illegal law

If this actually happens, every last member of Congress might as well pack up their bags and head home immediately afterwards, because they just rendered themselves null-and-void in the eyes of the Constitution:

The twisted scheme by which Democratic leaders plan to bend the rules to ram President Obama’s massive health care legislation through Congress now has a name: the Slaughter Solution.

The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and a key ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to get the health care legislation through the House without an actual vote on the Senate-passed health care bill. You see, Democratic leaders currently lack the votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill through the House. Under Slaughter’s scheme, Democratic leaders will overcome this problem by simply “deeming” the Senate bill passed in the House – without an actual vote by members of the House.

As a reminder to the Congress, and specifically a certain Louise Slaughter (who lost the title of “representative” when she proposed this idea), the Constitution might be a little vague on the specifics how a bill becomes law, but it is quite clear on one point:

First, a bill must pass both houses of Congress by a majority vote.

Emphasis added for the dim-witted in D.C.

Suffice to say, editing the internal-to-Congress rules to “deem” a bill passed, without an actual vote to determine whether or not the bill has been passed, is not Constitutional, and is in direct violation of the design of our country’s government. In fact, for those history-challenged would-be totalitarians on The Hill, I would point out that a very bloody war was waged, and a new country – this country – was founded over politicians deeming laws into existence without due process or proper representation.

I cannot and would not speak for anyone else, but allow me to make myself perfectly clear (and I will try to write in small words so Louise can keep up): I will not obey any law “deemed” as passed. If you want to vote on it, fine. If you want to do your jobs, listen to the American people, and drop this idiotic drive for “health care insurance reform”, fine. But if you “deem” a law as being passed by either House of Congress without the representatives therein actually voting on and passing the law in question (as proscribed by the United States Constitution), I will not obey it, and I am not alone:

“Deem” a single thing as “passed” and I and many others will go broke and into bankruptcy driving you and those who stand with you out of our House of Representatives in order to preserve and restore fidelity to the Constitution within our own government.

Discount this at your peril. For it should not be lost upon you or others that men who have sworn (and likewise performed) that the Constitution of the United States is worth more than any of our individual lives would likewise also hold that it is worth more than our mere monetary treasure, be it modest or great.

Would that you had the same willingness to uphold your oath, Louise… if you even remember it.

(Courtesy of WizBang, with more at Non-Original Rants and Irons in the Fire.)