Comments on: All 40 Senate Republicans will filibuster ObamaCare at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:23:49 +0000

Well I watched all day, I didn’t see any filibuster.

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:31:06 +0000

Bill this is a sloppy mistake of yours, the Republican senators are going to vote against cloture, there will be no filibusters. You should know better, really. BTW in case you haven’t seen this yet:

McConnell: Dems have health bill votes, but GOP won’t give up

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/68985-mcconnell-dems-have-votes-to-pass-reform-but-gop-wont-stop-opposing

Bill this cake is just about baked!

By: Michael Roston - Newsbroke – Waiting on Senator Blanche Lincoln; 60th vote needed to start Senate health care reform debate - True/Slant

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:21:00 +0000

[...] threatening this small group of Democratic senators who would let the bill advance to debate. Our Bill Dupray for instance noted that to the Republican political apparatus, a vote to proceed to debate would be [...]

By: libtree09

libtree09 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:10:16 +0000

I think rick is correct and what will happen is that Lieberman and friends will then make the bill a bonanza for the insurance companies. High fines for enforcing the mandate and a tightening of eligibility for any public option and a weakening of a public option to in anyway compete with the insurance companies.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:01:58 +0000

[...] tomorrow morning. Harry Reid needs 60 votes just to proceed with debate, because the Republicans do not want to deal with this thing at all. If they filibuster, let us hope they forgo the phonebooks and pledge allegiance to the flag for [...]

By: davidlosangeles

davidlosangeles — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:19 +0000

Hello anylevinson,

There is no such thing as a “national ballot”. The US government does not conduct any elections at all. All elections are tun by the states.

By: andylevinson

andylevinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:12 +0000

If it’s national health care…let’s but it on a national ballot and let the people decide…

If you gave any of these 100 senators ten bucks each to go out and buy a box of bandaids….you would never see any of them again.

By: andylevinson

andylevinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:03 +0000

The vote is set for 8:00 pm because that is when the crackhead reid goes to bed to watch cartoons….

By: Rick Ungar

Rick Ungar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:01:42 +0000

Bill – I don’t think you are correct on the procedure. The vote on Saturday to allow – or not allow – the bill to go to the floor for debate, will not be the last opportunity for a procedural vote leading to a filibuster. After the bill is debated, there will be a procedural vote as to whether the final bill (as amended during the process to come) should be put to a final vote of the Senate. That is when you can expect the ‘big’ vote — one that will end up in a filibuster unless changes are made that satisfy the Democrats that are against and Lieberman. So, it isn’t a case where only a majority vote is needed if the bill makes it to the floor after tomorrow’s vote.

By: Michael Roston

Michael Roston — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:51:11 +0000

Wow, if ever there was a ’shoot the messenger’ situation, this is it. Senator Jim ‘Waterloo’ DeMint says that a vote to invoke cloture is a vote for Obamacare. Does that mean that if Senator Lincoln doesn’t vote with the Democrats to end the Republican filibuster, and the bill fails, she won’t face a fierce Republican campaign to tar her as an ‘O-bot’ and unseat her next November? Really? Sorry Senator DeMint. Your money is no good here.