This is what we wanted? This is the change that we wanted? A Senate that has a bill that they cannot pass it on it's merits, they have to have hurried and dangerous backroom dealing, BRIBES to Senators that include the State of Nebraska being exempt from raises to Medicare taxes PERMANENTLY. Permanently. The people of Nebraska are furious with Ben Nelson. Those that elected him (primarily Right to Life) are calling for his seat. We'll see what happens. Americans are notoriously fickle.
This bill, this bill that claims to be budget neutral, that raises taxes for 10 years to cover payments for only 6, passed a cloture vote in the dead of night, after hours of laborous dealing and bribing. Cloture motion passed at 1:08AM Monday morning. The vote on the actual bill will take place sometime today (?) I think, and it will go to conference were Nan will let the Senate have it's way so that Obama can sign it before he eats his Turkey dinner.
Really? Is this what we wanted? A bill no one has read, they stop debate on, to force a vote, on a 2,000 page document that will effect every citizen in this country for ever? We wanted no one to read the bill? We wanted Senators to take pay for play bribes? $300M for Landrieu, $100M for Nelson, $10B for Sanders, $100M for Levin, other states (Virginia and Mass) eeked out deals along what Nelson got, their states will not have to pay for the expansion to Medicare that this bill forces. Just us smucks who didn't want it in the first place will be forced to pay for it.
Is this what we wanted?
I know what the victors will say, "We needed something."
Maybe, but we did not need this. This bill is trash. This bill does nothing to lower the cost of health care and everything to raise it. We are in the same position we were in before, now only worse. Because those that don't pay will need to be covered by those that do.
26 year olds were hailed on the Senate floor as children. If this is the case, we need to readjust all of our laws. 20 for a driver's license, 25 for alcohol, 25 to enlist.
26 year's old and still on government health care as a child. Way to go.
This bill is sad. And the way it was passed is even sadder. The bill was so awful, the American people so against it, that the Senate passed it the weekend before Christmas at 1:00AM.
We'll see what the American people say about that come November. Maybe nothing. But if polls are to be believed even as temperature gauges of popular opinion ... many of those voting for this atrocity will not have jobs in D.C. come Janaury next year.
At least, Ben Nelson's in big, big, big trouble.
This bill, this bill that claims to be budget neutral, that raises taxes for 10 years to cover payments for only 6, passed a cloture vote in the dead of night, after hours of laborous dealing and bribing. Cloture motion passed at 1:08AM Monday morning. The vote on the actual bill will take place sometime today (?) I think, and it will go to conference were Nan will let the Senate have it's way so that Obama can sign it before he eats his Turkey dinner.
Really? Is this what we wanted? A bill no one has read, they stop debate on, to force a vote, on a 2,000 page document that will effect every citizen in this country for ever? We wanted no one to read the bill? We wanted Senators to take pay for play bribes? $300M for Landrieu, $100M for Nelson, $10B for Sanders, $100M for Levin, other states (Virginia and Mass) eeked out deals along what Nelson got, their states will not have to pay for the expansion to Medicare that this bill forces. Just us smucks who didn't want it in the first place will be forced to pay for it.
Is this what we wanted?
I know what the victors will say, "We needed something."
Maybe, but we did not need this. This bill is trash. This bill does nothing to lower the cost of health care and everything to raise it. We are in the same position we were in before, now only worse. Because those that don't pay will need to be covered by those that do.
26 year olds were hailed on the Senate floor as children. If this is the case, we need to readjust all of our laws. 20 for a driver's license, 25 for alcohol, 25 to enlist.
26 year's old and still on government health care as a child. Way to go.
This bill is sad. And the way it was passed is even sadder. The bill was so awful, the American people so against it, that the Senate passed it the weekend before Christmas at 1:00AM.
We'll see what the American people say about that come November. Maybe nothing. But if polls are to be believed even as temperature gauges of popular opinion ... many of those voting for this atrocity will not have jobs in D.C. come Janaury next year.
At least, Ben Nelson's in big, big, big trouble.
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