Nelson Saying No Go on Obamacare if it Funds Abortion
HOST: “You’ve been very clear that you do not like the idea of federal funding going towards abortions. You provided the amendment that did not pass muster with the Senate. Is that the single issue right now—if that were changed, would that be enough, right now, for you to go along with the bill?”
NELSON: “No. There are other substantive issues…”HOST: “But if the abortion issue is taken care of to your satisfaction, whether it be some kind of compromise that is to your satisfaction, would that be enough for you to vote for cloture and go forward?”
NELSON: “No.”
HOST: “That’s not enough alone?”
NELSON: “That’s not enough.”
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NELSON: “A deadline and a timeline that’s out there that is not achievable isn’t helpful. I can’t tell you that they couldn’t come up with something that would be satisfactory on abortion between now and [Christmas], and solve all the other issues that I’ve raised to them. But I don’t see how.”
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HOST: “Senator, we gotta let you go, but I want you to bottom line this for our listeners. As of right now, the way things stand right now, you would not vote cloture on this bill.”
NELSON: “That’s correct. On cloture on the motion to end debate. I voted for cloture on the motion to begin debate and I said at the time, and I’m following through on that, if … it’s not at the point where I think it needs to be with the improvements that I’m pushing, and they’ve made a lot of them, then I will not vote for cloture on the motion to end debate.”
Harry Reid will have to go back to the drawing board on abortion funding, but that may not be possible. His progressive wing is already in near revolt over having to vote for a bill with no government-run plan in it. They wanted a precursor to a single-payer system; in fact, that was the entire point of the health-care reform push. Now they’re going to be asked to kill funding for abortion as well, having worked for months to build a path around the Hyde Amendment. There is no way that will get through to cloture, and no way it will pass in the House even if it did.
Perhaps I’ll get flack for this but I’ve gotta give this Dem some credit for standing up to principle. A principle I share with him. In the meantime this is throwing a major monkey wrench into the Democrats’ scheme. Harry Reid still doesn’t have the 60 votes he needs. I’m really starting to think this isn’t gonna happen before Christmas and that is a good thing. Even if the abortion issue is rectified, it won’t be enough for Nelson’s vote to end debate. He makes a lot of sense too. He voted to debate, and so did many. It should be debated. However, the debate hasn’t found resolution, so why end it?
What is great about this whole show is liberals are holding their own plan up. Yes, Republicans are united against this, but if it were only Republicans against it, the liberals could pass it without us. The problem is they can’t unite behind it. Perhaps this is because it is a huge flustercluck of a mess flouting a loud agenda of government control. Perhaps some of these blue dogs are savvy to the fact their constituents don’t want this. We are truly watching the spectacle of Democracy in action.
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Posted by Jay on December 18, 2009 1:34 am
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