The Democrats may be immoral and corrupt, but they are not stupid. Here is their REAL PLAN.
1. House passes Senate bill with no changes, after promising Stupak and others that the Senate will use reconciliation to fix it, IF NECESSARY.
2. The bill goes to a conference committee, where some “minor corrections” are recommended.
3. They go to the Senate floor with an amendment to the bill to ban public funding of abortion.
4. The trap is set. A somber Democratic leadership apologizes for trying to use reconciliation and puts it up to the Senate in the usual way.
5. Case 1: Republicans filibuster the changes and the bill goes to the White House with public funding for abortion alive and well. Republicans are skewered by the left for their hypocrisy in VOTING FOR abortion.
Case 2: Republicans decide they can’t in good conscience permit case 1, and vote unanimously to block the funding of abortions. The bill goes to the White House without public funding for abortion.
Am I being paranoid? Do we have a counter strategy?
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
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Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
I think health care is a done deal
usadying (Diary) Tuesday, March 9th at 10:27AM EST (link)The no’s are dropping like flies, I have to hand it to Pelosi and Obama. They’ve accomplished it by hook or by crook (mostly the latter). The groundwork for the mammoth health care bureaucracy was laid out in the stimulus bill. Obama has to go for broke on this. It’s disgusting, but most of all, it is very sad for this country. Step 1 of the great transformation and wealth redistribution is about to begin.
Quit Whining.
avgjo (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 5:32PM EST (link)Even if it passes, still a tossup, we’re gonna repeal it.
Not fight to repeal it.
Not try to repeal it.
Not dream of repealing it.
We’re going to.
And you can join the war.
But first, please change your username.
Ceterum autem censeo, Obamaecuram esse delendam.
Good question.
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 5:21PM EST (link)Mitch McConnell needs to be ready.
The best is probably to slow things down enough to prevent funding before January. If funding can be stopped until 2012, we have a chance for repeal.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964