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The final 220-215 roll call vote on passage of the House Dems’ government health care takeover bill is here.
And here is the 240-194 roll call vote on the Stupak amendment to extend the ban on federal abortion subsidies to Obamacare/Pelosicare.
Thanks to Doug Powers for filling in while I spoke at the Foundation for Life event [...]

There’s less than half an hour left of general debate on the House government health care takeover bill. *Update* More time for general debate. Govtrack says another House cmte gets time.
Next, there will be debate on the Kabuki Stupak abortion funding measure (which GOP leader Boehner exposed in his exchange with Charlie Rangel this afternoon). [...]

The House is now in a rare Saturday session for the government health care takeover ram down.
Welcome to the new Imperial Congress.
Keep a close eye on the vulnerable Democrats listed here by USA Today. Here is their current tally of House Dems voting no:
The New York Daily News has just published a statement from hometown [...]

Hmmm. The Associated Press reports that several financial giants in New York received swine flu vaccine doses while other at-risk residents continue to wait in long lines for limited supplies:
Some of New York’s biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that [...]

Update: Liveblogging of today’s House debate is here.

The House vote on Speaker Pelosi’s government health care bill is set for Saturday morning. She is scrambling to buy off recalcitrant Democrats on two of very issues that Rep. Joe Wilson and other House Republicans called out the White House for: abortion and illegal immigrant coverage. The [...]

Via Mike Madden, the Democrats’ House health care proposal on the floor outside Nancy Pelosi’s district office. Message: Kill the bill, tear it up and start over:

Hands off health care.

Update: AARP to make the announcement live on 11/5 at 11:30am Eastern here (just in time to try and upstage the noon press conference/protest by grass-roots conservatives and House Republicans!)
There have been several premature announcements of an AARP Obamacare endorsement over the past several months, but now it’s just about official.
I heard from a source [...]

The Left will do anything to smear the US Chamber of Commerce, a leading foe of the Democrats’ government health care takeover and the radical cap-and-tax plan.
You’ll recall that Reuters got punked by an attack parody of the Chamber a few weeks ago. Now, the Huffington Post is stirring up grievance-mongering by the AFL-CIO, which [...]

I called your attention last night to the Democrats’ struggle over abortion funding language in the House health care bill.
This morning, we learn that the majority is planning to evade sunlight and break its own 72-hour transparency rule by cutting a backroom deal with pro-life Democrats — and leaving out language on abortion funding from [...]

While leftist pundits wail and moan about the “extremism” of the Right, it’s pro-life House Democrats who continue to cause the majority the biggest headache as they wrangle over Obamacare:
Would abortions be easier or harder to obtain under the health care overhaul legislation that the House of Representatives is likely to consider later this week?
It [...]

The man is really something else. Really something else. He still doesn’t have a health care bill to show the American people, but he’s whining that Republicans don’t have sufficiently “comprehensive” alternatives of their own — when, in fact, Republicans have had plenty of legislative proposals on the table. The chutzpah of Harry Reid knows [...]

If you can’t make it to the Capitol Hill health care protest in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, there’s still plenty of work to be done from your own backyard.
Tea Party Patriots has a target phone/fax list for Operation Housecall.
Get busy!
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For motivation:
The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 [...]

Big Nanny knows best. Parental permission be damned:
“I was outraged,” Naomi Troy, 26, told the Daily News after her 6-year-old daughter, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre, had a possible allergic reaction to the shot.
Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take Nikiyah to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the [...]

Photoshop credit: Reader Rachael
GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann has put out a call for a march on Washington DC at noon this Thursday to stop the government health care takeover.
Meet her on the steps of the Capitol.
More from Tea Party Patriots.
A little flashback to get you motivated:

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Obamacare protest posters: Print and bring!
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The SEIU is targeting moderate [...]

Who’s there?

I’ve been blogging the emotion card-playing from desperate Obamacare advocates all week.
Now, Florida’s favorite Democrat potty mouth has jumped on stage (hat tip – William Amos):
Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson is making headlines again Thursday morning for his comments on health care reform. But this time it’s for a very different reason.
The Central Florida lawmaker broke [...]

Queen Nancy Pelosi reportedly ordered Capitol Hill police to block a GOP staffer from attending the Speaker’s public option announcement on Capitol Hill.
Transparency, schmansparency:

Power to the people!
As always, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

It’s arrived. Arising from the vapor, the House health care bill weighs in this morning at 1,900 pages.
Download it here and do the legislative reading most congressional representatives won’t do.
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And the starting cost for what Nancy Pelosi is billing an “affordable health care plan for America?”
$894 billion — paid for, of course, on the generational [...]

Here’s a good video summation of one of this year’s resounding lietmotifs: Obama lied, transparency died.

Organizing for America.

FNC’s Major Garrett tweets that Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh is “uncommitted” on Harry Reid’s “public option” plan announced yesterday.
Politico’s Manju Ranu reports that Joe Lieberman supports a GOP filibuster:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.
Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats [...]

Doug Powers takes a closer look at Harry Reid’s state opt-out sop.
There’s no there there:
I haven’t seen this section of the bill, but one thing is certain: It will be easier to get Michael Moore through the eye of a needle that for states to opt out of Obamacare.
There will be countless additional funding measures [...]

Capitol Hill awaits a 3:15pm Eastern press conference from Harry Reid, who is reportedly set to announce his public-option plan amid uncertainty over Democrat support:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this afternoon will announce his decision to include a government-run health care plan, or “public option,” in the health care bill he brings to the floor, [...]

“News.”

Here’s the First Lady’s latest video pitch for Obamacare aimed at women:

Nope, still no mention of the mother of Dontae Adams, one of the minority patients on Chicago’s southside shipped out of the University of Chicago Medical Center under the patient-dumping program spearheaded by Mrs. Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and David Axelrod.
FLOTUS skates again.
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You’ll note in [...]

Photoshop: Ray D.
Know your failure, Nancy. And own it:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi counted votes Thursday night and determined she could not pass a “robust public option” — the most aggressive of the three forms of a public option House Democrats have been considering as part of a national overhaul of health care.
Pelosi’s decision—coupled with a significant [...]

Hey, just what we and future generations of taxpayers need: Vast new opportunities for out-of-control government health care fraud!
Philip Klein at the American Spectator reports:
Guillermo Denis Gonzalez was released from prison in Florida in 2004 after serving 12 years for murder. By the end of 2006, he owned a health care business officially licensed [...]

Fuzzy math.

It looked like the fix was in. The “Doc Fix,” that is. As the Heritage Foundation has been reporting, the White House and Dem leaders scurried today to try and pass a $247 billion payoff to doctors groups as an enticement to support Obamacare.
Surprise: The fix failed. The cloture voted on S. 1776 failed by [...]