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Coburn warns against majority-vote tactic in weekly Republican address
THE HILL ^ | 02/27/10 06:00 AM ET | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 02/27/2010 8:07:05 PM PST by onyx

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To: imahawk

The senate bill doesn’t have the public option that is so loved by the hard lefties in the house and the Stupek democrats aren’t happy with the abortion language, so the votes aren’t there yet. Then there’s also Murtha’s death and Wexler’s departure and one other democrat is gone and Cao has said he won’t cross the line again, so she’s short unless some one else changes their tiny mind. Reelection is utmost on the minds of all those people. You betcha they like their House seats.


21 posted on 02/27/2010 9:43:24 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: onyx
Someone on an earlier thread posted the actual situation with reconciliation which was pretty interesting. Basically, because of a parliamentary move by the Republicans in the Senate the House MUST vote on the bill first and I don't think Pelosi has the votes or it would already be done. All of the other interviews, press conferences, etc., don't mean a single thing as the House MUST take action first. Everything else is irrelevant.
22 posted on 02/27/2010 9:59:16 PM PST by aegiscg47
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To: aegiscg47

Yes, that was Senator Jim DeMint!


23 posted on 02/27/2010 10:01:50 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: onyx

“Majority rule tactic”?!?

Gee, odd how “The Hill” and the rest of the MSM never used that phrase to describe Senate G.O.P. attempts to confirm President Bush’s judicial appointments by a simple majority...


24 posted on 02/27/2010 10:45:45 PM PST by larlaw
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To: onyx

Mitch McConnel should tell the dumbocrats that if they use reconciliation to pass the health care bill, the next time Republicans control the Senate (quite possibly in 2011) we will end the filibuster once and for all...

IOW.....RECONCILIATION = DEATH OF THE FILIBUSTER!


25 posted on 02/27/2010 10:51:25 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: larlaw

LOL. It’s just a headline, but I see your point!!


26 posted on 02/27/2010 11:08:41 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: rottndog

Oh yeah!


27 posted on 02/27/2010 11:09:37 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: rottndog

Trouble is... the democrats will still have “their” president in the WH.


28 posted on 02/27/2010 11:11:07 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: onyx

It’s the principle of the thing....there must be consequences.


29 posted on 02/27/2010 11:21:13 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I have to say that, with the exception of John Boehner who’s about half brain-dead, the pubs did very well at that meeting. They did a fine job of contrasting their face of reasonable, calm, rational common sense against the rat’s mean-spirited, dishonest manipulations.

That string of anecdotes about this or that sick person they told just made them look ridiculous.


30 posted on 02/28/2010 3:26:29 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Clump

Coburn was excellent at that meeting. I have to say Lamar Alexander opened quite well. Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor also stood out favorably. Kyl did quite well, too. They all did well, except for Boehner, who dithered and stammered. Please, Lord, if by some miracle we take back the House, please, please, please don’t let him become Speaker.


31 posted on 02/28/2010 3:30:14 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: onyx
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32 posted on 02/28/2010 3:36:41 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: onyx

MEDIA BIAS alert.

When the GOP wanted majority vote for judges, it was “nuclear option”. Now the Democrats want to use the budget-process reconciliation for a huge non-budget bill, its ‘majority rule’...

Puleeeze.


33 posted on 02/28/2010 7:00:15 AM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: ComputerGuy

I love that!


34 posted on 02/28/2010 9:32:45 AM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: WOSG

You’re right and they’re not calling it “nuclear option” on the news shows regularly, are they?


35 posted on 02/28/2010 9:33:35 AM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: WOSG
-- When the GOP wanted majority vote for judges, it was "nuclear option". --

Trentt Lott coined that term.

36 posted on 02/28/2010 9:51:08 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: onyx

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543

Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!

OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460358/posts

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.


37 posted on 02/28/2010 5:06:09 PM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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