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House Democrats vote to increase Republican gains in 2010
Written By : B. Daniel Blatt

The good news about the House vote yesterday to approve PelosiCare is that the city where I was born, Cincinnati, Ohio will, come January 2001, once again have a Republican Congressman. Now that Steve Driehaus, who currently represents the Queen City, voted in favor of HR 3962, he has all but guaranteed that Steve Chabot, the man he ousted in 2008 by clinging to Obama’s coattails, will win his old seat back. And Chabot won’t be the only Republican ousting a Democratic incumbent next fall.

Just scanning the list of Democrats who voted for increased government control over our health care, I see Republican pickups elsewhere in Ohio as well as in New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Florida and Tennessee. And even though yesterday’s vote does not guarantee enactment of this multi-hundred billion dollar bureaucratic boondoggle, it does guarantee Republican pickups in next fall’s elections. And some of those Democrats who voted “Nay” may be swept up in the rising tide against their party.

I wonder how many of the 220 representatives who voted for the bill actually read the whole (or even significant parts of the) bill. The backlash against those who voted in favor is surely already beginning, but will increase as citizens find particularly offensive or onerous provisions in the legislation which many Congressman did not know they had voted for. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may not have posted the bill online in time for all those voting on it to read it, but it is online now.

While our representatives did not have had time to read the bill before they voted on it, citizens will have a chance to read it before we vote on them. A “Yea” vote for many will mean a “Nay” vote from their constituents.

The narrow passage of HR 3962 makes Saturday, November 7 a sad day for freedom, but the battle is far from over. The Senate has yet to vote. And the House will have to revisit the issue. Will those 64 Democrats who voted for the Stupak Amendment barring “any federal funding of abortions or any use of the new health care provisions for abortion” should the provision be excised from the final bill. If just three Democrats flip, Pelosi loses her majority.

Of course, that’s presuming the Senate first gets all 60 votes it needs for cloture. And as we see a backlash against this bill, a number of Democrats are going to get cold feet, particularly those who face reelection in 2010 in strong McCain states like Arkansas and North Dakota, weak Obama states like Indiana and even more comfortably Obama states including Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.

Crossposted at GayPatriot.

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  • CoolCzech

    The outcome in the House was utterly predictable and expected.

    So is the slow death this Marxist disaster will suffer in the Senate.

    The nice thing about last night’s slap in the face of the American people is, the Democratic Woerker’s Socialist Party has condemned itself to effective minority status in 2010.

  • Jack Schite

    The American people have been teamed by the insursnce industry why do you gate you fellow citizens so much.

    how does Marx fit in? Is that your scary word for the day? Besides torte reform what would to fix health care? Do you even acknowledge there’s a problem?

  • Jack Schite

    Reamed and hate not teamed and gate.

  • http://www.billllsidlemind.blogspot.com billll

    A cautionary note: The Dems who voted against were, for the most part, allowed to do so by the leadership in order to minimize the 2010 massacre. Few of them, I suspect, actually voted against on account of something in the bill.

    A useful strategy, used also on the gun bill to allow carry in federal parks. Didn’t quite pass, lost by only 2 votes, but Dems who needed to polish their halos with the NRA were allowed to vote for it, as long as the total added up properly.

  • tblrk2006

    Do you even acknowledge there’s a problem?
    Posted by Jack Schite
    2009-11-08 09:53:59

    There is a problem with the cost of insurance that doctors must pay. That means the doctors much charge more money. That means your visit is more money. That means your catastropic insurance coverage payment is more. Get the govt out of healthcare and initiate tort reform. That will lower doctors costs and thus yours. And no, there isnt a problem with the number of uninsured people. 5% is not enough for me to worry about. If the govt really wanted to give them insurance they would have already.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Posted by Jack Schite
    2009-11-08 09:55:15

    …What? Is that even a sentence?

  • Rose

    We cannot afford to twiddle our thumbs for a year.

    This trash needs to be dismantled and taken out, NOW, or there won’t be anything in the Elections to hold out for.
    Congress has already appropriated themselves enough slush funding in Stimulus and this Obamacare bill to ensure that every election after this “goes their way” AS WELL.

    If the Senate doesn’t halt this madness, there is nothing left to resort to but We The People – or else swallow this Stalinism.

    The last Rasmussen poll before this vote was that 72% of the American people oppose this bill, only 26% approve it – and the HOUSE did it anyway.

    Time to bother waking up is over.

    Time in which you can afford to be MERELY A WET BLANKET is also over.

    Do you want America BACK? OR WILL YOU LIVE IN OBAMALAND, FOR THE CONVENIENCE?

    There was an old joke, 40 years ago, about a man who went to hell and was offered one of three doors for his eternal abode.

    Usual horror noises out of 2 doors, one of which was lots of screams and clanking noises, etc….

    Third door had soft whispering, and some sort of light tinkling – he imagined the dulcet tones of a cocktail party, and with some relief, chose that door.

    When he was pushed in, and the door locked behind him, he discovered people up to their lips in manure, with heads stained high as they could to keep their bottom lip out of it, all were whispering, “DON’T MAKE WAVES! DON’T MAKE WAVES! DON’T MAKE WAVES!”

    I’d say this is your LAST CHANCE for wave-making, and you better make them while you can!

  • Rose

    If a Stalinist’s approval of this bill rests on the sorry state of insurance companies, then why are they content to allow Congress to limit competition, and force everyone to be a captive CLIENT of them, rather than open competition, take ILLEGAL ALIENS out of the equation, and INSTITUTE TORT AND LAWSUIT REFORM rather than provide incentives to the states that BINDS THEM FROM STATE LAWSUIT REFORM?

    Mangling the facts doesn’t make Stalinism/OBAMACARE look sweeter – it clarifies the TREASON being committed by the Stalinists.

  • smelvertising

    why do you gate you fellow citizens so much.

    That’s the most intelligent thing this useless sub-sentient item has ever said.

  • boatman47

    Wow, I haven’t seen that much wishful thinking since my then-young children compiled their Christmas lists 20 years ago.

    The 2009 elections and the health care bill were not good news for conservatives. In the elections, the guys who won in Virginia and New Jersey did so by downplaying their conservatism (neither, for example, accepted Palin’s offer to campaign for them) in favor of moderate politics. Minority and under-30 voters did not turn out, leaving the white, middle-class, over 35 voting block determining the outcomes. Those voters rejected the more conservative candidates (that’s the importance of Hoffman’s loss in NY-23) in favor of more moderate politics. Conservatives cannot expect that the Obama / Democrat base will stay home in 2010.

    Obama just managed to get a health care reform bill through the House – something Clinton failed to do. This will enhance his prestige and perceived influence. And the Democrats did allow vulnerable Democrats to vote against it, which means many more of them will survive n 2010.

    Michelle Bachman holds a rally – and 10,000 folks turned up. The Democrats will correctly read that as a sign of weakness.

    The real test will come in the 2010 Republican primaries. The dream is to see conservatives take out moderate Republicans in Florida ( Rubio -v- Crist) and elsewhere. The 2009 results make that less likely, not more so. Even worse, the conservatives who do win will face an eletorate inherently less friendly.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Shut up, hoggo. Nobody cares what you think.

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