Posted on 03/20/2010 3:44:46 PM PDT by katieanna
Holding to form, Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, announced Saturday that he would oppose his party's health reform bill, just like he did when the House version came up for a vote late last year.
Matheson, a conservative Democrat and leader of the Blue Dog caucus, said he is convinced the massive $940 billion bill would "leave our nation worse off."
"I am saddened that the year-long debate on health reform has resulted in legislation that is too expensive, contains too many special deals, does not contain health care costs and will result in increases in health insurance premiums and therefore I will vote against the legislation," he said.
I thought they wanted the government to keep their hands and laws off of their bodies.
EO can’t undo or amend existing law, can it?
You are kidding, this bunch does not care about the law and the EO will be mute after the vote and the signing as Obama will throw Stupak under the bus.
An executive order from a usurper > zero + 0= 0.
Nope. Not unless the original legislation ceded to the President the authority to amend it. The Senate bill includes no such provision.
If Stupak is stupid enough to fall for such a flimsy ploy, he's retarded.
Can an EO amend existing legislation??
matheson just voted NO.
Re-eect this guy if there is no Republican candidate.
Yes, but Stupak would know an EO wouldn’t work -
This was my thinking to olddeckhand. Stupak HAS to know this. Hence my thinking is it’s confusion b/c the dem leadership is just flummoxed and doesn’t know what the hell to do.
I don’t think they have the votes - yet.
I worked for Jim’s father, way back when conservative democrat wasn’t an oxymoron. Looks like Jim found his roots, or, more likely, read the writing on the wall (and his website response page). Interesting.
No. Reelect this guy if there isn't a more conservative candidate.
So...rather than bash the bill, they’re claiming their no votes are because of abortion? Is that what you mean?
Yes, but Stupak would know an EO wouldn’t work
I agree but they are really put the screws to him We will soon learn if this truly is real to him and his God.
commies are now down to using the race and gay cards.
Per NRO...
Executive Order [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
I hear Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) has signed off on the idea. That’s an iron-clad guarantee it’s no real alternative for any member who calls himself “pro-life.”
So...rather than bash the bill, they’re claiming their no votes are because of abortion? Is that what you mean?
I don’t know, to the 6 that left the group yes it was all fiction I just don’t know with Bart. I am praying he truly will see that he is being used and vote no.
I think so.
Exactly—he may be one of the few Dems with honor.
These “undecideds” make me sick—as someone described on radio—they are like hookers on a Chicago street corner waiting for someone to driveby, roll down window, and make them an offer.
did they pay off stupak for his vote?
Supposedly, Rep. Diana DeGette, the leader of the pro-choice caucus in the House, has signed off on the proposed Executive Order. If she’s OK with it, then Stupak probably isn’t, meaning that its design is to peel a few of his group off. At this point, we have 206 NO votes that are absolutely rock solid. Of the eleven non-Stupak undecided members, I think we get Nye, Boucher, Pomeroy, and Davis. If we could do that, we would still win with six votes from the Stupak group. Though I am no longer confidently predicting the defeat of the bill, it isn’t over by a long sho
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