Thank you, Ma’am!
I never thought I’d be grateful for anything my state’s hyper-partisan junior Senator has said or done, but it seems Mrs. Boxer is bound and determined to prevent Obamacare from passing. According to law professor William A. Jacobson, Ma’am “is proclaiming she has enough votes in the Senate to block the equivalent of the Stupak Amendment from being attached to any Senate health care bill.”
Without the Stupak Amendment, the bill would have lost a number of pro-life Democrats in the House and would not have passed. I dare say they won’t vote for the final bill without such language. Indeed, one of Ma’am’s own Democratic colleagues, Nebraska’s Ben Nelson told Politico (via his spokesman) that he “could not support anything less than Stupak amendment.“
Without the abortion language, a Senate bill to overhaul the nation’s health care system will lose that Democratic vote and all but guarantee a successful Senate filibuster.
So, thank you, Ma’am, your pro-abortion extremism will likely sink Obamacare!
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I thought you told us, a week ago, that it was already dead.
Comment by Tano — November 10, 2009 @ 11:00 pm - November 10, 2009
When we lived out there, we got a survey from Boxer asking what our top concerns we were with a freaking drop down list. Message heard loud and clear: feel free to agree with my concerns, don’t get all wild and create your own.
Comment by Carolynp — November 10, 2009 @ 11:39 pm - November 10, 2009
Tano: the bill is dead in the Senate, will be re-written and go to committee where it will be changed so that it reflects the wishes of the House more closely, it will go back to the Senate where the Majority leader will excercise the “nuclear option” and allow it to be enacted by 51 votes, then it will be signed by the President. That’s the reality of it. However, every son of a bitch, or at least a majority of the son of a bitches that vote for it will be voted out. Our first black President with such a cult of personality will be a one term President because of it, and eventually the American people that actually pay taxes, that actually create jobs, that actually serve our country, will take their country back. There’s too many of us and although ignorant people seem to be cancelling out our informed votes, it won’t last forever. We might see a time period never seen before in the history of our country where conservatives rule the country in every house for a long period of time simply because we saw what the liberals tried to do to our Republic and we don’t like it. We’ll forget after a while and the process will start all over again. That’s the way our Founders set it up.
Comment by Dave B — November 11, 2009 @ 4:00 am - November 11, 2009
I fail to see the glee in the Bill containing the Stupak Amendment, it’s a extraodinarily stupid and restrictive piece of legislation aimed as a backdoor ban on ANY insurance covering abortion….hence an effective ban on abortion.
As a support of freedom, I see no reason to ban reasonable abortion availibility…and don’t understand how the Democratic machine supported this. More importantly, it demonstrates the dangerous and improper influence of Religion and ‘religious authority’ over policy for all Americans….be it the US Conference of (R.C.) Bishops, the LDS church or the Christianists.
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — November 11, 2009 @ 11:53 am - November 11, 2009
“More importantly, it demonstrates the dangerous and improper influence of Religion and ‘religious authority’ over policy for all Americans….be it the US Conference of (R.C.) Bishops, the LDS church or the Christianists.”
Hmmm. I see the influence of “anti-religious authority” resulting in the total destruction of freedom for those Americans slaughtered in the womb. That is a far greater tyranny than anything that you are quaking in your boots about.
Comment by Matteo — November 11, 2009 @ 1:15 pm - November 11, 2009
DaveB,
In other words, it aint dead, nor will it be sunk.
“We might see a time period never seen before in the history of our country where conservatives rule the country in every house for a long period of time simply because we saw what the liberals tried to do to our Republic and we don’t like it.”
Thats pretty funny. Truth is, of course, that we are at the beginning of a long era of liberal predominance because you conservatives did have all the power in DC for 6 years, and totally screwed everything up in every possible way.
Comment by Tano — November 11, 2009 @ 2:08 pm - November 11, 2009
Ted B. — “pro life” does not equal “religious”. I am a strongly pro-life atheist, and I know plenty of others.
Comment by Stephen R — November 11, 2009 @ 4:32 pm - November 11, 2009
Keep believing that Tano, I’ve elections that already disagree with you.
But I’m sure that you’re hoping that President Obama will act like the guy he backed in Honduras and just try to rewrite the constitution.
That is if he doesn’t act like his good buddy in Iran and fix the elections.
Comment by The_Livewire — November 11, 2009 @ 6:16 pm - November 11, 2009
“and fix the elections.”
Hah! You are already practicing your lines for the morning after your next defeat, I see…
Comment by Tano — November 11, 2009 @ 9:58 pm - November 11, 2009
Actually, we don’t have to wait for the next election, Tano; we have proof that Barack Obama supports and endorses registration fraud, voting fraud, and threatening and intimidating voters.
That’s why laws need to be put in place enforcing citizenship and ID requirements for voting.
But unfortunately, Barack Obama opposes all those laws, insisting that it is racist to confirm peoples’ identity and that requiring proof of citizenship to register and vote is un-American.
Why does Barack Obama support fraudulent voting, Tano?
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 12, 2009 @ 1:51 am - November 12, 2009
Likely for the same reason he and Tano hate free people.
Comment by The_Livewire — November 12, 2009 @ 9:47 am - November 12, 2009