The Last Days Of The Democratic Party

The Democrats are on the verge of creating their own extinction.  Determined to pass the Health Care Takeover/Rationing Bill, NO MATTER what their constituents have told them repeatedly in meetings, letters, phone calls, and faxes, these soon-to-be-irrelevant people are lining up behind their party leaders to walk right off the plank.

What we have here is a failure to communicate. At no time in American history has the ruling party so insistently striven to impose its iron will on such a loudly unwilling citizenry. They are not listening, and they will stop at nothing.

When flim-flammery fails, try intimidation.
When intimidation fails, try chicanery.
When chicanery fails, try illegal.
And when illegal fails, try unconstitutional.”

The above was written by a poster at RedState.com who calls him/herself E Pluribus Unum.  He/she has an encouraging opinion of what will happen if the Dems use the Slaughter Rule to circumvent the Constitution and make their bill into law.  Quoting the Constitution, he writes:

Article 1, Section 7:(excerpt)
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law,be presented to the President of the United States;…….But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.

There is no ambiguity here.  Bills must be voted on to become law. EPU (E Pluribus) explains in a nutshell what the Slaughter Rule is, and how it works.

Unable to pass the Senate bill in the House, unable to pass ANY bill in the Senate (thank you Massachusetts), and thwarted in their attempt at reconciliation parlor tricks, the Democrats have hatched a plan. The House will vote on and (presumably) pass a new bill, which is the Senate Bill with amendments. Call it House Bill #2. House Rules Chairman Louise Slaughter will propose a rule deeming the Senate bill to be “passed”, the new rule will be voted on and (presumably) approved by the House, and the amended bill — House Bill #2 — will be sent to Obama to be signed into law.

Now, he/she gets to the heart of the matter:  what happens if the Dems actually go through with this, to us and to them?  E Pluribus continues.

Before this, Democrats were already going to lose HUGE in November. There are more House Democrats retiring in “safe” districts than there are Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys in prison. But if they try this stunt, the ensuing electoral revolt will be epic and irreversible, resulting in a Democrat Party crippled so irredeemably that I predict a new center-left party will emerge in the next 10 years, attempting to shed the stench of scandal and disrepute that will be permanently connected to the Democrats. Most likely the partisan press will accelerate their own death spiral as they are unwilling to speak ill of the Democrats.

But that is November. What will happen in March?

Six things I can think of, the first three within days.

1. The Supreme Court will strike it down within days.

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