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Nofsdad Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 8379 Location: Central CA	Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:38 pm    Post subject: When do they admit it's nothing but obstructionism?   I'm not expressing an opinion on the bill itself... but this is a great example of how far Republicans in the Senate will go to obstruct anything to do with health care reform... including refusing to accept their own amendments to the bill... solely for the sake of obstructing it. How Senate Republicans Obstruct Health Care Reform Quote: This is a revealing moment from Monday's markup of the health care bill in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee that illustrates the level of procedural obstruction Senate Republicans are willing to rise to in order to impede its progress and in the hopes of killing its momentum. At the opening of Monday's hearing, Sen. Dodd asked Sen. Enzi (R-WY), the ranking Republican on the committee, if he would agree to accept by unanimous consent a total of 64 Republican amendments. After a whisper from an aide, Enzi, a little perplexed and not a little embarrassed, refused to allow the 64 Republican amendments to be accepted, lowering his voice to mumble, "I think some of our members want votes on some of those." Dodd's visible exasperation and disbelief is priceless. Sen. Enzi's pitiful performance here is visual proof of the aim of Senate Republicans - which is not to have their amendments heard, voted on, and accepted, but rather to drag out the legislative process as long as possible on health care reform. And they have many reasons to want to do so, as Brian Beutler at TPM notes: Quote: if Congress enters recess with weeks of work left to do, party leaders may have to make a call; and those who oppose passing health care through the reconciliation process -- Republicans and some Democrats -- might be trying to run out the clock -- to call leadership's bluff, or, at the very least, to touch off a game of legislative chicken. How long is it going to be before working class people in America realize that this bill has nothing to do with them? That in the end, there is very likely to be NO significant reform of health care that will do a flipping thing for the millions who can't afford it? It's all smoke and mirrors and the sole object of the obstructionists is to protect the obscene profit levels for the health care and insurance industries and to force every person in the country to buy insurance whether they can afford it or not. And this is going to continue to happen... in every sector... until we vote these nitwits out of office and take back this country. If it's not too late for even our votes to matter... but in any case, our votes are all we have left. We damned sure no longer have any representation. Last edited by Nofsdad on Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:07 am; edited 2 times in total
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dictators_rule Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 6297	Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:08 pm    Post subject: Who rather than what   Something has to be done even if the government starts regulating some of the actual costs . But until they go beyond WHERE the money is going to come from or WHO is going to pay for it any health care legislation will be nothing more than a shift of where the medical mafia gets their money.
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Nofsdad Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 8379 Location: Central CA	Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:01 pm    Post subject:   "Medical Mafia". I like that... in fact I'm going to steal it and use it when I'm blogging.
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dictators_rule Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 6297	Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:11 am    Post subject: akready being used   I seen the commentators using that phrase when they post on stories about health care. You know what -the shoe fits! And lets face it they extorting us with our health everytime they beg for funds for their compensation they have no entitlement to. Funding the current health care system is like paying protection money to Tony Saprano.
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mdovell Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 461	Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:53 pm    Post subject:   blue dog democrats might hold this thing up at least in its current form www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3971865&mesg_id=3972107
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