Comments on: House Passes PelosiCare

By: pendit1

pendit1 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:14:28 +0000

There's sooooo much BOTOX in that woman's face….her frown muscles have been disabled!

By: ImpeachO

ImpeachO — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:51:02 +0000

Thank you for the info, Elvis. I wondered if there might be a shuttle service, and that's what it sounds like. I'm ready to go!!!

By: Corve DaCosta

Corve DaCosta — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:25:55 +0000

couldnt believe they passed it…but it was by a small margin….listen …i dont think the senate will give it an easy ride…they better get ready for a fight…

the higher taxes and debt the american economy will face will shock everyone…obama will go down to wreck the country….

but dems are right….let them have their way

By: nceeno

nceeno — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:43 +0000

That's what I thought last Tuesday. Then we re-elected two of the three liberal incumbents who helped drive the city into the toilet. Voter turnout was just under 30%.
Sorry. I got no faith.

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:25:57 +0000

Anytime that Pelosi is smiling that means the country has just been screwed! Keep this woman frowning for the love of the country.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:07:12 +0000

I don't agree that the GOP gave the pro-life Dems the cover they needed to vote for this bill. As others over at RedState.com have made abundantly clear, this bill was going to pass regardless. Ultimately, the blue-dogs feared Pelosi more than their constituents, which, given history, is understandable reasoning. Constituents rarely turn out incumbents, and Pelosi is in their face every day. Do the math. But I do think the GOP could have made this more difficult to swallow by voting "Present" on the Stupak amendment. It would have delayed the vote, but not the end result. And regarding Representative Cao in LA, I kinda need to give him a pass. 1) he did not, nor would he have cast the deciding vote. 2) he is a moderate Republican in the most liberal, Democratic district in all of LA., and has the biggest target on his back you can imagine. He replaced the disgraced and convicted felon Rep. Jefferson, he of the "frozen $90,000" fame. In any environment, he's likely to lose election, but in this case he was truly representing the will of his constituents — the welfare queens and Democratic plantation citizen-victims of New Orleans. 3) He was here in VA stumping for Bob McDonnell, the most conservative governor VA has had since George Allen. So yeah, I'm going to cut him some slack.

Bottom line, all these Dem's walked the plank for no reason. The bill is DOA in the Senate. And the Senate is likely not to take up any bill this year, and anything coming up next year in an election year is going to be irreconcilable to what the House passed. Net net — no bill. No healthcare reform.

Democrats lose…in every imaginable way!

By: thomas

thomas — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:01:51 +0000

Lead Story
Health care takeover roll call vote — and what GOP Rep. Joseph Cao got from Obama; Plus: Organizing for America hustles more money
By Michelle Malkin • November 8, 2009 01:10 AM

The final 220-215 roll call vote on passage of the House Dems’ government health care takeover bill is here.
And here is the 240-194 roll call vote on the Stupak amendment to extend the ban on federal abortion subsidies to Obamacare/Pelosicare.
Thanks to Doug Powers for filling in while I spoke at the Foundation for Life event in Sugar Land, Texas tonight. What an incredible juxtaposition it was — meeting and talking with the true agents of Hope and Change, the true guardians of innocent life, and the true advocates for women and children outside the Beltway as the Democrat majority inside the Beltway rammed the massive, job-killing, high-taxing, bureaucracy-multiplying, generational debt-piling health care monstrosity down America’s throat.
One Republican voted for Pelosicare: GOP Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao of Louisiana.
Yes, he’s the one who took over corruptocrat Democrat William Jefferson’s seat. I had reservations about him on election night because of his soft-on-immigration views. But I gave him the benefit of the doubt. If he could stand strong on limited government and fiscal conservatism, it would be worth it.
Well, since he was elected, Cao has backed the S-CHIP expansion, the $108 billion IMF bailout, and the omni-waste spending bill. And he voted to rebuke GOP Rep. Joe Wilson for calling out President Obama on his health care lies.
That is a steep price to pay for Rep. William Jefferson’s removal.
Can’t the GOP do better?
For what it is worth, here is the cheap price the Democrats paid for Cao’s vote:
Louisiana Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao on Sunday morning released a statement after he voted as the only Republican in favor of the Democratic health care reform bill.
The health care reform bill, dubbed the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” (H.R. 3962), passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a 220 – 215 vote.
“Tonight, I voted to keep taxpayer dollars from funding abortion and to deliver access to affordable health care to the people of Louisiana,” Cao said in a statement released by his office. “I read the versions of the House [health reform] bill. I listened to the countless stories of Orleans and Jefferson Parish citizens whose health care costs are exploding – if they are able to obtain health care at all. Louisianans needs real options for primary care, for mental health care, and for expanded health care for seniors and children.”
Cao wrote he obtained commitment from President Obama that he would work together to address the health care issues of Louisiana, including the FMAP crisis and community disaster loan forgiveness, as well as issues related to Charity and Methodist Hospitals. “I call on all my constituents to support me as I work with him on these issues.”
He obtained a “commitment from President Obama.”
You know what that’s worth: Nothing.
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This email from President Obama hustling up money for Organizing for America arrived in the email box at 1:45am Eastern. He sure can work fast when he wants to: