, and so I hope the speaker will support this resolution and all of our efforts to ensure that all bills that are coming to the floor are available to members and the public for at least 72 hours before they're voted on."

In another demonstration of democratic principles, it was revealed on Wednesday night on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, that Obama partisans in the Senate are threatening to revoke the chairmanships of any Democrats who join the Republicans in demanding that the health care bill require 60 votes to pass in the Senate. According to Maddow: "We can report exclusively tonight that two major power brokers on the left have told MSNBC that they are encouraging a Senate strategy now, in which the leadership would revoke chairmanships and other leadership positions from any Democrat who sides with a Republican filibuster to block a vote on health reform. Regardless of how individual senators would vote ultimately on the bill, committee chairmen or subcommittee chairmen who allowed Republicans to force a 60-vote requirement for passing health care under this type of strategy would be in danger of losing their chairmanships."