Keep it up, Sen. Coburn. It’s nice to know that SOMEBODY in the Senate is willing to play hardball.

I’m still waiting for my Senators to step up to the plate. Ms. Hutchison? Mr. Cornyn? Beuhler??

Or he is incredibly freaking dumb.

Either he can certify HIMSELF or NOT. Of course, most Senators won’t want to go on record stating that they knew what was in the bill. They think that being able to blame Reid is safe; that acknowledging total ignorance is a safe bet. Don’t they know that “ignorance of law is no excuse.”

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/12/16/single-payer-on-the-senate-floor/

At that rate – it will take about 35 hours to read just this amendment.

Come on Republicans – bring the hammer down and make them bleed.

The Democrats just bailed on expanding Medicare down to age 55 and his amendment is to expand it to cover everyone. If he wants to waste time, Coburn seems happy to help him do so.

P.S. Coburn is from OK not TX.

The Senators are ensconced in Washington. All the Dems and Lieberman are under a lot of peer pressure. They need some seperation.

They need a weekend off to create some seperation from Obama and Reid. If they can this weekend off or if they can get to Christmas, a week or two at home will really hinder their momentum.

has always been and remains to be one of my heroes (along with another fellow from his state J. C. Watts). Congratulations on someone from the Republican side finally standing up and doing what is necessary and what the rules allow to stop this abomination

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People can get a look at such a bureaucratic nightmare. Still being read. The left is totally out of control.

…..someone in the GOP showed some fight. Good for you Senator Coburn. From this point forward everything associated with this big steaming pile of turd should be read aloud….word for word…..slowly and annuciated.

Kill.The.Bill.

…if the clerk/clerks read non-stop or will it take place over several days???

I was beginning to question my affinity for Coburn and DeMint, as they have been shockingly absent from the important procedural side of this battle. I’m guessing that Coburn got the go ahead from the GOP leadership on this objection, which means that they are finally ready to play hard ball on this bill. They must also think that things have shifted away from them in the last two days significantly enough to warrant delaying tactics.

This is it, folks. This is what we’ve been preparing for. Time to fight.

Go, Tom, Go!
You other gutless wonders, pay attention and man-up.

I know many of us have contacted members of Congress to encourage them to stand up agaisnt this horror of a bill. I think that everyone should contact Senator Coburn’s offices to encourage, congratulate, and support him. Here is his contact information:

* Washington D.C.:
172 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Main: 202-224-5754
Fax: 202-224-6008

* Tulsa:
1800 South Baltimore
Suite 800
Tulsa, OK 74119
Main: 918-581-7651
Fax: 918-581-7195

* Oklahoma City:
100 North Broadway
Suite 1820
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Main: 405-231-4941
Fax: 405-231-5051

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Because they don’t want us to know the truth.

This farce would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. If, someday, we can all look back on this and laugh–oh, how we will laugh!

touched on baucus’ being dishonest or dumb (I vote for the latter), but the last paragraph of his statement says it all for me.
“…BUT I CAN’T CERTIFY ON 100 DIFFERENT SENATORS. THAT’S UP TO THE DIFFERENT SENATORS. THAT’S UP TO THEIR MENTAL CAPACITIES AND CONSCIENCES AND SO FORTH. I CAN’T CERTIFY THAT.”
I think his mental capacity is lacking and furthermore, he has no conscience. Coburn isn’t asking baucus, orany single senator, to certify the other sen.’s abilities.

It is amazing… every day, I think Congress can’t get dumber, but apparently they can. They are delusional beyond belief.

And for those in Ohio, like me, please look at Sherrod Brown’s record…it is abysmal.

But ultimately, the good thing is that the progressives are clueless…which could defeat this bill.

http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=9100

The next step after reading the bill is to invoke quorum calls. The GOPs should demand that a majority of the Senate is constantly on the floor during the debate on this bill. One, quorum calls take up enormous amounts of time, largely because Senators don’t show up for them. Two, having 51 Senators on the floor prevents key Senators from participating in the “tinkering process” in Reid’s office.

for bringing up an amendment that is so huge, yet one-third the size of the actual bill, that Harry will cry uncle… oh the delicious tears…

and also threatening to read the ENTIRE bill when presented, whatever that bill is. I’m so proud of one of my Senators (and so disgusted with the other)…

Ok I’m at work typing this in on my cellphone. If it worked, then I should be knighted. If it did not work, I’ll describe it – it was a picture of a cute little kitty, captioned “every time a Democrat votes for +bamacare, God kills a kitty”

Our Senators (Levin and Stabenow) are so hopelessly gone that we have to root for Senators from other states. Sort of like what we do with the Detroit Lions.
Stabenow is so stupid that one can only conclude by looking at her that Stupid is served on every buffet in D.C. Levin is basically a lifelong member of the Politburo. He’ll die in his seat.

Rush had a portion of the Reading (I’ve got CSPAN on now and watching the reading) and it states: A CSHO may limit enrollment to avoid overtaxing of the CSHO resources!!!! And, of course, other portions go on to belie the whole BS line of what Democrats claim any/all of the HC takeover is for/about. Still allows limits, rationing, qualifications, etc….

Persons can sign up with local healthcare groups unless the groups have become full and additional signups would be a burden on them. Meaning it doesn’t work.

Though I am a native NY’er I have lived in Oklahoma for over 45 years and call it home. I have raised my family here & now my grand children are all grown and I have recently retired to take life a little easier. As my handle states 77redcounties, that is how OK. voted in the last election, not 1 blue county. I am proud to say senator Coburn is from this great state. Politics are a little kinder here, a lot less confusion, and a lot of good people here. The east coast and the left coast should look at the heartland and learn a thing or two about honesty and morals.

KEEP UP the good work TOM

I am watching over at livenewscams.com it is a horrible thing to listen to all the agencies and regulations formed in the amendment alone..
One blow after the other on and on…Care police, fraud catchers, quality standards panels, appointed positions for death panels…
So many insults so closely fired that it becomes quite droll..eyes glazing over..

Mark

Just wondering.
Go Sen. Coburn!
Kill the bill!

It is already placed in the amendment…per capita costs..
A board will dictate the level of funding per capita

My theory (a tactic which Erick does not agree with) is that the GOP was trying to move this along and try to get a vote on their amendments (hoping a deal breaker would be included), and if not get it to the cloture vote before Reid could cobble together 60 votes on something.

With Leiberman now on board for voting on “something”, I think the GOP thinks that Reid has 60 votes now. That means their only hope is to slow it down and hope for someone to change their mind.

They can probably force this to take until after Christmas for cloture. But we have to hope that someone on the Dem side has to change his mind about drinking the kool aid.

As I said in a tweet to BS and Jeff E last night. This has always been an exercise in what the Dems can get 60 people to agree on. Thinking that the GOP can “kill the bill” is foolish. They’ve never had any way of killing this. The best they could ever do is to make the Dem self inflicted damage as great as possible, and hope that there is no legislative language that the enitre Dem caucus can agree on. More time has always been to Reid’s advantage for getting his caucus to 100% agree.

Apparently, the Dems planned to file cloture on the Defense bill today, so that it could be passed by Friday when the current continuing resolution runs out. Thanks to Bernie’s amendment, they won’t be able to do that, unless Coburn grants consent or the amendment — destined never to get more than 10 votes — is withdrawn.

In the TPM world, this means Coburn hates the troops.

Riiiiiight.

cackling like a chicken with cluckie schummmmmmmmer.

This is so great, I just sent the following email to Senator Coburn:

Dr. Coburn,

I just read on RedState.com about your brilliant move in forcing the Senate to read the Sander’s Amendment. I just wanted to say bravo! This is a brilliant move and I wish more of your GOP colleagues would follow suit. Don’t play nice with the Democrats, make them follow every procedural rule to the letter. It should be the goal of all GOP senators to delay the vote on the health care bill as long as possible. It is obvious that the longer this drags out the less chance it has of passing as Democratic Senators are pressured by their constituents. Let the Democrats tear themselves apart over the abortion and single payer issues, the GOP should (for the time being anyway) embrace being the party of NO!

Thank you,

David Transou

PS Feel free to pass this along to the Senators from Texas. I would, but KBH just sends replies with form-written tortured politceese and it seems lately that Senator Cornyn is too busy propping up establishment RiNO candidates against real conservatives.

They seem to be in bile-spitting insult mode today!

He’s giving up and railing against the GOP. He says the only way to eliminate the “hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and profiteering” is to eliminate all coverage except through “Medicare for all”.

Yes, most people believe the best way to streamline anything is to let the government run it.

Bernie cried uncle and now we need to more of what we did today. Keep it up.

Senator Sanders I must be mistaken about your abhorrence to bureaucracy or did I listen to 3 hours of your amendment that would create an even bigger one. The government cannot handle this don’t tell me your centralized approach would be better.

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Or at least for Minority Leader. In any case, let’s dump the Mitchy-girl for Coburn in leadership.

…the Senate Parlimentarian!

Question for RedState Parliamentarians:

I would have loved to put Senate Democrats on the record as to a vote on Sanders’ amendment. Is it possible to ask for a non-binding vote (or even a resolution) on Sanders’ amendment, with any official vote coming only if and when his amendment is read? Senator Coburn could even ask that this motion pass by unanimous consent.

so he probably knows more about healthcare than anybody else in Congress

and make them read the bill even though Sanders pulled it, which I think actually takes a unanimous consent to pull.

I liked McConnell talking about a precedent of caning senators. I would whole heartedly support caning of the elected elite.