Capitol Hill News Open Thread

So, thoughts on HCR? (4.00 / 3)

The good, the bad, and the ugly, let's dish it out.

I see Bad and Ugly, what's good in this POS?

I say start over, this thing is FUBAR

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by: MinistryOfTruth @ Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 15:17:09 PM CST

I sit from a place of working for an Englishman (4.00 / 3)

but I have adult kids who are "naked". Twenty-seven will help them since I have a family policy due to teh socialisms. If the guaranteed benefits of SCHIP are still there, then the one grandson is still covered. Healthy kids, healthy adults.

Sixty was always a myth, so I knew this was going to be a slog. Would I have preferred a Swiss model and more regulation? Hell yes. Do I think we get a do-over in my lifetime? No. Am I worried, but not surprised, about Nelson and Casey? Privately yes, but don't tell the Pope.

I need some energy and political capital for the continued fight against corporate influence since I am not hopeful about SCOTUS decisions that I lead with here. And I think tax policy in this country sucks the blood out of working turnips.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living -- Mother Jones

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 15:34:51 PM CST

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so the vote will be on christmas eve (4.00 / 2)

that's what i'm reading

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by: admin @ Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 17:45:01 PM CST

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maybe, Reid moved they voting on recests (4.00 / 3)

until right after midnight, then one hour later, cloture on the DOD conference Report to get it out of the way. Gets them to another calendar day on the cloture clock on this one since the Gee Oh Pee love the troops so much now. Didn't this kind of think used to be treason or something? They could have agreed to yield back some of those 30 hours.

Reid filed cloture on HR3590 and withdrew it first. Depends on what he means by holiday. We will do gifts on 6JAN10.

And McConnell pointed out that his request to recess until a specific time is AMENDABLE. Sen. Durbin was in the chair, not a freshman.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living -- Mother Jones

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 17:54:00 PM CST

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that "t" was a backspace, okay? (4.00 / 2)

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living -- Mother Jones

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 17:54:54 PM CST

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