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Landrieu Sets Conditions for Her Vote
WSJ ^ | 11/22/09 | Peter Landers

Posted on 11/22/2009 6:49:49 PM PST by freespirited

Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana said she’ll vote to move ahead with the Senate health bill, but has three conditions before she agrees to vote yes on the final bill. Those conditions are important, because Ms. Landrieu is one of the Democratic swing votes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) needs to win final passage. Here they are:

1) More tax credits for small business to buy health insurance. The issue is a consistent theme for Ms. Landrieu, who is chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee. The bill already includes some credits at a cost of $27 billion over a decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

2) Measures to prevent sharp health premium increases between now and the time the bill goes into effect. Ms. Landrieu noted that several years would pass between passage of the bill and 2014, when many of its provisions take effect including the introduction of insurance exchanges where people could comparison-shop for plans.

3) “A better and bipartisan solution” to the question of a government-run, health-insurance plan sought by liberal Democrats. The current bill includes the public plan, with an option for states not to participate. But Ms. Landrieu indicated she preferred a proposal by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, under which the public plan would be triggered only if other steps didn’t make coverage affordable.

Will she get what she wants? Mr. Reid can probably offer something on the first two conditions, but the third one is tougher because many Senate Democrats insist the public plan must be part of the bill from the start.

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To: television is just wrong

My.my,my how really, really whorish of you.


41 posted on 11/22/2009 7:21:13 PM PST by chiefqc
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To: Candor7
Our politicians need to be made to understand that bringing home huge amounts of pork will not make up for a "Yes" vote on Obamacare.

They will have been bought with our money. And we will have their ass at the polls.

42 posted on 11/22/2009 7:21:13 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: freemama

I agree, all 60 should go, but most of those are in safe states where there is no chance of them being defeated. We need to concentrate on the races where our dollars and time will make a difference.


43 posted on 11/22/2009 7:22:32 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: freespirited

Dirty whore.


44 posted on 11/22/2009 7:23:23 PM PST by BigCinBigD
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To: 444Flyer

She is bought and paid for, her vote is in the bag. The rest of this is just circus acts to cash in on her five min of fame. She will do as she is told by the rest of the Democratic Socialists.


45 posted on 11/22/2009 7:25:14 PM PST by UnionBuster
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To: All

“Whore names price”


46 posted on 11/22/2009 7:26:29 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (The MSM isn't AWOL, they are complicit enablers that know exactly what they are doing.)
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To: longhorn too
We need to concentrate on the races where our dollars and time will make a difference.

A can't imagine the voters in the following states wanting their senators to vote for government run health insurance.

Alaska Mark Begich (D)
Arkansas Blanche Lincoln (D)
Arkansas Mark Pryor (D)
Colorado Mark Udall (D)
Colorado Ken Salazar (D)
Florida Bill Nelson (D)
Indiana Evan Bayh (D)
Louisiana Mary Landrieu (D)
Missouri Claire McCaskill (D)
Montana Max Baucus (D)
Montana Jon Tester (D)
Nebraska Ben Nelson (D)
Nevada Harry Reid (D)
North Carolina Kay Hagan (D)
North Dakota Kent Conrad (D)
North Dakota Byron Dorgan (D)
South Dakota Tim Johnson (D)
Virginia Jim Webb (D)
Virginia Mark Warner (D)

47 posted on 11/22/2009 7:30:10 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Tzimisce

I don’t think she is up for re-election until 2014.


48 posted on 11/22/2009 7:40:01 PM PST by I_be_tc
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To: FreeReign

I think you may be right, which ones are up in 2010?


49 posted on 11/22/2009 7:40:36 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: longhorn too

You are absolutely right. We need a list of the most vulnerable and we need to hammer them with calls telling them we will work against them in their next election.


50 posted on 11/22/2009 8:07:37 PM PST by freemama
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To: freespirited

Marie insists that her John don a condom before she turns her trick.


51 posted on 11/22/2009 8:08:15 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: NittanyLion

Settle for $5,000,000 ... CASH, Unmarked non sequential bills. As I’ll be looking for a job in ‘10.. I’d need the cash to get a new start.


52 posted on 11/22/2009 8:12:40 PM PST by gwilhelm56 (Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: freemama

These are the most vulnerable ones in 2010 that come to mind:

Reid, Specter, Lincoln, Bennet and Dodd.


53 posted on 11/22/2009 8:21:52 PM PST by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: freespirited

She has already shown she is for sale. If she could be bought once , she can be bought again. Once you cross the line into prostitution there is no turning back.


54 posted on 11/22/2009 8:43:35 PM PST by Venturer
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To: freespirited

Landrieu is a whore.


55 posted on 11/22/2009 8:44:49 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: I_be_tc

I.E. - everyone will have forgotten this vote.


56 posted on 11/22/2009 9:40:57 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: freespirited; All
300 million Americans...

$300 million bribe...

$1 a head whore...

Do the math...


57 posted on 11/23/2009 1:43:47 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: longhorn too
We have to hammer the point that she, Lincoln of Arkansas, Nelson of Nebraska and a few others had a chance to kill this bill by voting against cloture, but they chose not to. If they do eventually vote against the bill, we can not let them get away with saying they voted no on the bill. This is absolutely essential!

Very true.

The Democrats have such a large majority in the Senate, they will allow 'moderates' to vote against the final version to protect their reelection.

The Bill will pass the Senate and our only hope is that it is killed in the House due to the abortion issue.

58 posted on 11/23/2009 2:57:18 AM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: freespirited

........... say like $200 mil this time oughta do it .


59 posted on 11/23/2009 6:29:43 AM PST by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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