Parliamentarian.
Spoke David Drucker, Roll Call, to learn that the GOP Senate argues its case in the Lyndon Johnson room of the Senate before the Parliamentarian of the Senate, David Frumin, and that the Democratic Senate also argues its case. The ruling is delayed until at least Tuesday, perhaps following the signing ceremony of the healthcare bill at the White House. The issue involves a violation of the third-rail rule of Social Security, the 2018 delay of excise tax. All wonderful arcana. The GOP Senate is also said to have a handful of Byrdable objections. Later in the evening, Drucker reports that Fromin denies the GOP challenge, and so the next event is the Byrd Bath of Tuesday, objections to the phrasing and language of the bill that would necessitate a resubmission for writing and voting to the House.
Nebraska.
Spoke to Jeff Fortenberry, NE-1, of Lincoln, Nebraska, re the healthcare vote; and we mentioned Senator Ben Nelson's unhappy Cornhusker Kickback, which is a source of embarassment to the fair-minded of Nebraska. Attorney General Jon Bruning of Nebraska joins other AGs in a suit against the healthcare law as imposing mandates that are a violation of the Tenth Amendement of States's powers. Jeff Fortenberry mentions that the Congress is not likely to settle down until Election Day, and that the nation seems more fractured than ever after a law is imposed that is against the majority desires of the American people.
The Florida Challenge to the Act.
http://www.scag.gov/newsroom/pdf/2010/healthcare.pdf
I thought that I might as well share this excerpt from a recent Roissy in DC post with the rest of the class:
"If an alien race ill-disposed to America were to devise a plan to bring the US to her knees as quickly, efficiently, and bloodlessly as possible (so as not to arouse a mighty backlash of patriotic fervor, i.e. survival instinct) they could do no better than what we have done to ourselves over the past 50 years. A plan to drain the nation’s coffers and psyche — not to mention the good will of her allies — with half-cocked schemes to export democracy to shitholes around the world that are constitutionally incapable or unwilling to embrace democracy, coupled with a zeal for importing vast numbers of ethnically (and genetically) antagonistic and listless peasant stock who will vote 2 to 1, generation after generation regardless of the desperate political pandering to staunch it, for socialist politicians and the concomitant racial grievance spoils machine whose gears never stop thirsting for the slick blood of the hated enemy, would break the back of the nation’s people insidiously, cracking each vertebrae in the middle of the night with hairline fractures designed to avoid sudden jolts of pain. Numb any immunological reaction with the soul poison of feminism, enervating porn pills, mollifying technogadget distractions, and a PC shaming mechanism psyche-out that would make Orwell blush, and you have a perfect recipe for destroying a world-bestriding superpower in less than half a century without firing a single shot.
"I am wishing for the day to come when the traitors swing from the lamp posts. Swing high sweet Benedicts."
Who’s embarrassed? The Dems won. The press is ecstatic. The Republicans got a stick in the eye; their noses rubbed in the mud. Representative governance got a black eye. Our economy gets another nudge toward total collapse. Union’s got theirs. The American people got their asses handed to them - doesn’t look to me like there’s anything to be embarrassed about. Last I looked, Pelosi and allies were celebrating.
There were people celebrating after 9/11 as well. They weren’t embarrassed either. Nobody’s embarrassed after they’ve just scored a big win. Imagine the Yankees not celebrating after a World Series romp! It will never happen. Only Republicans, after winning, are constantly apologizing, appeasing, and reaching across the aisle, seeking the hand of the enemy. That, in a nutshell is our domestic political picture anyway.
Internationally, it’s just the opposite. We go to our enemies and apologize our heads off. Just to prove to them how profoundly sorry we are, we disparage our allies publicly before the world.
Celebration and regret: We’ve confused when and where celebration is appropriate. We also don’t know when to express regret. This is due to the loss of our sense of self. We no longer know who we are and what we want to be. We’ve become a cardboard cutout of what we once were - blown aimlessly about by the political winds; crawling in the gutter like the pages of yesterday’s news.
http://peterkoelliker.blogspot.com/
NEB Att Gen Jon Bruning: "#HCR tramples on individual liberty & dumps on states the burden of an unfunded mandate taxpayers cannot afford."