Posted on 03/24/2010 10:54:45 PM PDT by Blonde
As you all know, I’m on semi-vacation with my family. It’s 10:00pm Pacific time and after putting everyone to bed, I decided to check in online and turn on the TV. I flipped through C-SPAN thinking I’d be able to catch up on re-runs of the day’s business…only to find the Senate still live and in session at 1:00am Eastern voting on Demcare amendments.
Yes, the Vampire Congress is back in business again — shirking the glare of daylight as it tables Republican motion after motion. A final vote on the wreckonciliation bill is expected at around 3:00-6:00am Eastern this morning.
Here’s a list of some of the GOP amendments to the wreconciliation bill (click on link for more info):
* Senator Gregg: Protect Medicare Savings * Senator McCain: Remove Sweetheart Deals * Senator Crapo: No Tax Hikes for Families Earning Under $250,000 * Senator Enzi: Strike the Employer Mandate * Senator Barrasso: Requires Legislation Not Increase Premiums * Senator Grassley: Requires President, Congress Enroll in Exchange * Senator Alexander: Reduce Student Loan Interest Rate * Senator LeMieux: Members On Medicaid * Senator Coburn: Bars Sex Offenders from Receiving E.D. Drugs * Senator Hutchison: State Opt Out * Senator Hatch: Block Medicare Advantage Cuts * Senator Collins: Waive Employer Mandate Tax * Senator Thune: Strike CLASS Act * Senator Cornyn: Remove New Taxes on Investments * Senator Hatch: Protect Wounded Soldiers from Medical Device Tax * Senator Inhofe: Protect Pediatrics and Disabled from Medical Device Tax * Senator Crapo: Protect Cancer Patients from Medical Device Tax * Senators Roberts, Inhofe, Brown, Crapo: Strike Medical Device Tax * Senator Burr: Tricare and Veterans Health Programs * Senator Roberts: Rationing * Senator Roberts: Critical Access Hospitals * Senator Vitter: Repeals Democrats’ Health Care Bill
Go here for the roll call votes.
Among the more noteworthy votes taken so far:
Sen. Coburn’s attempt to bar Viagra for sex offenders was tabled by 57-42. Democrat Sens. Bayh and Nelson voted with the Republicans.
Sen. Vitter’s motion to repeal the Demcare takeover was tabled by 58-39.
The Hill is also up tonight covering the dwellers in darkness:
As of 11:30 p.m., the chamber had defeated 19 straight Republican proposals and adopted none.
There were no Democratic amendments proposed, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is under pressure to preserve the bill intact, which would prevent it from having to be sent back to the House. The House already approved the reconciliation bill in its session last weekend.
A spokesman for Reid’s office said instead of adjourning, the evening’s continuous voting has put the chamber within reach of a final vote in the wee hours of Thursday — possibly between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Although 20 hours of debate are normally required, Democrats surrendered their half of that time on Wednesday morning, and GOP leaders decided later in the day against a strategy of filing repeated amendments.
Democratic leaders are moving the bill through the Senate under special parliamentary rules, known as the reconciliation process, under which they only need to amass 51 votes, meaning they can afford to lose several members of their party. Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, whose rulings were critical to the state of the bill, had not issued any rulings to adversely affect the bill as of 11:30 p.m.
I’ll update through the night. Stay tuned.
I have no doubt it will pass again either- but it’s not a bad thing to force their hands and delay things as along as possible.
The most excellent thing about this next passage, is that they will ALL be on record as supporting free viagara for sex-offenders.
That is fantastic and needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
They all went on record making child molesters and pedophiles a protected class under the latest hate crimes legislation. I have not seen the GOP make any waves about that.
This is why we (conservatives) need advocacy groups that will get these horrific rulings Congress has passed under Obama out to the public.
How many Americans would agree that a pedophile deserve special rights and protections codified into law?
Didn't Harry Reid have a small stroke or heart attack (I forget which) some months back? Sure would be awful if all these all-nighters were too much for him . . .
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
if that the case, anybody who aint for it, should simply publicly state that theyre not goin to be associated with it in any fashion, let the rats own it, and go home and get some sleep...
personnally, anyone who would take the mic and say 'eff you dingy harry, you bought now live with it' and wash their hands of it, would get my support...
They are cockroaches. We should call them Representative Cockroach, Senator Cockroach and pResident Cockroach.
Oh good Heavens, I actually agree with Hutchinson.
Oh yea, it’s for show since she’s running for governor
Obozo signed the Senate bill, health care for bozos, which is full of crap, reverse racism, and is a government takeover of health care. The House passed and now the Senate are now working on the fixes, called the reconciliation bill. That’s what is stuck.
take the mic, tell em to ramrod whatever they want, since they obviously can, and get to work on repeal, or destruction of the rats in general...
but alas, decorum and collegiality forbids standing up and simply stating that these bums are red diaper commies...
red diaper commies ... Savage would be proud.
wow
if we had jeniuses like you at the top of the gop ... we wouldn’t be in this messt. or maybe not.
Re your #33: “We’ll restore the rules, and put these tin pots in prison.”
But the 660,000 dead man question (the last time things got out of hand 1861-5) is;
Can such justice be accomplished without the copious shedding of blood?
God; I hope so!
History, however, is not terribly encouraging when it comes to things like this.
fer now...thanks fer playin anyway...
Re: “I’m sure more than a few yea’s now have cold feet.”
A few might be wondering how their entire body might feel at room / ambient temperature as well.
It seems that at least a few people are getting sufficiently outraged that their better judgment and capacity to inhibit untoward impulses might be somewhat occluded.
Since it may be reasonably assumed that Obamacare will likely result in the premature demise of at least a few innocent members of the Peasant class, the Ruling Elite of course having excepted themselves from it, there might be some rationalization going on among the great unwashed (and heavily armed) peasantry as well.
As an example, the murderer of an Abortion “provider” (I’m not going to call them “Doctors” but you can if you like) justified his action based on the assumption that without the “services” of said “provider”, innocent lives would be saved.
Of course the reality probably is that someone else is going to “provide” the “services” and the assassination may not have actually “saved” any of the preborn victims at all.
But you know, some people are apt to think that way.
Occasionally, they do.
It’s getting pretty damned serious out there, my Beloved!
don’t worry about Phil I. Buster... he will make a huge comeback if the GOP wins a Senate majority.
The Skunk will make his appearance in 2012 at the election.. or maybe in November..
I understand medicare advantage is going to be eliminated along the way...part of the cuts upcomming...do you have anything on that?
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