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HCR House Debate: The Stupak Amendment
Daily Kos —
... We're with you, Diana. Keep whipping and keep fighting against this amendment, and force the handful of anti-choice Dems to make the tough decision over whether they will be willing to blow up the bill. One member says that if their bluff is called, they'll fold: ...
HCR House Debate: Keep On Whippin'!
Daily Kos —
... A few on this list have no excuses, including Kucinich (see the above argument for Massa), Brian Baird, and Marcy Kaptur, who has most recently said she'll vote for it only if the Stupak amendment passes. ...
HCR House Debate: The President's Pep Rally
Daily Kos —
... of you can expect the Republicans not to go after you if you vote against this bill," Waxman continued, channeling the president. "They want this bill to go down for their own partisan reasons." Another high-ranking Democratic hill staffer briefed on the meeting put it this way: "Obama's main message was that the GOP won't go any easier on you if you vote against the bill. It's a tough vote, yes, but they're going to take heat either way." There's more here: The president, according to a senior Democratic aide who attended his ...
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
History is being made today in more ways than one: Rep. Dingell to preside over House for first time since 1965 Medicare vote. Democrats wavering on the health care bill will have their heart-strings tugged by the man overseeing today's planned vote: Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the Dean of the House of Representatives and the longest-serving member in history. Dingell's late father, also a congressman, introduced the first bill to provide national health insurance in 1933, and his son has continued a tradition started by his father by introducing ...
House health care deliberations thread
MyDD —
... today. In a nice touch, Representative John Dingell (MI-15) is presiding over the chamber. He was one of the architects of the original Medicare bill. President Barack Obama ...
Stupak taunts progressives
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
Via Ryan Grim:
4:18 PM ET -- Rep. Stupak on progressives: You can't be crying wolf all the time because you lose your wolfiness.
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HuffPost asked Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), the lead Blue Dog negotiator, why he succeeded and the progressives failed.
"Because I didn't threat[en]. These are the facts," he said.
But you did threaten, a reporter pointed out.
No, Stupak said, it wasn't a threat. It was a promise. "No, they know I'll vote against the rule," he said.
Stupak said the Blue Dogs have gradually been sending a message to leadership and that ...
Ben Chandler is a Piece of Horse Shit
Page One —
What a worthless piece of horse shit Ben Chandler has become. (If you can’t deal with the language? Please move along. This situation warrants it.)
He voted for the Stupak Amendment:
Stupak’s…amendment…would ban the public health insurance option from funding abortion and also ban any private plan operating within the exchange from funding abortions. Under Stupak’s plan, a woman buying private insurance from within the exchange with her own ...
Historic: House passes health care reform, 220-215
BlueOregon —
... of 240 to 194 (roll call), the House approved the Stupak amendment, which would limit the rights of private individuals to purchase abortion coverage through private health insurance plans. (Learn more about the Stupak amendment at Reproductive Health Reality Watch.) At least none of Oregon's four Democratic members voted for that awful amendment. (Rep. Greg Walden, of course, voted for Stupak and against final passage.)
There's a lot of excellent coverage at Huffington Post.
Health care state of play in the Senate
Open Left - Front Page —
... right now. They succeeded as a negotiating tactic to keep the public option alive to this point, but it was not the public option they were targeting. Also, Stupak's regressive block was able to force an amendment vote on the House floor, while the Progressive Block was unable to do so. ...
Health Care: Celebrate, Don’t Deride, the Doubters
The Moderate Voice —
... Those who disagree with me might argue that our founders never expected a handful of people to thwart the will of the many. Perhaps. But a handful of people have long thwarted the will of the many in this, our Republic. Quite recently, in fact, a handful of people almost thwarted the will of the many in the House of Representatives — on this very same issue. Had a handful of people in the House voted “no” rather than “yes,” that 220-215 approval could have been a 217-218 rejection. ...
Health Care Reform: Celebrate, Don’t Deride, the Doubters
The Moderate Voice —
... Those who disagree with me might argue that our founders never expected a handful of people to thwart the will of the many. Perhaps. But a handful of people have long thwarted the will of the many in this, our Republic. Quite recently, in fact, a handful of people almost thwarted the will of the many in the House of Representatives — on this very same issue. Had a handful of people in the House voted “no” rather than “yes,” that 220-215 approval could have been a 217-218 rejection. ...
It’s Not OK to Hold My Reproductive Rights Hostage to Pass Health Care Reform
Firedoglake —
... , the House finally passed a health care reform bill that would cover 96 percent of Americans, and even included a reasonably strong public option. ...
