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Bad Cooking

By John Batchelor on December 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM in Current Affairs

“Back to the Drawing Board.”

[On my syndicated radio show, I spoke with] Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R) re the surprise decision for Parker Griffith of Alabama to move from the Democratic caucus to the Republican caucus, and he was unhesitating in saying this is a big deal and a profound new source of energy.

Also intriguing was late word that Chris Carney, 10th Pennsylvania was in consultation with John McCain and other Republicans to switch from Democratic to Republican in reaction to the overbearing management of Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer.

I mentioned to the congressman, a member of the House GOP leadership, that John Fund had sent me a note about Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, chair of the House Oversight Committee, and a significant Pelosi lieutenant, who is quoted saying that the Harry Reid healthcare plan does not work with the House bill and that it is time “to go back to the drawing board.”

Finally we spoke of the reapportionment projections for the next census in 2010 that favor the GOP in Texas and disfavor the Democrats in New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio.

Supreme Court.

Also significant is that University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein told me Wednesday 23 that he expects the Harry Reid bill, when jammed together with the Nancy Pelosi bill, to face mighty challnge in the courts on the bais of past Supreme Court decisions about utilities and government interference in the right to a return on investment.

The important case is the 1989 Duquesne Light vs. Barasch. What I learned is that it is not constitutional to legislate investors out of a return on the basis of stealth price controls and conflicting, destructive mandates.

The rush to pass this stew of paradoxes and inventions has turned the Senate into a bad cooking class. The American voters watch and do not approve. POTUS now claims he will get involved in selling the concoction.

More recklessly, Bob Casey and other Democratic senators claim they will hold town halls about the bill in the intervening holiday. This promises to be a PR meltdown not unlike Al Gore’s delusion of the North Pole.

Jazzman

Big deal… a democratic loser jumps ship and becomes a republican loser….. ITS TIME FOR TERM LIMITS!

Oh yeah… Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!
Anonymous

I guess when an election,whether Bush or Obama has been corrupted by them and “their party” it can destroy more than it benifits except for the money the pushers get. WE LOSE!! We got the lump of coal instead of the manipulators.
Lindsay

Great Article — I don’t doubt for a moment that the Republicans will pick up many Dems. When you are elected to The House of Representatives you don’t expect a Dominatrix to be hearding you with a whip and a chair. 11 Blue Dogs will not seek reelection I hope they change their minds and become Republicans cause that will freak Pelosi out.

Are the Dems nervous about this healthcare bill being their demise? You betcha–but common sense is not going to stop them now.
The Democrats

are so arrogant they do not have a clue of how much they out of touch with normal people. The Democrat party is now an extension of to the radicals of the late 60s and early 70s. A bunch of dope heads with a communist agenda. The party is controlled by a bunch of guilty whites and racist blacks (Phlegers and Wrights).
stodghie

look it is very simple, the dimocrats have screwed up so badly that there is no way they’ll be able to pass this legislation without losing one or both houses of congress. i predict reid won’t be back and pelosi may very well not be the speaker and rightly so.
I’m a Linda too

Good vid. I wonder what percentage Kucinich or DeFazio votes with Dem’s. Because they don’t vote for hypocritical war votes, huge spending, health care, bailouts, tarp…etc either.

Will Dem’s call them Republicans too?
Texas Playwright

The best Christmas present I, an American, could ever give or receive is fellow citizens from all backgrounds speaking up for our beloved country. Thanks, John!
getfitnow

One would think that a POTUS who professes to be a constitutional lawyer would have problems with this piece of garbage.
don tufts

i dont know if any of you noticed but rassmussen generic congressional poll jumped up radically in favor of the republicans the day after the first 60 count vote plus sarahs favorable unfavorable is now 51/45 versus dr utopia 45/51 merry christmass everyone.
mary.cusack@verizon.net

This is what happens when arrogance allows you to put your fingers in your ears and announce “LALLALALALALA I can’t hear you”
mary cusack

this is what happens when you are too above it all to hear the voices of those you say you represent
Docelder

He became a constitutional lawyer because he wants to use the constitution to destroy itself. He means to use radical interpretations of the amendments to the constitution to invalidate the constitution and make it as null. He is a destroyer and not a builder.
Anonymous

The suggestion that Pelosi is a leader is absurd on its face. She is nothing more than a bureaucrat of the Martin Borman persuasion, willing to use the levers of power which were there before she got there in an unprincipled manner to achieve results favorable to left wing dimocrats but inimical to the interests of the American People. The premise of her philosophy is no different from that of the old Soviet Constitution–from each according to his ability to each according to his need. If we are to follow that premise let us at least be sure that the uber wealthy like her husband give up what they have stolen in real estate ventures pay their fair share of the cost.
wbboei

I hope Epstein is wrong. I want this individual mandate to be a permanent stain on every politician who voted for it. It is clear cogent and convincing evidence that those people put party unity ahead of the interests of their constituents. This bill needs to be put under the microscope and parsed out before the American People so it becomes for Dimocrats the death of a thousand cuts. This is not hate, this is moral outrage at the destruction of the republic. The new name for Obama is “Shaft”.
Onofre’s arm

You are soooo right Doc.

I have a detailed understanding how to build houses, and I’ve perfected the skills to do it. Because of this knowledge, when it comes time to demolish a house, I know the best way to dismantle it.

I believe that Obama’s interest in the Constitution isn’t based so much on his admiration for the document and the incredible way it has held this Republic on a prosperous path and preserved individual liberty. His study of the document and it’s principles has been to discredit it from a progressive standpoint; he doesn’t like the fact that the Constitution concentrates more on what government CAN’T do, than what it CAN or SHOULD do. He has made this complaint in public. He would like to turn the situation upside down, from a government restricted by the consent of the governed, to a government that rules benevolently (fat chance), and dictates the rights and needs of the governed. This is the “Progressive” way. For this to occur, the Constitution needs to be either morphed beyond recognition, or completely scrapped. I’m sure this creep of a POTUS had his fingers crossed when he took his oath of office (twice), he can’t possibly have sworn to uphold a document that stands so squarely in the way of his quest for power.
Anonymous

I am just so sick of being sold out by DAM-O-CRATS !

I am done !
Anonymous

And I don’t trust why they want to run the other way.I ay it’s a set up because everyone is so sick of them and they are sneaking in to complete the job they are doing. We were told to shut up-we were told to sit down- we were told we are terrorist. I am done done done with IT !

NO VOTE FROM ME ! May God look what’s they are doing and Obama destorying our country..

D-O-N-E TO
PainkillerJayne

lmao SHAFT..that was funny.

I want this individual mandate to be a permanent stain on every politician who voted for it. It is clear cogent and convincing evidence that those people put party unity ahead of the interests of their constituents.

I totally agree.