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Not even close. Remember, both the Republican Party and the US media at large, since December, were saying that it was “unacceptable” that the final Senate passage be done by reconciliation. By the philosophy of CNN, Fox News and almost all other news outlets as well, the 43 who were just out voted by the 56 should have prevailed and stopped the entire health care package from becoming law. Remember who said that to you, remember WHO TOLD YOU that YOU would be outraged when 56 elected Senators beat 43 elected Senators, and told you that YOU would demand that the will of the 43 should prevail. This was the media who said this, not just the GOP. Now the bill goes to a final, extra House vote, which will sail through.
All of last night’s amendments were shot down; the Senate is on schedule to finish killing them all (they are all Republican amendments) by 2PM. As I write this, Coburn is proposing an “amendment” that would allow people to carry guns around inside VA hospitals. That’s how the GOP rolls. The bill is going to fixed exactly to the House’s demands, greatly improving it, and the Senate will be in nearly continuous session (4-5 hours sleep) until it is done.
UPDATE: 29 out of 29 GOP poison pill amendments, many of them by Coburn and Inhofe, were shot down Wednesday night, with the session ending past 3AM. Today, 11 out of 11 more were shot down one by one, and the final vote for reconciliation is under way. The bill will go back to the House this afternoon due to two parliamentary points of order regarding student loan reform. That is a very interesting story and more on it later BUT DOES NOT AFFECT THE PASSAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM.
Tea partiers post the wrong address for a Congressman’s home to invite harassment; gas lines are cut at the house of the Congressman’s brother who lives there.
Watch this piece, there is one minute of setup and then the real story begins. Someone wants to make April 19th a day of infamy in US history yet again.
He has just thrown in the towel, no doubt angering other GOP members who want to Keep Hope Alive that they can strip desperate Americans of needed health insurance.
“No,” Coburn said during an appearance on CNBC when asked if the GOP would be able to stop many elements of the reconciliation bill. “We’ll put a few holes in it, but basically it’s going to come through here because they’ve done a good job crafting it.”
He has no problem kissing Saudi kings and walking around for hours holding their hand, yet he can’t resist a compulsion to wipe his hand off on a U.S. President’s shirt like it’s a rag. Perhaps the current President should relieve GWB of his charity duties representing the United States, his obsessive/compulsive behavior could jeopardize the image of this country.
Why hasn’t my state Attorney General sued over this? Millions of right-wingers are already claiming that the Federal Government cannot make any individual purchase or buy anything, and literally millions of dollars will be spent on lawsuits to that effect. Yet they do nothing about this law?
E]very citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder; and shall appear so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise or into service, except, that when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack. That the commissioned Officers shall severally be armed with a sword or hanger, and espontoon; and that from and after five years from the passing of this Act, all muskets from arming the militia as is herein required, shall be of bores sufficient for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound; and every citizen so enrolled, and providing himself with the arms, ammunition and accoutrements, required as aforesaid, shall hold the same exempted from all suits, distresses, executions or sales, for debt or for the payment of taxes.
Haven’t Senators Jefferson and Madison read what the Founding Fathers said in the Constitution? Will someone put a stop to George Washington’s wild usurpation of power?