Totalitarianism EXPOSED

So, according to Jim DeMint, the infamous healthcare bill contains a provision that makes it illegal for any future congress to change the bill; this MUST be unconstitutional. These megalomaniacs in the democratic party MUST BE STOPPED!

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Last night Senator Jim DeMint exposed the Senate majority’s inclusion of a rules change in the health care bill which, under Senate rules, should require a 2/3 majority to pass. In effect, what the democrats have done with the health care legislation is nothing less than “a tyrannical majority … trampling the rights of the minority or of future Congresses.” This is unprecendent, and really quite astounding. The video below is a bit long, with DeMint leading up to this:

There ’s one provision that I found particularly troubling and it’s under section C, titled “Limitations on changes to this subsection.”

And I quote — “It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.”

This is not legislation. It’s not law. This is a rule change. It’s a pretty big deal. We will be passing a new law and at the same time creating a Senate rule that makes it out of order to amend or even repeal the law.

I’m not even sure that it’s constitutional, but if it is, it most certainly is a Senate rule. I don’t see why the majority party wouldn’t put this in every bill. If you like your law, you most certainly would want it to have force for future Senates.

I mean, we want to bind future Congresses. This goes to the fundamental purpose of Senate rules: to prevent a tyrannical majority from trampling the rights of the minority or of future Congresses.