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Uhmmm...

Are you sure?

The Senate passed the original Obamacare bill BEFORE Scott won. Scott Brown won, but the Senate let the interim replacement, Paul Kirk, vote on Obamacare “Reconciliation”.

Remember that the Senate only had 59 votes to pass the Reconciliation Act since Republican Scott Brown replaced Democrat Ted Kennedy. Therefore in order to pass the Act Senate Democrats decided to change the rules. They declared that they could use the “Reconciliation Rule (this is a different “reconciliation” than the House bill). This rule was only supposed to be used for budget item approvals so that such items could be passed with only 51 votes in the Senate, not the usual 60. Reconciliation was never intended to be used for legislation of the magnitude of Obamacare. But that didn’t stop them.

So both of the “Acts” were able to pass both houses of Congress and sent to President Obama for his signature without a single Republican vote in favor of the legislation. The American system of governance was shafted. To quote Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee during the bill process: “We’re making up the rules as we go along.”

100% correct.

Then..Bart “skunk head” Stupak made a stink about it because of the abortion thing.

Skunk Head took a bow after he voted for it-that is after Obastard gave/promised him an EO on the abortion thing. He then took a bow and got to hell out of his district after which Doc Benishek got the seat. Doc Benishek..my former friend who I fought for tooth and nail to get him in.