All the top secret amendments bringing the bill to over 2000 pages changed the entire bill.
. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> "You seemed to be claiming that the Health Insurance Reform bill was 100% a >> Democratic construct that blocked out Republican input and kowtowed to the >> extremities of the Democratic party. " >> >> I am claiming that since it's the truth. > > Well, it is obviously not the truth. Besides the Gang of 6, the > Cornhusker Kickback, the Stupak Amendment, ad nauseum, I can show you > the couple dozen amendments offered by Republicans outside of > negotiations that were considered on the floor and voted on. Having > your amendment voted down by a majority does not, in fact, qualify as > quashing dissent. That's actually called Democracy. In case you were > wondering. > >> "But it has nothing to do with Democrats working with Republicans on >> healthcare." >> >> Bullshit. The pressure was already on to kill the bill. The Republicans >> wanted to subpoena more information about some of the dealings going on. >> More bad public perception would have increased the pressure to kill the >> Obama Care. > > Bullshit. The pressure was already on to kill *anything* related to > Democrats. That's part of the minority party philosophy. Chris Dodd > deserved to be investigated. Democrats were craven for trying to > protect him. But if Health Care Insurance Reform had never even made > it to discussion level, Issa still would have gone after Dodd. And > well he should have, prick though Issa is. > > Countrywide had nothing to do with Healthcare. If Issa did his little > dance moves in order to try to kill an unrelated bill, that just means > he is a partisan little prick who has no morals or compunctions. Which > I believe to be true of course. Nonetheless, Issa was right to try and > push hearings on Countrywide and Dodd, but that has nothing to do with > HCR, it has to do with shady dealings between Congress and Business > (of which there are many). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331178 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
