Patriots have their priorities straight ... sacrifice what ever is required in order to fight tyranny.
Posted on 12/22/2009 4:09:15 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON — It may be the only bipartisan agreement that Congress reaches this year on overhauling health care.
Republicans, under pressure not to wreck Christmas for lawmakers and their staffs, agreed Tuesday that Senate passage of the Democrats' controversial bill seemed inevitable and scaled back procedural-delay mechanisms to allow a vote by the morning of Christmas Eve.
Had the full debate continued, the Senate would have voted at around 9 p.m. Thursday, too late for many lawmakers and their staff members to get home in time for the holiday. Instead, the vote is set for 8 a.m.
President Barack Obama had announced that he'd delay his own departure for his family vacation in Hawaii until the vote was over.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had said that he'd been willing to stay late into Christmas Eve because, "It's important that we take the time to analyze it in every way that we can before the final votes are taken in the Senate."
However, Democrats as well as Republicans expressed concern about missing Christmas — since many live in places where planes can't get them home in time — and others were concerned about an ice storm that's threatening the Midwest.
McConnell also said, "The final vote in the Senate is not the final vote. There are substantial differences between the House and Senate bills. This debate is not over."
If the Senate's version passes as expected, it will be considered by a House of Representatives-Senate conference, or negotiating, committee, which typically operates largely in secrecy.
"The American people are still going to have another month or so, I would guess, to weigh in and express their concerns about this package to each of their representatives," McConnell said.
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They may as well have left after the 1 AM vote, or after Nelson was bought off. They can spew platitudes for the screwed-over voters from their home states.
expressed concern about missing Christmas !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bull%^$#!
This makes me sick, I was planning to be in DC on Christmas Eve...just to sit in the gallery.
I've worked many a Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...your flippin’ FREEDOM IS AT STAKE...! Sure you can cease fire for the holiday...just don't F***in’ surrender!
No suprise here. If the RATS are anything they are strong, focused and dedicated to their cause.
The GOP is so used to being on the losing side in these things that their natural tendency is to let the dems wear them down and then they give up and make nice.
We don’t need the GOP, we’ll handle the revolution.
When do they come back from Holiday?
A protest blocking the doors by We the People with pink slips and signs saying
YOU ARE FIRED!
Now we have TWO “cut and run” parties.
Our troops are working Christmas Eve, so what’s the big deal?
Patriots have their priorities straight ... sacrifice what ever is required in order to fight tyranny.
You’re right on - can’t have the scum of the earth be inconvenienced, after all, it’s all about them.
The GOP should NEVER give them an inch. Weakness is repulsive.
They did that when they had the majority too. They ain't scared of the base...we need to make them scared.
And the drunk germans didn’t know what hit them. They can’t hide history, and they can’t hide Americans. Just bring it on. We’re ready.
Exactly Wolf . It’s a hangover from new tone other cheek drive . Instead of stiff arming or public ridicule they have opted for the more comfortable bitch seat .
I understand completely. We wouldn't want them inconvenienced because of little old us. Their holiday break is much more important than our lives, our parents lives, the unborns life, and the future of American as we know it.
Thank goodness we have Republicans in Washington to look out for us with such vigor!
Freepers are getting upset at the GOP here over nothing.
We’re done with the ‘rules’, the dems don’t realize what’s brewing out in the ‘real world’. F them all. Americans will rule the day Obama was selected.
>> Freepers are getting upset at the GOP here over nothing.
Bullshit!
Your complacency is worse than theirs.
I wish they would all go home...and stay there!!!
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