The impudent tyranny of Senator Harry Reid, Senate Majority 

Leader from Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the 

light.

                    Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of 

Obamacare is Reid's anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future 

Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation!

                     Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads 

in part: ". ..

                    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, if President Barack Obama signs this measure 

into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of 

Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in 

<b>Congress wish otherwise!!</b>

                    Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the 

regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to "reduce 

the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending."  That is precisely the kind 

of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as 

the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made 

available to the American people. And Reid wants the decisions of this group of 

unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time. 

                    No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that 

senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the 

final Senate version of Obamacare before the critical vote on cloture.

                    And

                    No wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment 

through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m., while 

Americans slept.

                    True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison 

pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the 

votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie 

Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.  

                    The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic 

procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled Senate Parliamentarian 

that the anti-repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of 

Senate "procedures." Why is that significant?  Because for 200 years, changes in 

the Senate's standing rules have required approval by two-thirds of those 

voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid's amendment received.

                    Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules to 

pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which 

can never be changed.  If this is not tyranny, then what is?

                    DON'T SIT BY AND LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE DARK!!!

                    FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST!