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All I can think of to say is...those *@*#)#(@rds!!!!:

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.

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.

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.

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Remember last November 7th?  Remember how Crazy Nancy discovered, to her botox-bending chagrin, that she really wouldn't have the votes to pass House ObamaCare without the Stupak pro-life Donk bloc?  And late on that Saturday afternoon she was forced to bow to his demand for an up-or-down vote on his amendment prohibiting the bill from providing federal funding for abortions?  It was the one and only reason why the whole misbegotten devil-crusade didn't die right then and there as it deserved to.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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They're trying any way they can to stuff this crap sandwich down our throats whether we like it or not. Call Washington, and tell them where they can stuff their monstrosity of a government power grab.

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.
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Just when I thought this woman couldn't possibly say anything dumber, she does it:

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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Just ask him....

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An Urgent Message from Dick Morris

The Latest from Congress: League Ads Are Stopping Obamacare

Dear Reader:

In the past few days, 19 House Democrats who previously voted yes have moved closer to voting no according to the latest Republican whip count of likely votes on Obama's radical health plan.

Already 10 of those 19 Congressmen are at the receiving end of the League of American Voters ads I helped create as their chief strategist.

So the bottomline: the ads are definitely working!

But we need to keep piling on!!! Please Go Here Now to donate to this effort.

On his website, Sean Hannity is publishing a whip count on the House votes on Obamacare.

He is drawing on Republican sources in the House and press reports, so it's not as accurate as Pelosi's count, but it gives us an idea of what is going on.

The Hannity count shows 14 House Democrats moving to positions more in favor of the bill while 19 are moving to become more opposed. (I do not include in this count any of Stupak's pro-life Democrats because I don't trust them to hold out against the bill and think they will cave in the end).

The following are the House members who voted "no" last year on Obamacare but who are reportedly warming to the bill and might be in danger of switching their votes to yes: (an asterisk * denotes those who have moved even more decisively for the bill):

Adler, NJ
Altmire, Pa*
Baird, Wash*
Boucher, Va.
Gordon, Tenn* (is retiring, so more immune to pressure)
Kosmas, Fla
Kratovil, Md
Kucinich, Ohio
Markey, Col
McMahon, NY
Murphy, NY
Nye, Va
Tanner, Tenn (is retiring, so more immune to pressure)

In addition, Eric Massa of New York, who voted no, has resigned from the House losing an additional vote against the bill.

But their possible defections are more than countered by the following members who voted "yes" last year who are reportedly moving closer to a vote against the bill. Again, an asterisk means a more decisive move against it:

Arcuri* NY
Dahlkemper* Pa
Connolly* Va
Ellsworth* Ind
Berry*, Ark (retiring)
Cuellar* Texas
Gifford* Ariz
McInerney* Cal
Pomeroy* ND
Carney, Pa
Kanjorski, Pa
Kirkpatrick, Ariz
Mollohan, WV
Rahill, WV
Space, Ohio
Titus, Nevada

In addition, Congressman John Murtha, who voted yes, has died and Louisiana Republican Joseph Cao, who cast the lone GOP vote for the bill now indicates he will vote against it.

Congressman Wexler of Florida has resigned and a replacement is not to be chosen until next month, costing the bill another vote.

So, 19 members have moved closer to voting no while 14 have moved closer to voting yes.

This is good news.

Of the 19 who have moved closer to voting no, 10 are the subject of League of American Voters ads: Arcuri, Dahlkemper, Gifford, Pomeroy, Carney, Kanjorski, Kirkpatrick, Mollohan, Rahill, and Space.

But we have an urgent need to advertise in the 11 districts where members who voted no are moving toward a yes vote.

We have these ads ready to go or already running in these districts.

But the League urgently needs funds right now so we can put ads in their districts starting this Monday.

The latest reports indicate the final vote will probably come at the end of next week unless they don't have the votes to pass it.

By the whip count, you can see how close the vote is. We need to keep redoubling our efforts!

To support the League of American Voters in their efforts to stop Obamacare -- Go Here Now.

It is absolutely urgent you act today to help the League.

Thank you.

Dick Morris

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Have you heard the latest? Taxes are voluntary! No, really...Harry Reid says so!



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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Pelosi, Obama to 'Rip the Band-Aid Off' with Vote


The final battle has arrived.

News reports suggest that the Congress will vote on Obamacare by next Sunday.

President Obama has even delayed his foreign trip to Asia until then.

An internal Democrat memo that has been leaked tells House staffers to keep their “member’s schedule pretty clear for next weekend. They will either be here or exhausted (or both)."

The memo adds, ominously: “At this point, we have to just rip the band-aid off and have a vote -- up or down.”

This is the week!

Obama-Pelosi want Obamacare passed by Friday or Saturday.

Our Washington sources say Democrats will likely vote late -- in the dead of the night on the weekend -- as they have done with other key votes.

They vote in darkness because they are ashamed of their votes.

But we at the League of American Voters are shining our powerful light on their evil deeds.

Dick Morris, the League’s chief strategist, says we CAN stop Obamacare.

He says the Democrats do not yet have a lock on the votes, otherwise they would have voted in Obamacare weeks ago.

Every day that goes by -- every time the League runs a TV ad -- support for the radical Obamacare plan with its $1 trillion in costs weakens.

But Dick Morris says we must continue to run our ads.

Thanks to your help, we are now running TV ads in 23 Congressional districts -- "swing" districts where polls show voters overwhelmingly OPPOSE Obamacare.

You can see our powerful TV ad Dick Morris created -- Go Here Now.

But Dick says we need to expand the campaign to shut down Obamacare. We urgently need to add 7 Congressional districts to our list -- so we can now target 30 swing Congressmen.

We need to do this now -- Help Us to Stop Obamacare -- Go Here Now.

Obama-Pelosi and their henchman are in a desperate panic.

Right now Obama-Pelosi know they don't have the votes.

So they’re working feverishly to secure secret, private deals with key Congressmen.

Obama-Pelosi are threatening, promising and doing whatever it takes to snap the liberal troops in line for Obamacare.

One such Congressman, Jim Matheson of Utah, recently moved from a solid “No” to “Undecided.” He met Obama at the White House, and “sha-zam,” Chicago-style Obama nominated Matheson’s brother to a federal judgeship.

As if to tell the rest of Congress what you get if you’re on Team Obama, the White House even issued a press release to tout.

Bottom line: They will stop at nothing to pass their radical healthcare plan. But We Can Stop Them.

The League of American Voters is airing a new TV ad on Salt Lake City television, in the middle of Matheson's district, holding his feet to the fire.

The ad poses the question:

"Our Congressman Jim Matheson voted against Obama's health care proposals and Salt Lake City is saying thanks. He voted against cutting Medicare by $500 billion, against health care rationing, against higher taxes. But then Obama appointed his brother to a federal judgeship. Some people say it was bribe to get Jim to change his vote. Was it? We'll be able to tell if Jim now switches his vote. Hey Jim, we'll be watching!"

This ad, which costs $77,000 to run, is indicative of the hand-to-hand warfare going in district after district over the health care bill.

The League of American Voters is at the forefront of efforts to stop Obamacare.

Since last August, because of your generous support, the League has been able to turn back the forces of Obamacare every step of the way. We’re now in the final fight.

The vote will happen very soon. We can STOP Obamacare but we need to apply maximum pressure.

EVERY Congressman we are targeting faces strong opposition from their own constituents who don’t want Obamacare.

That’s why Obama-Pelosi are so desperate for a vote NEXT WEEK --- and will lie to and bully anyone who stands in their way.

Help Us to Stop Them Now.

We need to continue this ad campaign into next week. Please help us do that.

Sincerely,

Bob Adams
Executive Director

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Ya know, when this latest ObamaCare push started, "stimulating" a cottage industry in armchair whip-counting, I did some very simple math: start with the House vote the last time (220-215 yes), flip one vote (Joe Cao, the lone Republican sheep), and deduct an additional (and eventual) four votes for Robert Wexler (resigned), Neil Abercrombie (resigned), Haw-Haw Murtha (expired), and Eric Massa (snorkeled).  That meant Crazy Nancy was starting at 215-216.

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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Free Our Health Care NOW

Dear Policy Patriots -

Obama & Pelosi Huff and Puff... But will they blow the House down? The final showdown is here! Play your part by helping the Policy Patriots achieve the NCPA's bold, new challenge:

Help send 1,000,000 emails to Congress by President Obama's deadline of March 18! Go to Action Army and send a letter today!

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  • ObamaCare won't reduce health care costs. Only 17% of Americans believe that current health care proposals will accomplish that goal.
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  • Largely unfunded

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An Urgent Message from Dick Morris


Obama and Pelosi Are Frantic. We Must
Stop Their Desperate Plan to Ram Through Obamacare
.

Utah's lone Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson voted against Obamacare when it first passed the House last year.

Then the heavens opened up and Obama came forth to nominate his brother Scott to a federal judgeship.

Will the appointment influence Matheson's vote? Was it a bribe?

The League of American Voters is asking this question in a very public way through an advertisement it is currently airing on Salt Lake City television, in the middle of Matheson's district.

The ad poses the question:

"Our Congressman Jim Matheson voted against Obama's health care proposals and Salt Lake City is saying thanks. He voted against cutting Medicare by $500 billion, against health care rationing, against higher taxes. But then Obama appointed his brother to a federal judgeship. Some people say it was bribe to get Jim to change his vote. Was it? We'll be able to tell if Jim now switches his vote. Hey Jim, we'll be watching!"

This ad, which costs $77,000 to run, is indicative of the hand-to-hand warfare going in district after district over the health care bill.

The League of American Voters, a group for which I serve as chief strategist, is at the forefront of efforts to stop Obamacare.

Right now the League -- thanks to generous donations -- is running ads in eighteen districts of swing Congressmen.

Meanwhile, Pelosi and Obama are frantic.

They are trying to find a way to pass health care in the House without having, first, to ask Congressmen to vote for the Senate version of the legislation.

Pro-lifers don't like the abortion funding provisions in the Senate version, liberals dislike the lack of a public option, those in thrall to big labor hate the tax on high value health policies for union members, and everybody is nauseated by the special favors inserted for Marie Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

House Democrats are suspicious that if they just pass the Senate version, Obama will sign it into law and the efforts to use reconciliation to "fix" it will fall by the wayside.

And they are right to be paranoid on this score.

Pelosi's latest gambit is to pass a rule in the House which "deems" the Senate bill to have passed the House without actually passing it, as if voters would be deceived into thinking this is just a procedural vote rather than the main vote itself.

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There are 35 Congressmen who voted "no" the first time around who need reinforcement and another 20 who voted yes who I believe can be persuaded to change their vote. But that will take pressure -- making the League's effort and your help vital.

Frankly, we don't have the funds to advertise in all these districts today. But with your help we can expand our campaign and these ads can make all the difference in the world.

Remember: If Obamacare becomes law, our health system will never recover.

And if it does not, Obama and Pelosi will never pass another important piece of legislation without genuine bipartisan support.

The League needs these additional funds today. The vote is coming soon and the League must begin airing ads into these additional Congressional districts.

With your financial help, we can tailor ads that bring maximum pressure on these Democratic members to resist the imploring, threatening, and bribing of Obama, Pelosi, Emanuel, Reid, and their henchmen.

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Thank you!

Dick Morris

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