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Senate Democratic Leadership Will Pass Health Care Reform “By Any Legislative Means Necessary”
ABCnews.com - Political Punch ^
| 08/19/09
| Jake Tapper
Posted on 08/19/2009 1:24:08 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Amidst questions of whether or not any Senate Republicans will support a health care reform bill, Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., today said that the White House and the Senate Democratic leadership still prefer a bipartisan bill.
The Reid spokesman said that neither the White House nor the leadership have made a decision to pursue reconciliation, the somewhat controversial legislative process by which a bill is introduced in such a manner so that it requires merely 50 votes instead of 60 to proceed to a vote, thus removing the threat of filibuster.
Manley said that we will not make a decision to pursue reconciliation until we have exhausted efforts to produce a bipartisan bill.
However, he cautioned, patience is not unlimited and we are determined to get something done this year by any legislative means necessary.
By any means necessary is a phrase popularized by Malcolm X (demanding the rights of African-Americans to be respected in society), though it is thought to have originally been penned by French existentialist Jean Paul Sartre in his play about assassination Dirty Hands (in a line demanding the end of class).
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To: OldDeckHand
Why not just arrested all the GOP lawmakers on trumped up charges?
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posted on
08/19/2009 2:17:11 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
To: dirtboy
They can’t get a cloture vote because they’re missing two of their 60. Byrd and Kennedy don’t come to work anymore. So if they really wanted to start ramming legislation through, they would have to tell these two guys to retire. Not going to happen.
82
posted on
08/19/2009 2:18:35 PM PDT
by
keepitreal
( Don't tread on me.)
To: McGruff
I hope you’re right. Reid is such a POS. Of course, Daschle is too, but he was taken out, courtesy of the SD voters. Hopefully NV voters perform the same service to the nation.
Prayers up and fingers crossed!
83
posted on
08/19/2009 2:20:47 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
To: Kimberly GG
Also...be prepared...if they do this with Obamacare, theyll do it with amnesty too. Cap N Trade, Card Ceck
84
posted on
08/19/2009 2:20:52 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
To: dodger
You began this by writing:
Reconciliation (a/k/a 'the nuclear option') Reconciliation is NOT Also Known As 'the nuclear option'. They are two different legislation actions, as I said. You are simply wrong.
But whatever gets you through the night, you just keep repeating it, and before you know it, you'll be fast asleep.
85
posted on
08/19/2009 2:20:54 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: prairiebreeze
At least until those health care consequences start landing on their front doorsteps, THEN when somebodys wife, mother or disabled kid gets denied care, you might have some violence. But itll be far, far too late at that point. Yep, we'll have to change the expression "going postal" to "going healthy!"
86
posted on
08/19/2009 2:21:55 PM PDT
by
melancholy
(Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat has just begun.)
To: keepitreal
They cant get a cloture vote because theyre missing two of their 60.For health care, I'm sure they could wheel the two of 'em in on gurneys if needed.
87
posted on
08/19/2009 2:22:15 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: OldDeckHand
Any demonRAT House member will be voted out of office in 2010!
To: dirtboy
Or they might have to use the Weekend at Bernie’s option.
89
posted on
08/19/2009 2:25:05 PM PDT
by
keepitreal
( Don't tread on me.)
To: MindBender26
Please no one misunderstand me. I am not calling for violence, but if they try this, there would be armed insurection in the streetsI doubt it. There will be much moaning and groaning on the net though
90
posted on
08/19/2009 2:25:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
To: keepitreal
Or they might have to use the Weekend at Bernies option.That was Strom Thurmond.
91
posted on
08/19/2009 2:25:47 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Doctor Don
92
posted on
08/19/2009 2:27:14 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
To: savedbygrace
Reconciliation is NOT Also Known As 'the nuclear option'. They are two different legislation actions, as I said. You are simply wrong. Hi SBG!
You corrected me once on impeaching an illegally elected President. You MUST be correct this time also! LOL!
93
posted on
08/19/2009 2:27:22 PM PDT
by
melancholy
(Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat has just begun.)
To: OldDeckHand
Which is it now, Health Kare reform or Insurance reform? I missed the memo!
94
posted on
08/19/2009 2:28:10 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Don Corleone
Which is it now, Health Kare reform or Insurance reform? I missed the memo!
It's health care deformity. I got the memo a little while ago.
95
posted on
08/19/2009 2:29:12 PM PDT
by
BluesDuke
(If you think it's wise to fool Mother Nature, just ask Father Time's divorce lawyer)
To: melancholy
I don’t recall. Was I right then?
96
posted on
08/19/2009 2:29:40 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: savedbygrace
Golly, but you do seem rather overwrought not to mention a bit short on conceptual agility ...
TTFN
97
posted on
08/19/2009 2:30:36 PM PDT
by
dodger
To: keepitreal
Will Bryd go for this? He may be literally one of the only hopes to stop this thing.
98
posted on
08/19/2009 2:30:41 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
To: OldDeckHand
Reid:
“I will force a system on Americans that is not good enough for me or the rest of the ruling class”.
“By any means necessary.”
99
posted on
08/19/2009 2:32:13 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(ObamaCare: The efficiency of the Post Office, the compassion of the IRS, the costs of the Pentagon)
Do it, Dingy. Let Nov. 2, 2010, give you the back of its hand, by all means. It's necessary.
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