Midknight Review -- new and revised: The GOP can stop or slow down ObamaCare. Here is one example.

From US News and World Reports, we have this telling paragraph:

The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.

If you are thinking the GOP is powerless to stop ObamaCare, you are confused as to how this bit of legislation is being written. Understand that the 2,700 page bill passed into law this past March will have an additional 100,000 pages of regulations and organizational directives. That is why it will not go into full force until 2014 -- it has not been fully written, yet. That is why businesses are slow in hiring -- they have no clear idea as to their contribution in this idiot proposal.

The above US News quote presents one of a number pathways to the ending of this poorly written bill. The 1,054 auditors are needed NOW. Understand that no new money can be appropriated without it first passing the House. All financial appropriations must originate in the House of Representatives, per the US Constitution. There is an exception to this rule, however. It is called "reconciliation" and is a function of the Senate apart from the House.

Reconciliation is used to amend dollar values attached to appropriation bills already passed into law. The process requires only 51 Senate votes rather than the 60 vote requirement needed to end debate on a new bill. The Dems will no doubt argue that the money in question only amends the previously written health care reform law. Independents and Republicans will argue that "1054 new IRS agents" is hardly a financial consideration, only. It is part of the budget proposal and, is hence, part of a newly proposed bill requiring a 60 vote majority to end debate before a vote can take place in the Senate.

We believe this later argument will prevail. If that is the case, the continuing organization for ObamaCare as a budget item should be dead on arrival.

Point of post: nearly 60% of Americans want this bill taken down and another put into effect (Rasmussen). The GOP have many opportunities to make this happen. Refusing the request for more agents and newly built offices is just one choice. Know this, the Dems want to get ObamaCare far enough down the road, in terms of organization, that it will be almost impossible to repeal. That is why Obama has included the above item in his budget; that is why Obama and the Dems do not want an early Supreme Court decision on the legislation.

Turns out, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Here is one such example.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

The GOP can stop or slow down ObamaCare. Here is one example.

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