Democrats Set To Use Archaic Parliamentary Clause To Pass Healthcare
As the healthcare debate continues to heat up, increasingly desperate Democrats are resorting to more and more bizarre measures to ensure the bill’s final passage.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has just released a statement that she is prepared to use the so-called “Coliseum Rule” to get healthcare reform passed quickly.
According to Pelosi the Coliseum Rule, which many parliamentarians say does not actually exist, allows for “the majority party with a speaker of the house whose name rhymes with Fancy Belosi, to feed their opposition to the lions.”
“I know Republicans are trying to convince the American people that the Coliseum Rule does not exist,” said a slightly more bewildered looking than usual Pelosi, “but that’s obviously not the case. The American people can see through these tricks.”
President Obama weighed in on the situation by noting that he “won the election” and that “Republicans should take their lion-eatings like men.”
Republicans were nonplussed.
“It looks as though they’re prepared to go bibilical,” said Republican spokesman Brian Ploughton. “This just shows their desperation. And since Eric Massa has stepped down, that leaves Barney Frank as the only Congressional Democrat with a Roman Legionnaire’s uniform. I can only assume he’ll lead the proceedings.”
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