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House’s SCHIP override attempt fails

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Just watched it on C-Span.  The vote was 273-156.  A few votes switched (the vote to pass the bill was 265-159), but the House was still about a dozen votes short.

Disappointing, but not unexpected.  Look for a revised bill to contain modest, but not major, changes — just enough to bring along let’s say a dozen House members.  Bush will veto it again.  But this time there hopefully will be enough votes to override.

Congratulations to Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.) on being sworn in this morning and on casting her first vote for such a worthy cause!

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  1. one of the primary reasons given to vote for Tsongas was pretty much bull shit and that Ogo’s position of working with congress for a new bipartisan bill was the approach that this bill will have to go.

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    Great.  That means we are left with that a guy who will only be in office for a few more months won’t have an “ally” on the war in Iraq.  Seems like sound reasoning to me.

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    Thanks again for those useless ads Emily’s list.

    • defused the issue almost completely if he had just leveled with the people of MA-05 by saying what he would have done in today’s vote.  It was such a political no-brainer, and it would have ended our hilarious “Idon’tknowski” line of commentary.  If I were a Republican, I’d be awfully wary about engaging Dustin Olson or whoever Ogo’s chief strategist was.

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      I mean, duh, obviously if the override fails a new bill has to come out of it.  But there will be virtually no changes made along the lines that Ogo said he wanted (the immigration thing), since no one else actually cares about that.  AFAIK, no one who voted “no” said they’d vote “yes” if the immigration thing were changed.  The “no” votes were all either about taxing tobacco (which is why even the Dems from NC were reluctant) or about “socialized medicine.”

    • The woman is pushing into her 60s. If some of you are lucky you might live long enough to see her retire one day.

    • The GOP Senate was willing to work on the bill, and the Dem Senate found compromise.

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      The GOP House told the Dems that they’d vote “no”.  So, unwilling to work on the legislation, the GOP House was shut out once language was found in the Senate.

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      Don’t forget, the SCHIP bill that passed was not what the Dems wanted — they compromised on the total cost, adult eligibility, public vs. private insurance for future enrollees, etc.

    • is that we voted for someone who told us how they would vote and did it.  Might not make much sense to you, but there is not much support out there for the 12 year old illegal immigrant who make $82,000, driving cars and having a social security card for health care.

  3. Ah, I just love the smell of gridlock in the morning.  It smells like victory (for taxpayers).

        • Solution, vote in more democrats.  If the Republicans can only muster 44 votes for one of the most successful health care initiatives is a long time, then we need some changes.  It was approved the gridlock was from Dubya and the rubber stamp morons.  Time to get them out.

          • the Dems will get their act together. LOL You make me laugh.

             

            When were they going to cut funding for the War???? 

            • BTW, do you own the rights to that picture? If not, I think you are violating it’s copyright.

                • There is such a thing as a lame duck president.  That's a real phrase.  There is no such thing as a “lame duck congress”.

                  You must be refering to the obstructionism of the Road Block Republicans.

                • are in lame duck mode. Wow, have you seen Dingy Harry’s approval rating #s in his home State of Nevada or Nationaly? makes Bush look like a rock star.
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                  Dingy and the Queen are responsible for the worst Congressional ratings in HISTORY!  They’re toast

                • Well, maybe current day Ozzy Ozbourne.

                  …and if by “toast”, you mean “Poised to expand the democratic majority in congress as well as take the white house in '08” I'd have to agree with you. 

      • screen plasma TV or a mortgage on  a $600k house that the parents can’t afford?  hey, even though they’re making $82k /yr let the Government pick up the health care for their 2 24 year old kids at UM…that’s fair, right?  Screw the poor kids! It’s all about OUR kids!  Geesh, and the only  chance ‘ve got of making $80k here in the People’s Republik is getting a Mass pike job as a toll taker…. but I don’t know any hacks…I guess I’m screwed.. think a letter to Niki or “Live shot Kerry ” would help?

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