"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."In other words, the authors of this monstrosity seek to make it illegal to amend it or repeal it. They want to force it on an unwilling public and make it impossible for them to escape. Jim DeMint of South Carolina said that he found that "particularly troubling." He added:
"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."Fox News reports that numerous legal challenges to the bill are already being written. The bill may be dead on arrival as soon as it is passed. Of course, that assumes the Supreme Court will properly interpret and defend the Constitution, something they don't always do.
If the bill does indeed pass the legal challenges, it will be time to consider radical action, e.g. state nullification of the new law, a mass march on Washington, a general strike, mass civil disobedience, even secession of the red states if necessary.
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