Posted on 12/19/2009 8:42:15 AM PST by MaestroLC
Politico reports:
Sen. Mary Landrieu got the "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up most his state's future Medicaid tab -- forever.As part of the deal to win Nelson's support, the federal government will fund Nebraska's new Medicaid recipients. It's a provision worth about $45 million over the first decade.
Also from John McCormack...
Nelson Agrees to Abortion Funding in at Least 13 States?
Harry Reid has released the manager's amendment that Ben Nelson has reportedly agreed to vote for, meaning that the Senate bill has 60 votes. The abortion language includes the phony segregation of funding language that was rejected in the House. It would allow individual states to opt out of the abortion-funding program--in other words, the default position is to pay for abortions; states would have to pass legislation to not fund abortions. But states where public abortion-funding is mandated by state court rulings would be required to pay for abortions:
(1) NO PREEMPTION OF STATE LAWS REGARDING ABORTION.Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preempt or otherwise have any effect on State laws regarding the prohibition of (or requirement of) coverage, funding, or procedural requirements on abortions, including parental notification or consent for the performance of an abortion on a minor.
There are 13 states where the state supreme court has required public abortion funding according to this map from the ACLU (assuming it's up to date). Four states have decided through their legislatures to pay for Medicaid abortions. So Ben Nelson is going to allow federal tax dollars to pay for abortions in California and New York?
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psalm 144:
I cannot think of a Democrat who isnt, and precious few Republicans who are not
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Calif conservative:
It appears you’re the one of the founding charter members of the conservative circular firing squad
Everything the Dims do is a big show and dance routine. I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t pass.
I still say it’s time to physically drag the bums out of their offices and throw them out into the snow. I don’t care how it’s perceived, it’s time to take Washginton back from the special interests and the communists.
The American People said “no” and the Congress just crammed it up our ass anyway. How’s it feel America??? We are no longer represented. This is now tyranny.
Henry Hyde: (April 18, 1924 November 29, 2007), an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois
Hyde was one of the most vocal and persistent opponents of abortion law liberalization in American politics and was the sponsor of a 1979 amendment Labor/Health and Human Services Appropriations bill which prohibited use of federal funds to pay for abortions.
"When the time comes as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God and a terror will rip through your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there will be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, "Spare him because he loved us," and God will look at you and say not, "Did you succeed?" but "Did you try?"'
- Henry Hyde
Well, the question of whether or not there really is such a thing as a genuine “Blue Dog” (conservative) Democrat has just been answered.
Depending on a Dem to oppose tyranny is like flapping one’s arms and expecting to fly.
Temporary
"You're a Hooker!!!"
Criminals and government...the line between the two is virtually nonexistent.
“So how are these deals Constitutional?....I know, they ARENT. We need to scream bloody murder...”
The Leftists, the Liberals, thus the Democrats perspective of our Constitution is that they believe, and have stated so many, many times over the years that the Constitution is a “Living, breathing document” that can be manipulated at their will.
This perspective therefore allows them IN THEIR MINDS to proceed as we see them proceeding with their middle finger held high at the direction of our very foundation.
Pray that Snowe holds firm to her NO or this monstrosity will have the patina on bipartisanship.
Don’t blame me. I voted for Palin.
Everyone in every state whose “leaders” voted for or supported this bill in any fashion should receive the following message....
“You will be receiving your pink slip next election cycle.NO MORE.”
There’s a lot more of us than there are of them. We can take em! :)
How’s that Big Tent working out GOP? Time to leave the tent and go to war w/the ones who want to fight.
Pray for America’s Freedom
I have been getting phone calls all morning about this. Relatives that never paid attention before are saying, they will go door to door if that’s what it takes to get nelson out of office!
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