Yes, the Senate passed something this morning. I hope they feel better now. But the real discomfort may be just beginning. They'll have to go home to face the music and own their votes for this execrable bill. And according to Politico, now that Obama sees that he can't get his healthcare victory in time to bask in its glow via the State of the Union address, he's going to delay further healthcare action until February. This hurry-up-and-wait routine has got to be a bit vexing for those Dems who were in such a frantic rush to sell their souls by Christmas; perhaps some of them are wishing they had held on to them a little longer. Andy McCarthy:
Cue laugh track. Also see Jennifer Rubin for more on the 360 degree backlash against the Senate healthcare bill. An excerpt:How proud of themselves Senate Democrats must be. As Ed Morrissey notes at Hot Air, now that they've besotted themselves in a historically unseemly exhibition, bribing their way through a Christmas eve green-light for a monstrous 2000-page bill no one has had a real opportunity to digest, we learn President Obama has said, "Never mind."
Though the point of mad-dash cash-for-cloture was to give the President his monumental "achievement" in time to brag about it in the State of the Union address, the administration realizes it won't happen — too much opposition in the House, too problematic on abortion, too much outrage in the country. So healthcare will be tabled until February, giving us all at least a month-and-a-half to find more of its buried treasures, ear-marks, mandates and power-grabs. And it is still no sure thing, shaping up as a brawl between the two chambers. Meantime, Obama will make the "hard pivot" to jobs and the economy, underscoring the shambles he's made of both ... while (as Byron reports in the Washington Examiner) Senate Republicans force Democrats to vote to raise the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion just days before Obama's big SOTU speech touts the need for ... fiscal responsibility.
The bill is so bad it renders Sen. Chuck Schumer mute: “Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson both slammed the Senate bill Monday, charging it would cost the city more than $500 million and rip a $1 billion-a-year hole in the state budget. Schumer, a veteran streetfighter for federal cash, has been suddenly recast as a defender of Washington—and a deal he helped cut that shafts New York. ’He’s being uncharacteristically quiet in part because the numbers don’t look that good,’ said Baruch College political scientist Doug Muzzio. . . [Schumer] bristled at criticism that he stood by as other states won sweetheart deals.” Well, how come Nebraska got more than New York then?Schumer going silent? It's a Christmas miracle.
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Tsk...tsk...poor pospotus. Now he must be feeling the first thing any boot camp kid learns in the first day of military training....hurry up and wait. And when it is your turn....you will NOT get what you wanted. Take one and go people...take one and go.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Power tracked-back with, 'ObamaCare Now Goes to Conference: Public Option Remains Stumbling Block to Compromise'.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2009/12/24/the-best-christmas-present-ever-senator-demint-objects-to-the-appointment-of-the-conferees/
ReplyDeleteThis is from Redstate- If true and accurate it seems a few Republicans haven't given up yet and are simply buying time, like the union forces on the hill called little Roundtop at the outset of Gettysburg. The Republicans are hoping for re-enforcements such as Democrats switching sides, public opinion shifts, and maybe a public rising up in 2010. But I fear in this battle there are too many agendas at play and too much cash for the corrupt politicians to not pass it.
I've commented before on the agenda game, doing my best to outline all the players and the motives of the left. They do not get along, but they are rowing this boat in unison for now.
Here is a post with the agenda post linked. Read it. If you want to see your future, study the past. Mao's China, Mussolini's Italy. There is a saying in police work and combat when things go south in a hurry. I've said it more than once, "We are in the shit now." Make no mistake, our nation is in the shit now, and we aren't getting out by some cute last minute rescue. We are going to have to climb out slowly and steadily, with the enemy taking pot shots at us all the away.
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/12/17/talking-about-revolution-war-and-the-current-characters-in-office-why-they-cheat/
"...and own their votes for this execrable bill."
ReplyDeleteI think it would be more appropriate to refer to it as an 'excrementable' bill.
If we could only just flush that piece of legislative excrement down the toilet and the jabronis who supported it, we would all be far better off.
May God help us because our elected representatives certainly are not.
It's the height of hubris for congressmen and senators to support legislation that their constituents clearly do NOT want. But of course, these fine ladies and gentlemen (hack, cough) surely know better than us what is really best.
I placed a deliberately contentious anti-obama bumper sticker on my vehicle (which more than implied that I thought Obama was a socialist) prior to the presidential elections. Last week at a company Christmas party an older retired Marine who also happened to be black came up to me and told me "You know, your bumper sticker really pi$$ed me off before the elections but you were right!" He then proceeded to tell me how absolutely angry he was with Obama and he was convinced Obama really was a socialist.
The clincher here was this; his mother suffers from severe dementia and is now a hostage to the medical/insurance system (medicare and tricare)and can not get the treatment she is entitled to. And...he is wholly convinced that once Obamacare takes over she'll just be ignored until she dies a slow ignominious death. His opinion obviously changed once the reality of this whole mess hit home. In his mind the collective "they" were just going to wait it out until she died or he and his family caved in and paid for it out of pocket which is what he is doing now anyway.
Let us pray for another Christmas miracle!!