The Slaughter of the Innocents

You can take the thug out of Chicago but you cannot take the thug out of the thug.

Then meld Chicago thuggery with San Francisco-style Italian Mafia tactics and you wind up with that which we have now; which seems to be a callous suspension of democracy in this country.

Clearly, Pelosi does not have the votes in the House of Representatives to pass the Senate’s version of healthcare reform. And they pulled out all the stops including offering a seat on the federal bench to the brother of a Democratic waverer. And so, what does Pelosi do? She called a meeting this morning behind closed doors, where else, to concoct a way out of the mess as she sees it.

As it seems now, the House will “deem” themselves to have passed the Senate Bill. What happened to Obama’s demand over the last couple of weeks “for an up or down vote”? Well, as soon as it became clear that the measure was going to fail in the House, the tactic changed.

A whole bunch of Blue Dog Democrats are breathing a sigh of relief because now they don’t have to face their constituents when they go home for Passover/Easter break. Of course, it won’t save them in November and earlier today I told my representative, one Harry Mitchell of District 5 in Arizona, precisely that. His office did not sound surprised.

The messenger from the White House was one Louise Slaughter who is a close confidant of the “Great One” and she was the one who came up with the strategy now known as the Slaughter rule.

Whatever the Feds do, they’re going to be stuck with one inescapable fact, Arizona is one of 36 plus states of the Union which is preparing to exempt itself from the strictures of Obamacare. Perhaps at some point, the whole mess will wind up in the United States Supreme Court.

And, as of the last State of the Union speech, Obama has fewer friends there now as he unashamedly attacked the third and equal branch of government.

But Obama doesn’t get that.

But he will ………………