Posted on 03/25/2010 9:53:10 PM PDT by Blonde
By a vote of 56-43, with three Democrats, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Sen. Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu (D-LA), joined by all 41 Republicans, failing to put the breaks on a large package of changes to the existing law known as Obamacare. Every vote taken on Obamacare in the past few weeks has had the same character: bipartisan opposition failing to stop the remaining majority of Democrats from passing the legislation – hardly what the average American would expect on the signature legislation of President Obama, as the media-created Obama Brand is one of a “bipartisan” “pragmatic” “centrist” leader. Indeed, the only thing bipartisan about the legislation is the opposition to it from centrist Democrats and the entire Republican Party.
Obama and the Democrats had tried to avoid making any changes to the House reconciliation package, but the Senate Parliamentarian ruled some parts of it out of order under reconciliation rules, forcing the Senate Democrats to make some changes and sending the entire reconciliation Obamacare package back to the House for a final, final vote tonight. The Dems and GOP House members are going back and forth with short speeches in the House now.
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Lincoln, Pryor and Nelson are just trying to save their sorry butts from their angry constituents in their respective states. If they would have stood on principle, we wouldn’t be here. Never trust a RAT.
We must not forget, it was a REPUBLICAN Senator who allowed this monstrosity to pass out of committee where it became law of the land. To pass from committee, Baucus had to have one minority vote - he got it from Susan Collins who voted “aye” when all other Republicans on the committee voted “no”. Obamacare would have died in committee had it not been for this vote.
he’ll be there when we need him, and we will....
Do the dems lead by little boy Obama realize that when Repubs gain back the majority they can now push through legislation the same way?
Dems believe Rupubs won’t have the balls to do so.
That is such a sobering thought.
BTTT
No “Thanks” to Susan Collins who made this all possible while the bill was still in committee. Our nightmare is now a reality.
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