Thread: Reid gets 60 votes for Obamacare, the Chicago way

Reid gets 60 votes for Obamacare, the Chicago way
Written by Jim Simpson
Sunday, 20 December 2009 17:42


This morning, while Washington, DC was getting blanketed with a record snowfall, Senate Democrats treated the entire United States to what may be the greatest snowjob of all time. Biggoverment.com calls it "the most corrupt piece of legislation in our nation's history," and indeed it is.

Senator Ben Nelson agreed to support this massive healthcare restructuring plan which no one besides a few Democrat senators has even seen. The price for his support was 100 percent coverage of increases in Medicaid costs for his home state resulting from the legislation -- now and forevermore. It amounts to a flagrantly unconstitutional subsidy to Nebraska with taxpayer dollars from the other 49 states.

We should have seen this coming. When Senator Max Baucus revealed the Senate Finance Committee's version of the bill this summer, many of his fellow Senators balked. The upshot was that he took the eyepopping, unprecedented step of offering exclusions to the bill's provisions to these Senators' states!

This latest development demonstrates once again that , when it's a choice between principles and dollars, Democratic politicians reliably choose the latter. Nelson, who adamantly insisted he would not support any legislation allowing for federal funding of abortion in the healthcare bill, stoically holding out until the last minute, changed his mind pronto after accepting the Medicaid bribe.

With Nelson's agreement, the Senate has the 60 votes it needs to pass this monstrosity. And despite Senate Republicans' claims of having "a strategy" to stop the bill, they appear to have gone out with a whimper. This is simply disgraceful. Not only was their "strategy" a loser, when Senator DeMint finally did come up with a real strategy, only one Senator, Tom Coburn tried one of its tactics. When he did, the Democrats emasculated it by violating parliamentary rules.

As if to cap this moment of bottomless sleaze and corruption, Senate Majority Leader Reid scheduled the vote on this despicable travesty for 1 am, Monday morning. Either the Democrats are completely out of their minds in defying the will of the American people to pass this overwhelmingly unpopular, inarguably destructive legislation, or they know something we don't.

The Obama administration has saddled us with trillions in new debt to fund the "baliout," the "stimulus," and massive increases in federal spending. Not entirely unnoticed, but largely overlooked anyway, is the fact that much of this taxpayer funded spending paloosa is going to support Democrat constituents in both Democrat and Republican states. That money will very likely return to Democrat coffers later this year. Look for widespread reporting of sudden economic booms in selected sectors of the economy and/or selected geographic areas, providing the illusion of late-breaking resurgence to our economy... just in time for the election.

Now all eyes will move to House Democrat Bart Stupak, who, according to the Politico, is already working behind the scenes to scuttle Nelson's compromise. We'll see. But since no sitting Democrat Congressman or Senator has yet defied the Party leadership when the results turn on their individual decisions, it is doubtful the "pro-life" Stupak will either.

After all, like everything else accomplished by this corrupt fraud of a President and his institutionally corrupt fellow Democrats, this legislation is "historic."

www.rightsidenews.com

bribe 1 mary landreiu 300 million
bribe 2 ben nelson. 45 million a year forever
bribe 3 apparently is chris dodd who got 100 million for a hospital in CT
that mc cain ( i think) made mention of in the last hour before the vote

Health bill money for hospital sought by Dodd
December 20, 2009 - 11:32pm

WASHINGTON (AP) - A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, his office said Sunday night.

The legislation leaves it up to the Health and Human Services Department to decide where the money should be spent, although spokesman Bryan DeAngelis said Dodd hopes to claim it for the University of Connecticut.

The provision is included in a 383-page series of changes to the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., outlined Saturday. Scattered throughout are numerous items sought by individual lawmakers, many of them directing money explicitly to programs or projects in their home states.

The one sought by Dodd provides $100 million for "a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services." It must be affiliated with an academic health center at a public research university in the United States "that contains a State's sole public academic medical and dental school."

The money can cover a maximum of 40 percent of the facility's construction costs.

Based on the criteria set out on the bill, it appeared that state-affiliated hospitals in about a dozen states could compete for the funds.

Dodd has played a key role in development of the health care bill in the Senate. He wielded the gavel earlier in the year when the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee spent weeks drafting its version of the measure. The late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was chairman at the time, but unable to preside.

Dodd, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is seeking a new term in 2010, but polls so far show him in a tight race.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=111&sid=1845867

December 21, 2009
Health Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON — After a long day of acid, partisan debate, Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health care system.

The roll was called shortly after 1 a.m., with Washington still snowbound after a weekend blizzard, and the Senate voted on party lines to cut off a Republican filibuster of a package of changes to the health care bill by the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada.

The vote was 60 to 40 — a tally that is expected to be repeated four times as further procedural hurdles are cleared in the days ahead, and then once more in a dramatic, if predictable, finale tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

Both parties hailed the vote as seismic.

Democrats said it showed them poised to reshape the health system after decades of failed attempts.

“Health care in America ought to be a right, not a privilege,â€

Lets watch the polls the next few days and see what happens.

Also please call all Republican Senators tomorrow morning, they open at 8:00 am and see what the game plan is in stopping this bill.

Final vote is not until thursday night at 7:00 am.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12 ... nate-test/

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/21/ ... index.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34498942/ns ... re_reform/

If this goes all the way, they may as well come and get me, as I will never take their crap, and I will not be forced under durress or fear of imprisonment to take it either. I can't afford it unless I have a job, or better yet, these clowns get out of our way, and let business prosper, maybe, just maybe I can start a new business, that will make it feasible.

This is utter nonsense. How many millions can't afford this? What are they going to do? Put everybody in those barbed wire FEMA camps across the country?