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Edited by
Kings_Knight
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Tue 03/16/10 10:57 AM
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Uh-huh ... thought the bill that's in the process of being rammed down our collective national throat now would be the end, huh ... ? Wrong, boy-o. Just the beginning ... this is the SEED from which all else grows - it will spread like kudzu in the Mississippi delta on a hot summer day ... it will smother everything it touches ... They WILL NOT STOP until they have ripped every shred of self-determination you ever had (or thought you had) from your cold dead fingers ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Pelosi-Once-we-kick-through-this-door-more-reform-will-follow-87741467.html Pelosi: 'Once we kick through this door,' more reform will follow By: Byron York | Chief Political Correspondent 03/16/10 1:56 AM EDT If you have any doubt that the Democratic leadership of the House views passing the current health care reform bill as the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system, just note what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers on Monday. "My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive," Pelosi said, according to an account by Washington Post reform advocate Ezra Klein. "We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow." But since the current bill is unpopular, and Pelosi at the moment does not have enough Democratic, much less Republican, votes to pass it, the door she will be kicking through is the back door. Pelosi told the bloggers she favors using the "self-executing rule" strategy in which the House would pass the Senate health care bill without going on the record as specifically voting for it. "I like it," Pelosi said of the scheme, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill." The strategy of passing the Senate bill while avoiding a direct vote, writes Klein, "is all about plausible deniability for House members who don't want to vote for the Senate bill." In a particularly Alice-in-Wonderland moment, Pelosi argued that the debate over health care reform can begin after the bill is passed. "Pelosi said passing the bill would allow Dems to undertake a 'debate' with Republicans over 'what is the balanced role that government should have,'" writes another pro-reform blogger at the Post, Greg Sargent. According to Sargent, Pelosi explained, "We have to take it to the American people, to say, this is the choice that you have. This is the vision that they have for your health and well being, and this is the vision that we have." Again, in Pelosi's scenario, that debate would occur after the bill is passed. Finally, Pelosi downplayed statements from her own team that she does not yet have the votes to pass the national health care measure. On "Meet the Press" Sunday, Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn said, "No, we don't have them as of this morning." Meeting with the bloggers, Pelosi said, "The reason [Clyburn] said that is we don’t have a bill yet." In the end, the Speaker declared, "I have no intention of not passing this bill." |
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Pelosi needs to step down before she causes any more damage!
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How about some real Congressional reform...oh, wait that will come in November.
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How she became the speaker of the House...I'll never know
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the rules she is using now was the ones the republicans used with gw bush . i don't like non voted laws but you can't say much when the other side does the same thing .you can't knock it . that much . turn about is fair . right
I want the government returned to the people and all money bills voted on by the people of the usa . for there approval .we can't trust them any longer .... |
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the rules she is using now was the ones the republicans used with gw bush . i don't like non voted laws but you can't say much when the other side does the same thing .you can't knock it . that much . turn about is fair . right
I want the government returned to the people and all money bills voted on by the people of the usa . for there approval .we can't trust them any longer .... |
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I could swear they are taking a vote SUNDAY....
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If the President and VS President both died Pelosi would be President.Scary!
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If the President and VS President both died Pelosi would be President.Scary! lol,,,what are the odds? |
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