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November 22, 2009

About last night's vote

Via K-Lo, Harry Reid's intimations of immortality:

Senator Reid tonight:

Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation - indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and death, which can be prevented by decent health care for all.

Silly me, skeptical and opposed all this time to the panacea this legislation will be. Obama is savior — his plan is immortality!
K-Lo again: This Sounds Like a Government Takeover, Doesn't It?
Senator Dodd said right before the vote:

I ALSO WANT TO PAUSE FOR A MOMENT, IF I CAN, MR. PRESIDENT, TO RECOGNIZE A COLLEAGUE WHO IS HERE TONIGHT ONLY IN SPIRIT, TED KENNEDY... TONIGHT WE AND IN THE DAYS TO COME WILL PAY HIM THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT AS OUR COLLEAGUE BY FULFILLING THAT QUEST OF ACHIEVING THE GOAL THAT ALL AMERICANS ASPIRE FOR, AND THAT IS A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT SERVES EVERY ONE OF OUR CITIZENS.
I wonder if any of his colleagues had the urge to slap some duct tape over his mouth, or are they all equally power-drunk and full of themselves?

And Byron York wonders: Why was it so hard for Dems even to start health care debate?

The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there was any drama at all. Lawmakers were simply voting to begin debate on the Democratic version of health care reform. Just begin debate -- not end it, and not move on to a final vote.

If Democrats, with a 60-vote majority in the Senate, had not been able to begin debate on the top Democratic policy priority in a generation -- well, that would have been a devastating turn of events, both for the party and for President Obama. And yet just starting debate proved difficult, and only on the last day did the 60th Democratic vote fall in place in favor of beginning the process.

I asked a high-ranking Republican Senate source whether it was really that hard to get the Democratic votes together. Could it have been a media-fed story, with reporters looking to inject some unwarranted drama into the proceedings? No, I was told. "It really was that hard for them to get to 60 just to proceed," the source said. "Very telling."

RTR for what it tells.

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2 comments:

  1. Harry Reid made sure to sweeten the pot for Mary Landrieu, and to get her vote on the health care mess, $100 million in federal Medcaid subsides for states which are recovering from major disasters in the past seven years.
    Crap like this should be illegal. The money is clearly earmarked for Louisiana. And it is pork. What does this have to do with health care reform? It was done to get a vote. Louisiana has sued the Army Corps of Engineers for their neglect with the levees. Other states suffered from the tragedy of Katrina as well, not just New Orleans. And New Orleans is largely below sea level, the city would have flooded anyway. Its at outrage to consider suing the Army, New Orleans needs to sue the Lord also, since He started Katrina in the first place. And to add to this absurdity, New Orleans should sue Lake Pontchartrain as well, because this body of water prevented the flood waters from going anywhere but largely in to New Orleans. Who should be sued? The corrupt officials and Ralph Nagen from New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.
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  2. God Himself raised the stakes on this one.
    http://heyitsjustablogman.blogspot.com/2009/11/kennedy-666.html
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