Posted on 03/21/2010 12:30:21 PM PDT by CWW
Unless a deal is struck with Stupak, Dems appear to be short on votes.
By Bob Cusack - 03/21/10 02:20 PM ET
Hours before a scheduled vote on healthcare reform, Democratic leaders don't have the votes.
The decisions of two Tennessee Democrats, Reps. John Tanner and Lincoln Davis, to vote no has put President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her lieutenants in a major bind.
If every member votes, Democratic leaders can only afford 37 defections. According to The Hill's whip list, there are 39 Democrats planning to vote no.
Furthermore, The Hill also has seven Democrats in the undecided/unclear column: Reps Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.), Paul Kanjorski (Pa.), Alan Mollohan (W.Va.), Mike Quigley (Ill.), Bobby Rush (Ill.) and Loretta Sanchez (Calif.).
There have been various reports on Sunday that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and other anti-abortion lawmakers have agreed to an abortion deal involving an executive order from the Obama administration. However, Stupak's office are strongly denying those reports.
Even though several Democratic leaders said they had the votes on Saturday, Stupak said on Sunday he and others were involved in intense negotiations with the White House late on Saturday night. The Saturday night talks strongly suggest Democrats are short of the 216 necessary.
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I’m keeping my fingers, toes, ears and eyes crossed.
They won’t have the vote unless they can pass it.
Hogwash! Nothing is decided
Don’t let up
Pray! Pray! Pray some more! Pray without ceasing!
Pray for the best but I am braced for the worst
It's not much hope to cling to... but it's all we're got.
In the Last Hour [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The Hill got confirmation that Bart Stupak is still a no vote. And in the last 15, I can tell you Stupak could be seen with Susan Muskett from the National Right to Life Committee and Peggy Nance from Concerned Women for America. Both groups oppose the executive-order strategy, knowing it to be a sham. 03/21 03:25 PM
Maybe but he went to the floor saying "no deal." Last time a deal was struck before the final debate began. My gut says Stupak holds. But, who knows?
I can’t help but believe they’re going to pull it off some how.
Those two need to lock him in a closet somewhere for a few hours. As Obama’s hero Malcolm X once said, “By Any Means Necessary”
Considering what they’re trying to do to us, you’d better cross your legs too...
Yeah, and if frogs had wings they would not bump their asses on the ground so often. Stupak will cave...in the end he is a gutless liberal.
“Senate Republicans just found a provision making the Bill ineligible.”
After all that’s happened, we should realize that no matter what the law says, Dems will do what they please. If a provision makes the bill ineligible, it doesn’t matter. We are a dictatorship now.
I will believe it when I see it. If they have yet to get the vote, they will come out with an excuse and put it off for a few days.
Remember, this is the so called final deal, even after the other previous final deals.
They are commies. don’t trust them.
“He’ll cave.. Party over Country.”
Yeah, he’ll cave.
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