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Sen. Webb: No HCR Votes Until Brown Seated
talking points memo ^

Posted on 01/19/2010 7:10:50 PM PST by cdchik123

Less than 15 minutes after the race was called for Republican Scott Brown, the first of what could be many conservative Democrats asks for leadership to put the brakes on health care reform.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) congratulated Brown on his win and delivered a zinger:

"In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process. It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders. To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated."


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; brown; heathcare; jimwebb; ma2010; scottbrown; webb
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To: cdchik123

...don’t think the “BLUE DOGS” ears didn’t perk up tonight


41 posted on 01/19/2010 7:21:29 PM PST by Doogle (DID YOU FORGET...to send your FR donation?...YOU TOO LURKERS!)
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To: for-q-clinton

I’m with you FQC


42 posted on 01/19/2010 7:21:40 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: demkicker
He can try to make the switch, but I want the GOP to have no part of him come November

I think Webb is probably doing the CBA on a switch as we speak. If he does, he needs to do it NOW, that way he can alter his voting patterns to establish Conservative bona fides before he's up for reelection. If he waits too long (he may already have) he'll end up being another Arlen Specter.
43 posted on 01/19/2010 7:22:00 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

He’s hoping this is stopped in its tracks, and then people will forget he votes for this.


44 posted on 01/19/2010 7:22:10 PM PST by Chet 99
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

There will be more. It’ll be a democratic gullywasher of RATS jumping that sinking ship.


45 posted on 01/19/2010 7:23:04 PM PST by RobinWWJD
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To: cdchik123
Too little, too late. As one of your constituents, all I can say is, You blew it last year. Ruined my Christmas Eve, only because you didn't see tonight's tsunami in MA coming.

You're dead to me, Jim....

46 posted on 01/19/2010 7:23:14 PM PST by kevao
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To: cdchik123

Webb has a sense of what sort of firestorm would result if they tried to slip Obamacare through before Brown is seated.


47 posted on 01/19/2010 7:23:51 PM PST by Will88
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To: cdchik123

A flash of decency and common sense from a democrat.

What’s next, pigs flying?


48 posted on 01/19/2010 7:23:56 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Get lost, Mitt. You're the Eddie Haskell of the Republican party." (Finny))
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
-- Does Webb have integrity or is he just being pragmatic? --

He's playing to the cameras. No way does he have the interests of the people in mind - completely self-serving comment, trying to gin up "brownie points."

49 posted on 01/19/2010 7:24:18 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: cdchik123

50 posted on 01/19/2010 7:24:54 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: cdchik123

A dimocrat said this?


51 posted on 01/19/2010 7:24:55 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Jim Noble
How pleasant it is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to listen to the lamentations of their women...

Lately all that gets me off is the musky scent of my enemies fear! -g-

52 posted on 01/19/2010 7:24:59 PM PST by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*)
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To: MadIsh32
Jim Webb knows how the winds are going in VA, and that 2006 and 2008 were flukes.

Exactly ...

NOW, if other Dems in vulnerable states and districts can read the tea leaves too, maybe some semblance of sanity will come back to Capitol Hill ...

53 posted on 01/19/2010 7:25:09 PM PST by Lmo56
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To: CWW

Are you serious?


54 posted on 01/19/2010 7:26:15 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: tennmountainman
I wish people would quit using the term moderate democrat.

Me too, I want to see every single one of them bite the dust. I do believe in a two party system - Conservative Republicans and even more Conservative Republicans.

55 posted on 01/19/2010 7:26:37 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Get lost, Mitt. You're the Eddie Haskell of the Republican party." (Finny))
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To: cdchik123

Ya Think he may be worried about his seat,naaaw


56 posted on 01/19/2010 7:27:39 PM PST by Foolsgold (L I B Lacking in Brains)
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To: Enterprise

Something wicked this way comes... I don’t like it.

Not one little bit.


57 posted on 01/19/2010 7:28:32 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: All
Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC says Webb is speaking for about ten "moderate" Democrat senators on this.

Chris Matthews earlier raised the tactic that the Democrats could lose nine senators' votes and still pass a healthcare bill with Biden's tie-breaker vote.

58 posted on 01/19/2010 7:29:20 PM PST by kristinn (A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.)
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To: AnglePark

The true Democreeps will gravitate to the center to survive. However the true believer “Progressives” (Obummer, Pelosi, Reid) will drive harder and further left regardless of what it means for themselves. They see this as their last great chance to “radically transform Amerika”. He’s committed and crazy enough to do it.


59 posted on 01/19/2010 7:29:23 PM PST by dumpthelibs (dumpthelibs)
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To: Enterprise

Something wicked this way comes... I don’t like it.

Not one little bit.


60 posted on 01/19/2010 7:29:27 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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