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DeMint promises to delay health bill, force Christmas Eve vote
The Hill ^ | 12/17/2009 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 12/17/2009 12:34:55 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: demint; jimdemint
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1 posted on 12/17/2009 12:34:55 PM PST by Sofia
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To: onyx

Jim Demint is stepping on up.


2 posted on 12/17/2009 12:36:20 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Sofia

Demint 2012?


3 posted on 12/17/2009 12:36:30 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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To: Sofia

The Democrats look... deeply saddened.

4 posted on 12/17/2009 12:37:13 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Sofia

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.


5 posted on 12/17/2009 12:39:23 PM PST by silverleaf (More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: Sofia; rabscuttle385

DeMint Lion ping!


6 posted on 12/17/2009 12:39:45 PM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
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To: andy58-in-nh
But the dick-weed has his head tilted back as usual.
7 posted on 12/17/2009 12:41:14 PM PST by boomop1
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To: Sofia

Awesome news. This guy is just sooooo good.


8 posted on 12/17/2009 12:41:35 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: hennie pennie
Go Jim!
9 posted on 12/17/2009 12:41:39 PM PST by BARLF
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To: silverleaf

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


10 posted on 12/17/2009 12:41:59 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 163)
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To: Sofia
If the GOP can stop it by filibustering from now until November 2010 without going home, that's what they need to do.
11 posted on 12/17/2009 12:43:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Sofia

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


12 posted on 12/17/2009 12:46:16 PM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
13 posted on 12/17/2009 12:47:08 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: boomop1

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

14 posted on 12/17/2009 12:49:08 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Sofia

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”.


15 posted on 12/17/2009 12:54:40 PM PST by Yankee (Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
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To: Sofia

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


16 posted on 12/17/2009 12:56:19 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: andy58-in-nh

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


17 posted on 12/17/2009 12:56:22 PM PST by CedarDave (FOX news:"Fair and balanced (no matter what the White House says) . We report because others won't.")
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To: andy58-in-nh

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.


18 posted on 12/17/2009 12:57:56 PM PST by Yankee (Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
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To: hennie pennie; SoCalPol; DJ MacWoW; ~Kim4VRWC's~; SE Mom; STARWISE

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!


19 posted on 12/17/2009 12:59:57 PM PST by onyx
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Claire is right down there with Sheila Jackson-Lee in the brains department.
20 posted on 12/17/2009 1:02:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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