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Reid, McConnell Reach Deal to Adjourn Early
Roll Call ^ | December 23, 2009 | By John Stanton

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; healthcare; mcconnell; military; obama; palin; reid; republicans
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To: ColdOne

BTW, how are those on the hill covered for healthcare (as you know they’re exempt, hence not universal)?

Good enough for you, not for us.


61 posted on 12/22/2009 12:23:19 PM PST by AliVeritas (Is it nothing to you all ye who pass by? Our brothers blood screams from the ground.)
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To: Josa

Just called mcConnell’s office
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Do you have their number handy?


62 posted on 12/22/2009 12:24:06 PM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Greeting parties at the airports armed with buckets of tar and feathers. To quote Barrack Hussain Obama, “The time for talking has passed.”
A lot of us feel the same way you do. We need a war cry we can answer to.


63 posted on 12/22/2009 12:24:06 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: tbird-james

Health care vote is 8AM. And they will vote to hike the debt ceiling. I assume the GOP filibuster of that will collapse, too. I believe that means the Senate does not have to come back before the end of the year. Socialized medicine and even more public debt for Christmas. At least the Senators get to go home to their mansions and mistresses for Christmas.


64 posted on 12/22/2009 12:24:06 PM PST by GOPToad
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To: jbsna

God bless you!!! Merry Christmas!


65 posted on 12/22/2009 12:24:20 PM PST by Faith (Natural born citizen and willing to prove it.)
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To: MaestroLC
How can you promise anything to a Democrat who espouses corrupting core Constitutional rules?

How the hell does requiring a 2/3 vote to overturn amendments to this monstrosity make Democrats worthy of such consideration?

66 posted on 12/22/2009 12:25:04 PM PST by TheThinker
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To: GOPToad

Socialized medicine and even more public debt for Christmas. At least the Senators get to go home to their mansions and mistresses for Christmas.
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Scum.


67 posted on 12/22/2009 12:25:09 PM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Army Air Corps

[”Shall we try everything we can to halt this crapfest bill or should we focus on going on holiday? Screw the citizens, let’s cut-out early.”]

Reminds me of that scene in “History of the World, Part I” where they over hear the Roman Senate voting! Or even the “harumph” scene in “Blazing Saddles”! Just go along to get along!


68 posted on 12/22/2009 12:25:17 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Hey Congress: Go Conservative or Go Home!)
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To: Josa
Smart-ass little girl on the phone, too.

There's a whole bunch on Capitol Hill in a big hurry to catch a flight home, it appears.
69 posted on 12/22/2009 12:25:22 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: MaestroLC
It's War: GOP Firm On Stopping Senate Health Bill

At a news conference Friday in the Capitol, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., accused Democrats of trying to ram the health care bill through with dozens of changes as yet unseen, and promised to do all they could to prevent it.

Well,they are old,and full of more s^$t than a Christmas goose,time to retire both of them.

70 posted on 12/22/2009 12:25:34 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: Jim Robinson
RE: Anyone have a better plan?

There's always the Jeffersonian approach. But let's just vote the blood-sucking slime balls out.

71 posted on 12/22/2009 12:26:43 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: MaestroLC

I have no problem with this. He is McConnell is being realistic which more than I can say for some here. The only thing I would like to see is the republicans just walk about at noon tomorrow and tell the democrats it is their tar baby and theirs alone.


72 posted on 12/22/2009 12:27:08 PM PST by engrpat (A village in Kenya is missing their idiot...lets send him back)
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To: Marty62
Reason? No it's Christmas season this year, it's CHRISTMAS TREASON.
73 posted on 12/22/2009 12:27:22 PM PST by TheThinker
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To: ExTxMarine

Leader of Senate: All fellow members of the Roman senate hear me. Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote?
Entire Senate: F@#K THE POOR!


74 posted on 12/22/2009 12:27:31 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Hey Congress: Go Conservative or Go Home!)
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To: SoCalPol

“We can thank the fools who voted Third Party or sat at home last election for this crap.”

Please, stop with that phony line. It is statistically wrong, and you know it. I was ‘pragmatic’ and voted the R ticket...WISH I had not! When we stop voting for these rinos, we’ll get some representation. When the R diehards get the spine to walk away from these phony candidates and the PHONY Republican party, we will see a change.


75 posted on 12/22/2009 12:27:45 PM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: SoCalPol

We can thank the fools who voted Third Party or sat at home last election for this crap.
+++++++++++++++++

Yes. That and WEAK Republicrats. Time for the TEApublicans to TAKE OVER.


76 posted on 12/22/2009 12:27:47 PM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: MaestroLC

It would be cheaper for us and our grandkids to give all 100 of these a$%clowns each a billion bucks at tell them not to come back in January!!!

We’d ALL be immeasurably better off.


77 posted on 12/22/2009 12:28:15 PM PST by mo
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To: Reo

....replace with Imhofe...

Didnt Imhofe answer Coburns prayer and miss the vote this morning...60 to 39? What a bunch of clowms. What an utter disaster.


78 posted on 12/22/2009 12:28:29 PM PST by mono
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To: MaestroLC; All

Santa rewards Patriots who make sacrifices for their country on Christmas, even the only Christmas present they really want is just to be home with their families.

Santa visits 2-69 AR C Co. Soldiers on Christmas Eve

Mitch McConnell, you have no honor.
May you get the lump of coal you deserve for NOT filibustering until the bitter end!


79 posted on 12/22/2009 12:29:43 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

He can’t lose what he never had.


80 posted on 12/22/2009 12:30:20 PM PST by Babalu ("Tracer rounds work both ways ...")
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