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Dems Abandon Abortion Deal, Ready Health Vote (True? Then they're aborting their own bill)
Fox News ^
| March 12, 2010
| AP
Posted on 03/12/2010 12:50:30 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
In doing so, they are all but counting out a small but potentially decisive group whose views on abortion coverage have become the principal hang-up for Democrats fighting to achieve the biggest change in American health care in generations. Congressional leaders are hoping they can find enough support from other wavering Democrats to pass legislation that only cleared the House by five votes in an earlier incarnation.
[snip]
One of the toughest hurdles facing Pelosi involves abortion. Some anti-abortion Democrats say the Senate language is not sufficiently airtight to prevent taxpayer dollars from mingling with money that might be used to subsidize abortions.
Others disagree, and party leaders acknowledged Thursday they can't resolve the dispute using budget reconciliation rules. Instead they hope that only a few House Democrats who voted for the health care package in November will now switch to "no" because of the abortion issue. Party leaders think they can offset those defections by persuading some of the 39 House Democrats who voted "no" last year to switch to "yes."
Many House Democrats who oppose legalized abortion "are either satisfied enough with the Senate provision, or they decide that that's as much as they're going to get and they don't want to defeat health care," said Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
[snip]
The White House seemed to back away from its earlier insistence that Congress act by March 18.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; abortion; democrats; healthcare; pelosi; socialisthealthcare; yadayada
Oh, give me a phone
Where the Democrats roam,
In the land of the Bribe and the Spin,
Where we never let up
On the Blue Doggie pups,
Cause we
won't let Obamunists win.
Phone, e-mail and yell,
Whether doggies are Red, White or Blue,
Then we'll barge through the dooor,
And we'll sit on the floooor,
Till they join the Tea Party too!
To: Mrs. Don-o
They’re aborting their party; they’re aborting their political careers; and they’re aborting their surnames. Their new names will be traitors.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:51:55 PM PST
by
ExTexasRedhead
(Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
To: ExTexasRedhead
All I can figure is that they have been promised payoffs so huge...it makes their current job seem small in comparison.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:54:24 PM PST
by
kjo
To: Mrs. Don-o
Looks like they’re planning on a ‘last stand’ doomed to fail, and then throwing themselves on the mercy of their left wing wacko base.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:55:07 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: kjo
Good they will be able to pay their fines and lawyers when we get a hold of them.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:57:57 PM PST
by
DarthVader
(Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
To: Nefertiti; haffast; Ides of March; Kmavp6728; wolfpat; Cassanova Frankenstein; PleaseNoMore; ...
TOLL-FREE PHONE CALLING
These toll free arrangements were set up by Obamuniust organizations to support (pause for sticking out tongue) “health” “care” “reform.” Use them! After all, they are free! . At the first number you must wait through a brief Obamunist tape recording. Just hang on and when the recording is over, you will get the Capitol operator. Just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Then you will either talk to an aide or have the chance to leave a message for him/her to vote NO on the health care bill.
When you use the second number and the Capitol operator comes on, just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office
1-800-828-0498
1-866-220-0044
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:58:48 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Don't mourn: organize." Mary Harris Jones)
To: Mrs. Don-o
“Wax-man” - why does that name fit so well. Whenever I hear or see that name, all I see is nostrils. Have they grown? Must be 30 years of shoving his nose into other people's business.
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posted on
03/12/2010 1:00:17 PM PST
by
throwback
(o)
To: Mrs. Don-o
We cannot assume victory.We must not assume victory.We must light up the phone lines of *EVERY* RAT Representative *EVERY* day until we hear the word "uncle" from Bella Pelosi,Dirty Harry *and* Hussein The Blessed.
Any other course of action is a recipe for disaster.
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posted on
03/12/2010 1:00:24 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Pelosi is cynically betting the anti-abortion Democrats aren’t really.
I won’t bet she’s wrong.
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posted on
03/12/2010 1:02:46 PM PST
by
Chaguito
To: Mrs. Don-o
Their bill is an abortion......
To: Chaguito
I don't bet. I don't eeyore on the threads. And I don't boo-hoo.
I fight.
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posted on
03/12/2010 1:08:12 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(On the whole, I'd rather be Cthulhu.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
This is another who is on first.
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posted on
03/12/2010 1:10:50 PM PST
by
GUNGAGALUNGA
(Democratus Suckus Teatus is the Latin root for Democrat and it means to tax)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I wonder if the Pelosites have been mournfully describing what recently happened to Reid’s family to the anti abortion Democrats and adding gee, I hope something like that doesn’t happen to your family, too.
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posted on
03/12/2010 1:37:17 PM PST
by
arthurus
("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
To: All
check out Hugh Hewitt website. He has a email system to send letters to Blue Dogs.
http://hughhewitt.com
He also has a link to the Tim Burns, the Republican trying to take Murtha’s old seat.
Send him a contribution to send a message to the Democrats.
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:57:09 PM PST
by
fortheDeclaration
("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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