Posted on 12/22/2009 11:58:40 AM PST by MaestroLC
Senate Republicans have agreed to end their filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) health care reform bill a few hours early on Christmas Eve, a move that will allow the GOP to technically stick to its promise to force Dec. 24 vote on the measure while still making it possible for Senators to return home for the holiday.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
At this point, every minute that is taken away from moving this monstrosity anywhere, the better.
There’s a reason for the phrase “to the bitter end”.
Seems like McConnell and the pubbies are familiar with the phrase, but not real familiar with the associated actions.
All talk = little wussies.
BTW, I’ll be working on Xmas day. Just like I am every day of the year. That’s what comes with being a business owner and wealth creator in this country.
I guess it’s just too much to ask of the current proprietors of the government to do the same.
I donn’t think he’s saying he’s going to VOTE for it, just give up the hold he has on the vote a few hours before it expires. I don’t like it either.
Chances are, yes, that holding out for twelve more hours wouldn’t matter and this monstrosity keeps moving forward. However, nothing is certain and stranger things have happened. On something this important and with the base so distrustful of the Senate pubbies already, the GOP Senate caucus must keep fighting. Plus, in this political environment the GOP cannot afford to give up something for nothing. Does anyone really think that after this Harry Reid will take seriously any future threats from Mitch McConnell to disrupt a scheduled Congressional recess? I think not. Reid will keep steamrolling along. After health care is amnesty for illegal aliens!
The unspoken conclusion in your words is that there is never a valid reason not to support the republican candidate, as long as he is running against a democrat.
That argument is spurious.
McCain is the number one republican reason why Obama got elected. If he had been a conservative maverick as opposed to a liberal one, the third-partiers and sit-at-homes would have supported him.
I don’t think the conference report has to have 60 to stop debate.
Mitch McConnell’s office contact info:
Louisville Office
601 W. Broadway
Room 630
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 582-6304
Washington Office
361-A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2541
Fax: (202) 224-2499
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/ - scroll to the bottom of the page to email him.
What a pity nobody’s actually quoted in that AP article.
Thank God they weren’t at the Battle of the Bulge, or San Jacinto or Guadalcanal
Thank God McConnell wasn’t at the Alamo or Making the decision on Christmas eve to cross the Delaware.
Where will he stand and make the blood flow?
McCain is the number one republican reason why Obama got elected. If he had been a conservative maverick as opposed to a liberal one, the third-partiers and sit-at-homes would have supported him.
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You mean Sarah Palin. :)
Can you start with the Kos Commies? They are really obnoxious.
The hits just keep on comin'. November 2010 can't come fast enough for me.
Jim,
I believe it is time to form a new Third Party, period.
It is not business as usual and RINOs are only providing token opposition.
It will not stand!
Agreed.
From George Washington’s Farewell address:
“I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
********It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
This is a great example of why some speak of a third party.
Are Democrat leaders really this much tougher than their Republican counterparts? Appears so.
Jim,
I believe it is time to form a new Third Party, period.
It is not business as usual and RINOs are only providing token opposition.
It will not stand!
That said, I think the consensus here, and elsewhere is to make this as painful as possible. It is the RATS that have forced this into Christmas, let’s wrestle the basturds to the ground over it.
I’m keeping Reps John Culberson and Ted Poe, but will donate Sen. John Cornyn-beans. I’d donate Kay Bailout Hutchison too, but she’s quitting. And I won’t vote for her for governor, I’d rather keep Goodhair.
I just called Jeff Sessions and now I'm going to call Shelby.
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