What’s with Congress voting on these things late on a Saturday night? First the House votes late on a Saturday night, and now the Senate will have a vote on a Saturday night? And Congress is famous for working Tuesday through Thursday.
So a 2000+ bill is produced on a Thursday, and theoretically these senators will have read the bill before they vote on it, right?
Does Congress realize how stupid they look? Agree or disagree with a bill, it appears that we can’t even expect that these members will read and understand what the heck they are voting on, before the Democrat leaders expect a vote.
We’re all getting a good civics lesson as we see this proceed. Sadly it’s a sad civics lesson. They don’t even teach civics in school anymore; probably not politically correct to do so.
If you read Nelson’s comments closely, he will vote for cloture, to shut down debate and get over the 60 vote hurdle, and then he’ll vote against the bill to cover his you know what so he can say back home, “But I voted against it!” Get rid of this guy.
The GOP risks losing major face on this vote and they don’t even realize it.
They need to block this and if they roll over they are lame ducks walking as far as the voters are concerned.
On “The Senate Doctors Show,” Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., and Senator John Barrasso, M.D., discuss the 2074-page Senate Democrats’ health care reform bill. They’ll be reading and digesting the bill before Saturday night’s vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fgbSqQxyMQ
Oooooooo...the suspense builds.....NOT!!!!
These Democrats are so phoney it's pathetic. They will pass it and then reconcile it in the middle of another Saturday night with 51 votes with 9 Democratic Senators saying "It's too extreme." Blah, blah, blah.
Our goal will be to kick them out next November and repeal it. I hope Ben Nelson and the rest of them are ready to join the unemployment lines.
I’m in Nebraska. I keep e-mailing and calling his office. Hope it helps!
Just more smoke and lies. Nelson will vote for it.
The only question is...can "dingy harry" obtain 60% approval from his fellow senators??
If yes....then we do have problems.
Back in ‘93, there was another Nebraska senator by the name of John Kerrey. He was considered the deciding vote on Bill Clinton’s stimulus package.
For a whoole week, Kerrey wouldn’t let on as to how he was gonna vote. He’s appear at these press conferences and make all kinds of deep-thinking facial expressions as though he were truly conflicted over his vote. I remember it too well and frankly, it was sickening to watch.
In the end, he fell in line and cast the deciding vote FOR the stimulus package. He said he couldn’t stand in the way of his President.
I suspect that when push comes to shove, Ben Nelson will do the same.
Unbelievable.
Kamikaze Senators Kill America.
Once again the dems attempt Operation UCOD on an unsuspecting public. Sorry, it won’t work this time!
For the last time, stop citing the percentage of Americans against this piece of garbage....IT DOES NOT MATTER to THEM.
We were against the Stimulus: They passed it.
We were against TARP: They passed it.
We were against the Budget: They passed it.
We were against Bailouts: They passed it.
We are against theis frakin piece of healthcare garbage: They will probably pass it.
Do you see a trend with what the American people want and what we are getting? Geezus!
Elections matter. Thank you to the idiots that stayed home and were passive. Now we are at the mercy of so-called moderate Democrats.
You cannot rely on a phony “moderate” DEMOCRAT to do the right thing. THEY NEVER DO.