Posted on 12/24/2009 3:58:44 AM PST by SE Mom
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are poised to pass a landmark health care bill that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in U.S. history.
Ahead lie complex talks with the House to reach final legislation in the new year.
"We stand on the doorstep of history," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. "We recognize that, but much more importantly, we stand so close to making so many individual lives better."
The vote Thursday on the bill extending health care coverage to some 31 million uninsured Americans brings Obama closer to achieving his top domestic priority. The White House and Congress have now come farther toward the goal of a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. health care system than any of their predecessors.
But the final step may be the hardest: reconciling the Senate bill with a significantly different version already approved in November by the House of Representatives.
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“why the ____ are they waiting until 2014 to implement it?”
I forgot to mention- the civilian training camps that were authorized last July, with the 18 to 26 yo inner city kids at former military bases (Theodore Kennedy Memorial Something or Other Bill. in July iirc) will have been running for a while, so we’ll have a few thousand specially trained “activists” to help us get along and vote and choose healthy foods and all that.
“...sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, and lower standards of living...”
Maybe that’s the goal.
the more that fly it and more understaffed and overwhelmed they will become
And that is why God spoke to Jim Robinson to start FR
Amen. Merry Christmas!
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Jim THOMPSON!!!
Otherwise, merry Christmas and amen, too.
the more that fly it and more understaffed and overwhelmed they will become
Now we need a veto-proof, override-capable majority in both houses.
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60 Aholes screw up our nation in the most egregious way.....
Now he wants to change the rules of the Senate to make it easier and faster for him to pass his Marxist agenda.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/12/obama-filbuster-making-nation.html#ixzz0aYV9cHMD
MJ, Snap out of it.
Enough of that defeatist talk.
We need EVERY patriot now, not sunshine ones, either.
You are a good guy and I know you love your country.
We won’t let these 60 2-bit whores take our country.
And our flag is never a sign of submission—it is still the symbol of freedom to many.
And may it always be so.
>Invoking that murdering SOB (Ted Kennedy)is enough to make a grown man puke.
Dont get mad. he’s burning in HELL as we speak...roasting..crying...
Merry Christmas to you.:)
This administration has ZERO sympathy for babies that survive abortion and struggle to breath under their own lung power for hours until they eventually die from lack of care.
Harry Reid is not a member of the same religion I am and his claims of being sympathetic are pure Red (Communist) herrings.
I live in Connecticut. Do you guys think I should support Joe Lieberman?
“Madame, when we’ll see men dying of starvation around us, your heart won’t be of any earthly use to save them. And I’m heartless enough to say that when you’ll scream “But I didn’t know it!”- you will not be forgiven.”
Francisco d’Anconia, Atlas Shrugged.
The best response to those who think this was passed on humanitarian grounds.
“Traitor” is a prefix to use when referring to the names of each Senator and Representative who voted for this bill.
this one??? I can’t capture for some reason
I do not agree with Lieberman on much of anything, but on this issue, some of the ‘Yea’ votes were bought with payola, and some of them were extorted or coerced by threat,
Nelson accepted payola for Nebraska - in lieu of Offut AFB being closed and worse. He should have stood up and made the tactics fully public, and dared them to follow through on them. His failure, IMHO.
Lieberman on the other hand...was not about to vote for it. I have it on good authority (my source has been absolutely correct about everything they have share with me) that, through proxies (SEIU/ACORN or the like) the well-being and life of Lieberman’s wife, Hadassah was threatened.
It was made clear that it was going to look like just some “random” unforeseeable thing that happens in life - no suspicious markers to call attention - other than the fact of who it happened to.
Look for Lieberman’s probable retirement ahead of his next election, unless “We, the people” sweep ALL of these corrupt b*st*rds in the meanwhile.
Had he retired ahead of this vote, they would have made certain to appoint a guaranteed ‘Yea’-voting Demo...
So many of these vermin need to be in Gitmo, wearing orange jumpsuits, eating “mystery meat” with brown gravy, and pondering their misdeeds for the remainder of their sorry lives - no retirement pensions, no conjugal visits, no media appearances, no more influence to peddle...
G_d willing
A.A.C.
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