Posted on 11/07/2009 9:18:01 PM PST by truthandlife
Listening to the debate on the floor today, it was clear that Democrats considered it a moral and ideological obligation to pass this bill—consequences be damned. The leadership is congratulating itself now—Pelosi is already the greatest speaker of all time apparently—but there's a tough rough ahead in the Senate. Pelosi could lose 39 votes. Reid can't lose any. Passage in the House definitely creates more pressure on Reid to get it done, but the slender margin—despite the size of the Democratic majority in the House and all the arm-twisting and deal-making (what did Cao get?)—has to make Senate moderates even more nervous. There's a long string yet to be played out here, and it's still likely to stretch into next year, by which time Pelosi’s historic accomplishment of Nov. 7 may look foolish.
I sure hope you’re right.
NR is trying to putting a nice shine on the turd, but the reality is this: Freedom just got closer to extinction in America tonight.
They passed a horrible, horrible bill.
Not really.
They can now do anything they want.
You really think a Republican Congress will repeal this?
Do you really think a Republican Congress will have the 2/3 majority needed to overrided a Veto?
Have a nice day. :P
“moral”
Yeah, I heard one of the dems saying how this bill was the moral thing to do.
What the hell is moral about abortion?
Lost the battle. The War moves to the senate, and every day until the elections of 2010 and 2012. Elections have consequences. We felt that tonight. Now its time to make the other side familiar with it.
Think about the position the Democrats were in after the election. The Dems and Obama got their “clocks cleaned” and the Left (Obama, Pelosi & Co) could not afford to lick their wounds. They had to do something like this right after the election because they knew there was no way this would have passed if the Dems would have had time to think about how they got destroyed on Tuesday.
The Dems have declared war on the American people and hopefully the American people will now awaken out of their slumber. We will see.
What’s the point?
Tough road Ahead For Dems ? Thats a joke right ?
We’re outnumbered. They win, we lose.
We’re on the verge of the worst and most inefficient public health care systems of any modern developed nation. Entire sectors of the health care industry will rot and fall off, standards for care will fall, people will lose jobs, it will be a huge mess and it will be owned by the Democrats.
Even if one was in favor of socialized medicine, a stream-lined system modeled after Singapore would be the way to go, not a new, gargantuan, unfunded mandate.
Let America experience what it voted for.
What the hell do they know about morals AT ALL! They spit on morals.
Who needs to overturn it?
All you need is to not fund it.
I don’t think there is one. Freedom will emigrate to another land and another people more deserving than this trash. Not tomorrow. But someday.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
OKAY...if YOU are working....up your deductions to 9....NOW....take the money you WOULD have paid in taxes....and support CONSTITUTION loving candidates only. NOW IS THE TIME. DUMP the DEMS!
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