Americans care about fairness

Nancy Pelosi has been playing the role of the consummate politician these last few days, wheeling and dealing in order to cajole her wayward flock into committing political suicide and vote for Obamacare. The latest ploy being discussed over the last few days is being refereed to as the ‘Slaughter Solution,’ named after Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Chairman of the House Rules Committee.

What this ploy attempts to accomplish is to provide cover to those Democrats without the courage to come out and vote directly for Obamacare. Many House Dems have one or more problems with the Senate bill, passed on  December 24, most notably including the fact that for the first time, the government would pay for abortion. What the Slaughter Solution would do is create a rule change; the House would create a bill that includes changes to the Senate bill acceptable to those members who what changes to that bill, and by voting for the ‘rule change,’ that vote would automatically cause the Senate version of the bill would “deem” it to have been passed without requiring House Members to actually vote for that bill. Someone searching the House record in three, six, nine months from now would never find a record of any one Congressman voting “for” Obamacare.

Americans are smarter than that! If the Democrats think they can create some kind of political sleight-of-hand and it not be noticed, they are even dumber than I think they are.

One of the really basic values of the American culture is that of fairness. Americans will overlook many weaknesses in someone’s character, but if they ‘deem’ people are being unfair, that is where they generally draw the line.

The smoke and mirrors Pelosi is trying to use to cover her underhanded tricks is going to backfire on her and her caucus … because it will be viewed by the average American as unfair.

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