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Oregon Rep. DeFazio Switches 'Yes' Vote to 'No' on Health Care Bill
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Posted on 03/19/2010 10:39:36 AM PDT by Chet 99

Edited on 03/19/2010 10:45:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The vote tally on health care reform is starting to look like the Dow.

Just when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to be one vote shy of the 216 she needs for health care reform to pass, a Democrat who voted for the bill last year says he's switching his vote to no.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; defazio; oregon
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To: wk4bush2004
Nancy Pelosi bending over backwards on the trapeze

That is a disgusting visual...

41 posted on 03/19/2010 11:49:41 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Chet 99

“I’m a no unless they fix this,”

Translation: I am No until my fix comes in.


42 posted on 03/19/2010 12:03:38 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Chet 99

DeFazio does the right thing. Now hold his feet to the fire to ensure he doesn’t switch back.


43 posted on 03/19/2010 12:09:43 PM PDT by hattend (The era of John McCain is over, the era of Ronald Reagan is back! Go Sarah Go!)
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To: hattend

if they have the votes now it is just the tough races where the democrats will ALLOW them to vote no.

Time to start exposing the pork NOW.

This bs abotu the deficit is nonsense we want to reduce the DEBT.


44 posted on 03/19/2010 12:13:13 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Kimberly GG
I was under the impression that they had found a way to pass this no matter how many votes they had.

The Castro/Chavez solution

45 posted on 03/19/2010 12:14:07 PM PDT by spokeshave (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
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To: Chet 99

“Don’t need Defazio to know which way the wind blows”


46 posted on 03/19/2010 12:21:37 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: The Pack Knight
Bingo, you have solved the puzzle:

My hunch is that DeFazio is tired of the “no” votes getting paid off to switch while guys like him who have been on board from the beginning are getting nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of this.

47 posted on 03/19/2010 12:41:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: Grampa Dave; All

NRO says he is actually just undecided. He will thus likely vote yes.

Ryan indicates this is close, which is bad news for us. As opposed to having to win tons of votes, the other side only has to win a few.

““It’s a coin toss,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to National Review Online. “We were just on the floor going through whip-check. They still aren’t there yet. It’s narrowed down, from what we can tell, to four or five. Obviously, the numbers favor them, if you compare the pool of undecided votes to how many they need to come over. They only need about 50 percent of the remaining undecideds to break their way. On our side, we need seven votes to defeat this. At this point, we’re really only talking about a handful of votes. It’s such a close situation, and very, very fluid. They don’t want to win by just one vote — with everyone cast as the tiebreaking vote — they want to win by two or three votes. That’ll be hard to do, as will muscling votes in these final hours, since everyone is watching.”

A few votes can be easily bought.

Thus, it is very likely this passes Sunday.

Keep the calls going....maybe we will get a miracle.


48 posted on 03/19/2010 12:44:04 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: rwfromkansas
Non-stop Rosary vigil to defeat ObamaCare (pray with other FReepers!)
49 posted on 03/19/2010 12:49:17 PM PDT by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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To: Chet 99

Agreed.


50 posted on 03/19/2010 12:56:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
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To: wk4bush2004

“I REALLY don’t like this circus with Nancy Pelosi bending over backwards on the trapeze, trying to attract votes.”

Wow, visualizing *that* is enough to make you blow chunks.


51 posted on 03/19/2010 2:00:40 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: mrsmel

“The rats are counting on these bribes to help them face the voters in upcoming elections.”

Think for a second whose money is being used to bribe these people.

INFURIATING!

CRIMINALS!


52 posted on 03/19/2010 2:05:13 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: Chet 99

Didn’t hold out for the bigger prize, dumbazz?


53 posted on 03/19/2010 2:05:53 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: Oregon Betsy Ross

“This man is a solid yes vote!”

Well, I guess we’ll know more on Sunday/Monday. MORONS.


54 posted on 03/19/2010 2:06:44 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: moose2004

“MSNBC is now running a crawl saying (I’m paraphrasing) that the vote may be delayed beyond Sunday if the Dems can’t nail down 216. This is the first time I’ve seen this, interesting, do you think Nancy is starting to cover her rear?”

Interesting. It might be the head fake, head shake, two step we’ve been hearing for two weeks, to get us to give up. OR, just maybe they’re starting to worry again...

Keep calling folks!

http://nrcc.org/codered/targets/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2466657/posts?page=37#37


55 posted on 03/19/2010 2:08:15 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: popdonnelly

“Voting in new representatives won’t change Congress. It’s in need of a drastic rules overhaul. And term limits.”

Hear, hear! That’s gotta be part of the reset button that Glenn Beck’s been talking about recently.


56 posted on 03/19/2010 2:10:24 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: popdonnelly

If they just drew congressional districts to be more competitive, we wouldn’t need term limits.


57 posted on 03/19/2010 2:11:45 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: All
Hurrah for another brave congressman. Hope his reason is that bill is unconstitutional. I'm sure that limited republic government has no authority to _pass_ health care. It would require a constitutional amendment.
58 posted on 03/19/2010 3:12:10 PM PDT by veracious
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To: Chet 99
A RAT from my state jumping ship, who'd of thunk it? Maybe he has rabies.
59 posted on 03/19/2010 3:12:19 PM PDT by mickey finn
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To: Ted Grant
Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible. The benefits of perpetual incumbency will always distort the competitive field. I used to think that term limits were not worth the cost (i.e., always having newbies in office who had to reinvent the wheel every four or six years or so), but I have now completely changed my mind. The Founders intended for Congress to be run by amateurs, and I think that we ought to go back to that view by making perennial incumbency impossible.


60 posted on 03/19/2010 3:15:24 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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