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President Obama to Say Democrats Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Senate Health Care Reform Fix....

Posted on 03/02/2010 4:26:11 PM PST by RED SOUTH

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial "reconciliation" rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the "fix" to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/03/obama-democrats-will-use-reconciliation-to-pass-senate-health-care-bill.html


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhohealthcare; healthcare; nuclearoption; obamacare
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To: RED SOUTH
I admit that right now the DC merry-go-round has me baffled. The Senate PASSED their version of this bill on Christmas Eve '09. As I have heard it to this point, Nancy has to round up enough of her colleagues to pass this bill by a simple majority.

BUT Madam Speaker now talks about a "simpler and less expensive bill" and the President talks about his bill(?) with adding 'some' GOP suggestions to it. So what happened to the Xmas Eve bill? Since these proposed bills involve new taxes and fees, doesn't it have to go through the House FIRST?!

Right now I think that, without any hyperbole, this entire thing is so flippin nuts that it would be rejected by a 3rd rate on-line amateur web site.

61 posted on 03/02/2010 5:29:34 PM PST by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: gimme1ibertee

And while Congress is in session. Hopefully there will be enough people to surround both the capital and whitehouse!


62 posted on 03/02/2010 5:30:45 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: Starboard

The votes will be before March 31st. I read the 26th was the last day before Easter break.


63 posted on 03/02/2010 5:31:30 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: JoSixChip; Cobra64

we still have a chance to vote traitors out..yet my worry is that 40% of Americans do not pay taxes and a large majority are on entitlements!


64 posted on 03/02/2010 5:31:31 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok, joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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Attention Democrats: Shove this down our throats in March and we’ll shove it up your (ahem) in November. That Is All.


65 posted on 03/02/2010 5:34:24 PM PST by NJRadioGuy (W2IRT)
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To: Gay State Conservative

They ALL have to go!!!! Treasonous slime that were spawned in an enemy gutter.


66 posted on 03/02/2010 5:35:57 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: BunnySlippers

Time to get out the pitchforks

Hell! Lock and Load


67 posted on 03/02/2010 5:41:22 PM PST by bikerman (Buck Farack)
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To: RED SOUTH

So our our President has decided to declare war on the citizens of this country. . . at least Zer0 should have the guts to style it in those terms . . . that is what it amounts to.


68 posted on 03/02/2010 5:42:55 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: Sunshine Sister
The suits have been filed, Kerchner v. Congress, Taitz, Donofrio, ... Separation of powers has been weakened. Obama was born a British subject, by his own admission. Our representatives babble about founding fathers - selectively. Jefferson taught Law of Nature and Nations based upon Vattel in 1779 at William and Mary. So did Wilson at Philadelphia College in 1790. Madison, Jay, Washington, Kent, Marshall, Hamilton, all talked about Vattel, our common law. Obama is not a constitutional president. By ignoring the Constitution our leaders, both the GOP and Dems are rendering the Constitution irrelevant. Those who know it well assiduously avoid the issue and have bowed to the media's campaign of ridicule, the Alinsky tactic. “Born in the country of citizen parents” is the law. It needs to be confirmed by the Supreme Court only because it has never been tested.
69 posted on 03/02/2010 5:47:02 PM PST by Spaulding
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To: calex59

Big media is using phrases like “simple majority” to describe this. It is propaganda to the letter.


70 posted on 03/02/2010 5:47:14 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Gator113

” When are we going to get to the part when one of our leaders calls this what in the hell it really is?
REPARATIONS.”

I think Barry pretty much did that when he addressed the NAACP convention
on July 17 , 2009 .
He said that African Americans are the sickest group of people.
And the least likely to have health insurance.
He vomited up the usual litany of how rotten and how racist our country still is.
And how he was going to remedy “ the health care disparity .”

” We know that even as spiraling health care costs crush families of all races, African Americans
are more likely to suffer from a host of diseases
but less likely to own health insurance than just about anybody else.”

“Now, one pillar of this new foundation is health insurance
for everybody. (Applause.) “
“ Health insurance reform that cuts costs and makes quality health coverage affordable for all,
and it closes health care disparities in the process. “

These are other excerpts from his NAACP diatribe just to show how he views America.
“ But make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America. (Applause.)

By Latinos made to feel unwelcome in their own country. (Applause.)

By Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion simply because they kneel down to pray to their God. (Applause.)

By our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights. (Applause.)


71 posted on 03/02/2010 5:50:08 PM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
....my worry is that 40% of Americans do not pay taxes and a large majority are on entitlements!

And wait until the liberals and McCain fight for amnesty. Then the dems have it all locked up... forever.

72 posted on 03/02/2010 5:53:14 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Luke21

I agree with simple majority.

Write the bill.

Publish it.

Let Congressional candidates run for or against it.

Then vote on it in January 2011.

That’s real majority rule.


73 posted on 03/02/2010 5:53:22 PM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
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To: RED SOUTH

Geez, I think you Americans are going to have to push your way into the senate chamber for a sit-in or something. He will not take no for an answer.


74 posted on 03/02/2010 6:06:32 PM PST by Grig
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To: RED SOUTH

It’ll be bad for the country in the meantime, but if the Dems really go ahead with this it’s their funeral.


75 posted on 03/02/2010 6:32:11 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: RED SOUTH
Is Obama now the Majority Leader of the Senate?

I thought we had clearly defined Separation of Powers.

76 posted on 03/02/2010 6:35:13 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party...)
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To: Cobra64

Yeah, but Barry has friends...

That's not friends, that's FAMILY!

Allah-hu akbar!

77 posted on 03/02/2010 6:35:52 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

Thank you for your detailed response. While I’m now more knowledgeable, I still feel sick over all this garbage.

2012 can’t get here soon enough.


78 posted on 03/02/2010 6:38:40 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First FAILED "light skinned African American [Pres-ent] with no Negro dialect..")
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To: onona

“Any bets on who’s gonna blink first ?”
___________________________________________________________

Actually, Hussien blinked this weekend. Last week, Hussien proposed a new plan outline before the summit. We were told by Pelosi that they had the votes in the House on Sunday.......then on Monday, we were told that Hussein had a new plan that he will unveil tomorrow. He blinked.

They are in disarray on the left, folks. I think with a little effort, any alliances will fall apart. This deathcare bill is closer to death than one would think.

Fight!!


79 posted on 03/02/2010 6:51:31 PM PST by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: trapped_in_LA
Not sure about this but something has been bothering me the past few days.

Just before the Christmas Eve vote. I remember somebody saying something about a provision which said it couldn't be repealed or defunded. Does anybody remember that and what became of it? Is it still there?

80 posted on 03/02/2010 6:52:09 PM PST by Blackhawk (God said it, I believe it, That settles it.)
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