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.
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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
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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.”
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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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People can change jobs and keep health insurance, Pelosi? They are lucky to have a job!
You lie, Pelosi. You lie!
Our wonderful social security system is unsustainable, too, Nancy.
Remember all Nancy’s remarks some time ago about “drain the swap” and “ethical” and the other sheet she promised? All of which never came true.
Same for the sheet she is spewing now.
It won’t come true.
Gag me with a dirty spoon.
+1,000,000…
One sock could not possibly begin to fill the void.
Don’t tell me she really believes everything she is saying!
I disagree with trials for enemy combatants. (But I don’t disagree with righteous justice.)
Nancy said “dain the swamp”. I think she meant “drank the swamp”.
People will continue to go to emergency rooms and lie about having insurance so they can stiff the hospital. That way they will not have to pay towards a deductible or pay a copay. You watch and see.
Historic vote. She’s right. They’re history.
The last time it I was in Washington I was noticing that it was too dark on the back (not the mall) side of the capitol. Some old-fashioned lampposts ought to be installed there. A nice row of them.
Only in America can a blithering idiot become Speaker of the House.
I weep for my nation tonight.
Ok, let’s now hear from all of those who told us that it was no big deal when the Senate passed this atrocity in the first place, Middleton.
Wait! There is Bluesoc….!
Wondering when Kennedy’s name would be invoked.
Stupak caved?Did anyone expect anything else from a Democrap?
Rope is cheap.
Not a right, Nancy, no matter how many times you say it.
A degree of mercy would be appropriate here. No one deserves a fate like that……
How stupid is Stupak? How cowardly and how craven?
Stupak is counting on a promise from Obama on limiting federal funding for abortion? This guy needs a few days in Saint Elizabeth’s.
This is just plain nuts!
Will Boehner get his request for a voice vote?
As I watch Pelosi spew her lunatic talking points I can only wonder how can anybody take her seriously. She seems borderline crazy and can only make her case as if she was addressing a group of twelve year old children. I don’t know what bothers me more: that somebody like her can be rise to one of the most powerful people in our government or that America is being taken down by such a shallow, idiotic socialist.
I wanted to puke every time Nancy involed the Founders. HOW DARE SHE!!!
So detached from these creeps…they do NOT represent Americans.
We need to fight this with everything we have, people! We will not rest on this.
Back in the day, I used to work for a very large computer company that was considered perhaps the best corporation in the country to work for. I wouldn’t necessarily describe the salary and benefits as “lavish,” but they were very comfortable. People were taken care.
There came to be a problem that HR had to address: People who required a minor hospital procedure were contriving to enter through the Emergency Room and spend an unnecessary night. They did this because it evaded — at tremendous cost to the company — a very small deductible that otherwise had to be paid to receive the procedure as an outpatient. We are talking twenty bucks or so.
I really don’t have a very good impression of humanity, which is why I distrust Utopian schemes and believe in expecting people to rely on themselves to the greatest extent possible.
I think it proper for her to give credit to Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.
Meanwhile, in her thick and twisted skull, babies don’t have the right to be born…but freeloaders have a right to government handouts. Rotten wench.
Stupak isn’t stupid.
He knows an executive order blocking part of the bill Obama will sign into law with great fanfare can’t block implementation of parts of the bill.
He knows it’ll be slapped down in court within weeks. He just needed an excuse that lets him vote for hell care and claim he didn’t vote for taxpayer funded abortions.
It isn’t stupid, its treason.
Pelosi enjoys knowing IRS agents will enforce this, and compel under penalty of fines and prison, Christians and other pro-life people to pay taxes they know will be used to kill babies.
Spiteful, evil b!tch.
Get to your State Legislatures and demand they put forth laws to counter this takeover! Demand your AG sue over this unconstitutional bill! Fight Fight Fight. Donate and work for those who oppose anybody who voted for this bill and let your incumbent know exactly what you are going to do. We must ensure the progressives are banished once and for all!
People will continue to find the cheapest way to avoid paying.
Wicked Witch of the West. Get me a bucket of water!
Its over
The nations freeloaders are cheering tonight. And now the Comrade-in-Chief can get busy on amnesty for all those “Undocumented Democrats”.
-These commies have spit in the faces of American voters across this country. The battle lines are drawn even deeper .
If he goes for the immigration bill right away watch for hell to break loose.
I am convinced Obama is the modern version of the Manchurian Candidate. His goal is only to convert this country to communism.
Chanting yes we can. Yes, you can go home after the next election. We will make sure of it.
Vote to concur with Senate Amendments final vote:
219 – 212
OK folks get with the campaign and start working on dumping all the dimocraps!!!
Plenty of hell over Obamacare, and we got the middle finger.
Immigration will be more of the same.
Elections have consequences, and we sure showed them Repubs a thing or two in 2006 & 2008, huh Phil?
All done.
Satan and his minions are rejoicing in hell.
ooops…forgot…welcome to the USSA….
219 yes.
219 emails and phone calls.
The audio and video recordings of the past year will haunt you.
I’ll need to take a prescription pill tonight to get to sleep.
Gotta be extra fresh at work, they’ll be downsizing in every sector but the Federal government (HHS and the IRS, especially), so I have to make a good impression, and, of course, more freeloaders will soon be getting more benefits of the taxes I pay, so to I’ll need a raise just to keep up with the tax hikes. And the inflation the added debt will no doubt trigger.
Good day to be an SEIU exec. Probably a big catered party at HQ. Stern is probably blasted already. Heck, they don’t worry about the law, maybe lines of the finest Columbian is already laid out. Maybe Barry Hussein will come by and join them. He likes the nose candy.
It’s done. “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” msy have been appropriate, had they known not what they are doing.
My healthy just-turned-ten-year-old daughter has just been mandated to carry health insurance she does not need, against my will.
What do you expect from people who champion partial birth abortion?
Twisted, self serving, greedy, phony, moronic traitors. They don’t deserve to live in this country.
Butterfield from NC will be my first target. He promised at a town hall meeting he wouldn’t vote for any bill that allowed federally funded abortion.
I promised I would fight his reelection if he voted for it.
They got to 219? Pelotox had a bad whip count. A couple more closet Marxists, aka “Blue Dogs”, could have been allowed a chance to keep their seats.
Close enough.
Tree of Liberty is starting to look parched.
Oh, my gosh! Can you imagine!
And we are not cloture-proof in the Senate on amnesty…Graham, and perhaps others, would vote with the Dems. Heck, Graham is co-sponsoring a bill with Chuck Schumer even now. Fortunately, there are probably quite a few Dems who would come over to our side, though.
But if they did this now…OMG…I seriously think you are talking about violence. (And it would please me if Graham accidentally stepped in front of the first brickbat.)
Not on my dime…
State legislatures, and Tenth Amendment challenges.
And hope no natural or unnatural death comes to Kennedy (who is a coin flip anyway), Roberts, Alito, Scalia or Thomas.
Only peaceful options left to preserve the Republic.
Be looking for the health care deduction on your upcoming paychecks right next to the other deductions.
4 reams of government control over our health…
Nancy already said she needed more than 216 to take the pressure off the “one” Dem that voted yes as being his/her fault it passed.
My only comfort at this point is the hope that these liberty-killing, baby-murdering Leftists will burn in Hell for their evil deeds.
The IRS will garnish your wages or deny your withholding, or jail you, to force you to help pay for sucking the brains out of full term babies.
I guess the prison option means you didn’t actually contribute money for the killing, except for whatever of your assets they seize. Empty the bank account.
Unless you take a minimum wage job so you can stop paying taxes. Or leave the country. Or go Galt and into hiding.
should have bought two magnums of wine…
by the way, where has Chappy been? I needed a wine pairing with coctail weenies…
The Lambrusco worked ok.
Stupak Surrender
Great! I love playing jeopardy!
Taxation without representation for two hundred!
Well said, Maisy:
I have the TV off. Did any Republican vote for this murder bill?
Tonight I am sad. Tomorrow we begin the battle to win back our country,vote by vote, until we throw the bums out.
This is war.
Done.
Work in progress.
They are saying that by November, people will forget all about this, because they will feel the effects of the “good ” parts starting immediatly, but that the taxes won’t kick in until next year, after the November elections. Therefore, they will think they were wrong about the bill being bad. Then the really bad things don’t kick in until 2013 or 2014.
Even charles Krauthammer on Fox said this.
I hope and pray he’s wrong, and that we stay focused, and don’t let them fool us. Keep it in our memories of what has taken place, and just how bad it’s going to get!!!
BTW, I know, at minimum, people like McCain, Graham and Hatch are useful idiots.
But unless Obama is unchallenged, so Kos and DU can send their young Maoist charges into the open GOP primaries in states that have them, and we wind up with Olympia Snowe as the candidate, talking up a third party candidate that guarantees four more years of a Marxist bent on destroying the Republic at the helm, is stupid at best, and very likely DU/KOS/FireDogLake/HuffPo mobyism at work.
Dump the RINOs in the primaries whenever possible, support real Republicans, like Rubio over Crist, and for heaven’s sake, get the Communist Traitor out of the White House, and then worry about the mushtards like Grahamnesty.
Tomorrow we begin the battle to win back our country,vote by vote, until we throw the bums out.
Has not been possible for 90 years, the last time repubs held a filibuster-proof majority. Amnesty is gonna’ seal the deal.
Sorry, Lindsay, forgot to quote you. Like everyone else, i am incensed at this to the point of incapacitaion. Yet we will continue to fight!
Will Pelosi be able to bring her big gavel with her into Leavenworth in 2011?
On March 21st, 2010 at 10:48 pm, tiredofit08 said:
I just registered the domain
http://www.dahlkemper2010.com
I intend to use that to start the information campaign against this lap dog
Yeah, we should have voted for McSmamnsesty? Mr global warming? The guy who told Obama that Republicans were close to agreement on Obamacare at the Oba-Kabuki WH session? The guy whose best friend Lindsay Graham put in an amnesty bill into the ObamaCare bill?
Yeah, we’d be better off with those Assistant Democrats in power. What are you drinking? You can’t really believe that THIS Republican party will overturn the bill after November! Obama and crew just accomplished what the Bush/McCain/Kennedy Republicans tried to accomplish the preceding 8 years.
You forgot Romney and Palin.
Vote out all incumbents in November!
Want free energy? Wrap any Founding Father’s corpse in copper wire tonight and stick him in a turbine.
Worst President, ever!
Worst Congress, ever!
To the Supreme Court we go!
May the repeal process begin and may victory ensue in 2010 and 2012.
January 21st 2013, the day that the bill will be repealed!
Next a Constitutional Amendment to preclude Health-care from ever being enjoined under the Federal Government.
Amnesty is without a doubt the next phase of the Democrats’ plan to transform and further divide this disunited country.
FATHER, FORGIVE THEM. . .
FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.
I wonder if this new “reform” package will help Stupak and his pack of suckers get that taste of Obama’s butt off his lips?
Is there any chance at all that SCOTUS will find this constitutional?
Oh, by the way, this nationalizes the student loan system, too.
Um, wrong part of Obama, pal. Ick.
Vote out Ryan? King of Iowa? Duncan Hunter? I don’t know if DeMint is up this year. Or Coburn.
But vote them out?
I smell DU Mobyism. No denying RINOs, and some absolute traitors like the Maine twins, but to claim there is no difference in parties, is either deceitful or retardation in action.
And on the 8th day, 219 Men and Women made themselves God and started creating rights. Sick, sad and sinister. Liberty is not dead. We will triumph. Darkest before dawn. Persevere.
All up to Kennedy, of the inscrutable judicial philosophy, whether SCOTUS rules this a huge overstep of Congress’ authority.
Like I said, assuming the Chicago Boys or natural illness doesn’t take Scalia, Alito, Roberts or Thomas.
I’d hope Texas secedes from the union, and isn’t opposed, if this isn’t struck down.
Dems keep yapping about the benefits Americans will see immediately, such as adult children freeloaders being put on their parent plans and no denial of pre-existing conditions. Won’t this drive up rates immediately as well? Don’t the Dems realize voters and business won’t be pleased when they see yet another massive rate increase and that this time it can be tied directly to this legislation?
Posted once, previous page…
http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/UploadedFiles/IRS_Power_Report.pdf
And that is why the progressive will continue to move on. Sheeple like you will never learn.
Come January 2011, we will fighting twice as hard against the Republicans who will have reneged on all those oaths on mothers’ graves to repeal Obamacare and proceed to add amnesty and cap and trade to the damage. Exactly where THIS Republican party left off in 2006 and 2008. Duh!!!
Remember the Gaspee!
You just won a kewpie doll.
They know exactly what they’re doing.
Cain’t ferget dem 26-year ole chillun’s.
Would the student loan nationalization be to make sure less money goes to white and asian students?
Nov.
1. Take back Congress
2. Repel Obamacare
3. Impeach Obama!
That will be a good start back to “normal.”
Phil, you might want to want to remember what Sancho told Don Quixote.
“Be careful my Lord. Those dragons are windmills.”
But hey it is still a semi-free country. Climb up on your horse, grab your lance, and have at it.
The rest of us will be lining up the local Democrats in our crosshairs. They are now in the open and it’s a target-rich environment.
That’s what he thinks…
Sheeple.???
You stupid Moby Democrat. I have served my country. You want Ron Paul to run for President to split the vote to guarantee Obama gets elected despite the majority wanting him out.
The only people that support Ron Paul are the Storm Front neo-Nazis and Democrats looking to divide the Republicans.
You traitorous scum.
Get off this board. You contemptible idiot. DeMint and Coburn and Ryan are the same as Obama and Pelosi and Reid?
You are a Democrat moby. If civil war comes, I hope your side of Marxist traitors lose, and you hang.
Worse than an open Demonrat.
The Idiot American Electorate has sown the seeds of national destruction.
Sharpton said that on FOX…really?
That is HUGE. ***HUGE*** Stealth socialism has worked so well up to now…hard to believe they’d let their egos drive them to taunt — with the truth — the American people who have been duped. They’ve been duped but they aren’t quite dead yet.
He said ~THAT~? Any more details?
Well, Soros sure got his money’s worth from his private political party!
This is a very dark day for the United States.
I doubt the R’s can ever fully repeal or defund this. The solution is not civil war, but secession. America as we know it is on the path to disintegration.
FIFY