The Price of Liberty? $100 million, at least to Moonbat Mary…
Mary Landrieu suggests she’ll vote for socialist medicine as long as HER constituents don’t get “death paneled”, so SHE won’t lose HER job.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill. In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
Meanwhile, Senator Lincoln realizes she had better get cracking on a similar deal….
Lincoln’s most likely Republican opponent, state Sen. Gilbert Bennett, is hot on her heels in the poll, trailing by only 41-39. But asked who they would support if Lincoln votes for ObamaCare, Arkansas voters switch to Bennett, giving him a 49-36 victory. That Lincoln goes from two points ahead to 13 points behind over one Senate vote illustrates the potency of the opposition to healthcare changes.
Question: Is there ONE Democrat with a soul? ONE?
Oh, in other news, the Rs have decided, no, they won’t resist Obamacare by reading the bill. Nah. After all, that would be so, talky, or wordy, or…. something. So yeah. America dies. But what did you want us to do about it? Offer resistance? Surely you jest.
H/Ts to www.dickmorris.com, IP727, and Drudge
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Imagine the GOP at the Battle of the Bulge:
“Well, of course we had guns, and bullets. And yes, we were soldiers. But the Germans were really attacking fiercely, and they had heavy weapons….
We might have been hurt.”
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Obamacare tanking to huge lows, why don’t the Dems listen? We are going to punish them for what they are about to do.
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Saturday IS the “Battle of the Bulge”. 2,074 pages of “Bulge” have spewed from Reid’s butt, and we need to help fight it!
Tomorrow I was (and am) going to plead with everyone here to call a few Senators…REPEATEDLY! But I might as well start now:
- Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
- Ben Nelson of Nebraska
- Mary Landrieu of Louisiana
Urge a no vote on cloture!! Use the 202-224-3121 number to call them all, or look up the email and direct phone numbers. In fact, if you know those please post them here!!
Fight folks!
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Having pushed for this socialized piece of bovine excrement for decades, most of them would be happy to retire after finally reaching their lifetime goal,in spite of what the sheeple want. Who the hell do we think we are,to dare stand in the way.
The blond bimbo from LA will probably retire at the end of her term anyway, so screw the constituents.
The fondling fathers STP when they neglected to add term limits to the constitution.
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Does this make her a whore or prostitute?
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I love the TARGETED BRIBE for Mary Landrieu!
Louisiana, Nebraska and Arkansas are CONSERVATIVE States, for God’s sake!
We don’t have Repubs in Massachusettes, California or Illinois! WHY are Louisiana, Nebraska and Arkansas even in PLAY for Democrats?
Oh yeah…’cause they PRETEND to “Conservative” just long enough to get elected.
Sauturday’s the day, folks.
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She was always a whore, she has now become a prostitute.
( all politicians are whores)
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http://www.lifenews.com/state4585.html
There are some sick mfers out there.
Imagine ObamaCare passing. Now imagine Obama’s next goal, global warming, I’ll call it ObamaGlobal. Since these bastards consider carbon dioxide to be pollutants, I wouldn’t put it pass them to put a limit on the number of kids you can have.
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I guess Reid has given up on his chances of re-election. Damn, so many of our politicians are straight up a$$holes.
How many people will ObamaCare kill during the next ten years? Millions? Tens of thousands?
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Well, let’s flip the congress and starve it of funding. Time for another budget battle..
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looks like Reid is scheduling the “Motion to Proceed” vote for late Saturday night. Perfect, the most important Bill in American history…under cover of darkness mid-Weekend! As close to ZERO public attention and media coverage as you can get.
COWARDS. Cowards relying on Americans to be distracted, and the media to keep them that way!
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#3 I have emailed and called all of these clowns plus liberman today.
Tommorow is faxes and calls….
Also wrote Colburn and asked him to reconsider reading the bill and thanked him for his efforts to date….
Also coughed up more $$$ to Dick Morris and the League of American voters for anti-CrappyCare ads….
As you say, its now or never for the republic!
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Sadly, I think the fix has been in for some time now.
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#12 It worked swell for Nancy….
Not that I dont love a good ole College football game (U of M is playing Ohio State!) but they will have more folks attending one game then calling or watching them that day….
The GOP needs to frame this debate in terms of what it is:
(a) Life or Death for millions!
(b) Government for the people that respect individual rights and personal freedoms or one that has almost unlimited powers to force you to behave/think in any manner a small elite sees fit
(c) The economic ruin of this nation
This aint naming some post office they are voting on!
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Lieberman may be THE last hope to stop this. If he does side with the Repubs on Saturday then this thing is DOA…at least for this year.
But the spin is heavy right now about: “We just want to debate it!”
BS. If it passes THIS hurdle then it WILL pass the Senate…and soon. 51 votes will see to that.
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AS P.J. O’rourk would say “a parliament of whores”
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#4 The founding fathers counted on a citizery that was educated on what the provisions of the constitution were and would vote only for politicians who would respect those limits.
If the vast majority of the population has no clue what is in the Constitution nor has any respect for it it nor demands that elected represenatives and other government employees respect it then it is essentially meaningless – that is the real fatal flaw.
When something approaching a consistent majority of citizen feel its perfectly ok to have the government infringe upon the rights of other citizens for their personal gain then we will have nothing approaching a constitutional government or the rule of law.
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The Founding Fathers also counted on a largely, or even somewhat Free and Honest Press. Yes, the practice of newspapers supporting one position or another had been around for a LONNNNG time. But there was always at least some balance. Not now. FoxNews and the WSJ against EVERYONE else!
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A message to the U.S. Congress.
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Yes. But we can restore it the old fashioned way if it comes to it.
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And, JR, the WSJ is open border…
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I am not normally a Hannity fan, but he has done a good job of promoting conservatism lately.
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A message for the u.s. congress
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well rwy, at the moment the folks “shooting at us” are from the HellCare army…and the WSJ is willing to “shoot” at them! For now that puts them on our side.
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I take it, IP, that the image you provided it NOT intended to say to them: “You’re #1“. eh?
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#19 yes – free. But I dont think they counted on honest or unbaised at all as that was not the tradition in their time.
It was only recently with the WW II press corps and the 3-network tv monoploy that this myth of “unbaised” journalism took root. They were never that way, only masked for public appearance sake.
We need to drop this fiction and insist that our press stakeout their positions and connections up front. We are all adults, we can then decide who to beleive.
Right now, the “unbaised” media myth is a fiction that is hurting our country.
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Yes, JR, true.
Can anyone get RS McCain to remove his Pam Anderson ad?
I have never been afraid to gaze upon the female form, but this herpes-laden slattern with her freak/fake mammaries and vacuous leer is a step too far.
Lynda Carter she ain’t, baby.
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Wylie E. Coyote: Right now, the “unbaised” media myth is a fiction that is hurting our country.”
agreed! What’s worse the MOST biased media (MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC) are the ones that proclaim the loudest and longest about FoxNews.
Still, the sheeple are stirring in the pasture. And they are better armed than those who would sheer them!
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#28 Conservatives and all honest Americans should demand that they drop this fiction and simply state their bais up front.
Being adults (well most of us) can do the rest to sort things out.
Sheep had better stir faster as the statists are gaining daily!
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I just read that the US Army is going to limit media coverage of Palin speaking at Ft. Bragg
The US eff’ing ARMY! Apparently they were going to not allow ANY coverage…but then backed down and agreed to let [gasp] the A/P in. Yup, that’ll be fair.
I double checked the story, thinking it must have been the Venezuelan Army. But nope, it’s ours.
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Geez Dad, celebrate diversity!
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As I have said before, the libs have been plotting this since Roosevelt. They are not going to quit now, regardless of the consequences. They know they only have one year to wreck the economy and they are going to do it. They know they will never have this kind of power again.
2010 is coming. Hopefully we can elect enough conservatives to wreck the railroad before the train gets fully down the track.
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#30 Its all about controlling the message. Right now it would not be PC for the Army if it was shown that lots of troopers and their families like Ms. Palin. This would be frowned upon by the politicians they answer to. Sad, but true.
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“Does this make her a whore or prostitute?”
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Either way she’s a cheap ride.
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Where have all the Patton’s gone?
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#32 CrappyCare must be stopped first…..it is the nuclear death train of socialism……there is no going back once this scam pulls out of the station and the hard core statist know this!
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I would not pin my hopes to Lieberman, if this was about war funding or something maybe, but not on this, they will find his price.
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35 – Apparently the same place all the cowboys went.
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KH, Lieberman has no love for the Dems right now…and has truly drawn a line in the sand on this. I think it’s more likely they grab Snowe or Collins than they get Lieberman.
Saturday is going to be interesting…and scary
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#37 I really dont as all he said was that he “opposes the government option” – that scam is a meaningless sidebar to the rest of the takeover. It will be dropped and he will sell out.
The only one I can fathom who may reasonably be cowered into opposition is Lincoln since the fear of an election loss in 10 may overcome any corrupt deal making and arm twisting. But again, I am under no illusions that she is anything but a statits at heart.
The ONLY real hope is that the sheeple rise up in mass outcry and loud public demostrations against CrappyCare – so far, I see nothing approaching that in the cards unfortunately.
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JR – Forget saturday that battle to prevent debate is lost already the GOP has already signaled that, need to switch gears to getting poison pill amendments added and preventing the cloture on debate at this point.
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An outlandish gesture that will spark the sheeple mass uprising against the shackles of CrappyCare is what is needed…..however, I am at a loss as to how to spark this mass spontaneous Sheeple outcry!
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KH, I hope there IS another chance to filibuster. I read somewhere that after this first motion Reid can navigate to a simple majority vote…maybe through reconiliation. I need to go read some more arcane Senate procedures! *sigh*
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#44 If its possible then Filfty Dirty Nasty Scary Harry will do it!
Freakin’ statist politcal commisar scum!
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JR
three chances to filibuster
1 – Motion to take up the bill… (saturday)..start debate he surely has the votes for this and I think he always did.
2- Cloture motion to stop debate (couple weeks from now or as soon as Harry has the votes), He probably doesn’t have the votes for this yet exactly but will if certain people get their amendments, or commitments for billions in goodies to be inserted in conference.
3. When bill comes back from reconciliation conference there is a minor procedural vote that does require 60 votes (per Gregg – though he said that’s nearly never used for filibuster purposes it can be).
4. Then they vote – only needing 50 +vp
The true nuclear option is using reconciliation on say an unrelated budge bill from the house and senate and just tacking the entire healthcare bill to the end of it… then moving to 4 because budget bills are not subject to #3 above. I’m not sure reid has the balls to pull this because it will literally blow up the senate – then again why not the GOP has shown no balls anyway.
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night peeps.
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thx, KH. A splendid accounting of the process. I still Saturday is critical…but agree Reid can probably bully past this.
I hope the fact that the CBO called Reid a liar today counts for something with these people!
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‘night KH…and thx again!
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‘night, Johnboy…
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Well at least the Individual Mandate is now at least a “issue” lol:
http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=b3bb9372-319a-418f-ba41-6c6d87d39ddf&t=c
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Boy does this President look benign now!
The Commander In Chief goes to Fort Hood Red State link
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“Boy does this President look benign now!”
I’ll admit it, I miss him!
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22. Greta (in general) and even BOR’s interview with Palin have been impressive lately too.
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Another good article and links to anti-CrappyCare organizations:
http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2009/11/19/obamacare_can_be_stopped_reversethevoteorg
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I never understood why Palin wasn’t exposed to BOR when she was running with McCain. I think she would have done well on that venue.
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#52 I miss him as well.
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the McCain camp did everything they could to waste the opportunity Sarah Palin provided them.
We voted for Palin in 2008…she just happened to be running with You-know-who.
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#57 I actually think they thought she would bring them down vs give them a boost. McCain was a guaranteed loser ticket until she was on board.
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#57 What the media did to turn on Palin was nothing short of criminal libel too….
I remember watching a “Frontline” show on PBS (Bill Moyer’s show, a dude slightly to the left of Marx) literally gushing about what a wonderful job she was doing as governor…..
If conservatives in the media were smart they would pull that show out and stuff it back at the MSM and expose their hypocracy….
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Moderate Mary
*sigh*
Maybe we can trade her to North Korea for a Communist to be named later…
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Back in 2008 when McIdiot was running and everyone wanted to know where was Sarah and when was she going to be available. I was listening to Laura Ingraham when she came on the radio via phone. Laura was shocked and wonder why she had no come on sooner, Sarah dodged out of respect for the idiots.
But at the time, the various talk show hosts were wondering where was Sarah?
The problem was John McCain, the biggest ego maniac this side of the GOP. He could not fathom anyone out being more popular than him on the GOP side. I truly believe that McCain would rather lose than be out shined.
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Justrand. and EVERYONE else,
At thet bottom are senators who are up for re election or (as indicaded by D.M.) are vulnerable according to Dick Morris’s.
I added the two RIO’s from Maine and-for kicks- Harry Reid’s #.
Also, it’s not too late to send in Pink Slips- over 5 million sent so far to all 535 members of congress.
http://www.sendcongressapinkslip.com/
Senator’s List
D.M. Bayh, Evan - (D – IN) (202) 224-5623
D.M. Dorgan, Byron - (D – ND) (202) 224-2551
D.M. Hagan, Kay – (D – NC) (202)224-6432
D.M. Johnson, Tim – (D – SD) (202) 224-5842
D.M. Landrieu, Mary – (D – LA) (202) 224-5824
D.M. Lieberman, Joseph - (I – CT) (202) 224-4041
D.M. Lincoln, Blanche - (D – AR) (202) 224-4843
D.M. Nelson, Ben - (D – NE) (202) 224-6551
D.M. Pryor, Mark - (D – AR) (202) 224-2353
Akaka, Daniel – (D – HI) (202) 224-6361
Baucus, Max – (D – MT) (202) 224-2651
Begich, Mark (D – AK) (202)224-3004
Bennet, Michael – (D – CO) (202) 224-5852
Bingaman, Jeff - (D – NM) (202) 224-5521
Boxer, Barbara – (D – CA) (202) 224-3553
Brown, Sherrod – (D – OH) (202) 224-2315
Cantwell, Maria - (D – WA) (202) 224-3441
Carper, Thomas - (D – DE) (202) 224-2441
Feingold, Russell – (D – WI) (202) 224-5323
Gillibrand, Kirsten - (D – NY) (202) 224-4451
Kirk, Paul - (D – MA) (202) 224-4543
RINO Olympia Snowe (202) 224-5344
RINO Susan Collins (202) 224-2523
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If only California could get rid of Boxer . . . but this state is beyond blue. I guess I’ll be watching CSPAN on Saturday evening – or flipping between that and whatever ballgame is on.
I wouldn’t consider any politician a whore – they ALL have their price and they never do anything for free. Wait . . . perhaps I need someone in this thread to distinguish for me the difference between a whore and a prostitute. I guess I’m thinking of the “s” word . . . .
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Yep… live in a flood plain, 10 feet below sea level with canals around you in a hurricane zone (proof of stupidity #1)
live in area with high crime, high unemployment, and bad schools (proof of stupidity #2)
live in poverty, stay in poverty, and take no steps to move yourself out of poverty (proof of stupidity #3)
Why are we rewarding STUPID people… shouldn’t we be rewarding those who STOP BEING STUPID!!!!
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. . perhaps I need someone in this thread to distinguish for me the difference between a whore and a prostitute. I guess I’m thinking of the “s” word . DECKARD. . .
You don’t pay a whore. She was a whore, is now a prostitute.
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Welcome to the board, hunter! Thank you for the list!
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That section that is referenced in the post might be slightly illegal. Not that the Dims mind that at all. Federal funding targeted at specific areas for relief due to national disasters have at least the color of Constitutional muster under the General Welfare clause.
This little bone throw lacks that. Regardless of one’s locale/status due to disaster, this bill overall is a individual mandate. Since that is how the Congress is painting it, then under the 14th Amend. each individual should stand before the bill as equals. This section turns that on its head.
Sigh….