“Demon Pass”
March 19, 2010 at 7:23 PM Leave a comment
You’re hearing what sounds like “demon pass” tossed around in the media a lot these days with respect to the health care bill. Problem is, if corporate media types spoke a wee bit slower, you’d know it as “deem and pass:”
It’s a procedure called a self-executing rule, and if it is used, the Senate healthcare reform bill will be “deemed” to have passed the House whenever the House passes a package of fixes to the Senate bill.
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In March 1996, Republicans used a similar procedure to pass a controversial measure to raise the national debt limit…
But no. They have no problem with you equating Democrats with demons.
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