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Harrycare Rolls On: Will Repubs Deal?
HumanEvents.com ^ | 12/22/2009 | Connie Hair

Posted on 12/22/2009 11:00:13 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama

UPDATED: By a roll call vote of 60-39, Senate Democrats have passed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) Manager’s Amendment that encompasses all of the backroom deals used to buy votes from Democrat colleagues.  The vote, which only required a simple majority, was a display of the Democrats’ solidarity, all walking in lockstep behind their Fearless Leader to vote for a highly unpopular bill.  The Real Clear Politics average of all polling over the last two weeks shows a miserable 38.7 percent of Americans favor the bill.  Harry Reid’s polls at home aren’t doing so well either.

The latest poll from Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University (conducted Dec. 15-20) found only 36 percent in support of the measure.

If Democrats in the House from red states are wondering what passage of this bill is doing for Senate elections, the latest Rasmussen poll on the Senate race in North Dakota next November has Democrat incumbent Sen. Byron Dorgan down by 22 points with a miserable 36 percent support to possible Republican candidate Governor John Hoven’s 58 percent.

The Senate also voted to invoke cloture on the replacement amendment that is the 2,000-plus page boondoggle we’ve been debating the past weeks while waiting on Reid’s final amendment that would reflect the deals in the Senate Democrat buyoff.  Cloture was invoked starting the clock on the 30 hours of post-cloture debate before a vote for final passage of this section of the bill.  The final vote on the replacement amendment would be followed by the one cloture vote remaining:  that on the vehicle Reid used to bring this whole monstrosity to the floor, H.R. 3590, a military tax cut bill that was intended to give members of our armed services a tax break on the purchase of their first home.

Reid called for civility between Senators in his remarks, pleading for everyone to “set aside all of their personal animosity” should anyone in the Senate actually be angry over the payoffs.  Just yesterday, Reid belittled Senators who did not participate in his “Cash for Cloture” buyout.  Reid said that if a senator didn’t have a deal making provision in the bill,  “it doesn’t speak well” of them.  

The Dems’ models of behavior range from Mary Landrieu (D-La) -- now known as the “Second Louisiana Purchase” -- and Ben Nelson (D-Neb) who had his state exempted from the Medicaid increases.  (Never mind that it’s probably unconstitutional to give people in one state an exemption and force the other forty-nine states’ taxpayers to fund it).  

It really was “cash for cloture.”

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell remarked from the Senate floor that he is working with Democrats on the timing of final votes.

“We are working on an agreement that would give certainty to the way to end this session,” McConnell said.  “Hopefully the two of us together can be recommending something that makes sense for both sides in the not too distant future.”

The current timeline calls for a Christmas Eve vote for final passage. A Senate source told us that if McConnell makes any deal on accelerating the votes before recess, the Senate will still be voting on Christmas Eve.  And - more importantly - whatever deal McConnell may make will be to benefit Republicans on votes on other issues when Congress returns in January.  


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: harrycare; obamacare; pelosi
If I say what I really think I'll be banned for lifetime!
1 posted on 12/22/2009 11:00:14 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama
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To: 2nd amendment mama
vote out all democrats. even the faux and especially the faux conservative whore democrats. The ones that run as "good ole" boys then bend over and take it in the rear from Pelosi.

Like

Chet Edwards

2 posted on 12/22/2009 11:02:17 AM PST by erman
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To: 2nd amendment mama
Senate Republicans are tossing in the towel. Its a done deal and they don't have the votes to filibuster it.

"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

3 posted on 12/22/2009 11:02:52 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

I wonder why Inhofe didn’t vote. Was he out of DC?


4 posted on 12/22/2009 11:03:38 AM PST by DemforBush (Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama
“We are working on an agreement that would give certainty to the way to end this session,” McConnell said.

What the he!! is wrong with this guy?

5 posted on 12/22/2009 11:07:25 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: erman

Arrogance extraordinaire and in-your-face Elitism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGR83Imoto


6 posted on 12/22/2009 11:10:14 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: goldstategop

Maybe someone can answer this. It is my understanding that if no Republicans show up in the Senate, no vote can be taken. Is this true?


7 posted on 12/22/2009 11:11:41 AM PST by RC2
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To: 2nd amendment mama
And - more importantly - whatever deal McConnell may make will be to benefit Republicans on votes on other issues when Congress returns in January.

That shrewd negotiator McConnell. He's probably convinced Reid to let him (Mitch) pull his own pants down when he gets screwed.

He's selling us out also. And he's such a putz that he really believes the Dems will actually honor any promises they make to a panzy Republican.

Hey Mitch, don't talk to Reid without official RNC endorsed equipment.....


8 posted on 12/22/2009 11:16:45 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: 2nd amendment mama; holdonnow; ElkGroveDan; brushcop; Steelfish; Sub-Driver; SkyPilot; ZULU; ...

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

http://joytiz.com/2009/obamas-boss-gets-permanent-death-panels/

Big Brother to determine cradle to grave for you.


9 posted on 12/22/2009 11:16:51 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: 2nd amendment mama
(Never mind that it’s probably unconstitutional to give people in one state an exemption and force the other forty-nine states’ taxpayers to fund it).

Oh, that'll get stripped out, and I can't believe Nelson doesn't know it, but he's already voted now.

10 posted on 12/22/2009 11:18:59 AM PST by nina0113
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To: 2nd amendment mama

11 posted on 12/22/2009 11:31:41 AM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: ExTexasRedhead

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
So I shot their A$$ES,
And my neighbors did too.


12 posted on 12/22/2009 11:37:25 AM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: 2nd amendment mama

I assume that “Harrycare” is pronounced “hara-kiri “. . . .


13 posted on 12/22/2009 11:45:33 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: goldstategop
They can still make a GESTURE. Stand up on your desks and scream your outrage! Walk out!

IF defeat, then create some memorable theatre!

14 posted on 12/22/2009 1:45:30 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: Mamzelle

Tell your senators to have the bill read before they pass it on Christmas Eve morning.


15 posted on 12/22/2009 7:01:13 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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