Posted on 03/22/2010 3:33:49 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Democrats in the House needed 216 votes to pass the Senate's version of a sweeping health-care package Barack Obama has been pushing with all his presidential might.
They tallied 219.
Democrats hailed the vote as a landmark victory.
"Today is the day that is going to rank with the day we passed the civil rights bill in 1964," said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. "Today we're doing something that ranks with what we did with Social Security or Medicare. This is a day of which we can all be proud."
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If it was good enough for the Soviets, it's good enough for us. Except that Congress and Obama have exempted themselves from this more advanced health care system consisting of death panels, rationing, long waiting lines, forced insurance, fines and prison sentences, all overseen by an expert medical team of health professionals at the IRS.
Without even a hint of bias, Calvin Woodward of the Associated Press noted that "rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke" of the pen. But enough about Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Ortega, Chavez and Kim Jong-Il.
The New York Times chirped that Obama "was willing to fight for something that moved him to his core," the core-mover here being the noble idea of putting everybody on public assistance, and "willing to throw all his political capital onto the table" and win. All this with only a tiny 59-41 Senate majority and teensy-weensy 253 Democrats in the House to work with.
Armed with the knowledge of how smoothly efficient an army of government bureaucrats can't be, Congress tonight passed a "universal" "health care" bill that leaves only 24 million uninsured for $1 trillion. Last year, Congress passed a "stimulus" bill that left 30 million people unemployed or underemployed for $1 trillion. I don't see a pattern here.
A family of four making around $60-65k gets forced to pay $5,000 a year in premiums for the privilege of living under ObamaCare. The frugal plan bends the total health care cost curve upward, from around a little over 17 percent of GDP currently to 21 percent of GDP in just nine years.
The widely renown health insurance expert Barack Obama said that premiums will go down by around $2,500 per year under his government medicine. Without ObamaCare, annual premiums for an individual in the small group market a few years from now would total almost $8,000. Under ObamaCare, annual premiums will total almost $8,000. For a family in the small group market, it's about $19,000 without ObamaCare, but with ObamaCare it's only $19,000. Also, if you like your current health insurance, you'll get to lose it because of the excise tax.
While the Times seems impressed that Obama is "willing to fight for something that moved him to the core," the problem for the teleprompted, core-moved Obama is the notion that you can magically transform center-right America into Europe politically and culturally by hiring 16,500 IRS agents to snoop around in people's bank accounts monthly for compliance with ObamaCare's labyrinth of tortuous mandatory health insurance rules. It's going to have the opposite effect. It's hard being a "transformative" leader when the country won't transform.
Can't transform a country simply with legislative clauses and sections in a bill passed by the narrowest of margins and bipartisan opposition. Litigation-wise, ObamaCare's individual mandate is likely to get struck down, at any rate, since ObamaCare's 2,700 pages don't trump the Constitution.
The trillion-dollar stimulus racket didn't nudge the country leftward but set off the Tea Party movement instead, and handed Jon Corzine and Creigh Deeds their rear ends. The Christmas Eve ObamaCare Senate vote produced Scott Brown. Government takeovers at Chrysler and GM sent customers flooding to Ford showrooms. ObamaCare will send voters flooding to voting booths in about eight months.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Monday-morning ping!
And stupak got his reward: a pair of flip-flops with the obama logo on them.
I would like to know who the eight republicans were, that did not bother to vote
Um...I believe all the Republicans voted.
A handful of Democrats voted with the Republicans against Obamacare.
Nice thoughts. I am speechless at this spectacle. We have a Marxist coward in the White House, and a Speaker who has no sense of decency, or Catholic education.
I am proud of the Republicans banding together and not voting for this crappity crap crap.
Kudos to the likes of Paul Ryan and others who spoke up against this monstrosity.
I saw MSNBC has a poll out regarding this vote.
"Are you happy or angry with this Bill?" 22 % happy 51% Angry. Very telling!
They don’t call him Dingell-berry for nothing.
I think you’re right. It was nice to see a few democrats sprinkled into the mix, but we should have had more. I guess for some money can buy happiness, or at least a vote.
At least that part is true and it IS rank.
How long before the bureaucracy and theft of the funds is done to this debacle, too, and the price begins its inevitable rise to oblivion?
>> Democrats hailed the vote as a landmark victory.
Their collective goal: Socialism.
Communism ——— Socialism ——————— Capitalism
According what I saw on Fox news the vote was 219 to 212 and 8 Republicans did not vote. I could be mistaken though that the 8 were Independents, but I don’t think so
Hunh! Well no one made any comments about it that I’ve read. Didn’t hear anything about on Fox News, either.
Seems odd that the Republican whip wouldn’t have had everyone there.
Can you imagine had George Bush tried something similar? The MSM would have been all over this from day one. I guess when it's their guy it doesn't matter.
Yes:219 - No:212. Numbers seem strange, as there is 253 Democrats in the House of Reps.
Fox and Friends just showed the results again a few minutes ago and there were 6 democrats who did not vote
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