Socialist Enabling Act Passes House
Tags: Liberal Fascism, Obama-care.
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Hours after President Obama exhorted Democratic lawmakers to “answer the call of history,” the House hit an unprecedented milestone on the path to health-care reform, approving a trillion-dollar package late Saturday that seeks to overhaul private insurance practices and guarantee comprehensive and affordable coverage to almost every American.
After months of acrimonious partisanship, Democrats closed ranks on a 220-215 vote that included 39 defections, mostly from the party’s conservative ranks. But the bill attracted a surprise Republican convert: Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of Louisiana, who represents the Democratic-leaning district of New Orleans and had been the target of a last-minute White House lobbying campaign. GOP House leaders had predicted their members would unanimously oppose the bill.
We’ll have to have a talk with Cao – but my bet is that since the Stupak amendment passed, he felt it was ok to vote for the bill as it didn’t do the morally reprehensible thing if having taxpayer funded abortion. Its still horrible policy, however, and Cao voted the wrong way.
I like how the MSM says Democrats “closed ranks” – 39 of them broke ranks and joined the GOP. That is a fractured party being ruled by ideologues – and we’re going to whack ‘em hard next year.
Now – anyone want to guess on whether or not they’ll get 60 votes for cloture in the Senate? I think Harry will try by passing the most watered-down bill possible and then using the trick of the conference committee to ram through Obama-care, Pelosi-style.
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25 Responses to “Socialist Enabling Act Passes House”
Caucus of Corruption
Mark,
are you saying that no matter the benefits to the bulk of American citizens…don’t support it because it was sponsored by a Democrat.
You act as if there is a line saying if you don’t have an abortion, you can’t be a part of the coverage.
No one is pushing an abortion agenda. I am sure just as many republicans as democrates have had abortions. It has nothing to do with your political party.
Way to go Joe Cao.
“We’ll have to have a talk with Cao”
Yes, how dare he vote the way the majority of the members of his district wanted him to vote instead of following the party line. Doesn’t he realize that he’s suppose to support his party first and his constituents second?
Cao was not a surprise. He’d been saying he was probably going to vote for the bill for months.
Also, calling LA-2 “Democratic-leaning” is like calling Utah “mildly conservative.” LA-2 is the 35th most liberal district in the entire country. In fact, it is even more liberal than Utah is conservative; its Cook Partisan Voting Index is D+25, whereas Utah’s is R+21 as a whole, and even it’s most Republican district is only R+26. Cao got elected by a) being extremely moderate (though not with regards to abortion; he’s a former member of the Society of Jesus) and by running against a certain William “Cold Cash” Jefferson, whom you may remember.
Doesn’t it make everyone feel great that our incompetent government led by the inexperienced, black community organizer, is focusing on ways to raise taxes, explode the debt, and kill industry, instead of trying to put people back to work?
Who else is excited about that?
Who else is excited about that?
Oh, ME, ME! I’m so excited I could just …….puke!
Yeah! No way should Cao be putting his district’s interests above the party line! Let’s MURDER him, guys!
Anyway, glad to see socialism triumph. Fellow Democrats, let’s keep working so that our dream of a Communist, atheistic America where everyone gets free health care.
Republicans: go cry somewhere else.
That’s right fruity, who really cares if unemployment stays above 10%, as long as we get free aspirin. That’s what really matters.
Cluster: you should be glad that we got this through. It was simply a matter of time before stupid became a pre-existing condition, and that woulda driven your premiums WAY up.
our dream of a Communist, atheistic America where everyone gets free health care
frOOtnOOb, that begs the obvious questions: will it be FREE for everyone, and, if it is, where does the money come from to pay for it? Wait, I know — Obama’s stash.
Republicans: go cry somewhere else.
Well, I don’t know about crying, but can we just opt out of the FREE healthcare?
“Anyway, glad to see socialism triumph. Fellow Democrats, let’s keep working so that our dream of a Communist, atheistic America where everyone gets free health care.”
Ah, spoken like a trite and true moocher.
BTW, Cao was from William “The Freezer” Jefferson’s district, which WAS further to the left than “left leaning”. He represents what once was the largest moocher district in the whole state. Katrina took care of that – spreading most of the moocher district to other parts of the country. But the influence is still there. And I believe that he is up for reelection next year.
good catch spook. FREE HEALTHCARE! Of course. This explains liberals grasp of economics.
I hate to tell our lib trolls, but there is not such thing as free health care. If the doctors and hospitals and such are getting paid, the money has to come from someone. This is like the belief in a free lunch, TANSTAAFL!!!!!
cluster: FREE HEALTHCARE! Of course. This explains liberals [sic] grasp of economics.
Hey, Mark claims money is worthless, so why not throw buckets of the stuff at it?
so why not throw buckets of the stuff at it? – rico
um…they are rico. 1.2 trillion not enough for you?
Whoops. You’re right. There’s no such thing as free health care. I meant to say “fair and affordable health care”. My bad.
I meant to say “fair and affordable health care”. My bad.
OK, I get the affordable part, but what’s “fair”?
tired,
It should also be remembered that Catholics, even some quite conservative, have advocated a single-payer health system on purely moral grounds. I think they’re mistaken – such system are pretend morality in practical operation, in my view – but it is there. Cao was likely following what he thought was right – thus the need to have a conversation with him about the inability of any government organization to consistently get it even half right.
froot,
“fair and affordable”?
Wow, that explains why Congress is exempt from this supposedly “fair and affordable” plan. I am willing to bet that they do not consider their plan a “Cadillac plan” subject to the taxation they want to impose on us serfs.
But for a moocher, you do regurgitate those talking points very well.
I wonder how the bill would have changed if Congress would have to have participated on the same level as everyone else.
Mark
“We are going to have a complete government takeover of our health care system faster than you can say, ‘this is making me sick,’” said Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich.
I found this on another site really funny
In a meadow on a hot summer’s day, a Grasshopper was chirping and carousing his time away. He watched scornfully as an Ant nearby struggled to store up large kernels of food and build a secure nest. The Ant pulled overtime shifts to pay off his loans and accumulate retirement funds for the future.
“Give it a rest,” the Grasshopper said. “Why bother saving and slaving and toiling and moiling? Let’s party!” The Ant demurred: “I am planning ahead for winter, and you should do the same.” The Grasshopper blew off the Ant, squandered his supplies the rest of the season and abandoned his home while on vacation (paid for by tapping every last cent of his home equity gain) instead of holding down a job.
When winter came, the Grasshopper’s pantry was empty, and his shelter ruined from neglect. The Ant, weary from planting, harvesting, and stocking up for months, was dining comfortably in his nest.
Cold, hungry, jobless, facing foreclosure and up to his two pairs of eyeballs in debt, the Grasshopper limped to the Association of Community Winged Insects for Rescue Now and demanded recourse. The office was swamped with thousands just like him. ACWIRN immediately put the Grasshopper to work registering dead ants as new voters.
Funded with tax dollars from the rest of the meadow’s residents, ACWIRN organized mass protests at the Bank of Antamerica, ambushed its top officials at their private homes, harassed their children and demanded that the meadow’s politicians halt all foreclosures (“We must keep Grasshoppers in their houses!”) and outlaw discriminatory lending practices against starving, homeless Grasshoppers (“Well-stocked shelters are basic insect rights!”)
The banking industry capitulated; the Orthoptera Lobby secured hundreds of millions of dollars in housing earmarks, grants and counseling subsidies to support the Grasshoppers with the shadiest credit and employment histories. Antie Mae, the meadow’s government-backed home lending giant, fueled the push for increased insect homeownership in the name of biodiversity. Its executives cooked the books and headed for the hills. Katie Cricket and the Mainstream Meadow Media joined the grievance-for-profit circus, profiling Grasshopper sob stories and drumming up ratings as bewildered Ants wondered who was looking out for them.
The banks drowned in toxic debt. More Grasshoppers fell behind on their mortgage payments. Bailout mania and panic gripped the meadow.
Our little Ant, minding his own business, heard a knock on his door one late winter night a year later. It was his old, sneering Grasshopper neighbor. With ACWIRN’s presidential candidate, Barack Cicada, now in office, the Grasshopper had been hired by the meadow as a tax collector.
“I’m here to take your provisions,” the Grasshopper cackled.
But it was the Ant who had the last laugh. “I’ve learned my lesson,” he told his shiftless friend. “Why bother saving and slaving and toiling and moiling? I’ve spent all my savings. I’m walking away from my mortgage. Thrift is for suckers,” the Ant said as he headed out the door, leaving the Grasshopper empty-handed.
1 posted on Monday, November 09, 2009 10:37:08 AM by Howard Morrison
Mark,
Is this the kind of talk you expect your party to have with Cao?
Neo: yup, all those homeless, starving, wretched people just aren’t working hard enough. They sure deserve what’s comin to em, huh?
fruity
ummmm exactly where did you read that i said that?
Simple: it was between the lines.