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Obama: No healthcare action until Brown is seated
The Hill ^

Posted on 01/20/2010 11:42:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama: No healthcare action until Brown is seated By Michael O'Brien - 01/20/10 02:22 PM ET

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the Senate should halt any action on healthcare legislation until Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.) can be seated.

Obama told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos in an interview to air tonight that he doesn't want to move on health legislation, his top domestic priority, until Brown joins the Senate, which would give the GOP enough votes to sustain a filibuster.

"Here's one thing I know and I just want to make sure that this is off the table: The Senate certainly shouldn't try to jam anything through until Scott Brown is seated," the president said. "The people of Massachusetts spoke. He's got to be part of that process."

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Uh you better check that with Nancy and Harry....
1 posted on 01/20/2010 11:42:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Obozo just became Jimmah Cahtah II.


2 posted on 01/20/2010 11:45:19 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Sub-Driver

Health care, it’s dead, Jim.


3 posted on 01/20/2010 11:45:29 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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What do you mean check with Nancy and Harry. The most sovereign Lord has spoken!


4 posted on 01/20/2010 11:45:46 AM PST by DariusBane (Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
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To: Sub-Driver

Any chance of that would have been too radioactive for too many Senators, so now Obama takes the magnanimous route. He was never so gracious or scrupulous before.


5 posted on 01/20/2010 11:46:01 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Sub-Driver

Is he speaking out of turn? What will his handlers do?


6 posted on 01/20/2010 11:46:40 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Sub-Driver

You’re right.

What the mouth does is not always what the anus does ... and visa versa!


7 posted on 01/20/2010 11:46:40 AM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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“Uh you better check that with Nancy and Harry....”

Separation of powers allows the house and senate to do things on their own schedule, Mabus cannot demand from them to not take a vote on this. Maybe Mabus is getting cold feet and just one year in his administration he is seeing his second term chances diminishing. It make me think, maybe Mabus doesn’t want to jump of the cliff after all.


8 posted on 01/20/2010 11:46:55 AM PST by GauchoUSA
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"Uh you better check that with Nancy and Harry...."

Do I have enough time to pop some corn?

9 posted on 01/20/2010 11:47:11 AM PST by libs_kma (If you RAM it down our throats in 2009, we're going to SHOVE it up your "donkey" in 2010!!!!!)
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Obama is going to face a serious primary challenge from the nutroots. Just copied this from DU:

I worked HARD for Obama. I donated money. I now consider him the worst President in modern U.S. history.

10 posted on 01/20/2010 11:47:35 AM PST by Callahan
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talk about your stealth veto!!! bammy can say that he acted in the interest of bipartisanship. i’d say without a “robust” public option he’s not interested in the bill and would have been forced to sign whatever bill nancy and harry come out with regardless.


11 posted on 01/20/2010 11:47:59 AM PST by lonster
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"Uh you better check that with Nancy and Harry.... "

I think he is getting out in front of this at the expense of nan & harry. These people have no moral center and will step on each other in a heartbeat to save their own sorry butt.
12 posted on 01/20/2010 11:48:29 AM PST by JoSixChip
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NO HCB UNLESS IN INCLUDES TORT REFORM,FRAUD CRACK DOWN,INTERSTATE SELLING,NO HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGALS...and UNTIL THEY BALANCE THE BUDGET!!
13 posted on 01/20/2010 11:48:42 AM PST by Doogle (DID YOU FORGET...to send your FR donation?...YOU TOO LURKERS!)
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A thought: perhaps the top Dems believe the bill is dead (read: so damaged they don’t want it to pass), and are looking for a humane (read: face-saving) way to kill it (read: get it off their agenda). Facing a 41-vote filibuster, they may prep it for a vote, then declare it DOA & blame the Repubs for its demise.


14 posted on 01/20/2010 11:48:43 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Virtue is to be apologized for. Depravity commands respect. - Galt)
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Sounds like he is comfortable going back to blaming Republicans with the “party of no” argument.


15 posted on 01/20/2010 11:49:50 AM PST by dartuser ("Palin 2012 ... nothing else will do.")
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Those two have got to be seething - I’m sure they had some plot to shove something through before Brown could be seated.


16 posted on 01/20/2010 11:50:13 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: Callahan

hope you wiped your feet before coming back here,,,,,


17 posted on 01/20/2010 11:50:47 AM PST by Doogle (DID YOU FORGET...to send your FR donation?...YOU TOO LURKERS!)
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Either Zero has already secured Voinavich’s vote, or Snowe’s, or he realizes (shockingly) that he would lose the electorate on the pure partisan political move of ramming it through - and has no prayer doing so because the ship is being abandoned left and right by the Rats...


18 posted on 01/20/2010 11:51:37 AM PST by BallparkBoys (Republicans spend $100,000 getting women into clothes while Democrats spend $100,000 getting women o)
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Obama blinked.

If he triangulates his Left wing the way Clinton did, he could salvage his presidency.


19 posted on 01/20/2010 11:51:50 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is getting good. Obama is enormously damaged politically. Next thing we know, “someone” is going to “find” the birth certificate.


20 posted on 01/20/2010 11:52:22 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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