The vote: Open thread; Reports: STUPAK CAVES; 9:50pm Closing statements; Boehner: “Heavy heart;” “Have you read the bill…Hell, no, you haven’t!;” Pelosi: Health care a “right and not a privilege;” First vote: 219-212; last-ditch GOP effort fails; FINAL reconciliation vote tally: 220-211

Scroll for updates…9:50pm Eastern…GOP Rep. Eric Cantor making final remarks before final vote…Obama reportedly will make statement in East Room after vote, per FNC’s Major Garrett…10:05pm Eastern…Boehner blasts Dems…calls for individual votes to be announced one by one…Dems duck the request…final roll call on Senate bill – 219-212….here are the 34 Dems who voted against…final roll call vote on reconciliation bill – 220-211

Bart Stupak: Going down with the ship. (Reader Robert e-mails: “‘Going down with the ship’ implies honor. Stupak didn’t go down with the ship. He was even too stupid to hop on the first lifeboat. He’s the moron who believes the ship isn’t sinking.”)
The House has just voted 228-195 to proceed on the Wreckonciliation votes. This could go on until midnight. Stay tuned for updates and check my Twitter feed for all breaking developments.
In the 3pm Eastern hour, debate continues on the floor. GOP raising earmarks issue. The Hill and GOP Rep Mike Pence reporting that Dems don’t have the votes. Stupak discussing executive order with pro-life groups. Press conference scheduled for 4pm, per Steven Ertelt.
In the 4pm hour, Stupak has caved for the phony baloney executive order.
It’s over — and it’s only just begun.
***
Here’s the empty piece of paper.
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Betrayal:
“This deal to pass the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade is a tragedy for America. We believe that Mr. Stupak’s choice to succumb to the intense pressure of the last week has resulted in his endorsement of a charade that does not even begin to address the anti-life provisions in this legislation. The American people do not support taxpayer funding of abortion and Speaker Pelosi and the President have undermined representative democracy by working to pass this legislation with this unprecedented contortion of the legislative process.”
- Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO of Americans United for Life Action
***
Jim Hoft has video of Stupak’s deception.
“If everything I want [is] in the final bill, I like everything in the bill except you have public funding for abortion, and we had a chance to run our amendment and we lost. OK, I voted my conscience, stayed true to my principles, stayed true to the beliefs of this district, could I vote for healthcare? Yes I still could.”
***
Meet Dan Benishek, Stupak’s GOP challenger in Michigan’s 1st congressional district. His campaign slogan: “You deserve better.”
Another challenger: Linda Goldthorpe.
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Update 6:04pm Eastern Procedural vote now underway on rules for debate — known as the “previous question.” Will be a five minute vote.
Motion passes, 228-202. 15-minute recorded vote now underway, then general debate to follow.
Update 8:20pm Eastern: Debate turns ugly. Democrat Bill Pascrell accuses GOP of fear-mongering on floor. GOP demands retraction. Pascrell withdraws.
Update 10:00pm Eastern: Boehner makes closing statement. “I rise to tonight with a sad and heavy heart…We have failed to reflect the will of our constituents.”
Boehner’s vote rises as he asks whether Dems have read the full bill, manager’s amendment, reconciliation bill? Hell, no, you haven’t!”
Obey asks that reps remember the dignity of the House.
Totally appropriate snickers from the audience.
Boehner reminds Dems: This is the people’s house, and the moment a majority forgets it, they begin riding a path to minority status.
10:17pm Eastern Pelosi takes the floor. Makes obligatory nod to Obama. Tepid applause.
Pelosi: “This is an American proposal that honors the traditions of our country.”
Unreal: Pelosi talking about how Demcare will unleash “entrepreneurial spirit”…while med professionals get ready to bolt.
Bogus statistic alert: Pelosi recycling death-by-uninsurance numbers.
Pelosi invokes Teddy Kennedy.
The moment of transformation: Pelosi – “Health care is a right and not a privilege.”
Update: First of three big votes. 219-212 on Senate bill, HR3590.
Stupak took to the floor to argue against separate vote on his own abortion funding language.
Update: Here’s the final roll call on reconciliation bill, 219-212.
GOP’s effort to stop the momentum through motion to recommit fails.
Vote on reconciliation bill “fix” is cast: 220-211. Pelosi announces.
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Cicerokid…I can’t find the original post. Did you snip that from this thread?
Anybody….do you know about Sharpton saying this?
Barry and Joe walk out…Joe smirking. Barry starts off with a few lies. Excuse me while I go hurl.
What about people who support border security? What about people who support smaller government? What about people who believe in the constitution?
You cast a pretty big, ugly net with that statement. I hope you are not a PR guy with the RNC because you guys will have a hell of a time trying to win votes with that attitude.
The R’s don’t even get a chance before 2013. The most they can get is 59 seats in the Senate, more likely, they’ll come close to taking the Senate, but probably come up a few short. But even with all 59 Republican Senators voting for repeal, it isn’t enough to over ride a veto. Meanwhile, the IRS will start hiring agents. Ditto HHS.
BTW, if the Senate got to 51 Republicans, Snowe would go Jeffords so Biden could be tiebreaker and Reid (if he survives his Nevada election) or some other Marxist could become majority leader.
The only thing good that happens in January 2011 is the House, assuming it goes Republican (I’m guessing it does, barring unprecedented vote fraud, which means it is time for war), can start holding hearings and compel sworn testimony from people in ACORN and the SEIU about voter fraud and criminal activity, Holder and other DOJ people about letting the Black Panthers off the hook for vote intimidation, Sestak about Obama;s criminal bribe of a job offer if he didn’t challenge Spectre, the Walpin firing to protect Kevin Johnson in Sacramento, etc. Maybe get Blagojevich up on the Hill to talk about what he knows about the Chicago Machine.
But the best that can happen is blocking new disasterous bills, and they have 9 months left to cram through amnesty, to add illegals to the voting rolls, making California safely Demonrat forever and making Texas an electoral battleground, crap-n-tax, and all manner of Marx inspired stuff designed to weaken our country.
While Obama continues to betray and abandon old allies like Britain, Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Colombia, etc.
Actually I like DeMint. The trouble is if the republicans ever take back control, DeMint won’t be the leader. It will be the McCains and Grahams of this world. And McCain and Graham are in the same league as Obama, Pelosi and Reid. I actually prefer the latter since they openly show their affiliation and I know where they stand.
I heard Sharpton say it myself. Clear as a bell: The American people voted overwhelmingly for socialism when they voted for Obama.
The scariest thing for me is that they are now proud of being socialists. What a freakin’ disaster. I knew that liberty died when he was elected, and I was correct.
This is indeed a dark day for our country.
O-Banana Republic of the Divided States
formerly known as the United States of America.
Bingo, that’s why the House is the target in November. When the Obama boil gets lanced, all hell will break loose.
Great comment I just heard from a caller on C-Span (I’m paraphrasing here): “I think everyone should have the right to the same quality of health care I’ve been privileged to have.”
I snipped that from Hot Air
WOW! I can’t wait for the Youtube. This was an incredibly stupid thing to say, especially since Sharpton has been somewhat of an adviser to Obama lately.
I was listenting to Fox while he was talking…
Just sent this message to Congressman Periello, who is my weasel.
The American Voter in Her Wisdom clearly did vote for socialism. So it was either what they wanted, or they are one seriously stupid collection of voters, on balance.
GOD FORGIVE US!
BINGO!
“Life is tough; it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” - John Wayne
I scarcely believe that half of the people voting for the obamanation know what socialism is!
Came home to New York after three years abroad in Japan. I was married over there. My wife is from Tokyo. Our first son will be born next month.
If this bill survives the legal challenges and becomes settled law, it’s back to Tokyo for us. Japan is still reeling from its lost decade. I don’t want to be around for what is to come here. At least over there they have no pretense about “the consent of the governed,” and being a “beacon of liberty.” They also don’t force their citizens to purchase specific products from private companies.
Gentlemen,Ladies, as the case may be, please restrain the mutual name-calling/accusations and keep your focus on the right enemies-which happen to be not each other. I’m as angry as any of you tonight, but what has happened has happened -we need to focus on what we are going to do from this point on.
I work for an oil company.
Tell me Ron Paul has ever done a thing to distance himself from all the support he gets from Storm Front and Klan groups. Ron Paul also seems to attract a lot of support from lefty antisemites. He doesn’t actively encourage them, no, but he sure doesn’t discourage them.
Tell me Kevin Brady or Ted Poe want loose borders or amnesty for illegals. Or expanded government, or more government regulation.
Ron Paul can never win, all he can do is splinter off enough anti-Obama votes to throw the election, or at least throw it within the margin of fraud.
BTW, I did vote for John McCain. Not in the primaries, he ranked only above Huckleberry and Giuliani on my least of least wanted serious candidates, but he represented status quo, a slow drift to socialism. Obama is akin to the Nazis, he needed to win one election and then he’d be in power for years.
I was familiar with quotes from “Dreams of My Father” back when Hillary seemed the obvious nominee. I purchased a “Re-Defeat Communism” sticker with her face on it. I didn’t need Joe the Plumber to get my first clue this guy was a communist. I knew the danger of electing a practicing communist, a man who detested the US.
So I chose the slow boat to socialism over the express train to communist hell.
The people drawn off by mobies like P. Phil didn’t throw the election, McCain was that bad of a candidate and the MSM refused to cover anything bad about Obama.
It isn’t John Kerry style “nuance” to know McCain was by far the lesser of two evils, and vote that way.
Anyway, more faxes to Dr. Coburn. His Senate page says he is committed to only two terms and back to delivering babies in Oklahoma, but our country needs someone like him. Someone who has fought hard to defeat Marxist hell care, and someone who can actually beat Obama in 2012.
Nancy, humility involves being humble and modest. Quit changing the definitions of words!
They mostly think it is what they do each day on Facebook…… It’s like interacting ya’ know?
I can’t remember the particular incident — probably happened numerous times — but I heard a very major reporter (like a network anchor) browbeating the heck out of a prominent conservative over our side referring to Obama as a socialist. A couple of months ago our using the s-word was to make ourselves wingnuts…a laughingstock for the MSM heavies. And now they admit that that is exactly what they are and think that they have a majority of the electorate deliberately voting for socialism.
Just told my wife she had 8-16 months to pack…
“Shhhhhh… Be vewy vewy quiet….. We’re hunting Democwats…..”
Progressives put the plan to march America toward communism over 100 years ago. It is now coming to maturity.
Wake up America and take back our Republic!
Nov. 2010!
1877, over 130 years of Marxism in the US, and they finally came to power in January 2009
You’ve just lost your argument when you have to bring up racism and antisemitism. Base your arguments on his positions. You sound like a member of LGF who tries to play their six degrees of separation game.
Be careful when selecting the best candidate to oppose Rep. Stupak.
Linda Goldthorpe was endorsed by Ron Paul in 2008.
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/117663
Felt like hurling, but will ready tar and feathers instead.
I’m sick of people talking about how “historic” this is.
http://gmirwin.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/what-is-historic/
If Stupak thinks that Obama’s executive order will stand 5 minutes after he signs the healthcare bill he’s stupider than I thought.
Obama is a strong supporter of not only abortion but infanticide.
They will soon enough.
Remember the names of the 221 names that should live in infamy. The one thing that can be done is to spare no effort, no sacrifice, no expense to assure our country that these people be ousted from office and made to be pariahs in any community in the United States.0
A battle has been lost, an important one I’ll grant, but still only a battle. Remember this also, the NVA lost every battle against the US but still won the war. Take heart in this and Charlie Mike!(Continue the Mission!)
No, I didn’t lose my argument when I bring up Ron Paul has done nothing to separate himself from StormFront.
Racism and antisemitism are cool with you, I take it?
I despise race pimps like Jesse Jackson and the Reverend Al, and white race pimps like Obama’s pal Fr. Phleger in Chicago. I feel no guilt whatsoever for being a white man because what other white men did 150 years ago. But when StormFront and Klan groups love you, and you say nothing, it makes one wonder.
I’d otherwise admire his fealty to the Constitution, but he has never written a bill passed in Congress, and he won’t ever win election outside his district.
BTW, a real Texas Republican, John Carter, has announced he is working with several state AGs on a lawsuit to be filed as quickly as possible to block Obamacare as being clearly in violation of the Constitution, and, assuming the GOP wins back the House, will work to ensure no funds are authorized to implement hell care.
The EO will stand until Stupak has been reelected in 2010 and then reelected again in 2012. There’s no reason to rescind it until Obamacare actually goes into action in 2013. By that time everyone will have forgotten.
Sorry, but that really is the way it is.
Stupak knows this. He’s a Democrat. Democrats are scum. He knew all along he was going to vote for the bill. He just needed political cover.
Stupak isn’t stupid. It just needed the smallest of fig leaves to have to claim he didn’t think the government would be using our tax money to suck brains from babies.
He is a fraud and a traitor.
Nah, the pro-abortion group, the majority of the Dems, will instantly challenge the EO, and will win, assuming Obama care isn’t slapped down prior.
Obama signed the law that mandates federally funded baby killing. he can’t undo that with an executive order.
He is if he thinks the rewards in this life outway the punishment in the next.
Ok, sleeping pill time.
I am so furious right now.
So if she is the nominee does this mean we should not vote for her? Would Stupak, the guy who just drove a stake through our collective heart, be better because Ron Paul supports her?
I’m not letting this bring me down. It only strengthens my convictions. Submission – letting the other side dominate the discussion – is what got us into this mess. Submission is what will make things worse. People certainly are stubborn with their willful ignorance and apathy, though. That has to ch…
That has to chuhhh…
It’s gotta ch-ch—
Alter.
Aspiration and alteration. Yeah, that’s it. That’s what we need.
All right, I’m outta here. G’night.
My understanding is they have to have a case where the EO would be causing ‘damage.’ Obamacare doesn’t go into effect until 2013.
If you really want to fight this, drop your health insurance. Now if you have a family and small children, you should not do this. Your obligations to them are top priority.
However, if you are a young, healthy person who otherwise does not have insurance through your employer, you should consider refusing to purchase insurance. If enough people, maybe 5 to 10 million nationwide, refuse to purchase insurance, you could muck up the system, force the issue to be taken to the courts and maybe you could help put the kibosh on this.
Stupak claims to be Catholic, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus.
All a sham. He worship the Lord of this World.
I understand Ed…get some sleep.
Yup.
And NOW since so many are seeing the obvious, can we stop tolerating the occasional stupid Leftist trolling on this and other conservative sites?
There is a war on, and if people are finally understanding that there is no such thing as a “moderate Democrat,” then can we please stop allowing the useful idiots to come here and spew their nonsense?
I’m talking about the usual “reasonable” Lefties that come here that would be the first ones in line spitting on you as you’re marched to the camps.
It’s time to consolidate and get serious like never before. I’m not talking about hating; I’m talking about not allowing them to steal the momentum and energy coming here and doing the usual dance of denial, deflection, and obfuscation.
I love Duane Patterson’s resolve at hughhewitt.com:
Major O, I couldn’t agree more…I am sick and tired of this “can’t we all get along” crap as the dems spew as they spit(whoreagldo) on us..and IMHO “hate” is not to strong a word. They are the enemy, they just spit on the constitution, could be the saddest day in American history.
The dems are a pack of self serving, lieing, un-American traitors and if that’s to strong language for anyone here, tuff poop.
hugh hewitt? he is a RINO who is for amnesty. he is not a conservative at all
he is the country club repub who lindsey graham most represents
Well, I am going to give it up myself and hit the sheets.
I have trouble getting to sleep and always prepare some little sheep-counting style exercise to help.
Tonight, I am going to imagine an endless line of Dems receiving their worldly punishment and alternating between long drops and short drops. First a long drop, then a short drop. Then another long drop, then a short drop. Long drop…short drop…long drop, short drop. Each Dem steps up in turn and receives the long or the short drop. Long, short, long, short. My eyelids are getting very heavy…
(No, I am not going to imagine slowly hoisting any from the ground and strangling them to death; I’m not a monster, after all.)
The only reason why I’m not flying my flag at half mast and/or upside down is that I’m overseas and in uniform. Sad, sad day for our beloved Republic.
No need to wait until November!
Vote anybody who voted for this health care bill out of office in the Primary!
Here is the schedule for upcoming Primary elections:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/01/03/congressional_primary_calendar.html
April 13
Texas run-off
May 4
Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio
May 11
Nebraska, West Virginia
May 18
Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania
May 25
Idaho
June 1
Alabama, Mississippi, New Mexico
June 8
California, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Arkansas run-off
June 22
Utah, North Carolina run-off, Mississippi run-off, South Carolina run-off
June 29
South Dakota run-off
July 13
Alabama run-off
July 20
Georgia
July 27
Oklahoma
August 3
Kansas, Michigan, Missouri
August 5
Tennessee
August 10
Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia run-off
August 17
Washington, Wyoming
August 24
Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma run-off
August 28
Louisiana
September 14
Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin
September 18
Hawaii
October 2
Louisiana run-off
LET US KNOW WHO THE BEST CANDIDATES ARE IN YOUR DISTRICT!
Right. I’m talking about how you have a situation where many, many people on this blog, across America, and in elected offices believe we very well may have just committed to one of the most disastrous decisions ever made by a Congress. So disastrous it has the potential to diminish American greatness for good.
AND YET, certain avowed Leftists will come here, and conservative folks will immediately offer this chirpy, giggly, happy banter with the very folks who support and fund the ones who are destroying the country as it has been known. It’s high comedy, I suppose.
This isn’t the scene from Princess Bride where Wesley banters amicably with Inigo as they duel to the death–this is serious and it irritates me to no end to have to deal with the fools in Congress, but also their useful dupes HERE. They may not be “the enemy” but they are not our friends.
Last I checked, “Duane” does not equal “Hugh.”
I don’t believe in hate crime. So long as the so-called racist or antisemite has not harmed a person or his property, I could care less what he thinks. To paraphrase Jefferson, it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Once you go down the road of marginalizing people because someone has labeled them racist or antisemite, you’re playing by the rules of the left whether you realize it or not. (See William Lind and cultural marxism)
The trouble with those rules is that what constitutes racism and antisemitism is subject to constant change, and is always determined by those on the left who use it to shut up those on the right.
Just look up the Southern Poverty Law Center sometime. They make their living off classifying people. Once you get labeled by the SPLC, good luck getting your articles published or being invited on a MSM interview show.
If you, a right of center person, accept this, you will acknowledge their authority and help marginalize your own positions because you will always be subject to answering those charges.
For example, you oppose Obamacare. Some are saying that makes you a racist because Obamacare is going to help the poor who are disproportionately black and hispanic. The SPLC will label you racist if you oppose amnesty.
I’ve even heard suggestions that they are trying to “diagnose” racism as a mental disorder. This sounds eerily similar to what was done to political opponents in the USSR.
So if you don’t like Ron Paul base it on his positions like foreign policy, central banking and the budget.
I wouldn’t expect Paul to condemn people on their personal beliefs. That would be counter to his classical liberal stance.
To be condemned by the SPLC is a badge of honor.
The SPLC ended their reason for existence when they sued the last major Klan groups into bankruptcy.
Now they sue farmers on the border who detain illegal trespassers.
Always been a little lefty, but now a lefty group with no real enemies, so they create them from honest American citizens.
Same story with the NAACP, for that matter. Trade unions as well. As if basektball players and government workers need a union to protect their rights.
Bureaucracies and organizations don’t die, they just mutate into ever more dangerous entities.
Why anyone would put any trust in Stupak is beyond me. He got his 15 minutes of fame, and like all good socialist voted with the party of doom. If he was really Pro Life why did he vote to use federal funds for Planned Parenthood, which uses that money for abortions. We can’t trust these people so the next step is to get rid of them.
Yeah, I ALWAYS sign Contracts that will cost me BIG TIME without F***ING READING THE F***ING PAPERS!
The socialists are out of the closet and proud of it. The traitors are self-identified. While those in DC are punch drunk with the passage of this bill, it is now time to make their lives a living hell!! Stupak thought that life was tough before the vote. He ain’t seen nothin’ yet!!!! Baby killer indeed. These clowns have to campaign for re-election. I doubt that they can “sell” Bhocare benefits well enough when it means that those of us with money pay more for our stuff and have to pay for the freeloading dems’ voting base as well. How interesting it is that on this day in history the stamp act was passed. Congress has passes our own stamp act and it is time to declare our independence from this new enslavement.
We (meaning the American citizenry) are SO screwed.
My rep quit before the vote – so i am truly being taxed without representation, but the best hope for a Republican from Hawaii is coming in the special election. The two Dems may split the vote, giving Djou a chance.
It’s how Dems buy houses too.
THANK YOU AlohaGuy!!!
Charles Djou looks like a great candidate for Hawaii’s Special Election to replace Rep. Abercrombie!
Patriots: Let’s send another Republican to Congress! Check out Charles Djou’s web site at: http://www.djou.com/ Then spread the word about his campaign far & wide!
Hawaii’s Special Election will be done by mail.
Ballots will be mailed April 30
Last day to mail in ballots May 15
Deadline for Ballots to be received May 22.
So we don’t have much time.
Every vote counts in Congress! And Special Elections are the fastest way to make changes in Congress!
I sent Djou some bucks last week. God knows he’s going to need it.
The Hanabusabots are on street corners nearly every day. Maybe we should give Ed Case some money too.
Hanabusa is Pelosi-in-waiting.
He – like Obama – went to Punahou for High School, but then went to U Penn where he got two degrees, one in Poly Sci, the other in Econ from Wharton. Then a law degree at USC. He’s also an Army officer in the Reserves. Don’t let the “French” name concern you – he’s no relative of John Kerry – but Chinese-Thai I believe.