Senate Approves Motion to Proceed on Obamacare
Posted on November 21, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
With a 60 to 39 vote, the Senate has passed the motion to proceed to move on with the debate over Obamacare. Again, it is important to note that this is only a vote to begin the floor debate on the bill. It is not a vote to pass Obamacare.
In the Washington Examiner, Byron York has an excellent point when he asks, “why was it so hard for Democrats even to start the healthcare debate?”
The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there is any drama in it at all. Lawmakers are simply voting to begin debate on their version of health care reform. Just begin debate — not end it, and not move on to a final vote.
If Democrats, with a 60-vote majority in the Senate, were not able to begin debate on the top Democratic policy priority in a generation — well, that would be a devastating turn of events, both for the party and for President Obama. And yet just starting debate has proved difficult, and only today did the 60th Democratic vote fall in place in favor of beginning the process.
I have made this point myself as it happens. On Nov. 19, I was writing about the sly, underhanded tricks that Reid was using to advance the Senate debate on Obamacare but why, I wondered, are these tricks even necessary? If this bill has the wide-spread support that the Democrats keep claiming it has, why all the dirty tricks, obfuscations, and rules bending?
If this bill was a legitimate bill would all of these dirty tricks be necessary? Further, if this bill had such wide acceptance and agreement among Congress and the people alike, why are Democrats afraid to let everyone see the bill?
York is essentially echoing my point and adding that this bill does not have wide support in Congress or among the voters that Reid, Pelosi, and the President are pretending it has. The fact that Reid had to work so hard to get this thing even to a stage where further debate could be had is telling.
We still have a chance to kill this bill, people. We must keep the pressure on our Congressmen.
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I have been appalled and dumbfounded at the lack of concern for their constituents and the lack of any type of political courage that I have seen in both the House and Senate. These people must live in a bubble. Or they just don’t care because they’re in a position where they personally will prosper regardless. Where is their patriotism? Where is their sense of duty? Do we have to rely on the military or police to come up with a formula where we can find 2 out of 3 people that have a sense of duty? Corrupt bastards like Murtha and the rest are running the country right now whether we want to admit it or not. How is it that the Senate, after seeing the outrage of a 1900 page plus healthcare bill that the majority of us don’t want writes a 2000 page bill and they vote to push it forward? What the F..K do we have to do to make them represent us? I used to hate the idea of term limits but now I can see it might be the only thing to do.
What is the purpose for this nonsensical bill (House and Senate)? Some 85% of Americans have health insurance, some 75% are satisfied with their healthcare situation. What the hell is this for?
Is our current system perfect? No, but nothing is, mor will the healthcare situation every be perfect. Can improvements be made in the current system? Sure, but you don’t destroy the entire system to “reform” it.
This is simply about the whores in DC wanting more and more political power, i.e., influence over aspect of our lives. Micromanagement by the “elites” who want to CENTRALLY PLAN our lives.
Can you say our “intellectual elite” like the Big Eared Chimp in the White House?
There’s no need to worry if it passes the Senate, either way if a bill passes with a significant negative impact on the middle and upper class you can kiss the Democratic majority in the Senate and possibly the House goodbye in 2010.
The voter backlash will be on an epic scale never seen before in the history of the USA.
Republican’s will repeal this POS legislation in 2012 just like the Democrats repealed No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D.