[AmericaUnited]

Oh no... I need to quickly short all my cat and dog food stocks since sales will now plummet.

[AAABEST]

Lyndon B. Bush

[dsc]

"The Republican-controlled House"

So, even Fox does it?

When the Satancrats had the House and Senate, they were merely "the House" and "the Senate." With Pubbies in the majority, they have become "the Republican-controlled House" and "the Republican-controlled Senate."

If the Republicans fritter away their support through moral cowardice and lose the majority, do you suppose they'll become "the Democrat-controlled House" and "the Democrat-controlled Senate?"

When pigs fly.

[getgoing]

Also included in this bill:

Medicare legislation moving through Congress would give hospitals at least $1 billion over the next four years to cover the spiraling costs of providing emergency services for undocumented immigrants.

Jon Kyl, R-Arizona authored the original legislation to reimburse hospitals, and he persuaded lawmakers to include the money in the $395 billion Medicare bill. He was among a small group of lawmakers who negotiated the controversial bill.

[RJCogburn]

Shame.

As I have noted elsewhere, even the loyal Bushbots seem absent in the rationalizations on this monstrosity.

[Principled]

How does the future privatizaton fit in here?

[SMGFan]

Is the yeas and nays tally available yet?

[ClintonBeGone]

But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said seniors know that her party gave birth to Medicare during the Great Society, adding, "we want to protect it and strengthen it. America's seniors have also known where Republicans stand, for four decades they have waged war on Medicare."

She's got part of that right. Dems will always get credit for this program. No matter how much we try, we can't out spend the libs.

[NittanyLion]

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 669(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 1     YEA-AND-NAY     22-NOV-2003   5:53 AM
      QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Conference Report
      BILL TITLE:  Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act

	YEAS	NAYS	PRES	NV
REPUBLICAN	204	25
DEMOCRATIC	16	189
INDEPENDENT		1
TOTALS	220	215

--- YEAS    220 ---

Aderholt	Gilchrest	Ose
Alexander	Gillmor	Otter
Bachus	Gingrey	Oxley
Baker	Goode	Pearce
Ballenger	Goodlatte	Peterson (MN)
Bartlett (MD)	Goss	Peterson (PA)
Barton (TX)	Granger	Petri
Bass	Graves	Pickering
Beauprez	Green (WI)	Pitts
Bereuter	Greenwood	Platts
Biggert	Hall	Pombo
Bilirakis	Harris	Pomeroy
Bishop (UT)	Hart	Porter
Blackburn	Hastert	Portman
Blunt	Hastings (WA)	Pryce (OH)
Boehlert	Hayes	Putnam
Boehner	Hayworth	Quinn
Bonilla	Hefley	Radanovich
Bonner	Hensarling	Ramstad
Bono	Herger	Regula
Boozman	Hobson	Rehberg
Boucher	Hoekstra	Renzi
Boyd	Houghton	Reynolds
Bradley (NH)	Hulshof	Rogers (AL)
Brady (TX)	Hunter	Rogers (KY)
Brown (SC)	Hyde	Rogers (MI)
Brown-Waite, Ginny	Isakson	Rohrabacher
Burgess	Issa	Ros-Lehtinen
Burns	Istook	Royce
Burr	Janklow	Ryan (WI)
Buyer	Jenkins	Saxton
Calvert	John	Schrock
Camp	Johnson (CT)	Scott (GA)
Cannon	Johnson (IL)	Sensenbrenner
Cantor	Johnson, Sam	Sessions
Capito	Keller	Shaw
Carson (OK)	Kelly	Shays
Carter	Kennedy (MN)	Sherwood
Castle	King (IA)	Shimkus
Chocola	King (NY)	Shuster
Coble	Kingston	Simmons
Cole	Kirk	Simpson
Collins	Kline	Smith (NJ)
Cox	Knollenberg	Smith (TX)
Cramer	Kolbe	Souder
Crane	LaHood	Stearns
Crenshaw	Latham	Stenholm
Cubin	LaTourette	Sullivan
Cunningham	Leach	Sweeney
Davis (TN)	Lewis (CA)	Tauzin
Davis, Jo Ann	Lewis (KY)	Taylor (NC)
Davis, Tom	Linder	Terry
Deal (GA)	LoBiondo	Thomas
DeLay	Lucas (OK)	Thornberry
Diaz-Balart, L.	Manzullo	Tiahrt
Diaz-Balart, M.	Marshall	Tiberi
Dooley (CA)	Matheson	Turner (OH)
Doolittle	McCotter	Upton
Dreier	McCrery	Vitter
Duncan	McHugh	Walden (OR)
Dunn	McInnis	Walsh
Ehlers	McKeon	Weldon (FL)
English	Mica	Weldon (PA)
Everett	Miller (MI)	Weller
Ferguson	Miller, Gary	Whitfield
Fletcher	Murphy	Wicker
Foley	Myrick	Wilson (NM)
Forbes	Nethercutt	Wilson (SC)
Fossella	Neugebauer	Wolf
Franks (AZ)	Ney	Wu
Frelinghuysen	Northup	Young (AK)
Gallegly	Nunes	Young (FL)
Gerlach	Nussle
Gibbons	Osborne

--- NAYS    215 ---

Abercrombie	Grijalva	Neal (MA)
Ackerman	Gutierrez	Norwood
Akin	Gutknecht	Oberstar
Allen	Harman	Obey
Andrews	Hastings (FL)	Olver
Baca	Hill	Ortiz
Baird	Hinchey	Owens
Baldwin	Hinojosa	Pallone
Ballance	Hoeffel	Pascrell
Barrett (SC)	Holden	Pastor
Becerra	Holt	Paul
Bell	Honda	Payne
Berkley	Hooley (OR)	Pelosi
Berman	Hostettler	Pence
Berry	Hoyer	Price (NC)
Bishop (GA)	Inslee	Rahall
Bishop (NY)	Israel	Rangel
Blumenauer	Jackson (IL)	Reyes
Boswell	Jackson-Lee (TX)	Rodriguez
Brady (PA)	Jefferson	Ross
Brown (OH)	Johnson, E. B.	Rothman
Brown, Corrine	Jones (NC)	Roybal-Allard
Burton (IN)	Jones (OH)	Ruppersberger
Capps	Kanjorski	Rush
Capuano	Kaptur	Ryan (OH)
Cardin	Kennedy (RI)	Ryun (KS)
Cardoza	Kildee	Sabo
Carson (IN)	Kilpatrick	Sanchez, Linda T.
Case	Kind	Sanchez, Loretta
Chabot	Kleczka	Sanders
Clay	Kucinich	Sandlin
Clyburn	Lampson	Schakowsky
Conyers	Langevin	Schiff
Cooper	Lantos	Scott (VA)
Costello	Larsen (WA)	Serrano
Crowley	Larson (CT)	Shadegg
Culberson	Lee	Sherman
Cummings	Levin	Skelton
Davis (AL)	Lewis (GA)	Slaughter
Davis (CA)	Lipinski	Smith (MI)
Davis (FL)	Lofgren	Smith (WA)
Davis (IL)	Lowey	Snyder
DeFazio	Lucas (KY)	Solis
DeGette	Lynch	Spratt
Delahunt	Majette	Stark
DeLauro	Maloney	Strickland
DeMint	Markey	Stupak
Deutsch	Matsui	Tancredo
Dicks	McCarthy (MO)	Tanner
Dingell	McCarthy (NY)	Tauscher
Doggett	McCollum	Taylor (MS)
Doyle	McDermott	Thompson (CA)
Edwards	McGovern	Thompson (MS)
Emanuel	McIntyre	Tierney
Emerson	McNulty	Toomey
Engel	Meehan	Towns
Eshoo	Meek (FL)	Turner (TX)
Etheridge	Meeks (NY)	Udall (CO)
Evans	Menendez	Udall (NM)
Farr	Michaud	Van Hollen
Fattah	Millender-McDonald	Velazquez
Feeney	Miller (FL)	Visclosky
Filner	Miller (NC)	Wamp
Flake	Miller, George	Waters
Ford	Mollohan	Watson
Frank (MA)	Moore	Watt
Frost	Moran (KS)	Waxman
Garrett (NJ)	Moran (VA)	Weiner
Gephardt	Murtha	Wexler
Gonzalez	Musgrave	Woolsey
Gordon	Nadler	Wynn
Green (TX)	Napolitano

---

[cgk]

But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said seniors know that her party gave birth to Medicare during the Great Society,

Pride in giving birth among the Democrats? I never thought I'd see this day!

[OldFriend]

Let's not misunderestimate Dubya. This is the perfect set up for the dems to filibuster.... AGAIN!

[Beck_isright]

Sheesh. Now I won't have to give my grandmother all those kethup packets I've been saving for her. I guess she'll have money for food now.

[Lancey Howard]

But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said

Heh, I keep forgetting about her and then every now and then her name pops up out of the blue.

[Lancey Howard]

From the New York Post:

November 19, 2003 -- DAN Aykroyd is no fan of the bureaucratic bungling and cut-rate care of socialized medicine. "One place you don't want to get sick is Quebec," the Canadian actor advised us after a screening of Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian Invasions." "It's all socialized. Believe me, you don't want to go to a hospital there.

[Libertina]

For this, the weak-kneed Republicans were willing to fight. (Not the Intelligence-Memo letter leaked by the democrats...etc) Sigh... Big government lite.

[WOSG]

Dang, I am in shock for the first time since the Bush 2000 victory ... I saw the number "218 AGAINST" and thought it was defeated. That was 3am.

[Impy]

Wow all 435 members voted. That doesn't happen often.

[Greybird]

When the $35-per-month Medicare premium increase kicks in, the greedy grannies are likely to start draping themselves over Tom DeLay's car hood.

Unfortunately, with this not kicking in fully until 2006, I doubt the impact will hit the public consciousness soon enough to outrage them. It'd still be unlikely to do any good, with the bureaucracy having been built up to administer this.

[FreeReign]

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are already the lion's share of this countries spending problem. To this we now add a new entitlement.

How much is privatization going to save us and when is it going to kick in?

[maxter]

President Bush used up some capital to get this passed in the House. Smart move. Now all eyes are focused squarely on the senate. Now Frist is going to move fast for a vote. More than likely the Dims will filibuster. AARP has come out for it so the Dims are on record as being against this bill, i.e. against the elderly. What happens now, pass or no, is a winning strategy for Bush. He gets credit either way, and more than likely it will not pass in the Senate (thanks to Dims and some Pubbies) and some constinuencies will be very pissed. Mr. Bush will not be using up any capital on this one. The microscope will be on the Dims obstruction game and all the other obstruction, i.e., judicial nominees, will be in sharp focus to be seen clearly by the whole. WIN/WIN.