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To: paltz

Of interest, the GOP could have killed the health care bill by voting against the amendment and it would not have carried.

5 posted on 11/08/2009 9:00:41 AM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")

To: ex-snook

"Of interest, the GOP could have killed the health care bill by voting against the amendment and it would not have carried."

Of interest is why did they introduce it in the first place if the bill would have gone down in flames without it? Fig leaf is right.

10 posted on 11/08/2009 9:04:50 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)

To: ex-snook

Exactly. They could have easily abstained.

30 posted on 11/08/2009 10:15:24 AM PST by JimWayne

To: ex-snook

Of interest, the GOP could have killed the health care bill by voting against the amendment and it would not have carried.

Did you see the meltdown here on FR last night when there were some Rs who were going to do that very thing. They were called all kinds of names.

33 posted on 11/08/2009 11:22:27 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)

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