[smokingfrog]

Video at link.

[smokingfrog]

Good questions from the audience.

Check-out the straw vote in the second video.

[clintonh8r]

Beware. Inside every Blue Dog beats the heart of a Yellow RAT. (Still, his remarks were better that I’ve heard any other RAT spew.)

[Cicero]

He hasn’t made up his mind? Does that mean he’s waiting to see how much Obama will pay him?

[AUTiger83]

Just a note to those going to the Ledger-Enquirer website, the two videos are incredibly good. The citizens have great points.

I love the woman who said she doesn't want to quibble about the details, she wants to know if he is going to honor his oath to uphold the Constitution! Because this bill is unconstitutional.

[Cheerio]

“My vote doesn’t belong to Nancy Pelosi and it doesn’t belong to Barack Obama,”

When he arrives back in DC, he'll be taken to the woodshed, and the rules will be laid out again for him to consider.

[counterpunch]

As long as he and other “Blue Dog” Democrats continue to caucus with the Democrat party and vote to give Nancy Pelosi power as Speaker of the House, then their votes are hers. Power must be taken from the dangerous hands of Pelosi and Reid, and the only way to do that is to throw out the Democrats who comprise their majorities, liberal and “Blue Dog” alike.

[MSF BU]

Hopefully the Georgia GOP will be able to Gerrymander the democrat seats down to two or three. Fortunately the left is now mainly concentrated in the greater Atlanta area.

[AFPhys]

“Versions of the bill were available on the chairs as people entered the hall. When specific parts of the bill were discussed, the passages were put on a large screen.”

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Since the House bill is well over 1000 pages, and the lead Senate bill is a similar length, and no doubt Kennedy’s bill is similar- It is a wonder that the chairs could hold the reams of paper sufficient to describe the bills for the voters to judge their merits, not to say anything about their ability to speed-read.

I wonder if the good man included in his reams of “summaries” the steps that Republicans have long proposed:

TORT REFORM
Ability to buy insurance policies offered in other states
Catastrophic, high-deductible policies
Health savings accounts.

Inquiring minds want to know ...

[Personal Responsibility]

This guy is not stupid - playing it very smart here.

He can say he’s not made up his mind yet (even though he likely has) so better to get what he can get out of Obama and Pelosi, then vote for the bill and claim after much thoughtful deliberation he thought it was best for his district.

Much shrewder than his namesake, Tim Bishop of NY, who got “youtube-ized” trying to defend that stinking mess to his constituents.

[Jabba the Nutt]

"U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop told more than 530 people at a town hall meeting he had not made up his mind on how he would vote on health care reform legislation."

Ah, Rep. Bishop, what else do you need to know about this bill? What a tool!