Posted on 11/07/2009 6:23:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
POLITICO reports:
Hours before an expected vote on a sweeping health care bill, House Democrats believe they've secured the 218 votes they need to approve the bill, several party insiders said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the House floor about 6:30 p.m. to say, “Today we will pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act.. . .We will make history. We will also make progress for America's working families."
Thirty-two Democrats have publicly declared their opposition to the bill, giving party leaders the narrowest possible margin to push the bill across the finish line. But numerous sources said Democrats believe they do have the votes after a day of intense lobbying of wavering Democrats.
Does it look as though they’ll get ANY Pubbies to vote for this bill?
Christmas shopping season will be dismal.
The vote earlier was a YES/NO voice vote. It failed. Stretch, seeing her Bill possibly going down the tubes because of it insisted on an additonal electronic vote. I haven’t looked in a few minutes, but I still think it will fail.
And hopefully, this will DIE!
No money for Christmas this year...need it for those higher taxes that are coming.
It’s far from over. Real Americans are running for elections, we’ve had it with their game, and are booting them out. Like Sarah Palin said, ‘it’s time to clean up the swamp’, I don’t know if she realizes (I’m sure she does, because, she’s one sharp cookie), Washington was situated on a swamp. How ironic. Read the history of Washington DC.
Newly elected NY23 representative Owens has said he will back Pelosi.
Thanks Palin, Beck and others for getting him elected to COngress.
Corrected: The Stupak Amendment will pass. This was the ONLY arrow we had in our quiver. And now this government takeover of our lives will pass the House.
I am so mad at the Republicans right now I could spit!
I REFUSE to do any Christmas shopping this year. I have no doubt that the vast majority of the people working retail are for this travesty tonight.
F ‘em. Let them be the next unemployed class.
You're right: The RINO the GOP was running would NEVER have voted for ObamaCare, even though she endorsed the Democrat after dropping out...
How did Palin, Beck and others get him elected? Would the RINO have been better than Owens?
As opposed to who? ScuzzyFavors would have voted the same way.
We’ve decided to ‘regift’ this year. We all have junk that’s nice that someone else can use. Our gift amount is $0 this year. (we have a second power screwdriver we’ve never used that someone else can use) Our family’s goals, how much can’t you spend. It’s in vogue. F the gov is the mantra. We’re doing everything in our power to save and not spend. You’ve all heard the radio commercials, ‘feed the pig’. Well, we’re starving the pig.
Palin and Beck didn’t get him elected. Gingrich did by endorsing the rino.
“Palin and Beck didn’t get him elected. Gingrich did by endorsing the rino.”
No, the idiots that voted elected him. Jeeezzzz.....
The other thread is reporting that the amendment just passed. I’m sooooo confused.
So a conservative shouldn’t have run? What planet are you on?
PS, Beck is a fraud.
Same here. A stack of those annoying mail-order catalogs makes a fine gift for the in-laws wood stove. :-) It's the thought...
Trolling again I see LOL.
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