“Kill” “The” “Bill” (Updated)
[Guest post by DRJ]
Republican lawmakers cheer on the protesters:
Outside, meanwhile, bullhorns and chants are seeping into the press room and even the chamber. Chants of “Naaaannnccy” and “vote them out” are constant, as are the usual “kill the bill” refrains. At one point, three lawmakers, presumably Republicans, went outside the Capitol building — on a second floor balcony — to greet the protestors. And they each held up one side reading: “Kill” “The” “Bill”.
The Instapundit describes it as chaos on the House floor, and Drudge has this “overheard on the House floor” tidbit:
OVERHEARD: Walking into Capitol this morning on phone, Speaker Pelosi tells Hoyer: ‘Steny, we have to get to 217. None of these members wants to be the deciding vote’…
— DRJ
UPDATE: Will Boehner “filibuster”?
“Leader John Boehner has threatened to use leadership floor privileges — which grant him unlimited time to talk (during the global warming debate he worried Dems that he might filibuster when he launched into an hour-long speech against the bill) — to read the entire 2,300-page bill. If that happens Dems say they’ll reconvene tomorrow to pass the bill rather than stretching the session too late into the night.”
“Walking into Capitol this morning on phone, Speaker Pelosi tells Hoyer: ‘Steny, we have to get to 217. None of these members wants to be the deciding vote’…”
Profiles in courage… sheesh.
GeneralMalaise (20e943) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:07 amwhat did you expect? traitors are always cowards….
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:10 amOh, my. It looks to me like the White House is leaking stories that this is all Pelosi’s fault:
The Administration thinks stories like this protect Obama but ultimately they make him look like a wimp.
DRJ (daa62a) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:16 ami see no downside to that DRJ… and it makes it look like they know they’re going to fail, which makes it a win/win for us.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:18 amI agree this doesn’t sound good for the Democrats, red.
DRJ (daa62a) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:22 amPeople power!
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9eb641) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:26 amThe “Leader of the Free World” abdicated his responsibility to lead his Party in governance, letting Queen Nancy and the Prince of Fools to determine the legislative priorities that he would be tied to throughout recorded history.
Right now, Jimmy Carter (who at least could schedule the WH tennis court), and Franklin Pierce (who knew enough to do nothing), are looking pretty good.
AD - RtR/OS! (4c0b43) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:35 amMore evidence that this bill is a disaster: If you were one of Pelosi’s people and a true believer that this bill is the best thing ever to happen to the American people, wouldn’t you *want* to be the deciding vote and have it indelibly recorded in history that it was specifically because of you as the deciding vote that this epic bill passed????
Politicians are notoriously egotistical and always looking for good P.R.- this would be something they’d *all* be clamoring for if they were indeed convinced of it’s intrinsic worth to the public.
I call B.S.
Dana (1e5ad4) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:36 amI wonder… is there a Klingon word for bullsh*t?
Ah, yes… Klabdak… that’s the word I was looking for.
Klabdak!
GeneralMalaise (20e943) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:57 amI read things like the following, and politicians similar to Obama, Pelosi and Reid strike me as looking even more irresponsible, power-crazy, arrogant, greedy and perhaps somewhat addled in the brain.
Mark (411533) — 3/21/2010 @ 11:59 am“I read things like the following, and politicians similar to Obama, Pelosi and Reid strike me as looking even more irresponsible, power-crazy, arrogant, greedy and perhaps somewhat addled in the brain.”
It’s all about the power grab, Mark.
GeneralMalaise (20e943) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:03 pmThe Dems see this as a sea-change moment… one that will change the face of government… at least until the American people have a chance to right this grave mistake.
GeneralMalaise (20e943) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:08 pmI added an Update.
DRJ (daa62a) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:15 pmTo give a small example of the moronic economic theories of the Democrats, Michigan governor Granholm has declared a “Meatout Day” in a state that has few remaining jibs that aren’t related to agriculture. The people have suggested an alternative called a “Granholm out Day: on January 11, 2011
Mike K (2cf494) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:20 pmOh, dear–Stupak says he’s signing on, now that Obama has agreed to an executive order etc. etc. etc.
I would be so incredibly surprised if the next bill to come up after Obamacare passes will be a bill repealing the executive order. Or if Obama subsequently issues an order “clarifying” (read: repealing) the order he’s agreed to.
Assuming he issues the order at all.
Alan (07ccb5) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:33 pmExecutive orders can be just allowed to die. Anyone who takes Obama’s word is a fool or was looking for an excuse. I think Stupak wanted a face saving gesture and he got it.
The next order of business is to defeat 100 Democrats in November. I think it can be done.
Mike K (2cf494) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:37 pmI can’t imagine that the promise Stupak got from Obama has any prospect of being enforced. So I’m amazed that this deal wasn’t struck sooner. Maybe this whole thing has been for show.
If this passes, it will never be repealed. “This, too, shall pass” does not apply to government agencies.
Alan (07ccb5) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:39 pmi think the first thing to do Monday morning, for those of you with j*bs anyway, is to file a new W-4 form that increases your deductions to the point where you owe the Feds $$ every April. doesn’t have to be a lot, but if enough people do it, it will make things harder on them, and also deny them a refund to seize if you don’t have government approved insurance when they check.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:42 pmI suppose hoping the Supreme Court rules 5-4 that requiring Americans to purchase private health insurance is unconstitutional is a little too much of a stretch. Besides, even if they did make such a ruling it probably wouldn’t come until at least 2012, and by then the Big Government machine would simply declare that this means that single payer is the answer.
A dark day indeed for the cause of small government and personal freedoms.
JVW (fd30ab) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:48 pmThere are so many provisions in this bill, a lot of horrible stuff would survive (almost all of it, really) even if the individual mandate were held unconstitutional. The justiciability doctrines are going to preserve almost all of this law; the rest of it will be upheld on the Supreme Court’s libertine reading of the Commerce Clause.
Alan (07ccb5) — 3/21/2010 @ 12:55 pm