January 2010
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Sen. Lincoln (D-AR) vows to oppose HC under...
The Speaker announced on Friday, Jan. 29 that she would pole volt or parachute over the GOP obstacles in order to pass HC thru Congress. That statement tells this writer that the budget reconciliation process will definitely be used to jam the bill thru Congress. Remember, the problem with passing HC is in the Senate where the Senate Democrats have lost their 60th vote, filibuster proof Senate...
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Health Care is alive & well in Congress
The Speaker & Democratic Leaders have been stating that since they don’t have the votes to pass the Senate-Christmas eve Health Care that sits in the House chamber, that the HC issue is dead. The Speaker needs to muster 218 votes to pass the bill and w/out changes made, she can’t get enough House members to vote yes. Majority Leader Reid has also announced that he no longer has the...
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Harry Reid's unlimited credit card
While most are paying attention to the recent Senate GOP win in MA, or are trying to game out the next move on the Health Care debate in Congress, not much is being said about the Majority Leader’s unlimited credit card. You see the Senate is debating the debt limit increase which was passed last Spring by the House of Representatives. However, as the year went on, the Majority Leader...
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"Pants on the Ground" as sung by the Democrats!
Many Americans are mumbling the new catchy ditty heard on American Idol last week. It goes something like: “pants on the ground………..looking like a fool w/your pants on the ground.”
The Democrats in DC might listen to the words a bit more in the coming days. You see, I believe if they don’t heed the warning signs sent by the good people of MA, they run the risk...
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Sen. Webb calls on HC to be slowed down
Democratic Senator Jim Webb (VA) has publicly stated that given the election results in MA, that the Congress should not debate or consider any version of the Health Care bill until the new Senator has been sworn-in and is seated in the U.S. Senate. Given this announcement, Leader Reid will have to wait until the Senate has the new Senator or he will not have some of his members supporting the...
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HC Dilemma via the MA special election
The Senate and House leaders are in a dilemma over the expected win by the GOP Senate candidate today in MA to fill the vacancy by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. If the Senate loses the seat to the republicans then they lose their 60 vote filibuster proof vote margin. This makes passing the HC bill coming back from the House very difficult if not impossible in the Senate. That is why the leaders are...
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HC self imposed crunch in Congress
The House Democratic Leadership along with the Senate team are scrambling to try to come to some agreement to pass the HC bill in the House with changes that will allow the Speaker to garner the 218 votes needed to pass it in the House and the necessary 60 votes needed to break the filibuster in the Senate. The old deadline, self imposed, was to pass the bill in time for the President to claim...
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Is the open Senate seat really open to the people...
The Senate debate on HC is still stuck in the mud as a result of large groups of House Democrats not liking many of Senate provisions from the Christmas eve passage in the Senate. The main provisions in contention are the abortion language and the 40% tax on “Cadillac health policies”. These are health insurance policies that most labor union workers have and many state employees have...
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HC turns to Unions & the White House
The House Speaker tried this week to iron out the differences between the House and Senate HC bills via meetings with POTUS, and a conf. call with 175 Democratic members of the House, all to no avail. Members on the conf. call expressed unhappiness with the Senate’s funding provision that would tax high-end insurance policies by 40%. This language, included in the Senate version attacks many...
The President's unique choice of words
” A word spoken is an arrow let fly.” This anonymous quotation came to mind immediately as I listened to the Presidents press event on Jan. 7. 2010. This press event was called by our President to inform us of his findings following his meetings with his top security team to get to the bottom of the Christmas eve attempted terrorist attack. It was over half way through his statement...
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Health care could be the law of the land by the...
The House Democratic Leaders and House Democratic Chairman are meeting tomorrow in DC (Wed., Jan. 6) to decide how they will handle the recently Senate passed Health Care bill . Once they have set a plan in place, they intend to call a meeting of all House Democrats on Thursday, via phone, web cam and the like to announce the game plan. Many believe they will elect to concur in the Senate amdt...