The best thing for America right now is for Congress to be impotent, gridlocked, and unable to “get things done.”

The act of NOT doing (fill in the blank) is very often the best course of action, particularly when the people who want to do things are as disreputable as the majority currently in Congress.

When the dems crafted an economy-killing $2.7 Trillion special-interest-laden spending bill designed to cement their stranglehold on power by rewarding 20% of the population at the expense of the remaining 80%, but it severely rations healthcare, dramatically increases the cost of healthcare while covering fewer people and shackles future generations of Americans with mountains of unsustainable debt, what could possibly go wrong?

Everytime they have set a deadline, it has gotten pushed back. I’d say “February” will probably = March or April.

that the union leaders are consistently in these meetings.

218 may be the minimum number needed but I think O’l Nancy could come up with ten or twenty more votes if necessary if there were defections.
It may be true that dozen of (D)s voted against the bill but it was they were given permission to do that so they could go home in peace. You may have noticed that you have not heard a single peep out of any of them. There isn’t really any true opposition to this bill on that side of the aisle.
The bill is a disaster and yet the Democrats keep passing it along. When it became possible for one Senator with principal to stop the bill they all folded like a cheap lawn chair.

Scott Brown winning next Tuesday in Mass. if our best hope to derail health care. If he becomes the 41st vote and the bill is stopped then the House members can vote against it with cover because they know it no longer matters.
If he loses then I think the bill will be successfully reconciled with somehow just enough votes and token opposition.
Keep your fingers crossed next Tuesday.

Every time the Dems start talking about the problems they are having on this we all get excited and a week later there is a grand compromise reached and the bill takes another step forward.

I hope I’m wrong on this but if I’m not…we’ll all be mumbling curses under our breath in a week or so about some compromise they’ve reached.

We can’t allow them to let us think this thing is dead again and get complacent…now is the time to push like we’ve never pushed anything in our lives so we can shove this turkey into the abyss!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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that all those in the House who “got permission” to vote no the first time can be convinced to vote yes this time around. Bill Clinton’s theory that 1994 happened because they failed to pass healthcare is a load of crap. And now we recently have even more evidence to prove it:

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/01/12/maybe-killing-hc-bill-would-he

It’s a pattern being repeated. They announced that they were having problems and announce a delay in the deadline. Then at 1 am tonight or something, they finally reach an agreement.

I’m sure Rahm and Axelrod have been working very hard to get both sides to agree on something. Err…were they issuing threats to these Democrats? Didn’t Rahm tell the Democrats that if they vote against the bill, they won’t get reelected????

I’ve been poking myself in the eye for a week now and I can’t figure out why I can’t see.

These guys are idiots of the first order.

. . . I’m not going to get too excited. This feels like a Democrat ploy to settle down any voters in MA who might be thinking of casting a vote for Brown b/c they want to stop HC. Remaining cautiously optimistic, to say the least.

…find that people here at Redstate have doubts about the openness and honesty of such Democrat leaders as Honest Charlie Rangel.

“Normally you’re just dealing with the Senate and they talk about 60 votes and you listen to them and cave in, but this is entirely different.”

Yes, Senator, this is entirely different. This is the most massive power grab in the history of the United States and it is being attempted in an era when the common people (remember them, The People?) are witnessing the theft on their Blackberrys and laptops. It’s harder to screw us over when we can see what you’re doing, isn’t, Chuck?

Their intention with these comments is to make everyone complacent and think we are winning so we’ll leave them alone. Keep the pressure on - don’t let up for one single second. Warming up the fax machine now.

WE were told this before they voted in the House on a Saturday and WE were told this leading up to the 60 in the Senate when they voted to allow it to go forward and they made these same types of LYING GROANS leading up to the vote on Christmas Eve. This MONSTROSITY will pass and the SLAUGHTER of Congressional Democrats being SENT HOME +80 will be had in November for this NIGHTMARE session of Congress.

Principles before Party in 2010

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

Everything for the Dems lies with health care. They have sacrificed their political futures for the cause. If it falls apart now, all will be lost in their eyes. Watch out for a new level of corruption and underhanded dealings before this thing is over.

http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=9445

It ain’t over till it’s over.

The Senate Majority Leader’s office is (202) 224-3542, Pelosi at the Speaker’s office is (202) 225-0100, Congress is 202-224/225-3121, and the White House is (202) 456-1414.

Tell Reid he’s a racist and should resign. Send support and money to Scott Brown. http://www.scottbrownforussenate.com.

If this bill was really going to be killed, Lierberman should never have voted for cloture in Dec. It would have ended the whole deal. They all make a lot of noise, but most of it is a tale told by an idiot/full of sound and fury/signifying nothing.

…when I see it officially off the table and thrown to the wayside. I’m getting sick of all these false alarms about the bill’s imminent demise, only to watch another vote pass on CSPAN. Public opinion could be at 0% and they’d still hammer away at it, trying to come up with a “compromise.”

the Democrat party is already done, at this point they might just as well pass the thing. I also think Pelosi could force the Senate bill through the house and on to the President as written if she wanted to. Queen Nancy has a huge ego, flushing the house bill down the drain and signing on to the Senate bill will show the world who really wields the power in Washington. Which instinct is stronger in the Queen, party loyalty, or ego?

A brown win in Mass would help her (and us) out of her dilema, but I think it’s a long shot.

That would be awesome! I’d love to see these greedy SOBs kill oneanother’s insufficient schemes. That Visigoth Holiday they intended to have at the expense of the working American - Cancelled!

It’s going to be an interesting Spring.
What fools, essentially they repeated the same mistakes the now disgraced Clintons made in ‘93, going for too much, too soon.
A basic rule in D.C., do it in stages, if it’s statist power extension you’ll be a hero to the Media at each stage, great PR, and you will buy in moderate[?] Republicans who will accept any poison in small doses.

What greater argument do you have against government power than that it attracts the stupid. It may even cause stupidity.

the Dems who voted against health care reform the first time got permission to do so because a yes vote would have been certain political suicide. That hasn’t changed; in fact it may have gotten worse. Any politician’s first interest is getting reelected.

I think a smart Republican could run effectively even against a Dem who voted no by blaming the Dem for the actions of the Dem majority, especially Pelosi. The Dem voted for Pelosi, after all.

Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die

I’m not believing this monstrosity is dead until January 4, 2011 at the earliest.

The Dems control both the Senate and House: They are going to get this through because like sharks they smell ‘blood in the water.” They will sell their mother, Grandmother down the stream with this trash …

“The talking that is to decide the result must be done in private committee rooms and behind the closed doors of several committees. The intervals between sessions are filled with a very feverish activity. Messengers run from one meeting to another until the small hours of the morning. Conference follows conference in a way that is likely to bring newspapers correspondents to the verge of despair, it being next to impossible to put the rumors together into any coherent story of what is going on. Only at the rooms of leadership is there any clear knowledge of the situation as a whole; and the excitement of the members of conference rises from sessions to session under the sheer pressure of uncertainty. The final majority is compounded no outsider and few member can tell how.” Woodrow Wilson 1914

“Conference follows conference in a way that is likely to bring newspapers correspondents to the verge of despair, it being next to impossible to put the rumors together into any coherent story of what is going on.”

In plain English the public DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON, and all this gloom and doom and problems inside is a diversionary tactic to give false hope … It does not exist, they just want you to think it exists.

Personally, I putting my bayonet on my musket i.e. “Fix bayonets.”

Because seldom in American history has there been a New York Democrat with more reason to be called Weiner than him.

someone walking up and bitch-slapping that little weiner on national television and then having it replayed over and over on the jumbo-tron in Times Square.

Funny choice of words by Weiner.

The term was used in film Deliverance.

This from Wikipedia:

After a stray comment about moonshine offends the hillbillies, Bobby is forced at gunpoint to strip naked. McKinney’s character chases after and physically harasses Bobby as he tries to escape. His ear is twisted to bring him to his hands and knees, and he is then ordered to “squeal like a pig”….. Ed is bound to a tree with his own belt, helpless….

link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliverance

Why on earth would a Democratic congressman use the term to describe a meeting of his own party’s Senators?