Posted on 01/17/2010 12:06:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As Democratic fears increase that health insurance reform could slip away with a crucial vote for a new U.S. senator in Massachusetts, President Obama on Sunday used a church pulpit at a Martin Luther King Day service to say the massive health bill would be a victory for "decency."
Speaking to congregants at Vermont Avenue Baptist church in Washington, D.C., before heading north to rally for Attorney General Martha Coakley, Obama said the legislation will help more than 30 million Americans, "men women and children, mothers and fathers" to get insurance.
"This will be a victory not for Democrats," Obama said. "It will be a victory for dignity and decency, and for our common humanity. It will be a victory for the United States of America."
It was the president's first visit to a church in Washington, D.C., since Oct. 11, though the White House says Obama attends the Evergreen Chapel in Camp David when he visits the presidential retreat in rural Maryland.
Democrats are working furiously to reach an agreement on the massive bill as they watch closely the prospect of Coakley losing the seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy to Republican Scott Brown. Brown has pledged to be the 41st vote against health insurance reforms. The election is Tuesday.
Democrats eyeing the possibility of losing the 60th seat needed to stop a Republican filibuster of the bill have suggested the Senate may try to pass a deal with only 51 votes rather than 60.
"Reconciliation is an option," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told Bloomberg Television. Reconciliation is a process that allows the majority to reduce the number of votes needed to pass unpopular tax increases and spending cuts if it means cutting the deficit, which the bill claims to do.(continued)
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This is rich! He campaigns in a church even though he never darkens the door of one otherwise.
So killing babies is human decency??
Black churches seem to be exempt.
They pimped Sosha Security this way - no?
Does this kenyan actually know the definition of decency?
Indeed, it only applies to Republicans, like many other things, INCLUDING Decency, which the demonrats wouldn’t know if it bit them in the butt, much like they wouldn’t know reality. Because both ARE biting them, as both will, and they haven’t got a clue.
Mark me indecent!!!!
No lightening, but I’m sure that God noticed....and wasn’t very pleased.
DECENCY?
There is NOTHING “decent” about communism. If this “overhaul” is “decent”, why are the ‘RATS creating it under the cover of darkness without any participation by the opposing party? This is communism. Pure and simple.
Got a question for you Mass Dems:
Say Coakley wins on Tuesday.
When do you think you’ll see her *in* Massachusetts, giving a rats ass about the the common mans’ plight in the commonwealth of Massachusetts?
Come to think of it: When do you expect to see her at *all* except on TV from D.C., standing behind Chuckie the Schmuck, at Senatorial Press announcements and attending White House parties?
I think we should all call the IRS tip line and report this church - maybe if enough complaints, someone at the IRS would look into it.
Why does he waste the peoples time by moving his lips because he is not able to speak a word of truth, ever.
Decency?
IT’S OBSCENE!!!!!!!!
AND MOST OF AMERICA KNOWS IT NOW YOU SOB!
Holden would dropped any charges
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