Bipartisan effort to stop health care legislation comes up short

By Neil Braithwaite

Filed Under Races 2010 on Nov 8 

All but one Republican and Thirty-nine Democrats came up just five votes short of the bipartisan mission to stop a government takeover of one-sixth of our economy.

The bipartisan effort to stop this insanity will continue in the Senate.

Call your Senator — today!

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33 Comments

  1. Troy La Mana on 08.11.2009 at 04:29 (Reply)

    Let’s just hope this disaster can be halted in the Senate.

  2. Red State Eddio on 08.11.2009 at 09:12 (Reply)

    I’m floating between moments where I feel utterly sick to my stomach, mixed with ‘mad as hell’ rage, along with sadness to the point of crying for my country’s (and my kids’) future.

    1. Brian H on 08.11.2009 at 11:22 (Reply)

      I feel very muck like Eddio.

      As Thomas Paine wrote in The American Crisis:

      “These are the times that try men’soul’s….Tyranny, like hell, is not not easily conquered.”

  3. Troy La Mana on 08.11.2009 at 20:39 (Reply)

    Hope from the Senate:

    “The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
    Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and “take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people.”
    The problem is that the Senate won’t run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.
    If a government plan is part of the deal, “as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.”

    Read the rest here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul

    1. Gary Russell on 08.11.2009 at 23:22 (Reply)

      God bless Joe Leiberman!

      I don’t need to call my senators.
      Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby are rock-solid Republicans.
      Yea, Alabama!

      1. Neil Braithwaite on 08.11.2009 at 23:25 (Reply)

        Call any Senator who supports the bill. They work for you.

  4. Whodat on 08.11.2009 at 20:57 (Reply)

    Old cliche: “It is darkest
    Just before dawn.”
    So, not giving up one tiny iota,
    Our side must fight on.

    Hopefully, all the names of all the
    Blue dogs who voted “yea”.
    Will be published tomorrow. or
    At least without long delay.

    They are the key. They are the
    Pivot point,if we are to prevail.
    And, we must insure max pressure
    They get thru calls and all mail.

    And, lest we forget, the Senate
    Is also key in this legislation.
    And Senators move like glaciers
    In deep matters of our nation!

    Whodat say good for the House vote;
    least now we know who is who and where they is so we can focus on teachin em how stupid they be…

  5. Gary Russell on 08.11.2009 at 23:23 (Reply)

    I haven’t seen the name/state/district of the lone RINO who voted in favor of this bill.
    Who was it?

    1. JE on 08.11.2009 at 23:51 (Reply)

      Anh “Joseph” Cao. Freshman from Lousiana, the heavy dem leaning district formerly held by William Jefferson before his indictment. Can you say “one term”?

      1. Neil Braithwaite on 09.11.2009 at 20:03 (Reply)

        Yea. He’s just getting used to that RINO suit and has it on backwards — head out the ass. It’s a good look for him. He’ll be gone soon.

  6. Brian H on 09.11.2009 at 00:55 (Reply)

    Let us not forget that many of the “RINOs” we want to kick out of the GOP voted against this disgrace, as well.

    1. Troy La Mana on 09.11.2009 at 02:36 (Reply)

      One good vote doesn’t equate that they feel the same way I do on most issues. If I had a “RINO” in my district I would still consider voting for someone else in the primary if that candidate more closely felt the same as I did on the majority of issues.

      1. Troy La Mana on 09.11.2009 at 02:37 (Reply)

        Especially if they promised to actually uphold the Constitution unlike the majority of Congress.

      2. Brian H on 09.11.2009 at 15:33 (Reply)

        I agree with you 100%. That is exactly what primaries are for.

  7. Troy La Mana on 09.11.2009 at 02:39 (Reply)

    BTW: I think this will spell the beginning of the end of a 2012 run for Mittens.

    1. Red State Eddio on 09.11.2009 at 19:44 (Reply)

      Why is that, if I may ask?

    2. Red State Eddio on 09.11.2009 at 19:44 (Reply)

      Why is that, if I may ask?

      1. Troy La Mana on 10.11.2009 at 02:05 (Reply)

        Mittens has never properly explained why he was for Romneycare and it has failed just as this “reform” will fail. I couldn’t vote for a Republican that thought this was a good idea.

  8. East of Eden on 09.11.2009 at 11:25 (Reply)

    I commented to my husband on Sat nite, “Look at us, we’re sitting here on a Saturday night, watching C-span. You even switched from football.”

    It was a suspensful, yet dissapointing evening. However, I will say this, all politics aside, watching the proceedure of the House was very interesting.

    And now, politics back in front, time to call Sens Dumb and Dumber to plead for santiy. I’m not hoping that either of them will use the brain the good Lord gave them to think for themselves, but I can hope. Like Who-dat said, “the darkest hour is just before dawn”

    1. Neil Braithwaite on 09.11.2009 at 20:21 (Reply)

      I heard someone ask a very good question today.

      Why did the Republicans vote for the abortion ammendment?

      The bill would have probably not passed if the ammendment had failed.

  9. German Observer on 09.11.2009 at 11:51 (Reply)

    Apart from details in legislature, conduct etc. universal health-care is a must have for a developed country. So I congratulate the American people for this huge step forward and wish the members of the senate the same wisdom and humanity the congress displayed.

    1. Whodat on 09.11.2009 at 14:02 (Reply)

      Ah, yes, European style socialism is sure what we need here. And, then we can all live like Europeans; cramped little cars, cramped little apartments filled wif Ikea stuff, long lines for health and all services, lots of taxes and extreme uemployment rates. Sounds like Utopia, Fritz, but no danke!

      1. Red State Eddio on 09.11.2009 at 20:00 (Reply)

        Hey, I lived in Ikea furniture after college for a few years – it was all I could afford! :-)

      2. German Observer on 09.11.2009 at 20:14 (Reply)

        Whodat, thanks for your comment, but I think you mix up a few things. Our cramped little cars certainly have more to do with a higher developed sense for environmental issues. Our cramped little flats have more to do, that we have to stuff a number of people which equals roughly a fourth of the US-population into an area which equals Florida or so. And our Ikea-furniture is the outcome of brilliant entrepeneurship of a clever guy, who grew up in socialist Sweden.

    2. Red State Eddio on 09.11.2009 at 19:58 (Reply)

      Welcome back, GO. We missed your semi-socialist Euro-centric perspectives. How are the krauts these days – sour? (Ok, sorry, that was really bad) ;-)

      In that so-called developed country, should we also toss in controlled emissions, restricted energy usage, as well as consumption and transportation taxes? Sounds like a recipe for un-developing that country, which is the real agenda behind the environmental crowd’s actions.

      I had a friend spend a year in Germany about a decade ago. He loved the country and his time very much, but he was amazed at the degree of regulated minutia that went on there – down to when, how, and at what time one had to mow the grass in front of your little apartment-or get fined. He was thankful to be back in the US when it was over – he marveled at how people could live like that for their entire lives.

      1. German Observer on 09.11.2009 at 20:22 (Reply)

        Hi RSE, sorry for a short reply, I have git to rush to get a fine position in the line of the doctors office tommorrow morning :-)

        No seriously, I got to work a bit. RSE, I see your point, we can discuss about almost everything, we certainly overregulate a lot of things, a lot is to critisize etc. pp. But we can’t discuss universal health care. I think, that is the minimum standard for our modern western societies.

        Cheers, GO

        P.S.: Not all of the Krauts our sour these days, only those, who lost in the elecetions a few weeks before (I belong to them). On the other hand, today is the 20. anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, which is a reason for happy memorys (and have a lot to do with the US).

        1. Troy La Mana on 10.11.2009 at 02:09 (Reply)

          Speaking about that. Aren’t you pissed off that Obama isn’t coming and said he was too busy?

  10. Brian H on 09.11.2009 at 15:42 (Reply)

    You are congratulating us on obtaining a minimum of a $1.2 TRILLION debt, federaly funded abortions, and rationed care, all pushed upon us against our will?

    Wasn’t there a story about a cursed monkey paw?

    1. German Observer on 09.11.2009 at 20:24 (Reply)

      I congratulate you for a step forward to an nessessity.

      “Wasn’t there a story about a cursed monkey paw?”

      Couldn’t find that one in my dictionary.

    2. Troy La Mana on 10.11.2009 at 02:11 (Reply)

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey’s_Paw

      1. Mrs Rusty Shackleford on 10.11.2009 at 08:33 (Reply)

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey’s_Paw

        It’s actually this one. A tale about be careful what you wish for. There is always a price to pay and sometimes the price is too high.

    3. kristen on 10.11.2009 at 10:56 (Reply)

      Amen Brian. And let me add that our govt has NEVER run anything efficiently. What makes it think it can run healthcare for 300+ million people?

  11. Mrs Rusty Shackleford on 10.11.2009 at 08:35 (Reply)

    crud. It did it again. Sorry Troy. I don’t know why it’s cutting our link short. It’s not the Stephen King Monkey that it links to.

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