Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday that Republican senators are prepared to filibuster the government-run public option and that on this vote there is no compromise.
You may recall that Olympia Snowe voted for the Baucus bill in committee in order to “keep the discussion going.” Yesterday, in a shot across the bow of Snowe and other “moderates,” McConnell said, “I think it’s appropriate to make the point at the outset that a vote … on the motion to proceed to this bill [to end the filibuster of the public option] will be treated as a vote on the merits of the bill.” Let me explain why.
This bill can’t be stopped by just Republicans. They have only 40 votes in the Senate – that is not enough to sustain a filibuster. Socialized medicine will pass or fail depending on what a handful of “moderate” Democrats do. If they vote with Harry Reid to let the bill come to the Senate floor, it will pass — period. The senators who most likely will control the fate of ObamaCare are:
- Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) — (501) 375-2993
- Mark Pryor (D-AR) — (501) 324-6336
- Joe Lieberman (I-CT) — (860) 549-8463
- Evan Bayh (D-IN) — (317) 554-0750
- Mary Landrieu (D-LA) — (225) 389-0395
- Max Baucus (D-MT) — (406) 657-6790
- Jon Tester (D-MT) — (406) 449-5401
- Kent Conrad (D-ND) — (701) 258-4648
- Byron Dorgan (D-ND) — (701) 250-4618
- Ben Nelson (D-NE) — (402) 441-4600
- Tim Johnson (D-SD) — (605) 332-8896
- Jim Webb (D-VA) — (804) 771-2221
- Mark Warner (D-VA) — (804) 739-0247
If you live in any of these states, be certain to call your senators and share your thoughts with them.
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
If you haven’t already done so, read URGENT! Harry Reid to hide the new Healthcare Bill until minutes before voting!
This afternoon, the Senate Finance Committee voted 14-to-9 in favor of a massive healthcare “reform” plan sponsored by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT). Let me make a few observations. Every Democrat, along with Republican Olympia Snowe, voted for it. All the other Republicans voted against it.
In analyzing the Baucus bill, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggested that the plan would probably cost $830 billion and save the government about $80 billion over ten years. But the CBO looked at “conceptual language,” not the actual legislative language. In other words, the CBO didn’t see the real bill, and it admits that “those estimates are all subject to substantial uncertainty.” Evidently “substantial uncertainty” was good enough for 14 Senate liberals.
Now the real heavy lifting begins. The Baucus bill is just one of several plans approved by various committees. Neither the House nor the Senate has actually passed anything. This battle is not over. Democrats have a super majority, but there are deep divisions among them.
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