Posted on 10/21/2009 8:30:00 AM PDT by disraeligears
Just called Burr's office; Sen. Burr intends to vote YES cloture re S. 1776. The bill's passage will help hide the total cost for Obamacare. Yesterday his office stated that would be voting against cloture. This is a big turnaround. Call Sen. Richard Burr (NC) at 202-224-3154 and tell him to vote NO on cloture.
His updated news on his web page has this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNvDm49Q5Ds&feature=player_embedded
I was just told he hasn’t issued a statement on this yet!
Why not vote no on cloture and force the democrats to include it within the Obamacare bill. Make them produce an honest bill with an honest price tag!!!
Republicans need to learn to play hardball and to also learn that for many, “perception is reality.”
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I agree. I also think that Congress would be more unnerved if the public suddenly went mute, than if the public cried out in disagreement. Congress depends on feedback - deny it to them.
burr aid told me that he will support it .
Mitch Mcconnel is a disaster and needs to be fired.
he is no leader and no one is scared of him !
That’s an option....it should be included with the health care bill in order to get a true cost of the bill.
You are correct. Calling our reps worked so well with TARP, The Stimulus, and Cap and Tax.
Respectfully, Congress depends on anomolies re uptickes in phone calls protesting/supporting bills given that there will always be a minimum number of calls regarding each bill.
Therefore, the only way to make yourself known regarding a bill is to either call, e-mail, vote, or send money.
Not calling is not going to accomplish anything.
well by all means.... roll over and play dead.
I’d rather go down fighting.
cloture - The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367061/posts
People are missing the most important and fundamental point. The cost is irrelevant. Any version of federal health care is unconstitutional on its face since Article 1 Section 8 does not expressly grant Congress the power to regulate health care. This is the point people should be addressing with their politicians.
I smell a troll....good advice, “don’t like a bill (esp a Marxist boondoggle like ObamaCare) or action of Congress, say nothing. That’l learn ‘em.”
If we really want to unnerve them, we could suddenly stop sending them our hard-earned money. :)
Disregard post #24. It wasn’t Bob Bennett’s office. Senator Michael Bennet supports government run health care. Sorry for the mix up.
So wouldn’t it be better for there to be a vote on this? If they vote to increase Medicare reimbursements over the next ten years, then the scoring of whatever bill comes out of Congress on Obamacare will show a huge deficit—and Obama has said he will not approve a bill that is not deficit neutral.
YOU ARE RIGHT.
Here is what is happening. The Obamacare bill wants to claim to be revenue neutral or "providing universal coverage while not adding to the deficit"
This is a mathematical impossibility
So what they do is to vote for more medicare funding and increase the debt (250 billion) pre Obamacare, then with Obamacare they cut medicare funding (250 billion) and VOILA, THEY ARE ABLE TO PASS OBAMACARE BECAUSE IT "provides universal coverage and does not increase the debt".
What I said was that Congress would become unnerved if the entirety of the public suddenly went mute. I don't disagree that that alone wouldn't accomplish any change in legislation, but I do think it would unnerve the Congress. The old "silent treatment" actually works.
Not that it will ever happen, the public is naturally going to clamor, and Congress is going to continue to provide unresponsive sound bites then claim they have addressed the clamor. Therefore, goes the saw, we are in a representative form of government, therefore whatever the government does is justified by public participation.
I think that formula is false in fact (just like public elections in Iran under Saddam Hussein don't mean the public is "in charge"), but most of the public buys it.
and these people will want our votes next year.
They are so stupid.
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