Cloaking the Vote

In speaking with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday", White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the Democrats will have the votes to pass health care reform this week, and next Sunday's shows "will be talking about health care not as a presidential proposal but I think as the law of the land." So how do the Democrats plan to get from here to there? According to Dan Holler, the Senate Relations Deputy for The Heritage Foundation, the House Budget Committee will meet Monday to mark up a reconciliation bill that will serve as a shell bill; the Rules Committee will then meet (possibly as early as Wednesday) to take out whatever was in the reconciliation bill and insert a new bill from Speaker Pelosi's office; then the "Slaughter Rule" will be used to pass the Senate health care reform bill without voting on it.

Representative Louise Slaughter (New York) is the Chairwoman of the powerful House Committee on Rules, which makes the rules for each bill that is sent to the floor. In this case, a rule would be made that "deems" the Senate health care reform bill as passed as soon as the House approves the correction bill to the Senate bill. In this way, Representatives would not have to cast a vote on the controversial health care reform bill, but could still pass it. Contrary to what the President's Senior Advisor David Axelrod said on "Meet the Press" today ("the one thing I'm sure of is that the American people don't know or care much about the sequencing of parliamentary procedures"), the American people are extremely concerned about the parliamentary procedures being used in Washington. There is great concern about votes being carried on under a cloak of darkness. Why would a vote be taken under such a smokescreen? John 3:19 tells us that people loved darkness more than the light because their deeds were evil. Abortion is the taking of human life made in the image of God. Taxpayer funding of abortion would increase the incident of abortion in this country. 1 John 1:5 tells us that God is light and there is no darkness in Him. May our country's leaders not hide in darkness but come clean in the light of the Holy God.

May God have mercy on our nation.
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