03-22-2010, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Thunder22
That's it. It passed. 219 -212. The country gets screwed over 7 votes.
The Democrats own this fiasco lock stock and barrel.
November 2010 and 2012 can't come fast enough.
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The Republican Party led by McConnell, Boehner and Cantor (only amplified by their Tea Party constituents) had resorted to scare tactics, lies, distortions, misrepresentations and threats to defeat the Healthcare Bill. They claim that polls indicate the majority of Americans are opposed to this bill. To use an analogy, it is like Glenn Beck telling a person "if you swallow that pill given by a Democrat doctor, you will die within two weeks." Now, do you want to swallow that pill? The obvious answer would be "no." The truth: the pill was simply a pill to boost the person's energy. They kept repeating, the Americans do not like this bill. How many, including members of congress have read the bill which would take over 40 hours to read?
The GOP claims that there was a lot of arm twisting and bribing to get the majority of Dems to vote yes. Now, do you honestly think the Boehner and Cantor told the Republicans to vote their conscious? Bull! The poor Louisiana congressman who was initially planning to vote "yes" changed his vote to a "no." When interviewed on CNN, it was pathetic to watch. He keep citing objections which were not even in the bill. He was totally lost (like the answers given by the Tea Party interviewees in the aforementioned video). No pressure?
The fact that 34 Dems did not vote for this bill was a positive. It indicated that there were arguments and discussions and they did not feel comfortable voting "yes." On the other hand, no Republican voted "yes" which would indicate none have a brain of their own, or the party threatened to put up a strong candidate to oppose them in November.
Several Republicans keep saying "we will be funding abortions." That is absolutely not true and they either had to know it or thought they could fool the audience. Again, pathetic....
The truth is, we should vote the Republicans out of office for not caring about the health and welfare of Americans. They had a chance for 8 years to do something and they did nothing. Tens of thousands of Americans will benefit by this bill and the insurance companies will no longer be able to screw their participants.
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