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The Democrats are assaulting the very pillars of our democracy. As the

debate on Obamacare reaches the long, painful end, House Speaker Nancy

Pelosi is confronting a political nightmare. She may not have the 216

votes necessary to pass the Senate's health care bill in the House.

Hence, Mrs. Pelosi and her congressional Democratic allies are

seriously considering using a procedural ruse to circumvent the

traditional constitutional process. Led by Rep. Louise M. Slaughter,

New York Democrat and chairman of the House Rules Committee, the new

plan - called the "Slaughter Solution" - is not to pass the Senate

version on an up-or-down vote. Rather, it is to have the House "deem"

that the legislation was passed and then have members vote directly on

a series of "sidecar" amendments to fix the things it does not like.

...

The Slaughter Solution is a dagger aimed at the heart of our system of

checks and balances. It would enable the Democrats to establish an

ominous precedent: The lawmaking process can be rigged to ensure the

passage of any legislation without democratic accountability or even a

congressional majority. It is the road to a soft tyranny. James

Madison must be turning in his grave.

Mr. Obama is imposing a leftist revolution. Since coming to office, he

has behaved without any constitutional restraints. The power of the

federal government has exploded. He has de facto nationalized key

sectors of American life - the big banks, financial institutions, the

automakers, large tracts of energy-rich land from Montana to New

Mexico. His cap-and-trade proposal, along with a newly empowered

Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to impose massive new taxes and

regulations upon industry. It is a form of green socialism: Much of

the economy would fall under a command-and-control bureaucratic

corporatist state. Mr. Obama even wants the government to take over

student loans.

Yet his primary goal has always been to gobble up the health care

system. The most troubling aspect of the Obamacare debate, however, is

not the measure's sweeping and radical aims - the transformation of

one-sixth of the U.S. economy, crippling tax increases, higher

premiums, state-sanctioned rationing, longer waiting lines, the

erosion of the quality of medical care and the creation of a huge,

permanent administrative bureaucracy. Rather, the most alarming aspect

is the lengths to which the Democrats are willing to go to achieve

their progressive, anti-capitalist agenda.

Obamacare is opposed by nearly two-thirds of the public, more than 60

percent of independents and almost all Republicans and conservatives.

It has badly fractured the country, dangerously polarizing it along

ideological and racial lines. Even a majority of Democrats in the

House are deeply reluctant to support it.

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The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the

Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would

guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal

and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic

blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American

people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very

democracy.

It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as

Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment. The Slaughter Solution would replace the

rule of law with arbitrary one-party rule. It violates the entire

basis of our constitutional government - meeting the threshold of

"high crimes and misdemeanors." If it's enacted, Republicans should

campaign for the November elections not only on repealing Obamacare,

but on removing Mr. Obama and his gang of leftist thugs from office.

It is time Americans drew a line in the sand. Mr. Obama crosses it at his peril.

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Finally, some people are waking up. Alas, too late, for all of this

was telegraphed during the campaign.

- Publius

--

"It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country,

under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object

of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to

subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign

powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of

them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be

avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose

situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful

and vigilant performance of the trust." [Federalist Papers #59]

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