Posted on 11/08/2009 3:10:54 PM PST by Justaham
WASHINGTON — The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people."
The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.
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If any bill passes the Senate, then Senators will prove that the majority of them are as fascist as the majority in the House.
Perhaps I'm misreading the rules, but if anything at all passes the senate, then differences will be ironed out in a reconciliation committee. The bill that emerges from that will not be subject to a filibuster. Therefore, any bill that emerges at all as fascist.
Rush is absolutely right about all of this. Every option discussed in the Congress is the public i.e. government i.e. fascist option.
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