REPUBLICAN LAWYERS TO PELOSI: Slaughter Solution Will Not Shield Attacks

From WashingtonPost.com: “Less than 24 hours after House Democratic leaders floated the idea of using a parliamentary procedure to avoid a recorded vote on the Senate health care bill, a group of Republican lawyers — including the legal counsels for the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee as well as high profile campaign attorney like Ben Ginsberg of Patton Boggs and Cleta Mitchell of Foley & Lardner — penned an open letter making clear that such a tactic would not make Democrats immune from attacks on the bill in the fall campaign….Put simply: Republicans believe that House Democrats using the “deem and pass” maneuver in no way prohibits GOP candidates and party committees from attacking them for “voting” for the Senate legislation…‘The point here is that there is no cover for Democrats on this vote,’ said Ken Spain, communications director of the NRCC — adding that the other side is ‘resorting to political and legislative trickery’ to try and keep from being attacked in a campaign setting.” By Code Red