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• Thanks To Bribery, Senate Democrats One Vote Short On Health Care

  —Below The Beltway

  Oh wait, this is Washington, they don’t call it bribery, they call it “leverage”:

  Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Friday night that she’s “leaning towards” voting to start debate on the health care bill – which would leave Democrats just a single vote shy of clearing a critical test for [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:07am EST
  by Doug Mataconis

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• Ben Nelson Will Vote to Proceed With Debate on Health Care Bill

  —Left of the Hill

  Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb) is one of the centrist Democrats who had previously been wavering on whether or not he would vote to proceed to the debate on the health care bill. Today he released the statement below saying that he would vote to proceed with the debate, but that [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:44pm EST
  by Bryan

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• RNC: Call Sens. Lincoln and Nelson TODAY!!

  —Virginia Virtucon

  Chairman Michael Steele and his team at the RNC have identified Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) the weakest links in Harry Reid’s ability to pass his travesty of a health care bill. If you want to stop government run healthcare, here’s your chance: call these two senators, in [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:21pm EST
  by Steve Albertson

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• Will Mark Warner vote anti-business and create new federal agency?

  —StrictlyVA

  Call Sen. Mark Warner (804.775-2314 or 202.224-2023) and tell him NO new federal agencies.
  
  While most eyes are on the massive federalized government health care bill now making its way through the Senate, Congress is secretly working on other legislation to broaden and expand government even more. We cannot [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

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• Warner To Vote Yes On Cloture

  —Virginia's 5th District

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  According to Mark Warner’s office the Senator plans on voting for cloture on the health care bill this weekend. A member of his staff told me that Warner had problems with certain aspects of the bill but would vote for cloture in order to bring it to the floor for [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:31pm EST
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• Will Mark Warner vote anti-business and create unneeded federal agency?

  —SixtyFour81.com

  Call Sen. Mark Warner (804.775-2314 or 202.224-2023) and tell him NO new federal agencies.
  
  While most eyes are on the massive federalized government health care bill now making its way through the Senate, Congress is secretly working on other legislation to broaden and expand government even more. We cannot [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

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• GOP Sees 2010 Window, Gloat That Dems Who Opposed Health Care Will Take Dual Heat

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  From TPMDC: : Much like Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Sen. Ben Nelson, looks like the 39 Democrats voting against the House health care bill Saturday are getting squeezed from both sides....We've been writing about all the left-leaning campaigns going after Democrats on health care, and plenty of efforts to hit' [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Call Senators Webb and Warner, tell them to vote NO on clouture on H.R. 3590

  —On The Right

  Also on Virginia Virtucon CONTACT SENS. MARK WARNER AND JIM WEBB TODAY!!! TELL THEM TO VOTE *AGAINST* CLOTURE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL WHEN THE SENATE VOTES WHETHER OR NOT TO BEGIN DEBATE ON SATURDAY. THIS IS ONE SHOT WE HAVE AT STOPPING THIS BILL THAT WILL FURTHER BANKRUPT OUR COUNTY FOR THE SAKE [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:46pm EST
  by Garrett Watson

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• Politico: I think Lieberman is the one going Rogue

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  From Politico: Sen. Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year — and embolden Democratic challengers who’d like to send him packing in 2012....But Lieberman doesn’t seem worried.....“I don’t think about that stuff,” Lieberman told POLITICO this week. “I’m [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:03pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Will Mark Warner vote anti-business and create unneeded federal agency?

  —SWAC Girl

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  Call Sen. Mark Warner (804.775-2314 or 202.224-2023) and tell him NO new federal agencies.
  
  While most eyes are on the massive federalized government health care bill now making its way through the Senate, Congress is secretly working on other legislation to broaden and expand government even more. We cannot [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:56pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

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• Time to Apply Pressure on Senators Webb and Warner

  —Bearing Drift

  

  Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate will be voting on Senator Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) health care bill. It appears that both of Virginia’s Senators are on the fence voting on this legislation. Perhaps, Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner should be on the fence considering that this bill [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  by jr@bearingdrift.com (J.R. Hoeft)

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• Senator Reid Commits Health Care Harry Care-y

  —Virginia Right!

  

  Harry Reid Giver America The Finger With Harry Care-y

  
  First of all, President Obama says the Health Care bill must not add to the deficit. Both the House Bill and the Senate Bill claim to do that. In fact, [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:45am EST
  by Tom White

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• CONTACT SENS. WARNER AND WEBB TODAY!!!

  —Virginia Virtucon

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  CONTACT SENS. MARK WARNER AND JIM WEBB TODAY!!! TELL THEM TO VOTE *AGAINST* CLOTURE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL WHEN THE SENATE VOTES WHETHER OR NOT TO BEGIN DEBATE ON SATURDAY. THIS IS ONE SHOT WE HAVE AT STOPPING THIS BILL THAT WILL FURTHER BANKRUPT OUR COUNTY FOR THE SAKE OF INSURING ONLY [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:25am EST
  by Riley

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/19/09)

  —Blue Virginia

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19.
  
  1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:24pm EST
  

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• Sen. Webb posts health care bill

  —Virginia Politics

  Sen. Jim Webb has called for greater transparency in the health care debate and today he posted the Senate bill on his Web site—all 2,074 pages for your reading pleasure.

  In mid-October, Webb asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to post the legislation and complete budget scores of the health [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:56pm EST
  

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/19/09)

  —Blue Commonwealth

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19.

  1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:55pm EST
  

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• Early News on Senate Health Care Bill

  —Blue Commonwealth

  The Senate Health Care Reform bill is out, and preliminary reports from the Congressional Budget Office say it will have a 10-year cost of $849 billion, slightly lower than the House bill, and that it will cut the deficit by $127 billion over that 10 years and by $650 billion [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:12pm EST
  

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• Axelrod Claims Obama will remove abortion funding ban, Congressman Stupak says, "not so fast!"

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  From LifeNews.com --
  Congressman Bart Stupak, whose amendment to ban abortion funding from the House health care bill, has seen President Barack Obama's call and raised him. He says if Obama makes good on his threat to remove the ban in conference committee that he will effectively kill the [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:02am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• They're Allowed To Lie-They're democrats

  —United Conservatives

  And since we know that going in, we know how to act.
  
  Family Research Council
  Harry Reid's Shell Game
  
  

  Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care bill wasn't exactly popular in the House, but sources say it's even more disliked in the Senate. So much so that Sen. Harry' [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:28pm EST
  

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• Health Care bill will raise costs $289 Billion

  —On The Right

  This comes from chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): Key takeaways from the auditor’s report:   *After 10 years under the new regime, 23 million Americans would still be without insurance;   *The bill cuts $570 billion from Medicare; and   *The bill does not stop the exploding cost of health care.   In a [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:18am EST
  by Garrett Watson

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• Virginian’s seniors on H.R. 3962, the Democrat Health Care Bill

  —On The Right

  Attention, Attention Gerry Connolly, can you hear them and the rest of us. We do not want this government ran crap. Tagged: 11th Congressional District, Democrat, GERRY CONNOLLY, H.R. 3962, Health care reform, Keith Fimian, Virginia, Virginia's 11th Congressional District [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:53pm EST
  by Garrett Watson

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• Rep. Grayson (D-FL) throws constituents out of DC office

  —SWAC Girl

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  Question with boldness, is what Glenn Beck says ... and this Florida resident did just that. In a visit to Rep. Alan Grayson's office in Washington, DC, she questioned him about aspects of the health care bill ... and then the following exchange:
  CALLER: So I then asked him' [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by SWAC Girl

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• Quote of the Day

  —From On High

  On Tom Perriello's decision to vote in favor of ObamaCare:
  In a conference call Monday, [5th District Congressman] Perriello said his support for the health care bill was a vote for lower premiums, a reduced national deficit and an elimination of regional disparities in payments to health care providers. [[...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:20am EST
  

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• Democratic Senator “Not Aware” Of Any Provision Of Constitution That Allows Insurance Mandates

  —Below The Beltway

  I’ll say this for Daniel Akaka (D., Hawaii), at least he’s honest in admitting there’s no Constitutional authority for ObamaCare:

  (CNSNews.com) – Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) says he is “not aware” of the Constitution giving Congress the authority to make individuals purchase health insurance, as the health care bills in [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:41am EST
  by Doug Mataconis

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• You Can't Make This Stuff Up

  —From On High

  The Roanoke Times this morning defends what ain't in Obama's health care bill.  Or wasn't supposed to be, if you listened to all those Democrat politicians.  And to the Roanoke Times.
  
  Those death panels.
  
  Or, as the hair-splitters prefer to call them - end-of-life panels.
  
  Call' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:30am EST
  

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• Senator Ben Nelson on Abortion Amendment in Health Care Bill - ABC News

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  Subway Series: Senator Ben Nelson on Abortion Amendment in Health Care Bill - ABC News: "In a warning sign for the White House, Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska tells ABC News that he'll vote to block any health care bill that looks like the bill passed by the'" [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:09pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Trouble's just beginning

  —Fishersville Mike

  Politico reports on the troubles of Democrats who voted against the health care bill.
  I thought only Republicans were complaining about what's going on. [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:10am EST
  

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• Save the Date: The Senate will be Debating Health Care

  —Crystal Clear Conservative

  The Hill reports that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has put the House health care bill (H.R. 3962) on the Senate calendar for debate and a possible vote. This comes after former President Bill Clinton met with Democratic senators yesterday during their caucus lunch. So, you know what that means… FLOOD your Senators’ [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:01am EST
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• Down memory lane

  —Fishersville Mike

  Barticles looks at how we got employer-based health care, and the World War II rules against switching jobs.
  During WWII, the Emergency Price Control Act carried a penalty of a year in jail or a $5,000 fine for violators. Under the Pelosi health care bill passed over the weekend, [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:11pm EST
  

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• Maybe 2008 was enough

  —Fishersville Mike

  As the battle for health care reform goes on, what impact will it have on next year's elections?
  Does passing a health care bill make Democratic success more likely in 2010?
  Or, for some voters, is just electing Barack Obama president enough?
  Look at your Virginia voting numbers from [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

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