Posted on 03/19/2010 10:47:20 AM PDT by RogerWilko
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensely for historic health care legislation Friday, gaining momentum and another precious "yes" 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.
With a showdown set for Sunday on the House floor, Democratic leaders still didn't command the 216 votes they needed, so every undecided lawmaker was the focus of personal attention from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House, and every "no"-to-"yes" conversion was trumpeted by party leaders.
Obama, who delayed an overseas trip to help ensure passage of the legislation, spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at George Mason University in Virginia, lobbing attacks at the insurance industry with his coat jacket off and sleeves rolled up.
"The only question left is this: Are we going to let the special interests win once again, or are we going to make this vote a victory for the American people?" he said.
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Even though they've been collecting comments for 3 weeks, I've NEVER seen 46,000 comments on ANYTHING before! And MOST are PISSED OFF COMMENTS on what these socialist/commies are trying to pull off!
"a victory for the enslavement of the American people"
WOW.......45,889 Comments
Make that 46,001 pissed off comments LOL...
Throw democrats in jail for this!
If you can get that many comments for some lousy little Yahoo article, that should give an indication of how many PISSED OFF PEOPLE there REALLY are out there!
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Over 46,000 and has been up for less than an hour.
DEEMON-CRATIC....
True and the negative attitudes towards HC are overwhelming. What is disturbing are the comments of those who still support Obama. Those people are now dead to me as my countrymen.
The actual comment section started on Feb 24th, so I guess they must keep attaching the comments to the HELLcare debate articles.
But so far just in the last 2 hours or so, it has gotten 2-3000 comments, not counting deletions! I KNOW... because they deleted mine a COUPLE of times! Don’t ask me why, I wasn’t throwing any threats around or anything!
I’ll bet there’s been over 100,000 comments and a LOT they probably didn’t want to post!
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