Posted on 07/26/2009 10:50:26 AM PDT by fiscon1
Kent Conrad made a startling and curious statement on health care today.
Senate Democrats are going to need help from Republicans to get President Obama's ambitious plan to reinvent the health care system over the goal line, a top lawmaker acknowledged on Sunday.
"Look, there are not the votes for Democrats to do this just on our side of the aisle," said Sen. Kent Conrad, the chairman of the powerful budget committee.
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I’m sure our people will happily oblige.
The RNC needs to pull a Rahm here and let all the delicate moderates in the Senate know that they will lose 100% of their reelection funds if they even think about support this disaster. This must have zero Republican support.
Translation...Some Crat Senators wish to be re-elected. They are not willing to forego their split of the loot for a dumbass communist health system.
[First, it means that significant numbers of Democrats are aware of the historical context I just laid out. Significant numbers of Democrats are unwilling to put their political hides behind without some Republican cover. Second, this is yet more evidence that health care reform, in its current form, is dead.]
Third, it more evidence of just how radical this healthcare “reform” (I prefer the word takeover) plan really is. Obama’s own party doesn’t even want to jump on board.
The DEMONCRATS OWN the GOVERNMENT! They need not one Republican to vote with them....they have a HUGE MAJORITY in BOTH HOUSES!
Translation: Blame for failure needs to be bipartisan, not relegated to just ‘us’ Dems......
Any GOP or Repub that votes FOR this garbage deserves any and all due course political responsibility and reprecussions. Bet.
You nailed it! Count the number of Democrats that are up for re-election and that is the number of Republicans they need who are not up for re-election. We are so screwed.
Not Republicans...RINOS! An entirely differnet breed.
“The RNC needs to pull a Rahm here and let all the delicate moderates in the Senate know that they will lose 100% of their reelection funds if they even think about support this disaster. This must have zero Republican support”
Why would u expect the rino’s to hold steady.
Have you forgotten that it was these same rino’s who opened the bail-out ball rolling with their bail out votes.
I would not hold my breath.
If the Democrats in Congress cannot pass this lunacy of a bill just on the Democrat vote, with not a Republican vote offered toward it, then something is clearly wrong with leadership of Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet.
This bill should have passed with Democrat support alone like a (puff of abdominal gas) through a wind tunnel. That it cannot, is evidence that perhaps the Democrats are not nearly so monolithic as they have been gloating about.
Back in the days of the New Deal, when Roosevelt was cajoling Congress to pass the various challenges to the Constitution, only a part of his support came from the old yellow-dog Democrats of the times (mostly KKK members on their day job). The Republicans, already a scarce species, were mostly of the “Progressive” brand, the Taft Republicans were at the point of endangerment. Yet all the margin that FDR got for his New Deal came from these same few Progressives, and it was arranged then that most of the Republicans that did manage to get to Congress were of this stripe, content to be lieutenants to the majority liberal Democrat committee chairmen.
Anything Roosevelt wanted got out of committee, though it did not always get the floor vote. Mostly because a majority of Democrats were against it.
I have another take. Health care reform in it’s current form will not pass. Democrats know this. So how do they get political mileage out this reality? Blame republicans for it’s failure. And how better to do this? Have the chair of a powerful committee go on national television on a Sunday talk show and proclaim that without the republicans support, Americans will not get health care reform. Now with the ground work laid the democrats have their talking points. Now you’ll see democrat talking heads across the spectrum referencing Kent Conrad’s proclamation that without republicans health care reform can not pass.
You got it. LUNACY. I saw the Speaker of the Lunatics on tv today. A better description is not possible. We should all chip in for a designer strait jacket for Peliesy. She looked like Michael Jackson just prior to his OD.
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