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  • Yes We Can (Defeat the Healthcare Program) 4 comments
    Nov 9, 2009 01:30 PM
    The cumbersome healthcare package "passed" in the House Saturday night, by only 220-215.  (For a change, all 435 Congresspeople voted.) A swing of three votes could have defeated it.

    The vote now goes to the Senate, where a filibuster might defeat it. And even if it were passed there, it would have to go to a House-Senate conference, and then a full vote of both houses on the final bill.

    From a Parliamentary point of view, however, it's possible for someone on the winning side of the House bill to call for a revote. A Republican leadership might be able to to persuade at least three selected (Democratic) supporters of the bill to change their minds, by offering not to run candidates in their districts. (And reward some crossover Democrats by doing the same.) In any event, some Democrats that did vote for the bill may now have to face their constituents on this matter.

    Why should we try to defeat this health bill? We're not against health insurance. But both the government and corporations are disfunctional at this time. Trying to "fix" this system probably means breaking it. We should wait for a better time (our childre's generation), when public institutions are held in higher regard.

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    GD & I: I'm already reading things here and there that the senate is going to vote down Pelosi/Obamacare. Have you read Jim Quinn's take he wrote a few days back? Good stuff.
    Nov 09 01:49 PM | Link | Reply
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    Let's write to our Senators. Other than that, what is left but to storm the Bastille?
    Nov 09 05:22 PM | Link | Reply
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    Storm first write later. They are more likely to listen once they have had a close encounter/near miss.
    Nov 09 08:07 PM | Link | Reply
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    I have been studying the upcoming elections for the senate races. Usually I would say that focusing the effort on those Democrat senators up for re-election who were in the most danger of losing would be a good idea, but the 6 seats at the top of the "likely to lose" column is the one in Illinois (which had B.H.Obama in it), Delaware (Joe Biden), Nevada (Harry Reid), Connecticutt (Christopher Dodd), Pennsylvania (Arlen Specter) and Michael Bennet (Colorado).

    Of them all, only Bennet seems like a good target for arm twisting (though of course pitchforks as doubleguns indicates might work if applied to MOST of them).

    The other incumbent Democrats who are not really in trouble but who MIGHT be nervous enough to listen would be:

    Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas

    Daniel Inouye of Hawaii

    Evan Bayh of Indiana

    Barbara Mikulski of Maryland

    Kirsten Gillibrand of New York

    Byron Dorgan of North Dakota

    Ron Wyden of Oregon

    Patrick Leahy of Vermont

    Patty Murray of Washington

    Russ Feingold of Wisconsin
    Nov 09 10:27 PM | Link | Reply
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