Posted on 11/07/2009 6:56:39 AM PST by opentalk
The House healthcare bill has taken more twists and turns and has zig-zagged its way through more Democratic districts than the Mississippi River.
And after a month’s worth of legislative wrangling and deal-making, the bill is approaching its final destination: a vote on final passage, expected sometime before the sun rises on Sunday. Pressing toward dawn on Saturday, the Rules committee passed a rule after nearly 12 hours that would set up a vote on the healthcare bill at 6 p.m.
No Congress has ever come this close to the goal – first proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt – of providing universal health insurance.
But the healthcare waters are as perilous as they’ve ever been for the current group of Democratic leaders. Even on the day that many Democrats have been waiting decades for, and that some have based their entire careers around, a majority of votes for legislation to extend health insurance coverage to 36 million uncovered Americans remained elusive.
Democratic leaders, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), have given away as many concessions as they could spare in an effort to get to 218 "yes" votes.
...Obama on Friday was calling on-the-fence Democrats and stressing the importance of “moving the process forward,” according to one lawmaker who received a call. But the president’s impact was difficult to gauge.
...All 177 House Republicans have long been expected to vote against the bill, meaning that Democrats can lose no more than 40 of their 258 members and still pass their highest legislative priority.
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Kill Bill!
You know, Congress should NOT be voting on the bill. There should be an election and the AMERICAN PEOPLE should be the ones voting whether to enact it or not.
Unfortunatly, I think it will pass.
Behold anti-American traitors and tyranny in action. It’s like watching the Taliban or Al Qaeda defiling We The People’s House. Not much difference between any of these enemies of America.
The process must by all means include pulling the flusher handle.
Pelosi and Obama are just begging for a fight. No different than what the British did to the American colonists.
But then it goes to the Senate, correct? Which means we have another chance to kill it?
Reid said he would use nuclear option to pass it.
NOT VOTING has consequences.
The bill creates over 100 new agencies and, in effect, nationalizes an enormous sector of the economy.
THEY DON'T CARE IF THEY LOSE AFTER THIS.
They don't care because it won't matter. The direction of the country will have been transferred away from Congress, permanently, and therefore which fools sit in the House will be irrelevant.
Really?
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