*** House Debate on Health Care Bill *** Thread 6

[annabanana]

Thread #1: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
Thread #2: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
Thread #3: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
Thread #4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
Thread #5: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...


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[eleny]

1. KR!

[annabanana]

2. This is much more fun than I expected!!

[eleny]

4. It's always fun to watch the House with DU pals

[Clio the Leo]

I cant even BEGIN to tell you how much I didn't want to go to work today....

.... I went to my boss and pouted but of course that didn't work. lol

I would have loved nothing more than to have veged out and watched it all day. Hopefully the Senate will have their "party" on my off day. lol

[annabanana]

3. Repugs getting ROYALLY torn out here.

Blumenauer was GREAT!

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

5. lol...I've never watched c-span for so long nt

[MaineDem]

6. Way to go, Blumenhaur!

I think I spelled his name wrong but he was awesome!

[annabanana]

7. Blunt up complaining that they've been ignored.. (Has no excuse

for the previous 8 years)

[dmr]

10. that bullshit gets old, doesn't it? n/t

[DesertRat]

8. Roy Blunt is a tool

[dmr]

9. Men behind Blunt look almost worn out

ZZZzzzzz

[Kdillard]

12. Well it has been a long day listening to a lot of bull.

[KoKo]

11. Kick back Up....

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. To my shock local cable system is carrying it

so now listening

[annabanana]

14. where are you, hon?

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. San Diego and Saturday they carry it but don't

[annabanana]

15. dupe

[RoccoR5955]

16. Your local cable carrier doesn't normally carry C-SPAN...

SHAME ON THEM!

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. They carry ONLY CSPAN 1

Hawaii had its issues but damn it we had 1, 2, 3 and at times 4

[footinmouth]

17. My eyes are going to fall out soon

I have had this on since 9 this morning. Miss a few hours here and there, but I've basically watched most of it. I've switched over to the computer feed for now while my hubby watched hockey.

I hope they have the vote before SNL comes on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Well as long as we don't get the medicare part D

event... oy that was a spectacle.

[ClarkUSA]

18. Keep it up, Party of No! You won't be going home this weekend or the next until you STFU.

[annabanana]

19. Rangell being funny.. "I'm not going to be as rough on my

Republican colleagues as some of my friends on this side. After all, this past Tuesday, I think, they finally came up with something. It means there are some who are finally going in the right direction."

[RoccoR5955]

20. Charlie's like that... Gentle, but firm. n/t

[annabanana]

21. Republican plan "You're on Your Own". . n/t

[RoccoR5955]

25. Markey... the GOP stands for Grandstand, Oppose, then Pretend! n/t

[Clio the Leo]

36. I dont know who came up with that term.....

.... but the President used that it when writing about the Ownership Society style of supply, trickle down economics in "Audacity." "The 'ownership society' means 'you're on your own!'"

[dmr]

24. Where's Rep. Grayson? Haven't heard from him all day.

[annabanana]

30. I really hope he gets up there today

[Kdillard]

27. Love it the Do nothing Substitute.

[annabanana]

28. Mica is moaning & groaning & lying

The usual

[RoccoR5955]

29. Funny how the RepubliCONs are opposed to...

Bureaucracy with health care, but they were all for more of it with the start of Homeland Security!

[Avalux]

31. YAY Charlie Gonzalez!!!

Go get 'em Charlie, make your Daddy proud!

[annabanana]

32. Gonzales re: tort reform ala Texas model..How BAD it has gone

How much it has caused premiums to GO UP!

[quiet.american]

33. Awesome, Anthony Weiner on the floor. nt

[annabanana]

34. Weiner of NY up now

[dmr]

35. Yay, Rep Weiner speaking now!!!

[KoKo]

39. kick

[annabanana]

37. The same arguements were used against social security and

medicare.. THIS is what members of Congress get, but they don't want YOU to get it. ON FIRE!

[annabanana]

40. They don't want it for YOU!. . That was ferocious!

[RoccoR5955]

38. WTG Weiner! n/t

[high density]

41. 5 minutes of Cantor

Oh god.

[MaineDem]

42. Now quoting Senator Snowe! Argh. n/t

[Graybeard]

43. Weiner: You should get what Congress gets

The Repukes just want it for themselves. Go Weiner!

[eleny]

44. When members applaud Weiner, the chair admonishes the members...

....and then smiles at his little joke.

[RoccoR5955]

45. Here comes one of the major NO boys... Can'tor! n/t

[annabanana]

46. Cantor up now . . expect crap load of bs

[DesertRat]

48. Cantor....another boring tool

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

49. first of all, he is lying

and second of all, how did he ever get elected with those speech manners and patterns? Do people in his district like being condescended to? Man, he is smarmy.

[DesertRat]

62. Speaking of smarmy

Here's Boner...

[annabanana]

47. What a liar this guy is.

[never cry wolf]

50. Cantor is awesome!

I am glad to see he is such an inarticulate and monotone orator. That lil prick scared me but he'll never appeal nationwide.

[Clio the Leo]

53. He grew half of a nut yesterday.....

.... and spoke out against the holocaust photo at the teabagger rally Thursday. He'll prob. be primaried now.

[annabanana]

51. Looking for a copy of the "manager's amendement"?

Who is it that can't find it? Gomert?

[DesertRat]

54. Yes, Gohmert

"Where is it at thee desk?"

[Graybeard]

60. Repukes looking like complete fools.

Where are the papers? On the desk? Where on the desk?

[MaineDem]

52. GOP beginning to stall

Game on!

[high density]

57. What a joke

[charlie and algernon]

58. i'm hoping that was just stalling tactics

I'm hoping that that texas congressman really isn't THAT stupid that he can't find a copy of the bill.





yeah, no, he is that stupid.

[annabanana]

65. Oh no. .That one really IS that stupid. . .n/t

[jenmito]

70. They CLAIMED they would NOT stall because they WANT HCR to pass with no Repub. votes.

I'm sure they lied since they voted to try to not let this debate begin in the first place. (CNN reported this.)

[RoccoR5955]

55. Give Boner the hook already! He's had too much stage time! n/t

[Clio the Leo]

63. Is he getting less orange?

Or is it just my imagination.

[RoccoR5955]

71. He's fading... needs more beta-carotine.

He is gonna OD on vitamin A too. Unless he's an alien, which, at times I truly believe!

[annabanana]

56. Time?. . "Use it or lose it".

[dmr]

59. Does he need help going to the bathroom too?

Louie Glomert, or whatever his name is: Where is the bill? Can you show me where on the table it is?

On the table and in the lobby, and you people have been walking around all day with it.

[charlie and algernon]

73. that was just painful to watch

how did that man EVER manage to get himself elected??

[annabanana]

61. This is going to be tedious. Boner is SUCH a tool

[dmr]

66. Guess I get the clothes out of the dryer now n/t

[Graybeard]

69. Does he keep an extra bottle of Man-Tan in his back pocket?

He's four shades darker now than he was when this all started.

[high density]

64. boner hasn't noticed that most of the stimulus hasn't been spent yet

What a dumbass.

[high density]

67. boner worried about jobs.

Where again are all those Bush tax cut jobs??

[Kdillard]

68. I wish more people would ask this question. The fact is that the

private sector shed many jobs during the Bush regime.

[quiet.american]

Oops, delete, wrong place. nt

[high density]

72. Boner admits many business owners are selfish dicks that do not provide properly for their employees

"I'd rather pay the tax than provide health insurance"

[RoccoR5955]

74. Funny the RepubliCONs were all in favor of big bureaucracy when it was for Homeland Security...

Well isn't health care homeland security, as well? Get a grip damn it!

[dmr]

75. I think a "concerned" Boner's forcasting the end of the world

Wish he'd quit licking his lip.

[DesertRat]

76. Boner pronounced hyperbole: Hyper Bowl

[Graybeard]

79. I caught that too. The damned fool said hyper-bowl. n/t

[MaineDem]

82. Too funny! But sad really. n/t

[annabanana]

77. Boner's "magic minute" has lasted how long now?

It's major stall time now.

[Parker CA]

83. This is where he can basically talk all night. How does this end and the debate conclude?

[RoccoR5955]

86. When the Speaker decides that his time runs out. n/t

[Parker CA]

89. This is total BS. Rambling about nothing. Pelosi needs to end this shit.

[annabanana]

90. Really? It'll take Nancy to shut him up?

[high density]

78. Does Boner not understand that private companies currently make these decisions?

I think I'd rather have the Health Choices Czar making those choices instead of some profit-grubbing insurance company

[valerief]

80. So what's on orange man's chart? nt

[quiet.american]

81. Okay, just tuned back into Man-Tan. Don't even have to look at the pages he's opining on --

Already know he's doing some serious, serious misrepresenting.

(Although, I'm taping this, so I will go back and look at these pages, just to see how far out into la-la land Man-Tan is "interpreting.")

[RoccoR5955]

84. I'm reading this bill along with Boner, and he's a bald-faced liar.

He's adding his own interpretation when he says, "It's right there in the bill." What a lying sack of fecal matter!

[justgamma]

85. My favorite part so far from Boner

In one breath he said it would kill jobs, and in the next breath, he said we would have to hire peoople to run this program. Did you notice the subtle pause, hen even he realized how stupid that was?

[Kdillard]

87. They have made that slip all evening. They keep lying about everything but it comes out every now

and then. The fact is this bill would create jobs.

[annabanana]

88. He's not up there to make sense.. He's up there to stall. . n/t

[BlueIdaho]

BINGO!

Once again the Party of NO has only one big idea - to stand in the way of progress.

[Parker CA]

98. Sounds like he's wrapping up. Please, let him wrap up.

[quiet.american]

91. How LOONNNNNNGGGG is Man-Tan going to talk?! Even Speaker Pelosi wasn't up there this long. nt

[Cleita]

97. Wasn't he just supposed to have a minute?

He's been there way longer.

[quiet.american]

102. Hello! That certainly was not "a NY minute." :) nt

[Cleita]

92. When is this going to be over with?

I have been shouting at the TV so much today, that my son-in-law came by to ask me if someone was bothering me!

[RoccoR5955]

96. When the Speaker decides that his time runs out. n/t

[RoccoR5955]

93. Are Boner's pants on fire yet?

I have been listening and following as he recites page numbers
He's a freakin' liar!! Just adding his own words, when he says, "Yeah, it's right here in the bill." BOVINE FREAKIN' FECAL MATTER!!!! THEY ARE NOT!

[Graybeard]

94. Why is this bastard Boner allowed to filibuster?

All day they have been nit-picking about 30 seconds here and one minute there.

[MaineDem]

99. Because he's the Minority leader. n/t

[annabanana]

95. NEW THREAD UP!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[DesertRat]

100. The bill will "dim the lights of freedom"

[Parker CA]

101. Sounds like they applauded him for shutting the F up.

[Parker CA]

103. Dingell getting a standing ovation! We're getting close.

[dmr]

104. plain language writing is important

in the teaching hospital I worked at: there was a time we wrote at an 8th grade level (for patient's to understand information), we later lowered it to approx the 4th grade level.

For clinicians, writing this way, isn't always easy.

[RepublicanElephant]

105. awww... boner vote goes down. nt