While you were sleeping: The Vampire Congress strikes again; Update: 2:43am Senate adjourns, parliamentarian ruling will send Wreckonciliation bill back to the House on “minor” GOP points of order; 2:16pm Eastern – Senate passes Wreckonciliation 56-43, Ds Nelson/Lincoln/Pryor vote no; Obama taunts GOP: Repeal? “Go for it”
It ain’t over ’til it’s over…and it’s only just begun.
As you all know, I’m on semi-vacation with my family. It’s 10:00pm Pacific time and after putting everyone to bed, I decided to check in online and turn on the TV. I flipped through C-SPAN thinking I’d be able to catch up on re-runs of the day’s business…only to find the Senate still live and in session at 1:00am Eastern voting on Demcare amendments.
Yes, the Vampire Congress is back in business again — shirking the glare of daylight as it tables Republican motion after motion. A final vote on the wreckonciliation bill is expected at around 3:00-6:00am Eastern Thursday morning.
Here’s a list of some of the GOP amendments to the wreconciliation bill (click on link for more info):
* Senator Gregg: Protect Medicare Savings
* Senator McCain: Remove Sweetheart Deals
* Senator Crapo: No Tax Hikes for Families Earning Under $250,000
* Senator Enzi: Strike the Employer Mandate
* Senator Barrasso: Requires Legislation Not Increase Premiums
* Senator Grassley: Requires President, Congress Enroll in Exchange
* Senator Alexander: Reduce Student Loan Interest Rate
* Senator LeMieux: Members On Medicaid
* Senator Coburn: Bars Sex Offenders from Receiving E.D. Drugs
* Senator Hutchison: State Opt Out
* Senator Hatch: Block Medicare Advantage Cuts
* Senator Collins: Waive Employer Mandate Tax
* Senator Thune: Strike CLASS Act
* Senator Cornyn: Remove New Taxes on Investments
* Senator Hatch: Protect Wounded Soldiers from Medical Device Tax
* Senator Inhofe: Protect Pediatrics and Disabled from Medical Device Tax
* Senator Crapo: Protect Cancer Patients from Medical Device Tax
* Senators Roberts, Inhofe, Brown, Crapo: Strike Medical Device Tax
* Senator Burr: Tricare and Veterans Health Programs
* Senator Roberts: Rationing
* Senator Roberts: Critical Access Hospitals
* Senator Vitter: Repeals Democrats’ Health Care Bill
Go here for the roll call votes.
Among the more noteworthy votes taken so far:
Sen. Coburn’s attempt to bar Viagra for sex offenders was tabled by 57-42. Democrat Sens. Bayh and Nelson voted with the Republicans.
Sen. Vitter’s motion to repeal the Demcare takeover was tabled by 58-39.
The Hill is also up tonight covering the dwellers in darkness:
As of 11:30 p.m., the chamber had defeated 19 straight Republican proposals and adopted none.
There were no Democratic amendments proposed, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is under pressure to preserve the bill intact, which would prevent it from having to be sent back to the House. The House already approved the reconciliation bill in its session last weekend.
A spokesman for Reid’s office said instead of adjourning, the evening’s continuous voting has put the chamber within reach of a final vote in the wee hours of Thursday — possibly between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Although 20 hours of debate are normally required, Democrats surrendered their half of that time on Wednesday morning, and GOP leaders decided later in the day against a strategy of filing repeated amendments.
Democratic leaders are moving the bill through the Senate under special parliamentary rules, known as the reconciliation process, under which they only need to amass 51 votes, meaning they can afford to lose several members of their party. Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, whose rulings were critical to the state of the bill, had not issued any rulings to adversely affect the bill as of 11:30 p.m.
I’ll update through the night. Stay tuned.
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Update 2:10am Eastern. They are now voting on the Hutchison amendment to make permanent certain sales and marriage tax provisions that were set to expire. The amendment falls, 40-55.
Oh, dear. Al Franken has taken over as presiding officer.
Update 2:43am Eastern After tabling more GOP amendments, a pale, hoarse Harry Reid calls for adjournment. Befuddled Franken announces: “I guess we’re adjourned.” Official adjournment gaveled at 2:56am Eastern.
Andy Levy tweets in reply to my report on Reid’s grim appearance: “‘And I looked, and behold a pale hoarse Harry Reid.’ (Revelation 6:8)”
…And Hell followed with him.
After 10 hours, the Senate voted on 28 GOP amendments and rejected each and every one, including a Vitter amendment to spare mobile mammography units from punitive tax treatment.
Um, who’s the party of no now?
Also: Guess it’s the Dems now making womanhood a “pre-existing condition” again, eh, Nancy Pelosi?
Meantime, wire services are reporting that a Senate parliamentarian ruling agreeing with GOP points of order will send the Wreckonciliation bill back to the House.
The points of order deal with Pell Grant provisions that violate budget rules. More here. Dems are characterizing the points of order as “minor.”
Question: How “minor” is it?
It was initially unclear how much of a problem this posed for Democrats hoping to rush the bill to Obama and avoid further congressional votes on what has been a politically painful ordeal for the party. Democrats described the situation as a minor glitch, but did not rule out that Republicans might be able to remove additional sections of the bill.
The president, who signed the landmark legislation into law on Tuesday, was flying to Iowa later in the day for the first of many appearances he will make around the country before the fall congressional elections to sell his health care revamp.
So: “The time for talk” is not over.
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Senate resumes at 9:45am. Roll call votes are expected to continue until 2:00pm.
Like I said: It ain’t over ’til it’s over…and it’s only just begun.
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Update:2:16pm Eastern – Senate passes Wreckonciliation, Nelson/Lincoln vote no.
The only thing bipartisan was the opposition.
More: Obama taunts GOP: Repeal? “Go for it.”
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I think they should force this to go on and on and on!
Pick out the 3 youngest republicans and just keep submitting changes!
Remember, it is the dems that need to keep 51 voters voting!
Meanwhile their reconciliation play is destroying the Senate. Bye bye filibuster, hello tyranny.
I can see Franken and Davis in Trading Places…It’s my turn to drive the cart…no it’s my turn. What a legacy!
Maybe they should offer an amendment requiring the bill to actually cover pre-existing conditions for children.
Al Franken. Al Franken is the presiding officer of the Senate? The Senate of the United States of America??
OMG.
BTW, Harry Reid must really be a wimp. I’ve stayed up till 5am twice this weekend getting some editing work done. Why can’t he stay up past 2:43am?
Typical lib.
Going back to the house? That’s good, right?
Well, they finally smacked down the last gavel – just in time for red eye!
No doubt, that was the plan all along.
Indeed.
I am having a hard time sleeping as of late-I do not remember being as upset since the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. Hard thoughts raced through my mind then and they do now. To a large extant this is the same group of leftist scum we had to listen to then-arrogant, vulgar and rude. Pelosi and Reid are EXACTLY that kind.
Oh well get some sleep good people and enjoy your mini vacation MM.
Slightly OT…”and it begins!” :
http://thedailyfiona.tumblr.com/post/465807137
Thanks for keeping us posted while getting in some much needed R&R. Enjoy the rest of your break with your family. Rest assured that we will remain vigilant while we all keep an eye on those traitorous bastards in D.C.
The lady can get her $20 back from Bama’s stash. The Brits pay $3.35 a gallon gasoline tax to help pay for National Health care. Some people just enjoy being stupid.
If the bill is going back to the house, then what in the hell did that joker sign on the 23rd?
This is all confusing on purpose. The new Obozo transparency.
The federal government needs a Constitutional Amendment on transparency and bribes. Like Florida finally did, when the Democrat backroom deals stunk so bad everybody in the State was getting nauseous.
The bill they are working on in the Senate is the reconciliation bill — It violates the Senates Byrd rule, but who cares as long as the useful idiots are told they get their freebies. What Obozo signed was the un-Constitutional bill where the taxes originated in the Senate not the House as required by the Constitution — Article 1 Section 7.
Stalin was the first to use the term “useful idiots” to define people like Obozo voters. He also used the phrase “peace, jobs and democracy” to describe his tyrannical Communist regime to the very same useful idiots. I think he hung signs saying same, right outside his Siberian gulags.
Why would you want to work? If you work you have to pay taxes, and by the time you pay your bills and health insurance you have nothing left anyway. If you don’t work Barry will pay your mortgage/rent, all your bills and give you free health care. Then all you need to pay for is your big screen TV and steal cable from your neighbor. Maybe you can just steal the TV too. Note that the “certain unalienable rights” are not limited. The founders said “…among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” implying of course that there many more – thus the entitlement mentality.
Truth be told, our Greek Tragedy is already upon us vis a vis Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We all knew this would crash and burn when us Baby Boomers hit retirement, but there is no politition (left or right) who will adress this if he has any desire for re-election. So the thing to do is pour more fuel on the fire? God help us. Washington won’t.
** What did get signed?!?! ** What the hell are these people up to??
Perfectly apropos. Before any circus may begin, you must send out the clowns.
“‘And I looked, and behold a pale hoarse Harry Reid.’
Good play on words. I’ll bet old Harry was “hoarse” after that marathon session.
The first democrat President, Andrew Jackson, must be spinning in his grave over what his party has become!
I keep posting and my posts keep disappearing! Have I been banned?
O.K. Try again. Vi#gra for s#x offenders?? Are you kidding me?? What are these people smoking? There are no words to describe this insanity. Why would they allow that to go through? I need one of those moonbats to explain!! Something in my post keeps kicking me out. I eliminated one word. We will see.
Thanks, Michelle, for keeping the most corrupt and dirty Congress transparent for us.
I need one of those “Politics in DC for Dummies” books to keep up with the shenanigans (and do do the Demon-crats who just keep changing the rules).
Vampires is a good comparison for their late night Chicago-chicanery. Evil trolls under bridges is another analogy.
Alcee Hastiings proposes the “Hasting’s Rule” of law: “There are no rules here” This amendment passes by drunk-with-power-Democraps (some whose ETOH levels would really qualify).
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/21/alcee-hastings-on-openness-and-transparency/comment-page-1/
I propose the “Vote Democrats Out of Office” amendment.
I do believe the word “vi#gra” was getting me booted…three times. Interesting.
I wonder if he wore his diaper? What a joke but then wasn’t he elected to that office. The joke is the voters who put him in that seat. Idiots.
The gift that keeps on giving…..
So now we clearly know what the Democrats are FOR!
Sexual offenders having boners.
Can’t wait until November…….
happyscrapper said
I’m NOT a moonbat (and I don’t play one on the ‘net) nor do I agree with the rejection of the amendment, but I’m going to “guess” that the issue is that the amendment was bundled together as:
To reduce the cost of providing federally funded prescription drugs by eliminating fraudulent payments and prohibiting coverage of Vi#gra for child molesters and rapists and for drugs intended to induce abortion.
MUST protect, AT ALL COSTS the “right” of women to induce abortion.
To be clear, I prefer the amendment as written, but I’d like to see if the amendment would pass if that was out of the bill and if the same jokers who rejected the amendment would STILL reject it.
liberals frankly serve no useful purpose and have no redeeming qualities. the one thing they do well is, nothing.
Ahh… The show starts again.
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx
I’d add that to the Republican campaign repertoire – Democrats support E.D. drugs for sexual offenders!
No, he wasn’t elected to that office. It is obvious that he stole it. Ballots found in the trunk of a car…and they were counted. Etc. Etc. This was clearly a case of stolen election. There will be more of these in November…count on it.
Asymetrical warfare now. Pick them off one by one. Block their roads, clog their sewers, deny them utility services, scorn them in grocery lines, sugar their gas tanks, stop their mail delivery. Vote them out of office. Offer them citizenship in another country,
Government provided boners and abortions? So THAT is why Slick Willie and Miss Hillary were so dedicated.
The never ending campaign.
This POTUS is not running the country. He is campaigning. Pelosi and Reid are in charge. Seriously…does Obama do anything except travel and campaign any more? He claims “credit” for the healthcare bill, but he had nothing to do with it. And he still doesn’t know what is in it. He has delegated the role of POTUS to his moonbat leaders in Congress so he has time to be the Messiah. He is a figurehead who makes appearances, gets everyone chanting “Fired up, ready to go!” then moves on to the next campaign stop. Oh Lord, how we need a true Conservative LEADER for our country in this time of trouble! Please send us someone!!
That’s why Conservatives need to step up and volunteer to be polling observers and election officials. We’ve got to keep our elections honest! I’ll do what I can.
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A QUESTION FOR MICHELLE MALKIN.
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My Reno, Nevada brother sent me a short article on a $61 MILLION! shooting range Harry Reid “built” near his Searchlight, Nevada home. Google didn’t have many details on this.
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Did the U.S. Taxpayers fund this? I’m all for places to shoot–but long ago a nearby gravel pit and a Depression era rifle range were used. Any information on this?
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John Bibb
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And who’s the party of the insurance companies now, Speaker Pelosi? You just passed a bill that forces every American by virtue of just being alive, to purchase insurance from these same companies that you claim are in control of the Republicans.
The dems play alinsky style -hardball-
The Rs don’t know how—
it’s time they read the book _Rules for Radicals_ –to find out how the Dark Side thinks…and works..
any good tactician knows that one must know the tactics of the adversary….
C-CS
I like that, it reminds me of my favorite scene from the Eastwood movie, Pale Rider.
With props to MM, I copied this list into my FB page. Most of my FB friends are staunch liberals and would never have known about this unless given this read, so thank you, MM.
We have got to get the word out every way we can.
You’re wrong! Looney leftwing liberals have one VERY redeeming quality: they can be used as bad examples!
It is sad to see the right going off the rails over this loss.
Simple statements about “Revelations” (from the blog entry) and “Asymetrical warfare” (from the comments) give the left all they need to derail conservative credibility with the “middle.”
We don’t want anyone thinking we’re impolite, it’s better to just submit peacefully/sarc
Right. This can clearly be settled over another beer summit as a teaching moment.
I doubt that expressions of free speech, such as your referenced examples, are going to be enough to sway the middle on this issue no matter how much the liberals try and spin it.
The socialists celebrate now, but they’ve given the GOP what they need to unseat them from power if they can stay focused enough to do it. Bowing to hyped up claims of incivility is exactly what the Alinsky followers expect of the opposition.
On March 25th, 2010 at 11:36 am, Salt said:
Bowing to hyped up claims of incivility is exactly what the Alinsky followers expect of the opposition.
Pretty much exactly what I expect the current GOP leadership to do. Nutless, gutless wonders.
The left have been calling the shots for years, here’s another example of it gone amuck:
Oklahoma’s very conservative candidate for govenor Randy Brodgon, recently gave a speech in which he said Obama didn’t have the right to dictate our health coverage anymore than he had a right to tell us where to buy a chicken dinner. Guess what – the black caucus said he was racist because he used the words “chicken dinner.” I guess they want to make the very words watermelon and chicken their own and off limits to everyone else…
“Aw, shucks.” Does that make you feel better?
Bill O’Reilly said something similar in his “talking points memo” a couple of nights ago — i.e., “Conservatives better watch what they say, because ‘the folks’ won’t like it if they become as intemperate as the Left.”
Sure. The “price” the left paid for 8 years of trash-talking was … gaining absolute power over the Federal government. Dictatorial power, until Scott Brown’s election to the Senate.
The time to be polite with the salesman at the door ends when he barges into your living room, says he’s not leaving, and threatens to call the cops on you if you object.
No, the time for tea and crumpets is over…
Ditto that. We must quit pandering to the left so we won’t look back. We’d better start looking bad and acting BAD and not caring about “what they think.” I don’t care if it gives them warm fuzzies…this ain’t no popularity contest.
Rep Cantor’s office has been shot at.
Which office?
There is one in Glen Allen (Richmond suburb), one in Culpepper, and one other, I think.
Richmond, VA
It’s getting ugly out there…violence at this point is not the answer…it may come to that but we still have the ballot box for now…
Maybe someone is putting pressure on Stupak to add his worthless EO as an amendment now? Give the process is going back to the house. Probably can address the “left out” children’s stuff as well?
Lots of chances for tweaks now that would require more voting……
What a great day for being an American.
“because ‘the folks’ won’t like it”
I agree with O’Reilly. There is a group of “folks” out there who won’t like it. And their dislike will be intense. It is media types, a growing minority of folks, but a group none-the-less. Folks O’Reilly seems to care more about than conservatives and people being impacted by this bill.
I continue to be unable to explain O’Reilly’s ratings. Doesn’t no one actually listen to what he says and how he says it? Does no one bother to consider he embraced Geraldo and dumped MM?
Yes Tired, we ca still vote. Do you wonder how long it will be before Obama and Congress start manuverings to keep him in office forever?
“the right going off the rails”
The “right” isn’t going off any rails. The media is trying to make folks think the right is going off its rails. That is what the media does.
The result will be an increase of the proper and appropriate anger folks have about how our Congress and President are ignoring the people and the Constitution. And you will see NO blame directed toward the Congress, the President and the media of course. But the fault lies with those three sources, not with the people.
People have the right to and are appropriate in their anger.
The list of Weathermen and SDS members that run/advise this country is SHOCKING. I hate stupid voters.
I have a vulgar name for them. Democrats.
These politicans have been poking the hornets nest for a very long time. They’ve been stoking the fire and now they don’t like it when it’s starting to blow up. At what point, do these politicans EVER take responsiblity for anything. At what point do they accept any accountability…a more worthless, bunch of bottom feeders never were. When do they stop using everyone and anything for their own personal power struggles and politican gain without a thought for the wellbeing of others or their country. They are simply very much to blame for what’s coming down the pike.
Exactly. EVERYTHING Obama says is either an outright lie, or enough of the truth to sell the lie. EVERYTHING. His intent is for the government to take over EVERYTHING – Consitution be damned.
I apologize for caps and language, the time to be polite is over until the fascists are defeated.
Cantor’s office on Main St. downtown Richmond. May have just been a stray bullet…………
Richmond isn’t the safest downtown
Yea, it’s a Clark county park that is supposed to support itself with fees.
There are several different places to shoot depending on the weapon.
It just opened so it remains to be seen if it will succeed in getting people to go there to shoot rather than in the desert. The hope is that it will keep the desert from being trashed with casings and glass and such.
Harry Reid pushed the BLM on the acquisition of the land.
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Yes! – this is why he’s always campaigning. If he stops talking, people will point out his lies. They have top be non-stop. The brain-dead MSM helps him along. (Yeah you Lemon and Couric.)
“Bartender, I’ll have a Lemon and Couric please.”
“Ok, but in this bar we call, that a “Double-digit IQ.”
Democrats tried to work with Republicans, they said they’d never, ever vote for the bill, so now the Dems have basically all they’ve ever wanted and Republicans have missed out on their chance to weaken the bill or put some conservative language in there. Too bad, so sad. You had your chance, you blew it.
“have missed out on their chance to weaken the bill”
Huh? It is going back to the house you know?
This is what the American electorate will be saying to the Democrats come November.
Omu said:
Do you mean when the DemoRATS were meeting behind closed doors? Name the moment the Repubs had any chance what so ever to do anything with this bill ?
Sorry, I should have put the /sarc thingy up. Course, the word “elected” is all in how you interpret it.
You should take your comedy act on the road. You never know, you might make it as a comedian. But I’m not buying it.
Try listing to something besides the State Run Media to get your news. You’re being duped, dope.
No, last night the Senate Republicans just provided themselves with a treasure trove of things to club their Democrat opponents with in the fall.
Most of their proposed amendments were based on the promises Obmama and the Democrats made regarding what would be in the bill.
Grassley, submitted an amendment to ensure the Congress and President and their staffs were not exempt from Obamacare. Voted down by the Democrats on a party line vote.
The GOP tried to restrict pedophiles from getting erectile dysfuntion drugs. Voted down by the Democrats on a party line vote.
Last night the integrity of the Democrats was put on full display and with that they slipped their necks into the noose.
Well done GOP Senators.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Omu…I needed that today!
Sorry RWM, Omu slithered back under his rock.
TigerLady ~ Or under his bridge…TROLL!
Hey Omu – check this out. All I can say on your behalf is you can’t fix stupid, stupid:
FoxNews.com
“The GOP tried to restrict pedophiles from getting erectile dysfuntion drugs. Voted down by the Democrats on a party line vote.”
With many other names, The DemocRATS can now be called the “Pedophile Protection Party.”
every single day I ask that question…how long before they do…the more brave and emboldened they get the closer to that we get….
Yep, he’s a troll. A not very bright troll.
Democrats barely worked with other Democrats to get this passed.
You know that timeless advice from Kenny Rogers, “Don’t count your money sitting at the table…”
Seems to me Obama could use some of that advice as he is counting his money and he will be sitting at the table for 2 3/4 more years…..
We appreciate your support Barry. We’ll be getting back to you.
Well said.
here
Actually it will go like this. Obama NOT re-elected then the bill fully repealed. So it technically won’t happen on his watch.
Unfunded, dead in the water, impotent (couldn’t resist) bill for the last 2 years of his term. He is voted out of office, first course of business is to repeal the bill and undue/unravel 4 years of leftist progressive agenda.
That is how it will go Mr. President. I’d love to watch your face as it happens.
Hey, hey, hey, Bill doesn’t need an abortion, and Hillary doesn’t need – oops….
FIFY
If you stop amnesty, you might have a fighting chance of repealing Commiecare.
Let the socialists get another 20-30 million voters and say hello to El Presidente for Life.
Quote from John Dingell (D-Mich):
“The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.”
That statement says it all about how Dems want to rule us.
Senate votes to block Coburn admendment, socialist V!agra for rapists and pedophiles!!!
I assume rapists and pedophiles are almost as important as SEIU members and welfare dependents as reliable Democrat voters.
Only Lincoln is up for reelection this November, but do any of these Ds think this vote is going to save their political bacon?
Nice nic, we scam.
I’m always touched when statists come into the house and pretend to want to help us out with how we should act so as not to get the moderates pissed at us.
But I gotta admit I wasn’t sad at all when I saw you guys go off the rails after Algore lost in 2000.
Michelle, are you in LA? Hope you are having a nice time with family.
Enjoy your time off MM, you deserve it, thanks for all you do. Your fillin’s are doing a great job.
A thanks to all of them also.
Should the Republicans ‘go for it’ they should consider replacing their leadership which did not serve them, or the Nation, well.
Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and Jim ‘Waterloo’ DeMint should be compelled to step down. In going for it, better tactics and a new approach will be necessary. ‘Repeal’ is just lip service to solicit an emotional response. Not very practical. Emotions are important, but useful practicality is far more useful.
To get to the position to actually ‘repeal’ will require getting enough new members elected (in the House and Senate) to overcome a veto. Not impossible, but how likely is that to happen? Yes, it is possible to build a highway to Hawaii, but how likely is that to happen? And, then it may require defeating Pres Obama, if he elects to run again.
Boehner, Cantor, McConnell and Jim ‘Waterloo’ Demint have met their Wellington and von Blucher. Time for some new leaders with some new ideas that stand a chance to succeed.
The new strategy may require less the solicitation of emotion and far more conversation, negotiation and practicality. Heck, let the States Attorneys General deal with it.
The healthcare bill is terriffically flawed and requires some serious tweaking. Maybe it might be better to get the bill to a better place, for the Nation, than doing the same things that have failed?
Throwing down a gauntlet failed. Waterloo? Whose Waterloo was it?
zy….
You seem to think the fight is over and the lefist socialist progressives have won.
That is not the case.
2 of the 3 are mine, and both are toast.
Wrong. I do not believe the fight is over. I believe new leaders with a realistic way to approach the situation are necessary.
Did you happen to notice that I said the States Attorney Generals should ‘go for it’?
When your Generals (Boehner, Cantor, McConnell and Jim ‘Waterloo’ DeMint) fail, you replace them with someone with new ideas and a new approach that has a greater chance of succeeding.
Advancing amendment after amendment after amendment with no chance of success is futile and a waste of time. These amendments only serve to solicit emotion and talking points for future campaigns. That is called lip service. I prefer a more substantiave approach that has a realistic opportunity for success.
A leader with less ego who is prepared to cheer on the Attorneys General from the States that are Constitutionally challenging the bill would be a good start. Get the Waterloo losers from out front, and put someone in there who will be more effective.
What do you think has a greater chance of success, repeal with all the bumps in the road it has to overcome, the Attorneys Generals, tweaking the bill, or repeating what has already failed?
Mind you, repeating a failure and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.
New leaders, new strategy and a different outcome. Go for that.
zyzzyg said,
Mind you, the statists in the Senate just passed legislation that has failed in Europe and Canada. Insanity abounds.
1) Give full support to the AG’s legal effort, even though it’s odds are slim.
2) Campaign against the new law based on its REAL cost, its pocketbook impact, the disintegration of care, and its unfair protection of government workers, unions etc.
3) Seize at least one house of Congresss in 2010, likely The House. Both would be great.
4) Defund the heinous parts of the bill under the banner of controlling spending and saving Medicare. Pacakage it with needed spending and dare the President to veto it.
5) Use your majority to launch investigations into Democrat corruption, illegal activities and root out the radicals. Hit the Dems and Obama from every point on the compass. Seize the initiative.
6) Be absolutely truthful with the people. Give them the facts.
Repeal is akin to Patrick Henry saying :
“Give me liberty,or give me death!”
Tweak is akin to Percy B. RINO saying:
“Give me a tad more liberty,or let me have the influenza.”
I’m voting for Patrick in 2010 and again in 2012, I suspect a lot of others will do the same.
Gee, I wonder what happened to needing sixty votes to pass major legislation?
Americans are relearning in a harsh way the depths of corruption and deceit which Democrats are more than willing to lower themselves to achieve their total control agenda.
Remember the Islamic protesters with the signs that read F*** liberty?
After the liberals forced us to fight them and the enemy in Iraq and vehemently attacking freedom domestically, progressives make it, an easy totalitarian association.
The Democrats in congress are reminiscent of H. G. Wells’ “The Time Machine”, with the Democrat leadership being the Morlocks and their rank and file legislators being the Eloi. As depicted in the book they both have lost the intelligence and character of traditional humans.