The New York Times: "Passage of a comprehensive [health] bill looked impossible after the Democrats' loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts. As an alternative, lawmakers in both parties said, some pieces of the bills already passed by the House and the Senate could be pulled out and packaged...
The New York Times: "With a growing sense of urgency, President Obama and top Congressional Democrats held a marathon negotiating session on Wednesday in an effort to thrash out agreements on sweeping health care legislation that could provide insurance coverage to more than 30 million...
Top Senate Democrats were prepared Monday night to sacrifice proposals to expand Medicare in a bid to win over moderates and amass the 60 votes needed to pass their health legislation, according to news reports. The Washington Post: "Democratic negotiators had already disappointed liberal...
The vote was 60-39 to bring the health care bill to debate. The Republicans failed to stop health care insurance reform on procedural grounds.
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Yes, well we all know how if one person in the party says or does it then it must be true of everyone in the party. So since this is the side of the Dems are all of the Reps supporting the suicide option for the AIG bonus recipients?
EDIT: My apologies...TWO guys!! Haven't we had TWO...
Why are the dems screaming and yelling about the AIG bonuses when Dodd (a dem) just admitted that they 'inserted' the language themselves?
Dodd just admitted on CNN that he inserted a loophole in the stimulus legislation that allowed million-dollar bonuses to insurance giant AIG to go forward –...
...Dem conspiracy was YOUR favorite? Heres a list to pick from:
> "Bush stole the elections"
> "911 was an inside job"
> "Bush and his oil buddies"
> "Cheney runs the WH"
> Add your own...
The list is endless I know but I'm sorry, you can only pick one.
...families who succeed? Sharpton says 50% of blacks drop out of school. He didn't say how many whites.
Bumf,
call his office and tell him he lied. See what they say.
...Legislature in California done other than? ... raise spending by 50% in 4 years?
Did Arnold force them to increase benefits for immigrants, healthcare, etc etc etc etc?
vacation during his Presidency? 3.5 f*cking years on holiday during one of the most critical periods in US history, September 11th, two disastrous wars, economy in meltdown while Bush played golf
Republican filth make me want to puke. Your total political irrelevance has just been proven...
those that cold not pay payments? During the snake oil salesman's speech tonight He seems to ignore the fact that it was Clinton and the libs that forced banks to give loans to those that could not afford them. That is what caused this problem so why put the blame on Bush and that gang??