Posted on 03/11/2010 3:00:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Nancy Pelosi does not have the 216 votes necessary to pass the Senate health care bill. She's planning to go ahead without the votes of the Stupak 12. Today the Senate parliamentarian ruled the Senate bill must become law before "fixes" can be made via the parliamentary tactic known as reconciliation. The GOP Senate caucus will rigorously enforce the Byrd rule, limiting the reconciliation changes to budget matters and nothing more.
What's going on? The final push for Obamacare is about to begin. It starts on Monday, when the House Budget Committee will insert reconciliation instructions into the November House health care bill. By late Monday / early Tuesday, Budget will pass this bill and send it to the House Rules Committee, where Pelosi will change the language so that it matches the Senate bill. This is the final compromise legislation that may come to a vote on the House floor within weeks. "They're creating the shell," says Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Why move ahead when the votes aren't there? Pelosi hopes that launching the process will create enough momentum to flip Democrats her way. The clock is ticking. The speaker has two weeks before Congress breaks for Easter Recess. And the recess could kill off health care reform, since many of the wavering Democrats will get an earful from their constituents when they return home. Republicans expect Democrats to lose votes over the break.
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Well then, it will be time for civil disobedience.
They won't vote on this if they don't have the votes, which they won't have without the Stupeck amendment.
She won't have a vote that would lose, it would be too embarassing.
No it won't. Except for a few brave souls who will be easily squashed by the Obama machine, there will not be civil war in the country when it passes.
WASNT THE ENDGAME TWO WEEKS AGO AFTER THE SUMMIT. SOMEBODY VOTE DAMN IT.
I think they only need 215 without Massa....
And they lost a few 'yes' votes like Murtha.
Without the anti-abortion language, they won't get near the 216 OR 215.
today two gop senators stated with glee they will shred the house reconciled bill to pieces sentence by sentence with points of order and shut down the senate.
I agree. I don’t think there’d be much unrest if O was to declare martial law next November and ban all elections thus keeping all dems in charge.
I’d like to see us doing what the French do. Mass marches shouting “Obama! The people are in the streets!” But it won’t happen.
You’re also right about the firepower of the machine. We’re not as equal as the patriots were in 1776.
They’ll amke a deal to do aborrtion on a separate bill down the road. They’ll attach it to a military bill.
That’s what you think. You can bow down like sheep to Obama, but not me and millions of other patriots.
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Woe to those who devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand:
CatOwner is a troll who pops up once in a while to whine and find a same sex partner to curl up in the fetal position with.
Well then, it will be time for civil disobedience.
No it won’t. Except for a few brave souls who will be easily squashed by the Obama machine, there will not be civil war in the country when it passes.
4 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:08:39 PM by CatOwner
I wonder how many fire drills the house will have in the next few weeks. I wonder if that would slow the process down?
Is pulling a random fire alarm in our House OK if you think you smell smoke?
Gotta love the drama queens on FR. Oh please, this country is so passive when it comes to laws passed by Congress.
Gee, is that the best you can do, come up with a homophobic insult of someone you do not know personally? And you wonder why many Americans have a dim view of Conservatives and their holier-than-thou attitudes.
You are not helping the cause. You may not like my message, but try to prove me wrong when health care sadly is passed by the thinnest of margins.
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