Thread: AMERICA DIVIDED 219 YEA / 212 HELL NO !

Obama watched the vote in the White House's Roosevelt Room with Vice President Joe Biden and dozens of aides, exchanged high fives with Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, and then telephoned Pelosi with congratulations.

Now Obama will have to sell the bill to the public, and a White House aide said he was likely to take at least one trip this weekend to emphasize the legislation's benefits.

The measure would also usher in a significant expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor. The insurance industry, which spent millions on advertising trying to block the bill, would come under new federal regulation. Parents would be able to keep children up to age 26 on their family insurance plans.

To pay for the changes, the legislation includes more than $400 billion in higher taxes over a decade and cuts more than $500 billion from planned payments to hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and other providers that treat Medicare patients

NORTH COUNTY TIMES

Yes we need to vote the Dem bastards out, but replacing them with Rino trash like Palin, McQueen and any other traitor masquerading as a true patriotic conservative is just repeating the same old tired cycle that we've seen over the last 30 years. We need real patriots in the chamber of congress. We need those who will represent we the people and will listen to us, not the special interest, not the foreign interest, not the illegal criminal scum, not wall street.