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House Approves Health Care Reform By Vote Of 219-212 The House of Representatives just passed the Senate health care reform bill by a vote of 219-212, approving the most sweeping domestic legislation since Medicare. “Senator Kennedy wrote that access to health care was the great unfinished business of our society – that is, until today,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Once the bill reached 215 votes, members began chanting “one more vote” and the chamber erupted in applause. Members excitedly counted down the last few seconds of the vote and started began chanting “yes we can.” Moments later, Republicans offered a Motion to Recommit re-stating the current Hyde restrictions, in an effort to win over pro-life Democrats and send the bill back to committee. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) stood up to condemn the motion. “The motion to recommit purports to be a right to life motion, in the spirit of the Stupak amendment. But as the author of the Stupak amendment, this motion is nothing more than an opportunity to continue to deny 32 million Americans health care,” Stupak said. “This motion is really to politicize life, not promote life.”
The Senate could take up the reconciliation package as early as Tuesday, where Republicans are already threatening to derail its passage. “[T]he House reconciliation bill may be brought down by the 310(g) point of order in the Senate,” Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) said. “House Democrats should be alarmed by this latest development, since the survival of the reconciliation bill is clearly at risk in the Senate.”
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Former Bush speechwriter tells GOP: Democrats’ passage of health care is actually ‘our’ Waterloo. Last summer, during a conference call with conservative activists, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said that if the Republican Party was able to defeat Democratic efforts to pass a comprehensive health care bill, it would “break” President Obama and be “his Waterloo.” Last night, former Bush speechwriter David Frum posted a note on his website addressing his fellow conservatives on the consequences of the Democrats successfully passing a health care bill. He castigated them for refusing to deal with Democrats throughout the process — especially when the final health care bill incorporated many ideas from the Republican Party — and said that a “huge part of the blame for [yesterday's] disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.” He concludes that “it’s Waterloo all right: ours”:
A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves. At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994. [...]
This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none. [...]
So today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it’s mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it’s Waterloo all right: ours.
Frum also writes that Rush Limbaugh “wants Republicans to fail.”
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Passing the recent Healthcare legislation will be like getting presents at Christmas that aren't payed for... the next month you get the credit card statement and feel sick.
As the saying goes becareful what you wish for.
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