Barney Frank: Obamacare is Dead
Posted on January 20, 2010
Senator Jim Webb isn’t the only one running the opposite direction of Obamacare.
“I have two reactions to the election in Massachusetts. One, I am disappointed. Two, I feel strongly that the Democratic majority in Congress must respect the process and make no effort to bypass the electoral results. If Martha Coakley had won, I believe we could have worked out a reasonable compromise between the House and Senate health care bills. But since Scott Brown has won and the Republicans now have 41 votes in the Senate, that approach is no longer appropriate. I am hopeful that some Republican Senators will be willing to discuss a revised version of health care reform because I do not think that the country would be well-served by the health care status quo. But our respect for democratic procedures must rule out any effort to pass a health care bill as if the Massachusetts election had not happened. Going forward, I hope there will be a serious effort to change the Senate rule which means that 59 votes are not enough to pass major legislation, but those are the rules by which the health care bill was considered, and it would be wrong to change them in the middle of the process.”
The fact that someone who isn’t a squishy Dem came out this early to say something that bold says it all.
Michelle Malkin says all the Dems should watch this.
Update: Rethinking
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Don’t be iun such a hurry to abolish the FIllibuster, BArney> You might want to be able to use it yourself before long. .
(Ps) Signed: “Proud member of the Ungovernable Nation”
Barney will be out of a job in November, as will many, many more Corruptocrats.
Shouldn’t it go without saying that they should “make no effort to bypass the election results?”
Couldn’t agree more with LittleMac – it most definitely SHOULD go without saying! Hopefully at least a handful of the ubercorrupt uberleft will begin to see that
We the People will no longer be railroaded – they’ve pushed too far and awakened the sleeping giant: may it be to their everlasting demise!
Hello Barney.Hello. When did you really care about the “democractic procedures..”After, Mr. Browns victory you see you are in the “middle of a process..”You are next to leave government.
right on Mike !, time to take a long walk on a short pier barney ………….. go on.
…….we’re waiting .