NH Dems already killed off the DC Dem argument: "settled law!" - Granite Grok

NH Dems already killed off the DC Dem argument: “settled law!”

Here in NH, we have heard the NH Dems cry “SETTLED LAW!  SETTLED LAW!” when they thought that  Republicans were going to “re-legislate” the homosexual marriage law.  And a bunch of others.  And yet, when they took control this session, immediately they started in “re-legislating” in either watering down or removing laws that the Republican majority had passed – Deputy Dawg’s try at removing Stand Your Ground being a good example.  Rumors have other laws in their sights. The case has been proven: Democrats do not care for “settled law” arguments unless it is their own laws that are under the microscope.

Yet, from DC, we are hearing the Democrat lamentations over Obamacare – “passed legislation!  passed legislation!” as the US House may send up a Continuing Resolution that WOULD fund absolutely every function in the Federal Government.  But NOT Obamacare.  You know something?  That would be perfectly legal AND Constitutional – it is the HOUSE that is, by Constitutional mandate, decide what tax funds are to be raised and appropriated (regardless of what Reid in the Senate believes and the incipient tyrant (or at least, tantrum prone) President has declared by fiat.

Me?  The Republicans are well within their rights to do EXACTLY what the Democrats are decrying – after all, isn’t the current debt ceiling AND the current spending regime results of “passed and SETTLED law”?  So really, aren’t the Republicans just agreeing with them (heh!)?  Mario Loyola from The Corner has a good observation on the Dems constant wailing that Republicans should not do this – that it would hurt Republicans badly in the next election (and appeasement Rs as well) – this is not the same time as the 1990’s (emphasis mine):

There is a crucial difference between what’s happening now and the budget battle between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Clinton repeatedly vetoed budget bills that contained measures he vehemently disagreed with. Had he done otherwise, he would have been accepting GOP policy on crucial items such as how regulations are enacted. From his point of view, the House bills contained poisoned pills he couldn’t swallow.

In this case, the House is sending the Senate a budget that contains no poison pills. Except for leaving Obamacare funding to be negotiated separately, the budget is just how the president likes it. If he signs it, he won’t be accepting GOP policy over his own on any detail; he won’t be swallowing any poison pill. If he vetoes it he will be shutting down the government even though the House has fully funded the government without any poison pills. And no, that the budget doesn’t contain everything the president wants is not a poison pill; things get passed separately in Congress all the time.

The posture of the House boils down to this: Mr. President, we control the House, and if you want money for Obamacare, you will need to negotiate that separately from the rest of the budget. If you threaten to shut down the rest of the government unless we give you everything you want on Obamacare, as if the House were controlled by Democrats, then you are the one who is shutting down the government.

In that sense, the position of the GOP House and the president is the reverse of what it was in 1995–96. Obama is threatening to shut down the government unless the House swallows a poison pill. It is entirely reasonable for the House to refuse.

Reid and Obama’s version of “compromise” is this: give us what we want or we will kill ourselves (figuratively – they are so bound up that Government is EVERYTHING that shutting it down is akin to doing just that – NONE of us can survive without Government!!!).  Now, the MSM is already giving Obama cover – in every Sunday morning talking head show, it was clear (even from that moron John Jon Huntsman – sorry, spelled John the way his campaign lit spelled it) as each and every Republican was accused to wanting to kill Government by shutting it down.  Oh, a couple of words of “fairness”, but once again (and I grow tired of using this phrase), we see that the MSM is both in the tank for the Dems and Obama: they are mere Democrat operatives with bylines (right, George Stephy?).

No, the Republicans are NOT going to shut down the government, regardless of what Democrats are saying.  Merely screaming, over and over, “it will get vetoed by the Senate!  it will get vetoed by Obama” is not shutting down government.  The House is a co-equal with the Senate and Presidency within their two branches of Government.  If ANYTHING is true, since the Constitution gives the responsibility for the budget starting with the “Peoples House”, it actually should be preeminent above the Senate and the Presidency – but ONLY if you actually believe that the Constitution still is in force.

The MSM is already blaming the HOUSE ahead of the “No” – as if not giving into the demands of Reid and Obama is akin to shutting down the government.  It makes NO difference if Reid or Obama don’t like what is sent (although that is how the MSM is spinning this, as if the House was the most junior of junior partners in the legislative process) – the House has done what it believes to be right.

Compromise requires, well, compromise.  What Reid and Obama have done is to declare that “compromise” is only what they say it to be – and only under their conditions.  Which, as we all know now is “Give us exactly what we demand” – and this is “compromise……how”.

 

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