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Alexander's Essay – March 18, 2010

Pulling the Plug on our Constitution

"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people ... must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify." --Federalist No. 33

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concludes, "Nobody wants to vote for the Senate bill." So, she is proposing to overtly circumvent our Constitution by way of the "Slaughter Solution." Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairman of the House Rules Committee, proposes to pass legislation using the "self-executing rule," which will allow the House to accept the already-passed Senate health care bill by presumption alone, thus negating a formal up-or-down vote by House members.

Pelosi confessed, "I like it because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill." But of course, "Slaughter" and "self-executing" may describe both the process and the electoral future of many Democrats in the House.

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