Breaking: Dems Don't Have Votes For Health Care Suicide Pact
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 13, 2010, 1:28 PM
It’s a toxic bomb.
Is Obamacare a suicide pact? That’s what Michael Ramirez suggests — Via Power Line.
Breaking: Speaker Pelosi doesn’t have the votes to ram Obamacare through the House.
The Hill reported:
House Democratic leaders don’t have the votes to pass healthcare reform. At least not yet.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has expressed confidence that when push comes to shove, healthcare reform will pass Congress. But there will be plenty of pushing in the days ahead.
Pelosi is clearly down in the vote count. Thirty-four House Democrats are either firm no votes or leaning no, according to The Hill’s whip list. Dozens more are undecided.
Dem candidates are distancing themselves from this toxic bomb by liberals to take over the nation’s health care system.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 63 Comments
Opus #6 commented:
Push comes to shove? Hmmm. That doesn’t sound like the American political system to me.
Pelosi must be thinking of another political system.
mike commented:
She’s way past push. She is into full shove mode.
SirKnob commented:
Hello all, I sent another long e-mail to Gerry Connolly, not that it will do any good. The man is a Pelosi sock puppet. I added a new rant to my web page ‘the un-democratic democrat party’ http://wp.me/pLGBN-8M
I still cannot find a Constitutional basis for the Slaughter Solution, other than it slaughters the basic democratic rights of the voice of people in the people’s house.
Have a great day all.
Dell commented:
Lots of shucking and jiving….But, we know the instant she HAS the votes, she’ll schedule a vote on the floor of the House for about an hour later….sooner, if possible.
Keep hammering the bejabbers out of your congress critter and senator. Melt their phone and fax lines. Fill their Email boxes.
If we go down, at least we’ll go down kicking and screaming.
Male Silverback commented:
I will prey for this to fail. I think we all should.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
Micheal Ramirez can ‘say’ more -with few words and one illustration – than most people cannot articulate with tomes….
He is one of my ‘heroes’!
C-CS
Jayne on the left coast commented:
Jim from your keyboard to God’s ears. The pols in DC are not listening to our calls,emails,faxes or screams. When will this nightmare of back and forth end? All this time wasted on a bill that the people don’t want.
Slappy commented:
In previous instances when each party came close to overreaching on an issue, including using tricky parliamentary procedures, they always pulled back knowing the potential long-term destruction to the country, its political institutions, and the political process that would result from such actions. For example, not too long ago the GOP eschewed using the so-called “nuclear option” with judicial appointments and back in ’93-’94 Clinton and the Democrats eschewed using reconciliation to pass their health care reform bill (i.e., HillaryCare).
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid do not seem to care this time, and are ignoring the fact that the GOP will be back in control at some point of Congress and the White House and could use the precedent to implement various pet policies. The country is already currently in rough enough shape but something like this could put us on a permanent spiral downward that will result in us being a second-tiered (or worse) country, which may happen anyway at the current pace. It’s only more dire this time because the Democrats’ pet issue that they’re trying to pass will help bankrupt the country and permanently damage the individual freedom and liberty of all Americans. I pray that enough Democrats will see this and vote against their party leadership and this health care bill.
I am never confident in putting so much hope behind Democrats doing the right thing, but it’s all we have. That in itself illustrates how dire circumstances are for us and the country.
sandy commented:
The amount of Dems against this Bomb is growing. So if all else fails Pelosi will have a cramdown locking the Dems in the House until they give in. Its not going to work. If the Dems lose their seats either way — at least they are going down on the right side of this issue.
If Obama cares nothing about the American People and the Democratic Party why should the Dems commit political suicide for him?
sandy commented:
Jim Hoft — Thank you so much for this terrific news. Bless you sir.
bill-tb commented:
Read history it’s amazing how many times Democrats have done this, turn against the consent of the governed, pass laws against the people’s will … the Most famous has got to be the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, with which Democrats ostensibly triggered the Civil War by legalizing slavery.
“A Patriot’s History of the United States” has got to be one of the best reads for a long weekend, out there today. It’s fabulous for remembering who you are, and from where we came. You see how many times we repeated history, with the same outcome.
Sniff, I get nothing for plugging the book, just thought I would add my thoughts.
It’s also clear that the first major win for our progressive oppressors was the 17th Amendment win, which removed the sovereign States from the federal bargaining table, and the unfunded mandates have never stopped since. The States became the tools of the Big Government progressives. And it gives us little kings like up Chuck Schumer for life.
sandy commented:
Mark Levin said yesterday that the Slaughter thing is unconstitutional. I think Pelosi and Slaughter have been throwing everything out there but the kitchen sink but in the end they will not be able to do this.
As a Senator Obama said if the people don’t want something its best to drop it. He was referring to the Bush privatization of Social Security. Listen to yourself Bamster and stop the blood letting.
Jo commented:
Evil Bozo has enough Demoncrats to pass this bill, but some of his ‘so-called’ failthful are actually against the destruction of the Demon-leader. Evil Bozo has already bought-off some of these demon-seaded devils, but he needs to buy-off more to take control of the souls of the U.S.A.
Lauren commented:
Like one of the other posters, my congressional rep is a Pelosi sock puppet. (Pelosi even came here to campaign for her a few years back.) She only votes the way Pelosi wants her to, in exchange for whatever cushy committee assignments Pelosi passes out to her buddies. The Savage caper is a direct slap in the face to the constitution, which states that a bill must be voted on by the House and the Senate before the prez can sign it. It’s a pretty desperate move, but I guess Pelosi and Obama are beholden to the radical far left and have to dance to their tune, constitution or no constitution.
Joe C. commented:
Wow! Just…wow.
Always On Watch commented:
I won’t get my hopes up yet that this Congress can be curbed.
But I won’t say that this Congress can’t be curbed either.
Carol Herman commented:
Greece “may be” in a better position? Though Greece is going down just the same. It’s just a question of pulling Greece off the Euro, or everyone off the Euro. And, then it’s back to basics.
What does the Bamster do for a second act? Hardly likely that Pelosi just keeps lying. Wouldn’t you think that after this fails, she must resign?
What if she doesn’t want to?
Can she just keep postponing taking a vote?
Ted Kennedy died probably still believing his tumor wasn’t going to kill him. Until it did.
Ginger commented:
I pray that the health care fails and I really pray that Pelosi has a break down that will cause her to resign her evil post of distruction of our country.
Militant Conservative commented:
Keep up the good work. The Democrats “think” that they can moderate and “hide” from the constituants.
“I voted against the bill” Gimmie a break, all of them voted for this crap, even Cyntia Snow to get it out of conference committee. The RINO’s and socialist Dem’s are gonna pay with thier political lives.
powder is dry.
Ginger commented:
Militant Conservative
The way I see it is there is not anough of them re running in November to get the 2/3 vote for the republicans. Right? That means Barry/Steve can veto every thing! Except investigations of Barry, Pelosi, Dodd/ Barney/ well hell all of them!!!!!!
down with dems commented:
Kudos to Ramirez for stepping out on a limb with that one. The image is perfect.
down with dems commented:
Sounds like the plan is still the Slaughter strategy… there will be blood in the streets if the Dems try that.
Ginger commented:
I’m brushing up on my Judo and bulls eye! Wink! Wink!
Ginger commented:
One of those big union thugs will not be able to miss my knee! I can’t help it the morons and evil do’ers drove me to this point. Yes, I might be old but I still got life in me! A lot of us old ones will not go down easy! Can you hear me you FRAUD?
Ginger commented:
Hillary called Israels actions insulting! To bad Hillary the Barry a^^ licker. It’s about Israel building on land that the terrorist Palestines want!
bg commented:
++
sharing an email from Tea Party Express:
The news out of Washington, D.C. the past few days has been bad.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling colleagues she is hoping for a vote to push through their government-run healthcare plan this week. Barack Obama has canceled overseas trips to stay here in the U.S. and arm-twist Congressmen & Senators to force this bill through ASAP.
There are no tomorrow’s in this fight – we must act now.
American Grassroots Coalition and the Tea Party Express are pleased
to announce a major effort this week to stop Obama-Pelosi-Reid from pushing through this health care fiasco – and we need you to join us in taking action.
March 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM EST
Capitol Hill, Taft Park, Washington D.C.
Speakers Include: Congressman Mike Pence, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Congressman Tom Price, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, Congressman Joe Wilson, Congressman Phil Gingrey, Amy Kremer of Tea Party Express, Tim Phillips of American for Prosperity, Jim Martin of 60 Plus, Matt Patterson of the National Center for Policy Analysis
The American Grassroots Coalition and The Tea Party Express welcome the American People to bring their LOUD VOICES, Thoughts and Letters to their elected Representatives.
Also, bring your OLD HEARING AIDS to deliver to Congress because… Members are obviously not hearing us or, turning the volume WAY DOWN!
Let’s be LOUD and CLEAR: We are not going anywhere!
Those that can’t join us in DC…please go to your
local district offices and tell them how you feel!
==
USMC Thomas commented:
Michael Ramirez is the Thomas Jefferson of the editorial cartoon. No one is better.
archer52 commented:
Reference the civil war and democrats. Right after the war the radical republicans also ignored the law and refused to seat Southern congressmen. So abuse happens. The problem is what the abuse does in the long run. FDR’s abuses led to the new Deal and a prolonged depression. Wilson’s WWI policies led to WWII and the rise of eugenics.
Today the democrats are attempting that one great leap forward, like their hero Mao. Unfortunately, like Mao, it will lead to more trouble and failure because the agenda is based on crippling the free will of man in exchange for controlling their behavior. Like I’ve said before we are NOT Europeans or Russians or Chinese. We are not bred with thousands of years of peasantry ingrained into our DNA. Oh, we’ve been dumbed down, we’ve been spoiled with all the “free” stuff the government gave us for so many decades. I believe none of this was by accident. I feel the left was planning to take this nation over at some point and worked for that moment for decades. Only when they had majorities in both Houses AND Obama was elected did they feel this was their chance.
It was bound to happen, it is the nature of nations to experience challenges like these. The question is did the left guess right or wrong? Time will tell.
Militant Conservative commented:
Ginger, I too am too old to fuss and fight via the ballot box. I am the wild card, prepared for years, to fight to the death for my country. I have had decades to prepare and stockpile.
The tyrants are upon us, fight them via normal means and extreme means should the republic fail. No one considers the worst outcome. Poor tactical vision. powder is dry and plentyfull.
come and take it.
sandy commented:
Carol Herman — I think Biden will be forced to resign and Pelosi will become VP for her loyalty. She won’t be Speaker after November so its time to plot her next move. Then watch her destroy Obama …
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
“The legislature, like the executive, has ceased, save indirectly, to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature, in the main, of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle – a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.”
H.L. Mencken writing in the American Mercury, May 1930
Peggy commented:
Don’t put it past Nancy to get them by Saturday next week. Call your congressoid. And pray.