Posted on 01/20/2011 1:20:24 PM PST by Qbert
While the health care repeal that the House passed Wednesday has little chance of passage in the Senate, Republicans will probably succeed in eventually forcing a vote on the measure -- albeit with at least a 60-vote threshold.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who controls the Senate floor schedule, has said he will not bring the repeal up. But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pledged to force consideration of the bill.
"The Democratic leadership in the Senate doesn't want to vote on this bill. But I assure you, we will," said McConnell in a statement.
Republican aides noted they can force a vote by offering the repeal as an amendment, or by using the Senate's Rule 14 process to bring the bill to the floor, then filing cloture on it. The easiest course for the GOP might be to try to force a vote on the repeal as an amendment to a bill that's likely to pass, such as an appropriations measure. Reid can block amendments to bills, but Republicans could then force a vote on a motion to suspend the rules to take up the amendment...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Guess it’s time for a standoff and openin’ up some Kimono’s to see who’s packin’ what.....
The Senate GOP leadership is to busy looking for their spine
I won’t hold my breath .
They have Harry by the u know what and he is squirming.
They have Harry by the u know what and he is squirming.
So, let them vote against it.
Then pass it again. And make them vote against it again.
They'll be slitting their own throats.
I'd rather have a sumbitch up there whose 'colors' I know than a damned spineless snake in the grass twitchin' his tongue to catch a taste of the prevailing political wind. IOW ....NO MORE McCAIN VOTER GUILT FOR ME - NO SIR!!!
You want an increase in the debt ceiling? Fine. You get one for 6 months. The price is the total repeal of Obamacare. And that means the repeal is passed in the Senate and signed by the President.
Then you get your debt increase.
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The GOP house should deem it to never have passed to begin with.
“I won’t hold my breath .”
I know, I know...
But McConnell is going to be very surprised when it’s his name, too, on the signs at the rallies if he doesn’t do it.
If I was in the budget committee for the House, I’d defund all DoD executive transport funding for non-military personnel.....for starters to get the ball rolling with what you said.
Stamp it “MULLIGAN”......
albeit with at least a 60-vote threshold.
Does McConnell really think he can get enough Democrats for a 60 vote threshold? I would doubt that but maybe he knows something about how some of the ‘crats would vote.
Make it so.
Here’s hoping Mitchie the Kid doesn’t puss out—or SELL out first!!
Then pass it again. And make them vote against it again.
The point is:
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who controls the Senate floor schedule, has said he will not bring the repeal up."
If it's not brought to the floor for a vote, then no one can vote for or against it. That's why McConnell wants to embed it in an already popular primary bill would pass on its own merits.
1. Attach repeal to both continuing motion and the debt limit....
2. Make it for 1 month only so has to be re-visited...
3. repeat 1 and 2
enjoy dims heads exploding.
Hell—McConnell got rolled by Susan Collins on DADT during the lame-duck.
There is a lot of Senate RINO garbage in the Mid Atalntic and SE states that needs to go especially in Tenn. McConnell better deliver.
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