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In the column I wrote the very day after the 2008 elections, I warned about how if the Obamites couldn’t win under the current rules, they would just change the rules or otherwise break them. The latest idea, the “Slaughter Solution,” is just one such example.
Here’s what I wrote:
“These New Alinskyites who are taking over the White House, combined with the most leftist congressional leadership in memory, will not let us play by the same rules under which conservatives recovered from those earlier debacles. They will try to drastically tilt the playing field, seed our side of the field with land mines and, in short, rig the process to make it next to impossible for the political right, or Republicans, to recover. And they are likely to succeed in at least some of these designs. It will begin with their efforts to secure a filibuster-proof majority of 60 senators (including the two independents). Right now the libs (and yes, all the Democratic senators, with the possible exception of Nebraska’s Ben Nelson, are libs) have 56, with three Republican moderates and one conservative leading their races but awaiting recounts or runoffs. Watch for the Alinskyites to try stealing all four, and to succeed in at least two. We’ve seen this game before. They did it in Indiana’s “Bloody Eighth” congressional district in 1984. They almost succeeded in 2000 in Florida. They did succeed, outrageously so, in the Washington State governor’s race in 2004. Those are just the most obvious of many similar examples. And now they are even more ruthless, more lawyered-up, and in a more powerful position to pull it off than they were in any of those instances Next, watch what happens if they regularly can’t peel off enough Republicans (or hold their own semi-fairminded people like Nelson and Joe Lieberman) to overcome whatever filibuster attempts Republicans do mount. Watch for an assault on the filibuster itself. Watch how they use as precedent the GOP “nuclear/constitutional option” on judges in 2005 — except instead of just using it for judges, watch them use it against all filibusters. It’s easy: Make the ruling from the chair that the filibuster is out of order for some reason. Instruct the parliamentarian to rule in their favor. Win the appeal of the parliamentarian’s ruling by simple majority vote. And watch the courts pronounce it an internal matter of the legislative branch and thus outside of courtroom purview. Watch a cheerleading establishment media — the Fourth Estate as a veritable Fifth Column — actually back these lefty maneuvers. It’s all in the name of one-man/one-vote democracy, dontcha know?
Also, I warned: “Watch what Michael Barone called the Obama ‘thugocracy’ use the Justice Department to stifle dissent.” And:
“The erosions of conservative rights will be incremental. Each one will have its own justification. Each one will be supported by the establishment media. Each one will be timed so as to allow the general public to become accustomed to it, to accept it as unremarkable, or even to come to regard it as a public good for the sake of keeping conservative ‘troublemakers”’ from fomenting disorder. And the Obamessiah, still speaking frequently to stadia full of admirers, will provide a tone of reasoned moderation, combined with further appeals to hope, in order to justify it all. These are the sorts of things Alinskyites do. These are the sorts of tactics used by ACORN, at whose conferences Obama himself regularly taught seminars on ‘power.’”
I dare say I was right. And today’s obscene rule-bending and precedent-shredding in the health-care debate is just the very, very start. All who love this republic ought to fight to save the rules of the republic against these assaults. And then fight some more.
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rgg| 3.11.10 @ 12:36PM
You were right Quin, we are living in a "soft tyranny" as Mark Levin calls it. Hussien Obama is about race hustling and wealth "spreading" (Marxism). Do enough Americans realize this yet?
Roy| 3.11.10 @ 12:42PM
Better question: do enough Americans realize this AND not expect to be the beneficiaries?
Dr. Ellen K. Rudolph | 3.11.10 @ 12:43PM
You bet I realize this...I recognized this even during the Presidential campaign. The problem is, citizens will NOT get this information and insight from the mainstream media. And the left knows this full well. The worry for me is the intractability of Congress and its refusal (until just now) to stand up for citizens. Congress has the misguided notion that we citizens don't count.
Excellent article.
Roy Smotherman| 3.11.10 @ 12:45PM
If the complaining starts to disappear, somebody needs to start worrying. Real American only stand for so much for so long.
Dean from Ohio| 3.11.10 @ 1:19PM
The "I was right" theme distracts from the replay of this valuable information. It may be that pundits cherish a half-court basket that finally made it in because that is where they shoot from every day, but it is still distasteful to prance around in mid-court like you've never made one like that before.
Better to rerun the quotes with the "see, this is the playbook they've had from the beginning" and focus on others who are finally getting onboard. Better still to highlight when others get the mid-court shot.
Nonetheless, nice shot!
Kyle Smith | 3.11.10 @ 2:06PM
This new idea they have to pass the bill, sounds like nothing more than a conference committee to reconcile the House and Senate Bill. Therefore, the Senate should be required to have 60 votes to pass this NEW HOUSE BILL; because that is what it will be. If the HOUSE changes the SENATE bill by ONE WORD, 60 votes for cloture should be required. This is BS, and too many Conservative media people are acting like the Slaughter Rule is just a tricky thing the House is doing. It is more than a trick, it is unprecedented and illegal. YOU CANNOT DEEM A BILL IS PASSED WITHOUT A VOTE!
The Senate will have to fully abolish the fillibuster in order for this to pass.
TacoBill| 3.11.10 @ 2:18PM
I just spoke to my Congressman's office CA-10 Garamendi about the Slaughter "rule" I was told that ir is too complex for me to understand and that the Congressman is voting for this no matter how hard the right wing fights
Um.....we are all are going to Washington and march up the Hill with flame throwers and pitchforks of this passes in the tyrannical method.
Got a match?
TacoBill
Kyle Smith| 3.11.10 @ 2:27PM
Taco Bill,
The staffer can't explain or understand it. I've called many staffers (Rep. and Dem.) over the past years and the people who answer the phone don't know even know how their guy is going to vote, and they know practically nothing about process or how a bill becomes law.
Quinn Shillyer| 3.11.10 @ 3:36PM
I was right, I was so right I feel like doing something sudden and inexplicable. There--I just bit my elbow out of sheer exuberance. It wasn't easy, but I did it. But let me have a few moments of your time to show you how I was right.
Dare I say I was right? I do indeed dare, because I was. Right, that is.
And did you notice how what I was right about was something really, really brilliant? I told you the Democrats would break the rules. No one else saw that coming. But I told you, and I was right.
You're welcome, and I'll keep 'em comin'.
Yours in perpetual certitude and enthusiasm,
Quinn HillyergoddamrightIwasright.
Nick| 3.11.10 @ 3:47PM
Now, now.
Take your lithium, stat.
The truth hurts, doesn't it bub? Anonymous clown.
ds80| 3.12.10 @ 8:30AM
You're a jealous toady, "Quinn Shillyer"
Oldefarte| 3.12.10 @ 10:31AM
Of course he was right, as was any non-imbicil [moron, ignoramous, dumbars,etc with any brain cells whatsoever] who could/should have seen this coming pre 11/4/08. It's sadly the ones like [probably] yourself that did not and who voted for these trojuned-horsed liberal terrorists that are the problem!!!!
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.11.10 @ 4:18PM
Thanks Quin,
for the reminder. I've actually got that column pasted in my docs file from then.
Well done...then...and now.
Jon B| 3.11.10 @ 7:09PM
You're right Quinn, but how is that any worse than Bush suing America in 2000 to throw out 60,000 votes, and a corrupt court violating the Constitution by creating an arbitrary date the gives unequal and disparate treatment to a set of votes, thereby violating the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?
The US SC created a 12-12 deadline out of thin air that does not exist in law anywhere thereby giving zero value to thousands of legal votes, and giving full value to another set of votes-the exact definition of unequal treatment of votes.
Did say anything when the Nation's highest court violating America's most precious law, the reason we fought the Revolutionary War, for the right to pick who represents us.? Just curious.
Nick| 3.11.10 @ 8:07PM
Mr. Hillyer,
Don't respond to Jon B
He thinks President Reagan gave the Soviets $425 billion, in '87 and '88!
It's the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), by the way.
ZerObama| 3.11.10 @ 11:16PM
Man, we've got a live one that's for sure. An ACORN loving troll who complains about stolen elections!
That's a real knee-slapper; did you read about this incident in the newspapers of the day or did you just make it up all by your lonesome, dumbtard? Haha.
"Projection is a pillar of Leftist thought."
Jon B| 3.12.10 @ 8:39AM
There is no 12-12 deadline written in law anywhere. The US SC said that because the FL SC said that the legislature wanted the votes to be in on 12-12,"We must honor that."
That's an arbitrary decision based on thin air. There is no 12-12 deadline written in law anywhere for counting votes. 12-12 is the "Safe Harbor Clause." If the votes are turned in by 12-12, the Congress cannot challenge the validity of the votes. 21 States turned in their electoral votes after 12-12 in the same election, so obviously it is not a federal deadline.
When you give a different value to one set of votes over another, you violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. The US SC gave tens of thousands of legal votes ZERO value, and gave another set of votes FULL value.
The US SC violated the Constitution in their 12-11 decision to install Bush. I've never lost this debate because all I need are the laws.
I've debated people with strong opinions over this issue, including conservative lawyers, and I've never lost it because all I use are the actual laws, and the US SC's own words. I knew we were screwed when this happened and the media barely mentioned it.
Nick| 3.12.10 @ 10:25AM
Okay, Justice Holmes, where did you get your Con-Law degree? From a box of Cracker-Jacks?
In the U.S. of A., we pick the president through the Electoral College. According to the Constitution, the state legislatures decide how to pick their electors, Einstein. Not the state supreme court.
The Republicans controlled both houses of the Florida state legislature. Algore was never going to succeed in his attempt to steal the 2000 election.
Also, what is this "US SC" to which you keep referring? In this country, we have the Supreme Court of the United States. (SCOTUS)
You have never won an argument in your life.
Missy| 3.12.10 @ 2:35PM
You're probably right, Nick; JonB regularly loses the constant cacophonous arguments he has with the voices in his head.
Nick| 3.13.10 @ 12:23AM
Missy,
Well, he finally admitted he lied, er.....um....."was mistaken" about the $425 billion. He now claims it was MILLION, not billion. But he is still wrong/lying.
Poor Jon B, it must be lonely being a communist stooge.
Oldefarte| 3.12.10 @ 10:33AM
I don't know about anyone else, but the above rantings about the supreme court under Bush makes NO SENSE AT ALL!!!!
Etiquette Man| 3.12.10 @ 4:32AM
Quin proves, time and again, that it is possible simultaneously to be both exactly right and incredibly, nauseatingly self-serving.
Amazing he didn't break his arm, patting himself on the back like that.
Quin was far from the forefront on this. Rush (among several others) was blasting this same message back in 2006-07, and mentioned Alinsky numerous times before then.
Again, Quin's correct--dead on. There's a pattern with Quin, though. Everything ends up being about him, somehow, even when it's not.
Oldefarte | 3.12.10 @ 10:35AM
Get a clue EM, and read my above!!!!
Daisy| 3.12.10 @ 3:01PM
Etiquette Man; as I recall last year, Quin received a pretty good verbal beating from many of you posters for his 'squishiness' in confronting Obama's thuggish tactics.
I believe you folks are the ones who were dead-on. Good on you.
John Roberts| 3.12.10 @ 10:28AM
THe Supreme Court told the Florida Supreme Court to follow their own law. And that about sums it up.
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