Posted on 03/03/2010 8:31:54 AM PST by Danae
POLITICO Breaking News to me
show details 8:20 AM (8 minutes ago)
POLITICO Breaking News: -----------------------------------------------------
Sen. Tom Harkin tells POLITICO that Senate Democratic leaders have decided to go the reconciliation route for health care reform. The House, he said, will first pass the Senate bill after Senate leaders demonstrate that they have the votes to pass reconciliation in the Senate.
Hold on to your hats, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!
No one gets it. It is actually a pretty smart gamble on the Dems part. They are now forcing the GOP to run solely on rolling back what the Dems have done, thus creating a campaign of negativity right off the bat. The GOP got us into this mess-they should be strong arming Lincoln, Bayh, Brown, Landriue (sp?) and any other Dem who has demonstrated sense to bring them under 51 votes. If they were really serious they could do it, but aren’t. Why should they, it wont affect them either..
They won't be able to do that.
They will need a 2/3s vote to override a guaranteed Obama veto. It will never happen.
If the “good people” have not been sitting and taking it up till now. what have they been doing?
you mean We, the American people are REALLY going to regret this. The Dems could care less. They know they are one termers so they'll cram through what they can over the next three (OUCH) years!! God help us.
Yep!
This is supposed to be a surprise???
Thank you!!!! My husband still won’t believe me when I say they’re coming after our IRA’s.
And there's the rub. The original Senate bill - with the Cornhusker kickback, Louisiana Purchase. etc. - is NOT a reconciliation bill. Once that is passed and signed - it is forever unless repealed.
It is the CHANGES to the bill they are trying to pass that are part of the reconciliation bill they want to pass. Those are the things that will expire after 10 years unless re-approved by Congress. If the reconciliation bill is not extended, then after 10 years, the original terms of the bill go back into force.
The Democrats are pondering how much damage they will have in November if they were to do this. If they do try to pass this, the Democrats have never seen a electorate more enraged than they will be after this.
Doesn’t matter, in an article by Newt Gingrich this morning, he said that the easiest thing to do would be to simply replace the legistlation after 2010.
The problem is that Obama will be President until 2012.
I just called & reamed the poor intern answering the phone for my libturd RAT bastard demoRAT Tim Walz D-MN. What a rat bastard he is!
I called the Walz office as well. Call the district offices now - be a little more Minnesota Nice but firm.
Tell the Walz people that if he votes (again) for Obamacare, you will devote your time, talent and treasure to ensure his defeat in November.
Time’s up for fat Tim. Do it.
I love the smell of boiling tar in the morning...
“But still. Go ahead. What is the bold action?”
Bold action is two-fold. One, for private citizens to rally at the Capital and/or start running advertising calling out the atrocities of this bill in stark terms.
Two, for elected officials to stop beating around the bush. It’s time to pepper the airways with words and phrases like “Death Panels” “Rationing” “Euthanasia” “Kill Seniors” “Unconstitutional” “Totalitarian” etc.
Thank you!!!! My husband still won’t believe me when I say they’re coming after our IRA’s.
Tell your hubby to spend a little time Googling and he will find that the Jesse Jackson caucus of the Democrat Party has been trying to come up with scheme for this for 20 years.
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