and this time, let the fiasco go on!!!

This is a unique time, and the standard voter mode of forgetfulness does not apply.

Something about 10% unemployment and the economy in the crapper, and the threat of terrorists on our doorstep kind of washes away that apathy.

read a vapor bill?

Or he’s found a way to force Reid to produce a hardcopy of…vapor bill?

He may have to find another way…to force Reid to produce something other than vapor bill….

How about this…

Can Coburn force an amendment on Reid to…produce a real bill on health care other than vapor bill?

Gotta figure out how to make known to the Americans.

on last line not “VOTE kNOW”
altho “vote Know” could be our rallying cry.

What I was reading earlier was that the move would be to move consideration on the House bill (Friday’s vote) and then Reid would substitute his “vapor” bill and file for cloture on debate ASAP.

Not sure at what point the bill needs to be read - before or after move to consider (I suspect after) nor which bill will have to be read (House bill or Reid’s substitute).

My bold, fearless prediction is that the motion to proceed will be successfully filibustered and the whole thing dies then and there. This bill (what bill?) is death to Democrat senators all over the map; they know it, but they don’t want to find themselves in the position of having to cast a vote for or against it. Vote for it and they’re destroyed by the voters; vote against it and they’re torn to pieces by the communist nuts running the Democrat party. How much better it would be if the final bill (what bill?) never came up for a vote at all, eh? Lieberman, ironically enough, may save their bacon.

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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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It drives me crazy that politicians don’t read bills they vote on. They need to read every bill, not just this one.

Isn’t he the key here? Without him they don’t have the 60.

The left will be screaming bloody murder if Coburn follows through on his threat to actually read the entire bill on the Senate floor. Most Americans with any common sense, however, will simply ask, “What’s wrong with reading the bill before the Senate votes on it?” I bet the polls will move even more in our direction if Democrats have a hissy fit over Republicans demanding the bill is read on the Senate floor out loud.

I do fear the strategy though of “I didn’t vote for the bill, I voted to continue working on the bill” line of b.s. I think it’s clear Blanche Lincoln is going to try this excuse (but she’s toast no matter what her vote ends up being). My fear is the Democrat leadership will be able to convince their members in the Red States that the voters will either buy this line, or will forget about it by the time they’re up for reelection. Clearly, they were able to convince enough members in the House to walk the plank. I still think it’s a career-ending vote, but I guess we’ll find out.

“Under the unique rules of the United States Senate, a member of the body may insist legislation actually be read before a vote is cast on the legislation.”

Senators should be forced to read every bill. It’s ridiculous that we have elected representatives routinely passing legislation about which they have no clue.

Kudos to Coburn!

Arkansas supported McCain 59% to 39% in the November elections. If the vote were held today the result would likely be even more lopsided and Lincoln knows it. Arkansans overwhelmingly oppose Obamacare and Lincoln knows that too. If she votes for this bill I want to see an investigation launched into her finances and post Congressional career. The only reason she would have to vote for this unconstitutional takeover is in the expectation of a big payoff after she loses her seat next Nov. There is simply no other reason to not vote the way your constituents demand you vote. I’ve written to teh WSJ and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette demanding Lincoln be investigated if she supports this monstrosity. I’m in the county GOP here in AR and know several of the GOP candidates planning to run against Lincoln next year and will ask them to bring this up in their ads against her.

It complains about credit card fine print, wanting lending institutions to use plain English. It should follow its own advice.

She is another key vote.

Hope it helps-

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It’s like the bill filibusters itself.

Senator Coburn deserves unlimited praise for forcing the reading of this bill. It will tie up the Senate for months - estimates are 6-12 months - which will effectively do two things:

1. Bring the yes/no vote much closer to the 2010 elections which will make many of the Dims - especially the blue dog Dims - think twice about voting for it

2. They won’t be able to bring up any other socialistic horrors - like Crap & Tax - because the Senate rules are that everything must stop while a bill is being read aloud

God bless Senator Coburn!

Yesterday, Copenhagen. Today Senator Coburn. Yeee-ha!

that it will require the amended bill as proposed to be read as well?

But I find it ridiculous that the only time they seem to read the damn things is when they’re *not* playing nice together. If they’d given a real damn for the last few decades, this country would be thriving as it deserves to be.

I would demand that all of the “we’ll leave the final details to a follow-up commission” instead be included in the final bill. I want to know specifically what a gov’t-approved health insurance policy must cover. Right now, all these “little” details are being left to non-existent committees in the future. I need to know what these details are NOW.

The bill will grow to over 3,000 pages, but we Americans need to know what is being inflicted on us up front.