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JASmius adds: FWIW, some are saying that this isn't necessarily a proxy for the final "ram" vote. Something about the majority NEVER losing rules votes (Remember when that happened on Clinton's crime bill right before the '94 election?), and a "yea" here providing cover for killing Red Barry's top domestic priority and "destroying his presidency". Whatever, dude.I'll be honest. I had started to wonder whether this Slaughter Rule business was a bait-and-switch. I couldn't imagine that, with the pounding Democratic leadership have taken over the deem-and-pass strategy, there was any profit left in pushing it. After all, the point was to provide Democrats with political cover, via procedural obscurity, for a vote in favor of the Senate bill. But the procedure is no longer obscure and the cover is now a fig leaf.
That's why I find it genuinely amazing that the House just defeated a
Republican measure to block the Slaughter Rule by a vote 222 to 203.
All I know is, the gap closed alarmingly today, greased by one kickback after another. Could there be a surprise this weekend? Nope, because nobody can convince me that Crazy Nancy will start the roll call until she's certain to win it. So until there is a vote, she doesn't have the votes. And if she doesn't get 'em this weekend, care to take bets on whether she'll just cancel the Easter recess altogether, keep the House in session twenty-four hours a day, and waterboard her caucus until enough of them finally capitulate?
I've thought for a while now that the really shrewd thing for Granny to do would be to put BarryCare on the back burner, go on to other things, let the whole uproar blow over, minimize the November damage as much as possible, and then - particularly if the Dems lose the House - bring it back after the election and ram it down our throats then. Probably the reason they're not is that they honestly believe that once the dirty deed is done, all the furious public opposition to this hijacking will miraculously melt away, and they can ride to unanimous reelection on this "historic accomplishment". And, of course, that would require a degree of mental candlepower of which StoneFace isn't remotely capable.
Just do what I do, Jen: get your news from reliable sources, and treat the outrageous lies, the truimphal Rose Garden signing ceremony, the insufferable gloating, the taunting victory dances, like they're happening on another planet.
And....remember. Because what goes around, comes around. As the Dems have been so helpful to remind us this week, "self-executing rules" and "reconciliation" are bipartisan games. Live for the day when this tyranny gets erased by the same misbegotten means that begat it in the first place.
Why do I bring it up now? Because history may be about to repeat itself:
I'm told that Stupak met with Pelosi yesterday, but didn't cave to her demands.Here's the narrative you aren't gonna hear from the Obamedia: Pelosi doesn't have the votes to pass this mess. Not Senate ObamaCare, complete with graft, corruption, and all-around filth; not the "Slaughtered" version; not nothing no-how. She didn't have the votes a week ago, when they finally decided to bulldoze ahead anyway, gambling that seeing the train leaving the station would knock enough fence-sitters in the "aye" column to squeak this travesty through. Blowing off Bart Stupak was part & parcel of this.
Today, Roll Call reports Pelosi called an emergency meeting of women-only members-only Democrats. The only purpose of this meeting would be to see what sort of abortion compromise they would be willing to accept, which could only come down to one of Stupak's proposals.
Yet a week later, supposedly within literal hours of this "historic vote"....the votes still aren't there. So after having sent Steny Hoyer and Henry Waxman to tell Stupak to go pound sand, here's Madame IronFist herself, come crawling back to the pro-life Michigander and now frantically lobbying her fellow infanticiders to cave instead.
I said last time that I had to hand it to her - I never thought that Nancy f'ing Pelosi would throw the abortion lobby under the bus for anything. But clearly this Donk power-lust is so overpowering that nothing - NOTHING - supercedes it. If blowing George W. Bush live on C-SPAN is what it took to shove ObamaCare down our throats (ahem), the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Axis would be lining up to take turns, complete with dribble bibs and dental dams. How much would you wager against Granny's Donkresses flipping her the bird?
It's a fool's bet, my friends. Forget Denis Kucinich skipping off of Air Force One yesterday; THIS is the true beginning of the end for American healthcare, and America itself as we have known it for 233 years. It'll be a done-deal within the day.
UPDATE: Eeyore looks at the CBO score of the reconciliation "fix" as the "aye" rain-making deluge that will wash away American health care for good. If so, what to make of his tweet of eight minutes later which shows a significantly higher cost estimate? Aren't fig leaves supposed to COVER unmentionables rather than broadcast them to the four voyeueristic winds?
Hence, San Fran Nan's belated bow & curtsy to Bart Stupak.
877-762-8762 or 202-224-3121
JASmius adds: Here is a useful link in that regard.
To fill in main page column space, here's the contact information on a whole pack 'o "blue dogs" anyway:
Marcy Kaptur:
D.C.: (202) 225-4146
Toledo: (800)964-4699 or (419) 259-7500
E-mail (use zip code 43604).
Jason Altmire:
D.C.: 202-225-2565
Aliquippa: 724-378-0928
Natrona Heights: 724-226-1304
Michael McMahon:
D.C.: (202) 225-3371
Staten Island: (718) 351-1062
Brooklyn: (718) 630-5277
E-mail (Use zip code 10306).
Georgia's John Barrow:
D.C. (202) 225-2823
Augusta: (706)722-4494
Savannah: (912) 354-7282
New Jersey's John Adler
D.C.: (202) 225-4765
Toms River: (732) 608-7235
New York's Dan Maffei:
D.C.: (202) 225-3701
Syracuse: (315) 423-5657
New York's Michael Arcuri:
D.C.: 202-225-3665
Utica: 315-793-8146/8147
Rep. Zack Space – Ohio's 18th District
DC Phone: (202) 225-6265
Dover (330) 364-4300;
Zanesville (740) 452-6338;
Chillicothe (740) 779-1636
Link to E-mail
Rep. Charles Wilson – 6th District
DC Phone: (202)
225-5705
District Phone:
Canfield (330)
533-7250;
Marietta (740) 376-0868;
Bridgeport (740)
633-5705;
Ironton (740) 533-9423;
Wellsville (330)
532-3740
Link to E-mail
Rep.
John Boccieri
D.C. Phone: (202) 225-3876
Canton: (330)
489-4414
(800)826-9015
E-mail
Rep.
Steve Driehaus
D.C. Phone: (202)
225-2216
Cincinnati: (513) 684-2723
E-mail
To borrow an old Untouchables saying (or maybe it was The Godfather): If you put us in the hospital now with ObamaCare, we'll put eighty or ninety of you in the electoral morgue in November - and set to work repealing the whole damnable thing.
PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.Well, isn't that wonderful! We can all quit our jobs and do what we *really* want to do, because the government is going to make sure we have health insurance! If you still doubt that these people are socialists/Marxists, you need your head examined.
JASmius adds: Isn't that what the Obamedia was selling as "funemployment" a year ago? How's that working out for 'em?
I dunno, maybe it's me, but I stopped trying to put a floor on Donk malevolence years ago. The only thing that has ever surprised me is that they actually managed to get back into power in 2006 and 2008. And when it happens again in or around 2024, you can bet that won't catch me by surprise, either.
Assuming, of course, that Red Barry hasn't "deemed" himself president-for-life long, long before.
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JASmius adds: Senator Pencil-Neck misspoke, methinks. What he meant to say was that HIS payment of taxes is voluntary. It's a perq that comes with membership in the Democrat Party.
Still, I wonder if he ran this belch by the Excruciatingly Patriotic Joe Biden.
BTW, anybody know if they've exempted themselves from the "historic" panacea of ObamaCare? Or is the answer so obvious that nobody's bothered to check on it?
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Then I deducted the twelve votes of the Stupak band, increasing Pelosi's deficit to 203-228, leaving her thirteen votes short. No more crystal ball gazing is necessary. Why? Because Stupak and his allies are the only Dems who proved themselves unbribeable and unbulliable in the House's first go-round in early November. I don't know how many of the thirty-nine Dems who did vote nay were in Granny's bloomer reserve, but clearly it wasn't enough to overcome the Stupakers' defection. So she caved on his pro-life amendment, and the bill eventually passed. So the real question is how many yays she stood to lose versus how many nays she could turn.
The bad news for the House bag lady? Stupak's objections have grown beyond just abortion:
I'm not going to gush too much about, um, B.S., because he his is, after all, a left-liberal who was perfectly happy to vote for this abomination once his pro-life concerns were addressed. But he is also that rarer-than-hen's-lips phenomenon, a Dem with a non-leftish principle that isn't just superficial pandering. When he says he can't live with this reconciliation/Slaughter solution garbage, you have to listen, even if you're Nancy Pelosi. Why? Because he's earned the right to be taken seriously
In stark contrast to this deranged old buzzard:
It is axiomatic that an officeholder's leadership ability is inversely proportional to their lust for power. Leaders inspire and persuade people to follow them through their arguments and their example; thugs and crooks lie, cheat, steal, and in some environs, even kill to "ram" through what they want, the law and the people be damned. Which does a lot more than "suggest" the size of the grain of salt (hint: slightly smaller than the Chrysler Building) with which to take Speakerette Filthy McNasty's pledge to eschew the SlaughterHouse and have a [GASP] "open, honest" up-or-down (right, Barry?) vote on Senate ObamaCare. Or her lamentation of the "lost" public option, which will simply be in ObamaCare II, doubtless to be kicked off next week.
You think I sound disapprobious? Mark Levin wants to see Louise Slaughter fed through a woodchipper (politically speaking, of course):
Kinda begs the question, really. Truth is, there are a lot more Dems than just that trollish waste of skin who merit being fed backwards through the bunghole. But, alas, it'll never happen, because even after the GOP retakes the House this fall, Speaker Boehner is going to have a ton of bigger fish to fry than to carry out a surgical vendetta against Cuntzilla. But you can't blame the man for dreaming.
Speaking of the next Speaker, he had his [ahem] leadership update today:
I'm actually dubious about an Easter recess full of another round of angry townhall confrontations making much of a dent in BarryCare's ultimate fate. If the past eight months of overpowering public opposition to this atrocity - to say nothing of cratering polls, losing the New Jersey and Virginia governorships, and Uncle Teddy's seat going red hasn't killed this thing, nothing We, The People say or do is going to stop it. The reason, of course, is that it is being maniacally driven from the top. Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist-Alynskist who doesn't care about "good government," about the law, and sure as hell not what we think; he's a megalomaniac and wannabe dictator who is simply never going to let go of this wrenching, "revolutionary" transformation obsession. It's like Kyle Reese's description of the T-800 in Terminator I:
Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.Substitute "enslaved" for "dead" (for now, anyway) and "Obaminator" for "terminator" and that about sums it up. For the Li'l President, the ends justify any means necessary.
Which brings us back to Bart Stupak and they fairly stunning development that broke just moments ago: the Politburo has told him and his Gideon's band to bleep off:
Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Representative Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”…
What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”
If ObamaCare passes, Stupak says, it could signal the end of any meaningful role for pro-life Democrats within their own party. “It would be very, very hard for someone who is a right-to-life Democrat to run for office,” he says. “I won’t leave the party. I’m more comfortable here and still believe in a role within it for the right-to-life cause, but this bill will make being a pro-life Democrat much more difficult. They don’t even want to debate this issue. We’ll probably have to wait until the Republicans take back the majority to fix this.”
Of course, the rather gaping other side to the emphasized portion of the quote is that more children being born means more future taxpayers to be syphoned to try and pay for Red Barry's "transformations". Assuming there were any jobs for them, which there won't be. Maybe the Alaska Gulag will need more prison guards or something. And that's if they gave Brother Bart what he wants. I guess we'll have to make room for all the amnestized former illegals who'll be the vanguard of the occupying Sino-Russo-Islamist Caliphate forces. Wanna lay odds on a ChiComm-style forced sterilization program being part of ObamaCare II?
Part of me winces in embarrassed incredulity at Stupak's naivete. When has there EVER been room for pro-lifers in the Democrat Party? More to the point, the ONLY reason he got a vote on his pro-life amendment to the House version of the bill in November is because the latter wouldn't have passed without the former. He had the Wicked Witch of the West Coast over a barrel and they both knew it.
Which suggests that that isn't the case this time around. Why would the politburo blow off the Stupak Dozen (or fewer) unless they had lined up replacement votes elsewhere in the Donk caucus?
Or maybe....what if they don't have the votes (yet) but have simply gotten tired of the two months of post-Scotty B vacillating, and of putting up with baby-loving heretics like Brother Bart, and have decided to damn the torpedoes and go for broke? Just pull the train out of the station, fueled by unconstitutional legislative fraud and an avalanche of bribery and graft that somehow manages to exceed even the Senate corruptionfest that so many House Dems claimed not to want to touch with a ten-foot Slaughter?
Lucifer may finally be right about one thing: the time for talk seems, at last, to be over. The time for sheer, brazen, totalitarianist will has arrived.
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