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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-10 03:31 PM
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So House Republicans feel they deserve an up or down vote on health care!
But of course the Republicans in the Senate don't think so. The hypocricy of the Party of No:

Here's something I bet you thought you'd never see!

According to GOP aides, the resolution would require the House to hold an up-or-down vote on the Senate healthcare bill.

What? Republicans demanding an up-or-down vote on healthcare? Huzzah!

But what could possibly be going on here? We need more context.

House GOP leaders will try to force the House to vote on the Senate’s healthcare bill.

Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.), who defected from the Democratic Party last December out of frustration on healthcare, will offer a resolution barring Democratic leaders from using the so-called “Slaughter solution.”

Ah, I get it now! Republicans think they deserve to have an up-or-down vote on the Senate bill, but the Senate doesn't!

Why are we going through this self-executing rule exercise in the first place? Because Senate Republicans won't allow an up-or-down vote on making the changes contained in the fix bill. If they'd agree to an up-or-down vote on that, then the House could drop the self-executing rule (scary!) plan and the use of reconciliation (nuclear!) completely, and we could just have a good ol' fashioned who's-got-the-most kind of vote

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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-10 03:37 PM
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1. They should gett what they ask for when they fillibuster eVerything.
Refusal to bring legislation to a vote should always result in legislation "without a vote."
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-10 05:06 PM
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2. Ha ha ha ha you are correct who in the hell trusts them to vote period.
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