this aint the 90's
what's gonna happen is this:
this appropriations has now at least five strips of obamacare funding---the hiring of irs to enforce the mandate, the hiring of hhs, no money for "implementation," the setting up of the exchanges, and the requirement that employers insure employees up to 750K
House pulls plug on health law funds - David Nather - POLITICO.com
to tell you the truth, there are more stonewalls that boehner has bullied thru, tho i'll confess i've lost track of the pitts amendment on conscience-driven abortion funding
anyway, it sounds like you are unaware of what's been going on in boehner's bailiwick this week, tho it's all over msnbc in the morning and of course dominating cspan
the bright orange dude who chain smokes promised that he would reverse pelosi's petrograd procedurals, by allowing open amendments, and debate
so there were hundreds offered and they've been fighting...
last i heard, probably thursday morning, they had got thru about 60 of em
they were still huffing til 3:30 am wednesday, for example
that you probably heard
dumb like a fox, they were calling the speaker who looks like a traffic cone, it was gonna take forever to get all this stuff thru appropriations, which aint universally called "must pass legislation" for nothin
the point---each of these passed stonewalls will be presented to the ms mccaskills and mr manchins and mr's nelson and nelson, et al
and, yes, absolutely, a bunch of these amendments will survive the scared-to-death scenario---why do you think THREE up-in-2012 blues in red states have already QUIT, enhanced yesterday by mr bingaman's bombshell
the hiring of irs, for instance---you can forget about that one, even a senator like RUSS FEINGOLD woulda dumped on dat
the implementation, the exchanges---these will be the most important and crucial votes in the long or short senatorial careers of---ben nelson, claire mccaskill, jon tester, joe manchin, bill nelson, sherrod brown, bob casey, herb kohl, debbie stabenow, amy klobuchar...
and you could include kent conrad, combat boots webb, bingaman and jiltin joe lieberman---if they still had senatorial careers to look forward to
upshot---the mandate
an amendment to halt funding of this criminalization of americans, mostly young, caught breathing without insurance---the party of petrograd is gonna have a lot of problems with it
ms mccaskill has already tipped her hand, this extremely loyal obamacare water carrier, so far
bill nelson also declared, and joe manchin, who won west virginia by putting a bullet thru cap and trade, actively CAMPAIGNED against the mandate
that was only 3 months ago, the former gub now solon is UP already in 12, sitting in kkk byrd's seat
Dems up for reelection under pressure to nix healthcare mandate - TheHill.com
McCaskill moves away from mandate - David Catanese - POLITICO.com
you must also keep in mind that whatever differences exist between the senate bill and boehner's blueprint must then go to reconciliation, the party in power is in a huge hurry, and the caltrans cone has about 260, a prodigious preponderance
what will happen is---a must-pass appropriations will be plopped perfunctorily on the president's rolltop, one he don't prefer, and he will be hard pressed
ie, he aint gonna veto SQUAT
because to do so he'd have to go against CLAIRE MCCASKILL
in order to SHUT DOWN THE GOVT
stay up, respect yourself