"Vote your hopes, not your fears. Seize the moment," Senate Dems clear hurdle on health care

[Peacetrain]

That would be my senator.. Tom Harkin..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091221/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul


WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to remake the nation's medical system and cover 30 million uninsured.

All 58 Democrats and the Senate's two independents held together early Monday against unanimous Republican opposition, providing the exact 60-40 margin needed to shut down a threatened GOP filibuster.

[Laelth]

1. Vote with your brain, not your heart.

This bill is a very bad deal for the American people.

Kill the bill.

Forcing people to buy insurance is no more the answer to a failed health care system than forcing people to buy houses is the solution to homelessness.

:dem:

-Laelth

[uponit7771]

2. Many will complain about the senate bill before the conference bill is voted on

[damntexdem]

3. Yes, I certainly will.

But what I fear is that we will need to complain about the conference bill.