"Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an Orthodox Jew"
Yup, its ZIONIST JOE the GATEKEEPER!!!
WHAT ARE THE ODDS that JOE would get the CATBIRD SEAT in the two subsequent Congresses? He is the 51st Democrap to maintain control of the chamber, and then the 60th vote to end filibusters? A Zionist, Israeli-first gatekeeper deciding what legislation goes forward in the Senate?
Or that his opponent would receive the EXACT SAME VOTE TOTALS SIX YEARS APART!
I will never believe in an AmeriKan election ever again.
"Senate GOP denied on spending filibuster attempt" by Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer | December 12, 2009
WASHINGTON --The Democratic-controlled Senate on Saturday cleared away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget boosts.
The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year's unfinished budget work -- only a $626 billion Pentagon spending measure would remain -- into a 1,000-plus-page spending bill that would give the Education Department, the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and others increases far exceeding inflation.
Does anyone down there know we are bleeding deficits like crazy?
Related: Second Stimuloot on the Way
Yeah, they are going to dump another $250 billion of your tax loot into the "defense" bill.
The 60-34 vote met the minimum threshold to end the GOP filibuster. A final vote was set for Sunday afternoon to send the measure to President Barack Obama. Democrats held the vote open for an hour to accommodate Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an Orthodox Jew who walked more than three miles to the Capitol to vote on the Sabbath after attending services at his synagogue in the city's Georgetown neighborhood.
Yeah, but when Repuglicans do the same thing you hear DemocraPs whining and complaining!!! Tired of the S***-FOOLEY POLITICS!!!!!!!
I wish America would get its head out of its DemocraP-Repuglican, left-right, FALSE PARADIGM! It's FREEDOM or FASCISM now!!!!
Please WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lieberman wore a black wool overcoat and brilliant orange scarf -- as well as a wide grin -- as he provided the crucial 60th vote.
Yeah, HE KNOWS the POSITION he is in and he is LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
♫He's got the SENATE'S BALLS in his hands, he's got the WHOLE SENATE IN HIS HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!♫
The measure combines $447 billion in operating budgets with about $650 billion in mandatory payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. It wraps together six individual spending bills and also contains more than 5,000 back-home projects sought by lawmakers in both parties. The measure provides spending increases averaging about 10 percent to programs under immediate control of Congress, blending increases for veterans' programs, NASA and the FBI with a pay raise for federal workers and help for car dealers.
Has ANYONE TOLD THEM we have a 41.5 TRILLION DEFICIT for THIS YEAR ALONE?!
It bundles six of the 12 annual spending bills, capping a dysfunctional appropriations process for budget year that began Oct. 1, dysfunctional appropriations process in which House leaders blocked Republicans from debating key issues and Senate Republicans dragged out debates.
Yeah, and when Repugs did this it was DemocraPs caterwauling, so pffffffttt!
At least Repugs have the balls to try and BLOCK THINGS!
Oh, right, Dems balls in you-know-whose pocket!
Just the $626 billion defense bill would remain. That's being held back to serve as a vehicle to advance must-pass legislation such as a plan to allow the government's debt to swell by nearly $2 trillion. The government's total debt has nearly doubled in the past seven years and is expected to exceed the current ceiling of $12.1 trillion before Jan. 1.
Good!!
BANKRUPT this EMPIRE as QUICK as you CAN!!!!!!
Then maybe the WARS will STOP!!!!
Republicans said the measure -- on top of February's $787 billion economic stimulus bill and a generous omnibus measure for the 2009 budget year -- spends too much money in a time when the government is running astronomical deficits....
The measure contains 5,224 pet projects for lawmakers totaling $3.9 billion, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington-based watchdog group. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who leads the transportation, housing and community development spending panel, obtained 61 earmarks worth $68.8 million in programs under her jurisdiction, including $1.2 million for infrastructure improvements for the Port of Everett. Her GOP counterpart, Christopher Bond of Missouri, pulled down 21 projects worth $32.5 million from some portion of the bill, including $2.5 million for a community center in Kansas City.
Translation: That letter by the name means NOTHING!
LOOTING from BOTH SIDES of the aisle!!!!
Sort of a DECEPTIVE VOTE, no, DemocraPs?!!!
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And so much for the debt!!!
"Senate sends $1.1 trillion spending bill to Obama; 3 Democrats, all but 3 in GOP reject proposal" by Jim Abrams, Associated Press | December 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement, and veterans’ programs.
The more-than-1,000-page package, one of the last essential chores of Congress this year, passed 57 to 35 and now goes to President Obama for his signature. The weekend action underlined the legislative crush Congress faces as it tries to wind up the year. After the vote, the Senate immediately returned to the debate on health care legislation that has consumed its time and energy for weeks. Senate Democrats hope to reach a consensus in the coming days on Obama’s chief domestic priority.
The final spending bill, a $626 billion defense bill, will be used as the base for another catch-all package of measures that Congress must deal with in the coming days. Those include action to raise the $12.1 trillion debt ceiling and proposals to stimulate the job market. The spending bill passed yesterday includes $447 billion for departments’ operating budgets and about $650 billion in mandatory payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Those programs under immediate control of Congress would see increases of about 10 percent.
The FBI gets $7.9 billion, a $680 million increase over 2009; the Veterans Health Administration budget goes from $41 billion to $45.1 billion; and the National Institutes of Health receives $31 billion, a $692 million increase. All but three Democrats voted for the bill, while all but three Republicans opposed it. Democrats said the spending was critical to meet the needs of a recession-battered economy....
Just wondering where YOUR INCREASE is, American.
Oh, right, YOU get the TAX INCREASES to PAY FOR IT ALL!!!!
The Citizens Against Government Waste said an estimated $3.9 billion in the bill for more than 5,000 local projects included construction of a county farmer’s market in Kentucky, renovation of a historic theater in New York, and restoration of a mill in Rhode Island.
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and a longtime critic of such projects, said most Americans, he said, were watching football and not the Senate debate, adding, “If they knew what we are about to pass . . .’’
(Sob)
The legislation also contains numerous items not directly related to spending. It provides help for auto dealers facing closure, ends a ban on funding by the District of Columbia government for abortions, allows the district to permit medical marijuana, lets Amtrak passengers carry unloaded handguns in their checked baggage, and permits detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to the United States to stand trial but not to be released. The bill also includes a 2 percent pay increase for federal workers. With the Senate concentrating on health care, attention on the upcoming jobs plan shifts to the House.
The defense bill that will be the basis for the package normally enjoys wide bipartisan support, but Republicans, and some fiscally conservative Democrats, are unhappy with the prospect of another jolt of deficit-swelling spending.
Yeah, KEEP THAT in MIND when JOE starts COMPLAINING about COSTS to TAXPAYERS!
Congress must soon raise the debt ceiling, now at $12.1 trillion, so the Treasury can continue to borrow, and Democratic leaders are eyeing a new figure close to $14 trillion, pushing the issue past next November’s election.
AS IF THEY COULD!!!
Oh, I can not wait until 2010 when we TURN THIS DISASTER of DemocraP rule out!!!
But a bipartisan group in the Senate says a higher ceiling should be tied to the creation of a task force on deficit reduction, and House Democratic moderates say their votes could depend on winning a “pay-as-you-go’’ law requiring that new tax cuts and spending programs don’t add to the deficit.
Yeah, NOW THAT the BANKS and WAR PROFITEERS have SUCKED UP all the TAX LOOT!
Proposals to put people back to work include tax breaks for new company hires, small-business tax breaks, public works spending, and federal aid to states. Congress is also likely to extend measures, included in the $787 billion stimulus act last February, that provide jobless payments and health insurance subsidies for the unemployed.
That program HAD a YEAR and FAILED, so....
That's INSANE, folks!!
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A plan to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare, heralded as a breakthrough in the Senate’s health care debate, encountered resistance yesterday from lawmakers who can make or break Democrats’ efforts to reshape the nation’s health insurance system.
Independent Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut declared the early Medicare buy-in a bad deal for taxpayers and the deficit. He said he would vote against the bill in its current form. Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,’’ Lieberman pleaded with Democrats to start subtracting expensive proposals from the overhaul, saying, “We don’t need to keep adding onto the back of this horse, or we’re going to break the horse’s back and get nothing done.’’
Is he NOT AMAZING, DemocraPs?
I believe the term is chutzpah.
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In a legislative struggle that is a game of inches, Democrats need all 60 votes in their caucus, and they don’t yet have them. “I think it’s going to pass out of the Senate before Christmas,’’ President Obama said in an interview aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes’’ last night. Lieberman said there was a chance, if Democrats “bring in some Republicans who are open-minded.’’
I just want to know HOW MANY TIMES he can S*** in your faces, DemocraPs!?
But Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell said no way.“With the American people as overwhelming opposed to this bill as they are, for the Democrats to basically arrogantly take the position that we’re going to ignore public opinion and jam this through before Christmas, I think that’s really a stretch,’’ said the Kentucky Republican.
Well, we will see, Mitch!
The early Medicare buy-in was part of a compromise reached last week when Senate Democrats dropped the idea of setting up a federal health insurance plan to compete with private insurers.
Many Democrats who had favored that public option only grudgingly let it go, in return embracing the Medicare proposal as an appealing way to help people 55 to 64 - a group often vulnerable to losing employer-based health insurance when it’s needed the most.
And THEN Joe the *ew SHOT THAT DOWN!
Under the compromise, private nonprofit plans overseen by the federal government would be offered in the marketplace. Senator Jay Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, said on “Face the Nation’’ that he was working with Lieberman and others on controlling Medicare costs.
How come they NEVER WORK WITH YOU, liberals?
He voiced confidence that fellow Democrats can get past their divisions. Party leaders are pushing hard to finish the Senate overhaul legislation before Christmas and to begin negotiations with the House, which has passed its plan.
Oh, no doubt they will present a turd and call it success.
Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, expressed doubt on the Medicare proposal. “I’m concerned that it’s the forerunner of single-payer - the ultimate single-payer plan, maybe even more directly than the public option,’’ Nelson said on the same program.
Oh, IF ONLY: No Choice But Single Payer
By single-payer, he meant national health insurance run by Washington.
Scared, America?
I am. That's why I don't want that!!! I'd rather have nothing.
It is JUST a HEALTH TAX BILL anyway!!!
Nelson has also said he won’t support the bill unless fellow Democrats establish a firewall to ensure that no public money goes toward abortion coverage.
Hey, WHATEVER IT TAKES to KILL the THING!!!
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WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leaders grappled for a health care deal behind closed doors last night, as a fragile and tentative agreement they announced last week threatened to collapse.
And YOU have YOU-KNOW-WHO to THANK for it!!
Senators said they were on the verge of dropping a proposal to let people 55 to 64 without employer-sponsored insurance buy in to Medicare, a key provision of the deal meant to partially replace the government-run insurance plan included in the original bill. Senator Joseph Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said he would vote to block legislation that contained a Medicare buy-in because of his concern it would cost both government and qualifying Americans too much, though he had supported that policy not long ago.
Yeah, what a DISINGENUOUS BASTARD!!!
Asked if the Medicare buy-in was gone, Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus said last night after emerging from a private meeting of the Senate Democratic caucus, “It’s looking like that’s the case....’’
The plan, negotiated by a set of senators last week, appeared to be foundering before it even received a detailed public vetting, and more questions than answers swirled around Senate deliberations yesterday. As the urgency increased to cut a deal this week that could survive, President Obama summoned Senate Democrats to the White House today in hopes of driving the caucus toward consensus. Failure could send President Obama’s top domestic agenda item skidding off-track, since delay could sap political will in both chambers, and the new year brings with it election-year politics....
Did he HAVE JOE IN? If not it was all a waste of time.
Last night, Democrats expressed confidence they would get the bill done, and liberals who have insisted on a public option appeared slightly less adamant and more focused on passing a bill.
That is why I NO LONGER TAKE LIBERALS SERIOUSLY!!!
They HAVE NO BACKBONE and FIGHT FOR NOTHING!!!
“There is some feeling nobody has the right to hold up everybody else. On the other hand, the system is what the system is,’’ said Senator Jay Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia and a vocal proponent of the public option. “As you get closer [to a vote], you say ‘Who do I represent? Who’s looking to me for results? What can I deliver to them?’ And that makes it easier for me to vote for the bill. And I’m a progressive.’’
I'm also a self-deluding elitist!!!!
Trying to count to 60, the number of votes needed to end debate under Senate rules, has required months of negotiation and political contortions by a Democratic party split between its more liberal members who want a solid public option to pressure private insurance companies to hold down costs, and a handful of moderates who fear excessive government intervention in the health care economy. After months of committee hearings, closed-door negotiations, floor fights, angry town hall meetings and multimillion-dollar ad wars, majority leader Harry Reid must lock in a final deal by the end of this week if he is to pass sweeping health care legislation before Christmas.
Lieberman supported a Medicare buy-in eight years ago as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and as recently as September, at a meeting with the Connecticut Post - captured on video and posted on The Plum Line blog last night - he distinguished his opposition to a new government-run insurance plan from his previous support for letting people too rich to qualify for Medicaid and too young to qualify for Medicare buy in to the programs....
Hey, THAT was THEN!!
But now Lieberman has reversed course. On CBS’s “Face the Nation’’ on Sunday, he said the buy-in would “add taxpayer costs [and] add to the deficit,’’ even though congressional budget analysts have not yet weighed in.
How does that knife feel in your back, DemocraP?
Yeah, you better pass that health bill; you have a knife sticking out of your back!
Last night he said he was “encouraged at the direction’’ of the discussion in caucus meeting and said he regretted any misunderstanding that may have led Democratic leaders to prematurely announce a deal last week. “I thought I made myself clear all along,’’ he said.
How do you guys stand to be in a room with that lying PoS!?
Lieberman insisted he was not the only Democrat who has expressed concerns about a Medicare buy-in. Indeed, Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, wondered on
You know, I read this and it almost sounds as if the agenda-pushing paper is pissed at him. When was the last time they raked Joe over the coals for his duplicity, huh?
If Reid wants to keep any shred of a government-run insurance option in the plan - a cause not only dear to Senate liberals but also strongly supported by a majority in the House - he might have to start bargaining with Senator Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine.
Maybe he should have been worrying about her all along and not Joe!
She supports establishing a public option only in states where private insurers fail to offer affordable premiums, and she has met on many occasions with Obama to discuss her plan. Her colleague from Maine, Susan Collins, has also signaled interest in this approach.
Or her!
But Snowe has shown little interest in getting a deal done by Christmas. She has said repeatedly the Senate should take more time to work through its options.
Another major issue for Reid is abortion. Nelson has said he would vote to block the bill if it does not include additional restrictions on abortion coverage. Nelson offered an amendment that mirrored a provision passed by the House last month; it would have prevented any woman who receives insurance premium subsidies from buying a plan that covers abortion. But the Senate voted to table Nelson’s proposal, and Reid has not yet worked out an alternative.
I never thought I would be happy the MSM is bringing up the abortion issue, but there it is!!!!
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Also see: Handing the Senate to Joe Lieberman
