Posted on 03/11/2010 11:45:43 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Let's see... The author of the bizarre solution to avoid a direct vote in the House of Representatives on the Senate ObamaCare bill is Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. Yet, to call it a "Slaughter Solution" is somehow an unfair Republican tactic. Such is the assertion of Brian Montopoli at the CBS Political Hotsheet:
The Republican Party already has plenty of evocative phrases with which to hammer the health care reform effort: "Government takeover," "ram down our throats," "job-killing monstrosity."
Now House Republican Leader John Boehner's office has come up with perhaps the most striking entry yet: "Slaughter Solution."
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Her name is unfair! That is unfair!
Why do they even need this? I recall Nan saying yesterday that she has the votes.
Excellent analysis, PJ!
Cindie
is the “louise liquidation” any better ?
“Unfair” is the libs favorite word.
It’s what they said about life before they discovered the word “sucks”.
I sent info on this to Fox News and contacted several members of the House.
If you can’t defend the principle, attack the word.
I like the obamacare graphic, but perhaps the staff with the snakes should be replaced with a long hypodermic needle approaching the back of a baby’s head.
That would be more in keeping with the spirit of government run deathcare.
>Brian Montopoli
What a retard!
Let every voter know who she is and what she is recommending and let her name be synonymous with "Benedict Arnold".
Burn this into peoples' memories as a warning as what will happen to other traitors in the future.
Wait ... calling a Congressional procedure a moniker derived from the name of the member instigating is unfair, but thinking up some way to end-around the Constitution, pass legislation which does not receive an actual vote, no problem with this for the presstitute??!!
Just getting all alynski on them for a change.
Hey CBS, why are you calling it “reconciliation” now, but when the Repubs had the majority you called it the “nuclear option.”
Nope, to biased reporting out of these folks.
Did Brian get upset when people were called 'Teabaggers'?!
Before coming to CBS News, he covered press coverage of the 2004 campaign for Columbia Journalism Review.
Montopoli has contributed to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon, Legal Affairs and The Washington Monthly. He has appeared on National Public Radio, “This American Life” and MSNBC. He lives in Brooklyn, New York
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He has all the credentials to be a BIG LYING (sensitive)
LIBERAL!
PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District
Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care
The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)
On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts
San Fran Nan likes to repeat the old saw: “We will pass comprehensive and quality health care reform for all Americans”. Let’s take a look at the current numbers shall we?
Obamacare passed the House in November 220-215. Four ‘Yes’ vote democrats have left the House and the lone Republican to vote for Obamacare, Cao (R-LA) is voting ‘No’.
So as it stands, today, if the the vote were held and everyone voted the same as they did in November, Obamacare would fail to pass 216 ‘No’ to 215 ‘Yes’. 216 is required for passage.
San Fran Nan needs to hold ALL of her ‘Yes’ votes from November AND flip ONE MORE vote from ‘No’ to ‘Yes’.
The problem is there is NOT ONE ‘No’ vote who has definitively stated they were flipping to ‘Yes’. NOT ONE.
On the other hand, there are THREE BLOCKS of ‘Yes’ votes that are threatening to flip their vote to ‘No’: Bart Stupak and his pro-life Democrat coalition, Progressives who are DEMANDING a public option and can’t quite figure out why Obama has morphed into a corporate centrist in bed with Wall Street, Big Pharma and the insurance companies, and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus which is objecting to the ban on illegal aliens being able to participate in Obamacare with their own money.
Any one of the three could bolt and bring anywhere from 5 to 15 ‘No’ votes to the Floor of the House effectively killing Obamacare.
What is transpiring is a classic prisoner’s dilemna for killing Obamacare. Here is why that is true:
Whichever faction of Democrats gets out in front and under the kleig lights and in front of a bank of cameras, shaking angry fists and denouncing the ‘sellout’ which is the Senate bill, will reap a political goldmine with their own constituencies.
The two other factions that dawdle and are not aggressive at killing Obamacare will reap nothing politically for Obamacare dying in the House.
The two factions that are not proactive in killing Obamacare will be caught snoozing, and in this political game, to snooze is to lose.
It’s dead Jim.
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