Heads up Senate is about to vote to advance Health Care Bill (Update: Passed)

11/21/2009

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

ON Fox News now, Vote is underway!!!

[Yogafist]

And what are the chances we can get enough of this bill thrown out as unconstitutional to basicly neuter it.

[jveritas]

The socialists still need 60 votes to shut the debate or else there is not going to be a final vote on the bill. And the current bill is not going to get 60 vote to close the debate and move for a final vote unless the public option (aka socialized medicine) is removed or put a trigger public option which in reality is equivalent to no public option. Why so many people here are not able to understand this simple facts.

[mrsixpack36]

And he is not running again. I bet if there is a defection at the end, Ole’ George will be the one.

[WalterSkinner]

..I was confused on the process

If there is another super-majority vote down the line for cloture, and the possibility of filibuster, maybe this turkey can still be killed...

[hattend]

Two final holdouts give Democrats the 60 votes needed to clear the way for a full-scale debate.

Licoln and Landrieu

[traditional1]

"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."

You do realize, of course, that all the rhetoric and speeches are for show only, and this takeover cannot be stopped simply due to the numbers?

[CincyRichieRich]

Thanks...I have to be an eternal optimist...not to a fault, but as one who believes God needs and deserves our believe He’ll come through.

[Neidermeyer]

Gold will be up 20 monday and the price of western land just got bumped bigtime.

[WalterSkinner]

..thanks, I thought this was the only super-majority vote

So a filibuster and cloture vote is still possible.

The carpet bombing by e-mail and phone that people like Lincoln and Landrieu are under right now, they would have to have a death wish to side with Reid on this one...

[Cboldt]

-- You do realize, of course, that all the rhetoric and speeches are for show only, and this takeover cannot be stopped simply due to the numbers? --

Yes, I do. I was just answering the question about the form/process of the kabuki dance.

I'm looking forward to the day that the people demonstrate contempt for Congress to the same extent that Congress demonstrates contempt for the people. I quit communicating with the arrogant bastards years ago.

[Nateman]

[Neidermeyer]

I wonder why Voinovich missed the vote...makes me wonder. I will give him the benefit of the doubt but it was an awfully important vote to miss.

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Didn't matter ,, the rats needed 60 , one extra nay vote would be irrelevant.

[TxAnn56]

“Why so many people here are not able to understand this simple facts.”

I think it’s because we’re dealing with the ultimate snake oil salesman in the guise of the president. He’s gonna shove this down our throats Sopranos style. The majority of patriotic decent Americans are just collateral damage to him.

[RebelTXRose]

Lieberman voted FOR Cloture???
60-39 - WHO was “present”?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

You know.....that photo reminds me of the scene in Schindler’s List where the Nazis at the camps were ordered to dig up the dead and burn the bodies.......and that freak was yelling, mocking and shooting his gun off like some happy celebration while, behind him, bodies were falling into a fiery pit from a conveyor belt.

[itssme]

I’ll second that “shove.”

[sheikdetailfeather]

Someone called the Mark Levin radio show the other night and asked “What if this thing passes? What can be done?” He said there can and will be legal challenges filed as it is unconstitutional.

[mrsixpack36]

That is true, but I find it very odd that he would would miss one of the most important votes of the year.

[gas_dr]

I disagree. I was hopeful that this would die tonight, but this goes to amendment. The senate must invoke cloture again to get to a vote. I do not think that they have the votes to do so. Reconciliation is a head fake, they won’t do it because it is a parlimentary nightmare. In the long run, this forces everyone to take a look at this bill, and may aid in the slaughter of commies in 2010. There are multiple D senators who will not invoke cloture with a public option, so I think there is more than a reasonable chance this does not get any further. Harry Reid’s press conference only supported my contention...

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