Posted on 11/06/2009 9:29:08 PM PST by freespirited
The decisions of the final holdouts on the House health bill are beginning to come in. Rep. John Adler, a New Jersey Democrat, said today he’s voting no. He criticized the bill’s $1 trillion-plus price tag over 10 years, and said it doesn’t do enough to control health costs.
Adler’s state, of course, was the scene of a big Republican win this week when Chris Christie defeated incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine in the New Jersey gubernatorial race. Seeking his first term in Congress last year, Adler squeaked to victory with 52% of the vote, and he’s one of the many Democratic freshmen who’s vulnerable to a Republican challenge in 2010. The seat had long been held by GOP Rep. Jim Saxton who retired last year.
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Wow, If NJ wonlt play, how will a blue dog go along?
Mmmmmmm Mmmmmmm Mmmmmmm
Momentum, man. Let’s bury this sick puppy.
New Jersey in the news again this week. Wonder if the stories are related? LOL
So it’s all about getting re-elected for this guy.
The thing is, if this bill goes down, which looks like it very well may, it will just come back up next year maybe scaled down a bit.
What i think they’ve done is to highball us on this one. They’ve put in the funding of abortion and illegals and whatnot, so the next time around they’ll say “ok, see all you guys who said you didn’t want abortion and illegals included, we did what you wanted. So now you’ve got to vote “yes”.
If it goes down, it’s highly unlikely it gets resurrected before the mid-term elections. The Democrats will smell their own demise if they re-introduce their “Final Solution of the American Question”.
Not only that, but I think REPUBLICAN opposition will be more organized if there is a next time (Leadership in Congress) that is!
you’re right. but they’ll still be propagandizing about it in such a way that the ignoramuses won’t know it’s hitting ‘em.
I hope you’re right about that. You’ll forgive me if i don’t have much confidence left in the GOP.
Then we need to propagandize back at them. This the Marxist Final Solution of the American Question. If the gov’t controls healthcare, the gov’t controls your life. It’s THAT SIMPLE.
What we need is the TRUTH. We need Rush to kick it up a notch and we need people to listen to Rev. Manning. And Glenn Beck. The truth shall set us free.
Look! There might still be intelligent life in your state. ;^P
They would have to remove Pelosi as House Leader. If she were going to budge she would have done it by now.
That is assuming that Pelosi et al didn’t highball us with all these absurd things in the bill. This wouldn’t be the first time Congress played this game on us.
The myth that Republicans have been partisan and obstructive needs to be demolished too. Bi-partisanship begins with the writing of the bill. Pelosi had a bill written that gave Republicans nothing at all. They had nothing to begin a debate on. Pelosi's bill was written as a hyper-partisan bill.
That said I am not all that interested in bi-partisanship. But their propaganda can be exploded just the same.
lol. I am getting out of this state. I wish it well but I see no future in staying here. My taxes won’t go down & I want a farm & sane gun laws.
Maybe we're better off without an organized Republican oppositon on this issue; i.e. better off without "the Obamanation" directing his attacks at, and blaming, "Republicans". Sinced the elections in VA and NJ it is clear that opposition to this health care debacle and socialism is coming from independents as well. That now puts Obama in the position of attacking and blaming Americans in general.
i think bipartisanship is BS too. it’s all the RATS like to talk about. But it only works one way. Their way or the highway. How often do we see RATS jumping en masse to support a GOP bill?
And the idiot Republicans go along with this because the media will say the GOP isn’t behaving in a “bipartisan fashion”.
If Congress were honest and/or had any real convictions of their own, they’d vote with their own mind and not just go along with all the other RATS. That is how RATS vote, the way rats congregate in a sewer. All together. Groupthink.
The GOP just can’t compete with that unless they crawl into the sewer too.
So imo bipartisan is a bad word and an awfully unAmerican way to conduct the legislative branch of the government.
In a perfect world, RAT or GOP, each member of Congress should think independently and vote independently. But they don’t because they have a very damaging and devasting agenda for America.
Oh wth am i talking about? we’re not in Thomas Jeffersons America anymore.
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