Posted on 11/07/2009 7:06:49 AM PST by La Lydia
The 177 Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to unanimously oppose health-care legislation that would constitute the biggest expansion of insurance to Americans in decades, illustrating the huge divide that remains between the two parties on key issues and setting up a major debate in next year's elections. The universal opposition to the health-care bill, which Congress could vote on as soon as Saturday, was long expected, but Republican wins in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races on Tuesday further emboldened the GOP...
If all Republicans vote no on the health reform bill, it would mean not a single Republican up for election next year has backed the two biggest initiatives of President Obama's first year in office -- the $787 billion economic stimulus plan and the health-care legislation.
Top officials in both parties said the unified GOP opposition would help their side. Republicans said they are trying to block a bill that has generated strong opposition around the country; Democrats said the health-care vote would cement the view that Republicans aren't acting to help Americans suffering through the recession.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said voters next year will ask Americans "who was on our side" as the economy declined. "When they ask themselves that question, they'll see, unfortunately, that our Republican colleagues were AWOL."...
Some Republicans who live in more liberal areas, such as Rep. Michael N. Castle (Del.), said they would consider voting for the final health-care bill that emerges after the House and Senate negotiate their competing versions of the legislation...
Only one Republican member of the Senate, Olympia J. Snowe (Maine), has signaled she will back the health-care effort in that chamber...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Gee, it’s too bad that Boehner and Gingrich and Steele couldn’t get Scozzafava elected, to put a stop to all of that silly unanimity....
/sarc
LIE! LIE! Thats welfare plain and simple.
Is it really true this fool got canned?
Thank you, Congressional Republicans! YOU have heard us, loudly and clearly!
(To those who say there is not a dimes worth of difference between Dems and Republicans - think again!)
I know, I know, some are being LED by their constituents who have not been silent but have, thank God, become active Tea Party, 912, and other types of patriots, actively contacting Congressional representatives, showing up at the Teaparty events, showing up on 912, showing up this Thursday, VOTING this week in VA and NJ.....
And there are Dems who are listening too but the WH is putting on the full thug break the arm pressure to get the Dems to toe the commie party line....
It will take something special for any Dem to vote no.
The juggernaut that this bill proposes to put in place will not see action until well after Bummer’s lame duck session has ended. If it passes, it will pass in a welter of lies (such as the one that it is poised to help anybody mired in the current recession) that will be exposed on Fox next week, in one more D’OH moment for the Rats who will pretend they never saw the brick wall that they just splatted into.
He was laid off from Time magazine a couple of years ago during one of their many “downsizings.” He was hired by Newsweek, which is owned by the Wash Post, and now turns up in the WP writing crap like this. He is such a Libtard that I can always guess exactly what he is going to say on any given story.
To those who parrot the Mike Savage line about no difference between the parties, you might want to check the tally on this vote when it’s over.
AMA apparently also lied since its members want their endorsement retracted. Can’t these congress critters see the desperate measures their “leadership” is employing to push this crap through?
I am barely aware of Mike Savage’s existence.
Incipient spine growth. Bout time. Castle was one of the eight pubbies that voted for cap and trade. If they stood strong we wouldn't have to endure that evil until rational people can retake government.
Does that also mean that they can't start robbing our paychecks for premiums until 2013?
Hunting season opens soon.
Who knows! The pressure is on to vote for a “mystery bill” which, true to form, the Rats will all have alibis about when the details surface.
Savage is so full of himself. No one would ever accuse him of being a team player
They had better.
Savage is a verbal caricaturist, meant to be taken with a few pounds of salt. This is, gladly, one of those occasions where the difference between the parties’ conduct IS worth more than a dime. Lets see to it that if the Pubs win this one they do not cave to the Rats later in some quid pro quo.
And, a few should actually vote for it....
Thank Newt Gingrich, Dede and the RINO GOP goons in NY-23 for losing that seat. Newt is a POS.
Well to Savage’s credit he does not have scum like Newt on his show like Hannity. I like Hannity as a person but he has too many RINOs on plus Rangel and Sharpton.
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