DeMint promises to delay health bill, force Christmas Eve vote

The Hill ^ | 12/17/2009 | Alexander Bolton

[Sofia]

Sen. Jim DeMint said Thursday he is prepared to use every procedural tool to delay a vote on the Democratic healthcare legislation.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is planning to schedule votes around the clock over the next week to meet a deadline of passing the bill by Christmas. Without the cooperation of Republicans, the marathon schedule would end with a vote on Christmas Eve.

Reid hopes that Republicans will waive some of the procedural formalities so senators are not forced to spend the evening before Christmas milling about the Senate floor.

But Sen. DeMint (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Republican Steering Committee and a leader of the conservative opposition, told The Hill he will not yield back any time.

[hennie pennie]

Jim Demint is stepping on up.

[icwhatudo]

Demint 2012?

[andy58-in-nh]

The Democrats look... deeply saddened.

[silverleaf]

I can’t stand these oligarchs acting noble about working on Christmas Eve when we have 100,000 troops over in the middle east and swa facing down terrorists this Christmas Eve....some for the 3rd tour or more.

[sickoflibs]

DeMint Lion ping!

[boomop1]

But the dick-weed has his head tilted back as usual.

[Lakeshark]

Awesome news. This guy is just sooooo good.

[BARLF]

Go Jim!

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Anybody that can stop these morons from robbing us all blind, especially before Christmas is O.K. with me.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If the GOP can stop it by filibustering from now until November 2010 without going home, that's what they need to do.

[domenad]

Every Republican should go their senator, point to Jim, and say, “Do it like that!”

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Claire McCaskill was grousing about having to miss holiday gatherings with her family here at the Lake because her job was going to interfere. Weep for me, Claire.

[andy58-in-nh]

Obama always appears smug, no matter what is going on is the background.

[Yankee]

I spoke to the Senator’s office this morning and they assured me he would not back down under any circumstances.

I called my Senators Isakson and Chambliss and told them to get on board.

As Sonny Corleone said in “The Godfather”, “It’s time to go to the mattresses”.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

DeMint was huge on Honduras and now he’s stepping up on this. If only we had 99 others like him.

[CedarDave]

Great photoshop! Who is the player to the left of Obama? Dickie Turbin?

[Yankee]

Baucus looks like the victim of a lousy embalming job.

Reid and Dodd look like they’ve just taken another look at their latest polls.

Obama looks like he’s trying to figure out which one of the other three farted.

[onyx]

Reid is the ultimate SOB.

DeMint and the Republicans will be heroes if they stand up to Reid.

This monstrosity must be defeated.

Rebeliion is brewing.

It’s Christmas, yet Reid and the democrats think ramming this through for Obama is MORE important and NOBODY has read it!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Claire is right down there with Sheila Jackson-Lee in the brains department.