Posted on 11/21/2009 4:58:18 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
ON Fox News now, Vote is underway!!!
anyone else watching the pathetic public servants hugging and kissing on TV over them taking us one step closer to Socialism!?!?!
Da, comrade. No Santa Claus this year!
You DO realize, of course, that the Communist takeover that finished up last November is marching right along on its merry way, and there is NOTHING that can stop it.....OR undo it?
You can expect that a true gunbattle-style revolution is the only thing that can come to undo the takeover, and when U.S. Soverignty is ceded to the New World Order U.N. soon, we will be an OCCUPIED 3rd World country.
A$$holes, every one of them.
[Mark Steyn]
I don’t like to say I told you so, but I’ve been saying for months now that the trick is to drag this thing across the finish line with 50.0000000000001 per cent of the vote as soon as possible. From my “Happy Warrior” column in NR back in July:
Obama believes in “the fierce urgency of now”, and fierce it is. That’s where all the poor befuddled sober centrists who can’t understand why the Democrats keep passing incoherent 1,200-page bills every week are missing the point. If “health care” were about health care, the devil would be in the details. But it’s not about health or costs or coverage; it’s about getting over the river and burning the bridge. It doesn’t matter what form of governmentalized health care gets passed as long as it passes. Once it’s in place, it will be “reformed”, endlessly, but it will never be undone.
Right now, they can trade anything - abortion, death panels, whatever. The trick is to plant the seed and let the ratchet effect of Big Government take care of the rest. I said on Rush’s show on Friday that if Barack Obama had been Bill Clinton he’d have woken up on Wednesday morning and begun triangulating. Instead, Obama woke up and figured that he needed more fierce urgency, and right now. The short-term hit in 2010 is worth it for the long-term benefits: Obscure congressmen will be just as happy as obscure ambassadors or obscure chairmen of obscure agencies. And the prize of permanent irreversible statist annexation merits the risk: Governmentalized “health care” puts us on the fast track to Euro-sclerosis and redefines the relationship between citizen and state in ways that make genuine conservative politics all but impossible.
Will the Senate stop it? And, if they don’t, will a post-2010 GOP Congress reverse it? The way they reversed, say, the federal Department of Education?
I was just thinking that yesterday. The massive fraud that occurred in Minnesota was the ultimate catalyst in the initial passage of this. While I am hopeful the debate never ends (or ends with the defeat of this abomination) I find it amazing that criminal activity in one state can doom the entire country like this.
It isn’t over! Good grief!
There will be more chances to kill it, but lets be real - the GOP CANNOT stop this alone. And the Democrats WILL pass SOMETHING! How bad, we won’t know for a while yet, but they WILL pass something.
Now we need to make it as painful for them as possible, and then extract the maximum price. Remember, this doesn’t kick in until 2013/14...only the taxes start earlier!
You can acknowledge defeat and bend over for the statists, but I won't.
I've been to the Tea Parties, and people are already making plans beyond them, because it's obvious the Tea Parties are having negligible effect.
Yeah, I have been hearing for months how this will not pass and how this will be killed in the Senate..how Obamacare will die..please, people gotta stop living in a dreamworld, this crap is gonna pass and America as we know it is finished. I wish this was not happening, it breaks my heart to see this happen to my country. Gee, I feel European already
Getting the bill out of the Senate is a prerequisite of requesting a conference. The GOP can object to passage of the bill, and/or any amendment. Each persistent objection results in a 60 vote threshold to move ahead.
If the bill gets to Conference, the "take it up, amend it, pass it again" routine must be repeated until both chambers agree on exactly the same language.
Hey, I will continue to fight but what more can be done. You see the Dems dont care, Lincoln does not care, neither does Landrieu, they have already been bought off. What more can be done
Every “Yes” vote is treason and should be regarded as such.
I have no sympathy.
“So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause.”
You wonder why? There’s a saying up in Ohio, “Voinovich, you son of a ....”
He’s a big ol’ RINO.
:)
If I were several years younger, I'd be moving to Australia or Canada, or some other CIVILIZED country....
America, as we knew and loved it, is history now.
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