A democrat on the Senate Finance Committee admitted he will not read the text of the socialized health care bill:
Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people.
“I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life,” Carper told CNSNews.com.
Carper described the type of language the actual text of the bill would finally be drafted in as “arcane,” “confusing,” “hard stuff to understand,” and “incomprehensible.” He likened it to the “gibberish” used in credit card disclosure forms.
Since Democrats think they will not have enough support to pass their piece of shit bill, they are resorting to trickery:
An analyst whose responsibilities include working with members of the U.S. Senate for The Heritage Foundation is suggesting that U.S. lawmakers are so intent on passing President Obama’s “comprehensive health care reform” that they will use procedural maneuvers and trickery to accomplish it.
In an analysis posted on Human Events, Brian Darling, the Heritage Foundation’s director of U.S. Senate relations, outlines a four-step scenario he believes is possible.
“Despite the potential political risks to moderate Democrats, the president and his left-wing leadership in Congress are determined to pass the measure using a rare parliamentary procedure,” he said.
“The Senate plans to attach Obamacare to a House-passed non-healthcare bill,” he warned. He explained that would take a simple majority vote once the discussion on a bill is opened, and it could be approved by the House also by a simple majority.
Darling said the first step is that the Senate Finance Committee must approve a marked-up version of a takeover plan by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. Then, he wrote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would announce two Senate committees have passed health care takeover plans to bring it to the floor.
Reid then would take the final products of the two committees, the other being from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, and merge them.
That puts Obamacare in the position of being ready, Darling wrote, “to hitch a ride on an unrelated bill from the House.”
He said Reid then “will move to proceed to H.R. 1586, a bill to impose a tax on bonuses received by certain TARP recipients.”
That has been approved by the House already, but has been wasting away in the Senate.
When that proposal gets 60 votes to start debate, “Reid will offer Obamacare as a complete substitute to the unrelated House-passed bill,” Darling outlined. “This means that the entire healthcare reform effort will be included as an amendment to a TARP bill that has been collecting dust in the Senate for months.”
The Senate’s usually-required supermajority of 60 votes, 58 Democrats including moderates and the two independents, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, would only have to hold together long enough to vote against any filibuster.
“Once the Senate takes up the bill, only a simple majority of members will be needed for passage,” Darling warned. “It’s possible one of the endangered moderate Democrats, such as Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), could vote to stop a filibuster then vote against Obamacare so as not to offend angry constituents.”
Legislative language?? Does that mean they pass a bill and then write what they want it to say?
“to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people”
Old hat for me……