Dem Whip Clyburn: Health Care Vote Could Slip Past Easter
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 12:03 PM
Democratic Whip James Clyburn told McClatchy Newspapers today that the House vote to nationalize health care may be delayed until Easter.
The Hill reported:
The House’s healthcare vote could be delayed until as late as Easter, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Tuesday.
Clyburn, in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers, said it is possible that the House vote on healthcare reform could take place long past the vote Democratic leaders had hoped for this week.
“The chances are good, but I wouldn’t bet on it,” the third-ranking House Democrat said of whether a healthcare vote could be held by the April 4th holiday.
Democrats are working to cobble together the necessary votes to either pass the Senate’s healthcare bill with a separate set of fixes to it, or a congressional rule that would deem the Senate bill as having passed.
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Chip Bennett commented:
Where is our “up-or-down” vote, Mr. President? Haven’t you been demanding such a vote during every one of your “everything that can be said about health care has been said; the time for talk is over” stump speech circuit?
Where is your demand that Pelosi bring the bill to the floor of the House?
Where is your demand that the Slaughter Rule be rejected, since it will also deny Americans the “up-or-down” vote to which we are entitled?
Opus #6 commented:
Easter, 4th of July, Grandparent’s Day….
seven commented:
Easter? The day Jesus came from the grave? Good day to bury this bill. Ironic they refer to a date that is a Christian day of significance. Are the Hindoos and Muslims angry?
Won’t a lot of people die without insurance if they wait that long? Some one reminded me coverage begins if we are all good people and relecct Obama.
Peggy commented:
Gee, what could be meant by the “April 4th holiday”?
That reminds me of a sign I saw in a Quiznos in December. They closed early on “December 24″ and were closed on “December 25″ but closed early “New Years Eve” and had short hours on “New Years Day.”
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Back to the story: They are not going to vote until they reach 216. Are they going to wait for some vacancies to be filled in May+ elections? eg, Murtha’s seat is to be filled by a special election in May I think.
Ladue Pundit commented:
I wonder if Las Vegas is laying any odds on when these posers come up for air to vote on the takeover bill.———————–
Peggy
March 16th, 2010 | 1:12 pm | #4
They are not going to vote until they reach 216
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I’m afraid you are right. Time to institute a shot clock in the house. Let’s see, they’ve had since August. Time’s up.
BHG commented:
Happy St. Paddy’s Day to us! Easter Recess is March 26 so that gives us plenty of time to pray and make some noise with all Dems – not just the Blue Dogs.
Don’t care for Clyburn’s politics but the man has a pretty decent reputation for honesty – unlike Pelosi.
Mediocre President commented:
The delay until Easter is designed to give the MSM more opportunities to publish pictures of Obummer with halos and crosses in the background.
Rock commented:
While I believe this to be tactic to trick us into lowering our guard, if true could it mean there are Democrats in D.C. that still understand honor and that Nancy Pelosi has not neutered yet.
owl commented:
You can not get a call through. So call their district offices. They answer and I suspect it will make a bigger impression. Add that if they vote Yes, you will contribute to the opposition in every race they run until you die or their Healthcare kills you.
wanumba commented:
Yeah. With the “openness” they’ve been demonstrating, they could have voted on it yesterday and we just haven’t been told as yet.
Maybe it’s time to start the counterpressure – why wait for November? Time to collect signatures for REPEAL of our elected “non- representatives”?
Massachusetts proved that even ACORN needs more time than they had to get the shenanigans in gear.
Major Kong commented:
I haven’t forgotten how the democrats ruined Christmas with their Christmas Eve Vote. Now they intend to ruin Holy Week and Easter, Good idea jackasses. It’s not like we’re already not angry enough. Looking forward to letting you know just how much in November.
Eric Lindholm commented:
Translation: “we don’t have the votes.”
AuntieMadder commented:
Mediocre President
March 16th, 2010 | 2:24 pm | #7
The delay until Easter is designed to give the MSM more opportunities to publish pictures of Obummer with halos and crosses in the background.
Yep, gives ‘em time to try once more to sell it to at least some, most likely focusing on registered Democrats in the districts of the Demonrats whose constituents are the only thing stopping their “yes” vote.
Rock
March 16th, 2010 | 2:37 pm | #8
While I believe this to be tactic to trick us into lowering our guard…
Yep, that, too. Lower our guard and/or just wear us down. I don’t know about you, but it’s wearing on me. I’m not worn down or worn out yet, but I dread the prospect of more days and weeks, or even months, of this fight. So, I can imagine that it’s really wearing on those Demonrats stuck in a hard place between the “yes” vote they want to cast and the constituents who’ll never forgive or re-elect them. And wearing them down, too, is surely one of ObamPelosi’s reasons for dragging this out…again.
Major Kong
March 16th, 2010 | 3:06 pm | #11
I haven’t forgotten how the democrats ruined Christmas with their Christmas Eve Vote. Now they intend to ruin Holy Week and Easter…
Yep, and that, too. ObamPelosi remembers how antsy the reps at Capitol Hill were Dec 23 and 24. They also remember how a lot of voters and Tea Partiers, particularly those with minor children, had to turn their focus from politics to family then. Besides, since we the people and a good number of our reps are ruining their good time this week by not letting them have what they want, they’ll just show us and ruin our stupid Christian holiday.
Y’all are all right about their motives for dragging this out even further still. In addition to all of that, I wonder what major stuff they’re doing while they have us focused on this. I’ve heard, but not really listened to, some stuff concerning Bernanke, the Fed, his humongous past screw ups and I’m not sure what else because this bill reared its ugly head right about then. There’s also Porkulus II, Holder and the DOJ full of Islamic terrorist sympathizers and legal defenders, ACORN (they’re re-branding – dropping the ACORN name – according to an article at Atlas Shrugs.
There is so much going on and it’s been like that since this Jackass the Prez took office last year. It’s intentional and planned, this whirlwind or sh!tstorm. One objective is to have so much happening that we can’t possibly know what all of them are up to at all times, allowing them to slip things by us – things we don’t approve of, of course, or they wouldn’t use deception. Another objective is to wear us down. Yet another objective is to drive us emotionally and mentally cuckoo as that weakens us.
Folks, we all seem to say (or post) it, almost rotation that’s accelerating like a carnival ride (the ones that make me hurl), but this crap needs to stop now. We need to throw them out now, not next year. Or maybe we should gather at Capitol Hill while everyone’s on “April 4th holiday,” millions of us surrounding it so there’s no way for them to enter upon their return. Citizen’s arrest? Pitchforks and torches? I don’t know. What I do know is something’s got to give and since they’re the cause of the problem, I think it should be them.
AuntieMadder commented:
Oh, and while they’re focusing on this BS bill like Cujo eyeing a stray cat, WHO’S WORKING ON JOBS? You don’t suppose that OBAMAO LIED AT HIS SOTU ADDRESS WHEN HE SAID HE’D TURN HIS FOCUS FROM HEALTH CARE TO JOBS, do you?
This BS is past old already; it’s rancid and rotten from decay.
AuntieMadder commented:
wanumba
March 16th, 2010 | 2:43 pm | #10
Yeah. With the “openness” they’ve been demonstrating, they could have voted on it yesterday and we just haven’t been told as yet.
Maybe it’s time to start the counterpressure – why wait for November? Time to collect signatures for REPEAL of our elected “non- representatives”?
It’s time to do something, wanumba. We need to move from the defensive (finally!) and put the scare and worry on them for a change.
Some have said that Prezudint Jackass is literally and consciously trying to push us to that point where things get as ugly as they were here in the 1860s, if ya know what I mean and I think you do. Those people may be right.
Guy commented:
I’ve got $500 bucks that says they’ll vote on Easter Sunday, or at like 11:00PM the night before, because this bill is “just too important to delay any longer” or some such nonsense. The arrogance of this administration knows no bounds, and the obvious contempt they have for the American people borders on treason. If they persist in insulting us like this, they will be dealing with the consequences for many years …