Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes.It's a mistake to refer to this as just a health care bill. In fact, it involves most of the contentious issues that separate Republicans from Democrats (don't tell me there's no difference between the parties - that's just ignorant).
"We're very close" to having enough votes to prevail, said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, although he added a scheduled Saturday vote could slip by a day or two and sought to pin the blame on possible Republican delaying tactics.
"Nice try, Rep. Hoyer, but you can't blame Republicans when the fact is you just don't have the votes," shot back Antonia Ferrier, spokeswoman for the GOP leader, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio.
In a struggle that combined the fate of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority and a 2010 campaign issue, bipartisanship was not an option.
GOP leaders boasted that all 177 House Republicans stood ready to oppose the $1.2 trillion bill, which would create a new federally supervised insurance marketplace where the uninsured could purchase coverage.
In order to accomplish their health care objectives the Democrats are willing to take away your freedom to choose whether to buy insurance or not, will dramatically raise taxes on all kinds of things to pay for it (and will still fall far short), will provide your tax dollars to fund care for illegal immigrants and abortion, and will likely bankrupt the country in the process. If someone outside our country tried to do this to us we'd declare war on them.
It's time to declare war on any Democrat who votes for this, and in fact, any Democrat...period. Their party does not care what happens to America. They're simply blinded by their socialist ideology.
Sadly, this bill will likely pass with the barest of majorities, made up entirely of Democrat votes. And we'll wrap this thing around their necks and keep squeezing until they are no more.
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If the democrats pass this Health Care Bill with their own majority of votes, then come election day we can certainly wrap this whole thing around their necks and strangle them by voting them out of office.
If it passes, and we vote out the scoundrels, will we be able to repeal the law?
If it is such a good bill, why are they having problems getting the votes? Why are they voting on it on a Saturday? Why do they always have to be sneaky?
Hey Blue Dogs... are you seriously willing to end your political career for Nancy Pelosi?
WHY?
What's in it for you... and your constituents? Hard to imagine why anyone would allow themselves to be hectored into taking-one-for-the-team and incurring the wrath of the nation... when this arrogant socialist twit wouldn't spit on you if your hair was on fire.
NOW is the time to KILL this pig- there's no future in backing Obama's radical plans anymore.
Vote for this highly unpopular bill at your peril... as SanFranNan will leave you twisting-in-the-wind next fall, of that you can be sure.
We're witnessing a turning point in American history. Either the Democrat party finds its soul again or goes extinct. Most people in this country are not on board with the policies of the contemporary "progress" of the Democrat's progressives. And even the Cool People do not really favor these policies -- it's more that they are intimidated. They have lost the backbone to stand up for their own ideas. Everyone I know is a Dem, and I've heard them say all kinds of things to sound cool. And I see, as well, how their actual lives put the lie to what they say.
So even the supporters are weak links. There's a small layer of total wackos behind these ideas, and millions upon millions of normal human beings in the "against" column.
Linda, nothing seems to be in stone, so in answer to your question: yes, I think our new representatives could amend this turkey of a bill into oblivion.
I just hope our current government doesn't try to pull a Zelaya on us.
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