{"id":442489,"date":"2010-03-18T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79583"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:02:40","slug":"bachmann-scotus-will-%e2%80%98absolutely-overturn%e2%80%99-health-care-if-dems-use-%e2%80%98deem-and-pass%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442489","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann: SCOTUS Will \u2018Absolutely Overturn\u2019 Health Care if Dems Use \u2018Deem and Pass\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattlewis.org\/?p=2642\">interview with Matt Lewis<\/a>, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/virginiapolitics\/2010\/03\/cuccinellis_office_confirms_vi.html\">moves Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s ball<\/a> down the field, saying &#8220;it won&#8217;t even be close on how unconstitutionalized&#8221; it is to use a &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; solution for health care reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something like taking over one-sixth of the American economy without voting on it?&#8221; Bachmann asked. &#8220;You can&#8217;t do that. The Constitution is clear &#8212; Article, Section 7, Clause II? A bill being first presented to the president for his signature&#8230; you simply cannot do that. Any sixth grader could understand that in his history class at school. This is something the Supreme Court will absolutely overturn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Matt Lewis, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) moves Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s ball down the field, saying &#8220;it won&#8217;t even be close on how unconstitutionalized&#8221; it is to use a &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; solution for health care reform. &#8220;Something like taking over one-sixth of the American economy without voting on it?&#8221; Bachmann asked. &#8220;You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}