Posted on 11/05/2014 2:46:01 PM PST by right-wing agnostic
On Dec. 24, 2009, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed President Obama’s healthcare law with a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, triggering a massive backlash that propelled Republicans to control of the House the following year. On the Senate side, going into Tuesday’s elections, 24 senators who voted for Obamacare were already out or not going be part of the new Senate being sworn in on January.
To be sure, it isn’t fair to attribute all of the turnover in the chamber to Obamacare. Many senators voted for Obamacare and lost re-election battles in which they were hit hard for their support for the law, and other Democrats were forced to retire because they had no hope of getting re-elected given their support for the law. But in some cases — such as John Kerry leaving his seat to become secretary of state, or Robert Byrd passing away — Obamacare clearly had nothing to do with it.
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Lots of MARKS got Marked for DEFEAT!!!
Of the 60 Democrat Senators who voted for Obamacare, only 31 remain today:
Bennet (CO), Boxer (CA), Brown (OH), Cantwell (WA), Cardin (MD), Carper (DE), Casey (PA), Durbin (IL), Feinstein (CA), Franken (MN), Gillibrand (NY), Kaufman (DE), Klobuchar (MN), Leahy (VT), McCaskill (MO), Menendez (NJ), Merkley (OR), Mikulski (MD), Murray (WA), Nelson (FL), Reid (NV), Reed (RI), Sanders (VT), Schumer (NY), Shaheen (NH), Stabenow (MI), Tester (MT), Udall (NM), Warner (VA), Whitehouse (RI) and Wyden (OR).
That is because 28 Senators who voted for Obamacare either lost their re-election, retired, or they died:
1.Akaka (2013)
2.Baucus (Ambassador – China)
3.Bayh (2011)
4.Begich (2014)
5.Bingaman (2013)
6.Burris (2010)
7.Byrd (dead)
8.Conrad (2013)
9.Dodd (2010)
10.Dorgan (2011)
11.Feingold (2010)
12.Hagan (2014)
13.Harkin (Retire – 2015)
14.Inouye (dead)
15.Johnson (2014)
16.Kerry (SOS 2014)
17.Kirk (2010)
18.Kohl (2013)
19.Landrieu (2014)
20.Lautenberg (2012)
21.Levin (Retire – 2015)
22.Leiberman (2012)
23.Lincoln (2011)
24.Pryor (2014)
25.Rockefeller (2014)
26.Specter (2012)
27.Udall (2014)
28.Webb (2013)
With only 31 Senators remaining who have approved and voted affirmatively for the 2009 ObamaCare construct – this means there are 69 Senators who either: A) did not vote for Obamacare (they were not in office), or, B) who voted “NO” in opposition to Obamacare.
LOL Yes! I like that very much.
Pelosi; “You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”
American people; “You pass the bill, we finally find out what’s in it, and your history.”
Good. They rammed it through. It needs to be repealed. Totally.
“so tied together that the use of the phrase “third rail” would not easily be converted or stretched to mean nationalized health care.”
Well, Medicare which people are forced onto, is nationalized health care for people over 65.
Good point. Mary Jo never had a chance thanks to Teddy.
No. The last of them that were elected in 08 were up this year.
As I posted last night, the election was an election vs. the Extortion-Care lobby sewer.
The Extortion-Care sewer pipeline is currently entrenched right into the market. If the pipeline is not severed by Exempting all people, then the next president will be another deceiving democrat.
“Good point. Mary Jo never had a chance thanks to Teddy.”
It was July 18 of nineteen and sixty nine. Another warm summertime and everyone was doing fine...
...The day that Mary Jo Kopechne went off the Chappaquiddick bridge.
Ok, you’re right.
But almost half of the Senators who voted for it are gone. That indicates what America thinks about ObolaCare.
It’s progress but some of the nastiest pieces of filth are still around, such as Chucky, Dingy Harry and Turban Durbin.
And leftards in my home state still brought back Weird Al Franken...
sigh
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