Dem Health Care Desperation


As third in line for the Presidency, and a woman to boot, if you were the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives would you say:

We would do almost anything to pass a healthcare bill.”

OK, just wondering.


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For some reason I'm flashing back to 1998. (nt)

Third Street (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 4:28PM EST (link)

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”

 

Redstate Should Join Laura's Rally

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 4:57PM EST (link)

Its nail in the coffin time, at least for 2009. Send them home for the holidays to face their constituents. Start 2010 stuck in the mud.

Code Red Rally – Tuesday 1:00. Laura Ingraham is all over it.

Send Boxer & Botoxer home in 2010

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 6:58PM EST (link)
 
 

Problem is Dan

Scope (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 5:06PM EST (link)

she isn’t only saying it. She and her progressive minions are actually doing it. It’s not an idle threat.

 

Oh, I know

Dan Perrin (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 5:12PM EST (link)

she is living proof of the Dem desperation

 

I sense the Republicans getting soft, just when they need to dig in

Old_Crow (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 6:59PM EST (link)

and fight. Kill the bill – we can’t afford it and it’s bad legislation.
The American people want good legislation, even it takes a few years.

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison

Yesterday, I sent a fax to all the GOP Senators...

rcov092 (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 11:53PM EST (link)

in it I told them that, as a member of the base, I was upset with this current strategy and what we in the base wanted was for them to assert themselves and delay this bill with every tactic they can. If McConnell is so sure his strategy, let him and the entire leadership commit they will resign their leadership positions if this bill passes.

I asked Micth McConnell to step down as Minority Leader and let him know I though the strategy was a fools game.

Show your love for your country, send Mitch McConnell the same fax.

“Not One Red Dime for the NRSC or NRCC till they stop trying to elect liberals”

Excellent

Dan Perrin (Diary) Friday, December 11th at 8:36AM EST (link)

It is a simple message every Republican Senator should get:

Object to any unanimous consent agreement, unless it means that Senators leave town.

 
 
 

Are Republicans acting in good faith?

countessolenska Thursday, December 10th at 9:16PM EST (link)

Or are they just trying to score big in 2010? I’m suspicious.

I was reading the interview by Brett Baier of Morton Kondracke and Charles Krauthammer from yesterday, and Kondracke made a good point. In response to Krauthammer complaining about the last minute nature of the Dems drive for health care reform.

KRAUTHAMMER: The process here is bizarre. All of a sudden with the deadline looming, they’re throwing in anything that will fit, anything that will get 60 votes, regardless of whether it is incoherent or contradicts other elements of the bill. And you ask yourself, why is the haste? Where is the deadline? It’s not as if we were a year ago with the banking issue where there was a deadline. If you didn’t act on TARP you could have a collapse of the economic system.

Here the deadline is entirely a political one. It is because the Democrats know with all this opposition in the public and with an election year looming, they have a very small window. It’s not as if the medical system will collapse on January the 1st if nothing is done.

It is entirely artificial. And it is causing these new amendments and these new ideas to be thrown in untested, even unexplained at the last moment.

KONDRACKE: But this is not the first time you have seen action like this out of Congress. After all, when the Republicans were in charge, they passed the Medicare prescription drug bill and it was a scramble just like this and they kept the vote open for two and a half hours.

KRAUTHAMMER: But this is reforming one-sixth of the U.S. economy. It is not a targeted reform. It is a revolution in health care.

KONDRACKE: Well, Medicare Part D was the biggest addition to Medicare since Medicare was enacted.

Which conservatives were happy with that expansion?

aesthete (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 9:29PM EST (link)

As I recall, that was a sore point in Bush’s tenure among conservatives and libertarians.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton

I think most Republicans voted for it

countessolenska Thursday, December 10th at 9:35PM EST (link)

According to Bush’s Comptroller at the time:

Former US Comptroller General David M. Walker has called this “…probably the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s… because we promise way more than we can afford to keep.”

Santorum voted for it. He’s pretty conservative. So are Hatch and Bond. Both voted for it.

Santorum voted for it...

rbdwiggins (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 9:53PM EST (link)

And his constituents sent him packing.

Regarding Republicans acting in good faith…

It appears they’ve adopted the age old political philosophy: If your opponent is busy committing political suicide, why get in his way?

Although, it doesn’t hurt to hasten their demise by highlighting their actions.

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

 

Huge difference between writing a prescription drug benefit....

penguin2 (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 10:00PM EST (link)

to an existing program vs taking over 1/6th of the economy and writing a 2000 page bill that takes over peoples’ live and regulates everything the government can get their hands on. That is Socialism delivered in a Fascist manner.

I am not saying Medicare Part D was right or good, and certainly it will go broke as the other government programs do, but this is about power and control, and that is the only reason for this to be happening.

BTW, Santorum was voted out of office. IMO, next election, people are going to vote their anger at this total disregard of what the people want. The bill is an abomination and the fact it is being perpetrated on the people, without their consent, will be long remembered.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills

Conservative Education: Suggested Reading List

Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

 
 
 

Why are the Republicans not objecting to the

Dan Perrin (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 9:54PM EST (link)

unanimous consent agreements?

Why is McConnell insisting that no Republican object to any unanimous consent agreement?

Getting soft is an understatement.

This Is The Key Question

IJB Thursday, December 10th at 10:09PM EST (link)

I think the GOP Senate’s calculated strategy is to not look bad, but make the other side look bad, as this bill dies.

IOW, they are working under the assumption that the bill *will die* on its own, and they don’t have to do anything “extraordinary” to stop it.

This strikes me as a very, very dangerous gamble, and it ONLY pays off for McConnell & co. if the bill does die on its own.

But, if it passes, the Base are going to string these guys up on the flagpoles around the Washington Monument for failing to do exactly what you (and many of us) have been suggesting they should do…

 

Dan, have you changed your outlook?

GregInFla (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 10:10PM EST (link)

You were pretty certain the bill would not pass the Senate. Any changes given the political antics that have occurred, including the seemingly kamikaze actions of the Dems and Reid?


– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.

I think it will die, but only if the Republicans

Dan Perrin (Diary) Friday, December 11th at 8:35AM EST (link)

start objecting to unanimous consent agreements by the Democrats.

We will win if this happens, and for the first time, Senator McConnell did just that last night.

Let’s hope he keeps objecting, he did it once, perhaps he can do it again.

What is the down side to objecting to something no one wants?

 
 
 
 

For some reason

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 10:06PM EST (link)

that statement from her brings out an image that calls for brain bleach…

Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
http://www.zazzle.com/enemy_of_the_statist_tshirt-235977043035297478

 

CNN/Opinion Research now has 61% opposed to Senate version of Obamacare

clowngirl (Diary) Thursday, December 10th at 10:34PM EST (link)

I don’t know anything about how credible a poll that is – but am optimistically hoping they’ve picked up on a trend that the others will also reflect soon.

I have no idea what Pelosi was thinking – unless she’s just so deluded she thinks a good chunk of the country is as desperate to pass some form of healthcare bill as she is.

Sounds like Obamacare is starting to make Pelosi a little crazy- and Reid too. After all the years of dreaming about being in power – then having huge majorities but not being able to get it done…I almost feel bad for them.

Almost.

Thanks Dan, for the encouraging update on the state of the Speaker.

 

funniest nancy pelosi impersonation ever...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, December 11th at 12:16AM EST (link)

So...

rugbyrugby Friday, December 11th at 1:10AM EST (link)

What does being a woman have anything to do with this comment?

Oh, I dunno...

Dan Perrin (Diary) Friday, December 11th at 8:32AM EST (link)

umm

rugbyrugby Friday, December 11th at 2:09PM EST (link)

So your first thought ran to sexual innuendo…and it ends up on the front page. If Harry Reid had said the same thing, would it have “stirred your imagination” in the same way?

 
 

Clearly a snarky swipe........

barry915barry (Diary) Friday, December 11th at 8:47AM EST (link)

Even if PERHAPS lacking in judgement, for a front-pager.

Do we really have to explain it to ya Rugby???

 
 

How 'bout putting up buying insurance...

larryp Friday, December 11th at 9:52AM EST (link)

across state linhe and see if the Donks will support that “Unanimously”.
Or how bout amendment that puts all staffers into the plan, leave off the Senators and see if they will throw their staff under the bus.