So now that the Senate finance committee has publicly stabbed "the base" in the back, now what?
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Tue Sep-29-09 02:59 PM
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So now that the Senate finance committee has publicly stabbed "the base" in the back, now what?
I mean, seriously, how does this play out from here? Or is this all feint-and-parry to make sure we get no public option?
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:01 PM
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1. Call Baucus, Conrad and Landrieu and call them stupid mother fuckers.
I am so mad I could spit.
Ruby the Liberal
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:08 PM
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12. I think you meant Blanche Lincoln
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:16 PM
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14. I am mad, not logical.
Ruby the Liberal
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:02 PM
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I hear that. Might as well call Mary just for good measure. :D
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:18 PM
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21. I'm sure Landrieu is ready to stab us too. Hey Lady who is going
to let herself go blind so she can help her two daughters with the same malady! THESE FUCKERS DON'T CARE! I hate everyone now.
Ruby the Liberal
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:47 PM
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22. She has already stated as much. No PO.
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:07 PM
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And while I think they are all whores with pimps, I don't call them stupid mother fuckers on the phone. If you do that they just hang up and nothing is done with your call. I'm so mad I can spit too, and I called them today and told them just that.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:01 PM
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2. PRIMARY. THEIR. ASSES.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:01 PM
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:04 PM
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5. totally agree, Primaries for Baucus and fellow
Democrats Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Blanche Lincoln...
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:06 PM
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9. Oh, yeah it`s past time for them to be gone.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:13 PM
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13. And watch the establishment, including Obama, leap to their defense. n/t
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:03 PM
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4. What's worse than being stabbed in the back?
Not being able to afford the Dr's bills for the treatment of stab wounds.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:05 PM
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6. We'll get wooed over with more promises to-be-broken in 2010.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:05 PM
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7. We still don't how the HELP and Finance bills will be merged
if doesn't have a PO then there's always the chance it can added on the floor. If that doesn't work, then there is conference committee I would add it always been possiblity that the Senate and House would pass bills with and without a public option.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:06 PM
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8. Were I a Senator, I would vot No on any "reform" bill with an individual mandate and no public optio
That's not change I can believe in.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:07 PM
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10. They haven't even gotten their bill out of committee yet. Then the Senate must take that
Edited on Tue Sep-29-09 03:08 PM by sinkingfeeling
POS and merge it with the Senate HELP committee's bill and present something to the entire Senate for a vote. The House has 3 versions of a bill that must be merged and voted on before the two houses can be reconciled into a final bill. P.S. The Senate Finance bill is the only one out of the 5 that does not have a public option.
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Tue Sep-29-09 03:07 PM
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11. I have been told it is up to Harry Reid
Whether to allow a floor vote on HELP or require the HELP committee to reconcile their bill with Finance.
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:06 PM
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16. For starters, how about taking a page out of Rahm's playbook
and send him and them a lovely wrapped dead fish.:think:
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:08 PM
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18. forget the Seante Finance Committee. Nobody ever though we'd win there.
Forward to the reconciliation. We have the votes in the House.
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:09 PM
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19. Not a DIME from me to the Democratic Party....
...until Baucus loses his chairmanship of Finance --AND-- I am assured that none of my money will go to Republicans in disguise.
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Tue Sep-29-09 04:11 PM
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20. Our Savior, Schumer is talking out of both sides of his mouth on Tweety now.
Edited on Tue Sep-29-09 04:12 PM by ShortnFiery
It's all kabuki theater ... nothing is going to change much save for "the rich" insurance industries are going to get "even richer." Gawd! I hate The Senate! They are so damn out of touch.
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