Slaughter Solution opens doors for authoritarianism in America

Journalist Matthew Vadum reminds us just how much is at stake from the Democrats' ObamaCare blitz.

If the flagrantly unconstitutional Slaughter Solution is used and allowed to stand it amounts in a sense to a coup d’etat, that is, a fundamental structural change in our system of government without the consent of the governed. Nothing will stop the Democrats in the future from imposing their will on the American people without taking a vote. Hello cap-and-trade and card check. Anyone who supports the Slaughter Solution supports this supports a kind of treason against the Republic.

This is not a rhetorical flourish. Congress passes the laws of the land. If the laws of the land can be approved by Congress without a vote being taken in which lawmakers are forced to take a stand for or against, the whole idea of representative government is washed away.

Elsewhere, radio host Mark Levin has called for Slaughter to be expelled from Congress. Instead, Democrats have adopted her idea wholesale in order to force health care reform on the country.