"After All, The President Is Not Congress" -

Michelle Bachman, R-Minnesota, Pro-Life Congresswoman

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack.
No hard feelings if I never look back... - Four Jacks
and a Jill - ca. 1965

The coming constitutional crisis of conflicting voices
demanding change through executive versus Congressional
authority took an interesting turn in Sunday's debate over
the Health Care Reform Bill.

Amid the controversy regarding assurance of the prohibition
of using taxpayer funds to provide on-demand abortions, one
Pro-Life Congresswoman spoke in defense of the
Constitution's Article 1, Section 1 provisions.

Said Michelle Bachman, R-Minn., of the Slaughter Rule which
allows the House of Representatives to pass amendments to a
bill and thereby return it as "deemed approved" without a
yea or nay vote, "Our names need to be recorded in the
journal because, after all, the President is not Congress."

In a compromise, Democrats had offered an Executive Order by
President Obama guaranteeing that taxpayer funds will not be
used for on-demand abortions.

Article 1, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution proclaims that
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a
Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a
Senate and House of Representatives."

Other conservative members of the House had earlier decried
the fact that Pro-Life Democrats seemed to have no problem
with this arrangement of the executive order to replace
earlier amendments prohibiting such a turn of events.

The Health Care Reform Bill has been sent to the President
for his signature.