Posted on 03/03/2010 11:54:47 PM PST by American Dream 246
The Rats don’t have the votes to pass it in the House. As Rush said, they only had 220 votes, just two more than a majority. Since then Murtha has died, Wexler, Massa, and another Rat have resigned, while the lone RINO who voted for it is not eager to get burned again. That leaves 215 votes. Stupak says that he has another dozen Rats who voted for it will not vote for it as it stands. This leaves the Rats with around 200 votes.
Obama is promising to pass a “fix-it” bill that will modify this one if the Rats will just pass the Senate bill, But Rats know a Rat when the smell it. The Pro-abortion Rats are highly unlikely to vote out government funded abortion once it is in and the most rabid liberals are not going to give up anything in the Senate bill once they have it. In short, the “blue dogs” don’t trust the pinko communists in the Rats caucus.
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