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!
Please share widely!
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.
I was joking. I already conveyed my disgust for this whole special election. This was a shot at the stupid Emily’s list ads that annoyed the hell out of me on WEEI not at Tsongas.
I'm not surprised.
Ah, I just love the smell of gridlock in the morning. It smells like victory (for taxpayers).
unless those taxpayers can’t afford healthcare for their children.
how do they expect us to live on that?
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.
Because if you don’t own the picture, you are not fulfilling the license.
Oh boy – I don't know?????
Why don't you hire a lawyer and find out?
And deliberately neglecting copyright restrictions is highly likely to get you booted from any public site because of the very real concern of lawsuits.
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Here is a link to the page for this picture on Flickr, which belongs to Kevin Smith aka notmyown2k3. The license for this picture is here and specifies that you are free to use the photo as long as you attribute it, which you have not done. So either you are Kevin Smith or you are violating his copyright.
I note that Kevin Smith says he’s going to school in Syracuse and that his hometown is Atlantic City. That would give Mr. Smith exactly zero reason to care about Massachusetts politics, and thus I think we can conclude with reasonable certainty that School Zombie ’87 is not the copyright owner.
…it’s possible to find out the origin of an embedded graphic by doing a right click on the graphic and selecting “properties” at the bottom of the pop-up menu.
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I’m not sure about Firefox. I have a copy of it–it came with some other program–but I have never used used it.
That doesn’t count as an attribution and you would not find out who owned that picture from looking at its URL.
…take it for what you wish. Or ignore it as you wish.
you should get the Ad-Block Plus extension. In addition to automatically hiding ads, you can exclude specific images (such as the one in question).
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I haven’t seen that annoying thing in weeks!
Thanks for the tip! So long annoying SchoolZombie guy!
I think all of BMG would by psyched to get that tip!
I do think that is a picture of the chap himself, however.
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.
Reid
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.
Every time I hear Ozzy speak I think of Bush too!
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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?
To hell with them, sayeth the conservatives!
Whatd’ve you got..a paper route?
That alright with you?
Gotta admit I’m shocked to hear that a liberal would be a “gun guy”….kinda unusual. Anyway, good luck in your business!