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Obama, Pelosi bill is so great, House is thinking of not taking a roll call vote on it

Submitted by lambert on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 8:46pm

McClatchy:

As the battle over health care legislation built Monday toward a weekend crescendo, congressional Democrats considered trying to pass the controversial Senate version without voting for it, a tactic that Republicans and independent analysts warned could be politically treacherous and perhaps unconstitutional.

Under the plan, the House of Representatives would approve the Senate bill by "deeming" it to have passed as part of a separate measure governing the rules of a House debate on a follow-up health care measure. That follow-up legislation will be designed to change certain controversial portions of the Senate-passed version, a path more palatable to House Democrats who fear that voting for the Senate bill could backfire against them in elections this fall.

The maneuver would enable House members to avoid casting a politically risky vote on the Senate package, and to say they voted only for the more popular follow-up measure.

Pelosi: "Get the votes!" (punches fist in hand).

Just not votes on, like, the record.

Really, wouldn't it be simpler to start over

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Submitted by DCblogger on

now they won't even count the congressional votes. How do we know the bill even passed? It is mind bogglingly corrupt. Really, they should all gone down to defeat for that alone.

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Submitted by gqmartinez on

They don't value people. They value themselves. Period.

This is why I bring up the primary at every opportunity. If you sell something as a democratic election but do everything in your power to limit democracy, it says a lot about you. As the siggy say, only tyrants rig elections. The treatment of Eric Massa makes more and more sense almost every day. The entire Democratic Party is rotten, full of willingly malicious actors or enablers of malice. Massa was one of a small handful willing to stand up to the White House. Kucinich enabled the white House with his primary endorsement (Massa never caved.) so he does deserve what's coming to him. It wasn't rocket science to figure this shit out then, the election rigging was in full force.

As much as we need Kucinich to stand up to the White House, I can't help but remember that during the New hampshire primary he tried to bring a lawsuit challenging Hillary's primary win.

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Submitted by gqmartinez on

I heard on the morning news that the SEIU threatened to drop support of anyone who oppose this monstrosity. The SEIU seems to e heading toward irrelevancy along with the Democratic Party. Couldn't happen to a more worthless organization.