Every time I start to think so, we get a no-to-yes flip.

Boren (D, OK-2) just interviewed on Fox states that we need to move on to jobs. We can reform healthcare in a bipartisan way by fixing pre-existing conditions, allowing insurance to be sold across state lines. He said now is not the time to raise taxes. We should be doing what is best for the American people, not what is best for the Democratic party. He will vote No.

You *are* talking about Democrats, so fuggedaboudid.

They chose to make this screwed up from day one. The only person who didn’t lock out the GOP from the get-go was Max Baucus, and he got tossed under the bus.

Then they learned it wasn’t as easy as they expected in the House when they relied on Democrats only for support of a bill Pelosi wrote in secret, kept out of committees, and suppressed most debate on. She ended up having to cave on abortion to get Stupak and others on board.

Then they learned it wasn’t as easy as expected in the Senate when they relied on Democrats only for support of a bill Reid wrote in secret, kept out of committees, and suppressed most debate on. He ended up having to cave on the public option to get Lieberman on board and then had to buy off Nelson and Landrieu to get them on board.

After taking this “go it alone” approach and then finding they couldn’t make it work out – particularly after Scott Brown replaced Kennedy Kirk – they had to ramp up the “it’s THEIR fault” rhetoric to try to shift blame from their own failed strategy. Then came a summit glorified photo op that backfired and they are now having to resort to breaking any and every rule and lying even more than usual to try to get this monstrosity passed.

And *now* you expect them to show *moral* courage? I don’t think so. That would mean admitting they were wrong for the past year and they will never ever do that.

Of all the Democrat nay votes the first time around, sad to say, all the votes with “moral courage” came from the Left.
Sad, sad, sad. We’re up to our hips in cravens.

If Gabriel visited any of those members at midnight, and stood at the end of their beds and threaten them with eternal damnation, once the initial scare was over, next day they’d try to get a restraining order.

Besides, I’ve had dibs on Gabriel for the longest time, asking him to drop in on Michael Steele.

The sense here is a bout 50/50 as to whether it was pass, or whether it will fail. We mostly agree this is the only vote that will matter.

So, it seems we need to be planning now about next steps, because I think it passes…just as you said, because there is no moral courage and honor on that side of the aisle.

Here’s the problem. Some of the dems have no morals, they are thieves and liars and thugs. Others have them, but manage to separate them from government. Still others may have them but for a price can stuff those same morals in a drawer out of sight.

The last group of democrats (like Stupak) reminds me of that old joke about an obnoxious man trying to hit on a young woman. She continuously rebuffs him. Finally he cuts to the chase. “Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?” The woman hesitates and finally says “Yes.” Then the man asks “Will you sleep with me for twenty dollars?” The woman is outraged, “What do you think I am a prostitute?”

The man replies, “We’ve established that. Now we are just haggling over the price.”

Politics is a dirty game that can only be played by those who like to get dirty. The few good guys, like Mike Pence and Paul Ryan, will eventually get muddied up too, either that or they will leave in disgust.

Trust me when I tell you seeing this happen is like smelling rain on the wind before a storm. You can sense it coming and there is nothing you can do about it. Hoping for “morals” in the Democratic party is like wearing a raincoat make of cheesecloth. It won’t work and it makes you look silly.

The push to turn us into a European statist government with a strong “El Presidente for life” type of leader will never stop. Humans are humans and there will always be those who desire to rule others and those who are willing to be ruled.

I predicted this, and eventually it can end only one way. Read the book- www.revoltthebook.com

The vote has been scheduled for 3/18.

http://www.lifenews.com/nat6071.html

We’ve been saying for awhile we’d know they had the votes when a date was on the calendar. Gibbs says he thinks they have the votes now…

And just as in ’68, we have a compliant media willing to spin every defeat as a victory.

Made me think of one of my all-time favorite poems…
They are attempting to do or die and mostly dying.

Half a league, half a league,
? Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
? Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
? Rode the six hundred.

‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldiers knew
? Some one had blunder’d:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
? Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
? Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
? Rode the six hundred.

Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
? All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel’d from the sabre-stroke
Shatter’d and sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
? Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
? Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
? All the world wonder’d.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
? Noble six hundred!