McConnell agrees to earlier Christmas Eve vote on ObamaCare
posted at 5:20 pm on December 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
Not surprised to see Red State in high dudgeon about this, but Ace?
Alternate headline: “Mitch McConnell sells out freedom by conceding 11 hours to fait accompli.”
The Senate will hold a final vote on healthcare reform at 8 a.m. on Christmas Eve.
Under Senate rules, the GOP could have insisted that the vote not occur until 7 p.m. but Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon to announce an agreement that allows senators to depart Washington sooner to begin the Christmas holiday…
Earlier Tuesday, Reid said he was trying to persuade McConnell to agree on the final healthcare vote on Wednesday.
“We hope to be able to complete it tomorrow,” Reid said. “Certainly with ice storms coming to the Midwest we hope that we can finish tomorrow and not have to be here Christmas Eve.”
So he held out for a Christmas Eve vote anyway, even though it’s not a vote on the final final bill and it’ll be a pure formality if they get 60 tomorrow for cloture. What’s the problem? They’ve all got kids and grandkids they want to see on Christmas, as do their staffers. Why work late if you don’t have to and doing so would accomplish nothing? Pure spite is a poor political strategy, especially when the basic symbolic point — forcing the Dems to wait until the last possible day to pass this travesty — is preserved.
Actually, the early vote will achieve something the late vote couldn’t: A full day of media devoted to a bill the public hates and which both left and right agree is garbage. Good luck getting people to watch the news after dark on Christmas Eve; now, thanks to the new arrangement, they’ll have almost 12 extra hours to stew about it before the holiday draws them away. McConnell knows what he’s doing here.
Update: Sounds like The One will get a head start on his vacation too.
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For one thing, I don’t think most of their base is going to be upset that the vote is few hours earlier. They are concerned with other things right now and hate the whole bill enough that when it gets passed is secondary to get it getting passed at all. And Obama can try to work that into his speech, but the point is that they are not going to let him get away with him calling himself a fiscal hawk without looking like an idiot.
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 6:24 PM
OT Look at what is happening under the radar via Holder’s DoJ. Our national security is being jeopardized via the Justice Department re the release of Gitmo detainees, some of high value, to jihadi hotbeds.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGMxYmM0M2FiODI5Mzc1MGU5YzQwNGMyNzExZGUxOTk=
And note that our military security forces have NO imput in these decisions.
onlineanalyst on December 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM
I agree whole heartedly. Bring the troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan right now. After all, they would like to get home to see their family’s at Christmas too.
PappaMac on December 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Specifically- what improvement?
Chuck Schick on December 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM
I will say this, for a man with only 40 Senators going up against a super majority, he has done a better job than I would have thought he could. I read over at powerline that according to a Senate source, all the Republicans agreed on the strategy that they have followed thus far..so they might have other things planned that we just do not know about.
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Well you and AP think that. Seems to me that Ace’s temperature is more indicative of what the base thinks. I can’t prove one of the other, I only have anecdotal experiences. So I don’t really see what further can be said on that issue between us.
re: Obama vs Congress. I disagree. Executives are usually disliked more then Congress and Obama has worked all year to have the unpleasant things really belong to Reid/Pelosi. He can and will sell it like it was a Congress issue – He already promised not to sign a hc bill that added to the deficit, so he’s comfortable with that language – and I think it will just end up completely lacking any bite.
It is a bet that dispiriting the base is worth some future political gotcha. It might be clever to set a trap in advance, or it might be cowardice not to hold the line to the end even when defeat is evident.
Spirit of 1776 on December 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Bork would like to speak to you on line three.
Enoxo on December 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Well will wonders never cease?
GOP (Grand Old Poop-as&@s) are asked to be civil so the Marxists can takeover 1/6th of the US economy andthey of course comply.
I am sick of writing anonymous notes on those GOP surveys we get in the mail. They just don’t listen.
GOP………our 21st century WHIGS.
PappyD61 on December 22, 2009 at 6:32 PM
No kidding! No one wants this bill … yet a tiny minority of fanatics are not only holding the country hostage, they kidnapped it.
darwin on December 22, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Believe it or not, Ace is not a household celebrity among most Republicans, and I am not being snarky either. But most people do not hang out on the internet the way we do. Most of the conservatives I know right now are actually thinking about Christmas and their families. They are not happy about this bill and they will hate the vote whenever it happens, but a lot of people thought it was wrong to even have a vote like this on Christmas at all.
Do you think that people would be any less depressed if they hang out there all day and then lose the vote anyway?
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Good grief that’s lame. Having the political temperature has nothing to do with celebrity.
Spirit of 1776 on December 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM
McConell the political genius that he is wants to hurry and get this healthcare out of the way so they can cave on AMNESTY!
You pissed now? Just wait’um for Amnesty giveaways by the GOP!!!
It’ll be historic, unprecedented, A plus plus!!
PappyD61 on December 22, 2009 at 6:39 PM
This is what pisses me off. The Republicans can not stop this. They don’t have the votes. And one of the reasons they don;t have the votes is that a lot of conservatives did not bother to vote. No sireee, they said there was no difference in the party. In fact, Beck actually informed us that we were better off with Obama than McCain..and now that we do not have the votes in large part because people did not bother to vote… they are going to blame the party with 20 less votes.
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM
I agree. Better to give McConnell the benefit of the doubt than “Gift Horse” Parker “America’s greatest enemy is America and its materialism and we have nothing to fear from radical Islam” Griffith.
RushBaby on December 22, 2009 at 6:41 PM
chickasaw42 on December 22, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Moby
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Now THIS deserves bashing (unlike the inane griping about Michael Steele).
KittyLowrey on December 22, 2009 at 6:42 PM
so glad dear leader doesn’t have to delay his vacation
/s
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM
It probably has been noted, but does Senator McConell have a chin… like Joe Biden has hair? Does the Senate deform people somehow? Just asking.
chaswv on December 22, 2009 at 6:45 PM
..hope it matches the immense dog turd you will be receiving in your stocking on Friday morning. And I hope you manage to find some MD to attend you when you suffer that massive coronary you will be getting when the tax bills start rolling in.
VoyskaPVO on December 22, 2009 at 6:48 PM
We have just been robbed of our country and I blame the GOP.
For all of the posters here who are so egregiously misinformed that they give the GOP a pass, saying that there was nothing they could do anyway, each and every one of you is dead wrong.
A few days ago, when they needed the 60 votes for cloture, the GOP could have insisted the entire bill be read. This would keep them there over Christmas, but it’s not like we aren’t fighting for the entire Republic or anything.
It would take weeks to read the bill, and after the firestorm of publicity that the GOP, if they were savvy and ready to take it to the MSM, could use to ratchet up disapproval even further, the dems would vote cloture, maybe.
Then the bill goes to reconciliation and there is one, I am sure, if not two,(not sure about the two) more times that the vote count needs to be sixty, and that the GOP can again call that the bill be read. This would have stalled the bill out into the spring – running it into the heat of election year.
SO, DO NOT POST HERE THAT THERE WAS NOTHING THAT THE GOP COULD DO! IF THEY HAD THE SPINE TO RUN IT OFF THE ROAD ON TECHNICALITIES, AND I AM SURE THERE ARE MANY MORE STALLING TECHNICALITIES THAT WE DON’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT AS “LAYPERSONS”, THEY COULD HAVE STOPPED THE MADNESS, RUN OUT THE CLOCK AND KILLED THE BILL.
The Left are animals and were just acting true to their hideous natures. What is the GOP’s excuse for their non-existant defense of our nation?
We gave them all of the cover they needed, from coast to coast tea parties, marches on D.C., phone calls, letters, faxes, town halls, and this is how the GOP repay us? By selling us down the river??
As another poster observed, it’s a good thing that it was George Washington who crossed the Deleware on that freezing Christmas Day, and not the GOP.
tigerlily on December 22, 2009 at 6:48 PM
just heard on the fox all stars that the folks in congress won’t reconvene until mid january….
yeah, all that sense of urgency yada, yada, yada
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 6:49 PM
After this bill comes out of reconciliation, if it isn’t hamstrung enough by stupak in the house, which will probably be the case, the bill must again face a 60 vote in the senate, where it once again can be objected to and a reading of the bill be insisted on. This gives us one more chance in this venue of tricks.
So, after the New Year, let’s start letting the GOP know that THEY will be removed in 2010 if they don’t throw everything, I mean EVERYTHING they have at this bill to kill it.
Let’s start a pink slip campaign to the GOP!!!!!!!!!!
tigerlily on December 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM
The dems have their 60 votes lined up. It’s a wrap in the Senate. Obstructionism at this point would be counterproductive.
It’s time to concentrate on what’s going on in the House.
RushBaby on December 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM
This infuriated me as another RINO sellout until I heard the weather report. There may be an ice storm coming up the Eastern seaboard. It’s nothing new, and staffers could bed down in the Capitol, which has just about everything a small city would. They must all have overnight bags in their offices for late nights, anyway.
But there is always the damn fool who will try to drive home in bad weather. Imagine the hay the Dems and MSM would make if someone was killed:
“Senate staffer killed in car crash while driving home late because Grinch GOP insisted Senate stay open on Christmas Eve. Deceased was on way to spend Eve with dying grandmother/pregnant wife/spouse home from Iraq/[fill in tragic story].”
Wethal on December 22, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Let me be clear…
Bleeds Blue on December 22, 2009 at 6:14 PM
I see you’ve learned the words of your master quite well.
lukespapa on December 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Good point.
RushBaby on December 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM
It’s the lips – he has none. Zip. Zilch. Watch his mouth.
Intrepid on December 22, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Sorry for posting again, I hit the submit before I finished the last post.
If we figure what rules and technicalities are available from this point onward to the GOP to throw sand in the gears of this bill, in the House and the Senate, then we can insist that the GOP deploy every single trick in the parliamentary book.
If they don’t let’s threaten them with extinction in 2010 for dereliction of duty.
We cannot let them get away with playing ball with the Left and letting this bill pass without even minimum, let alone the required maximum, resistance.
I will not accept the GOP crocodile tears and lame excuses while they act as accomplices to the Left’s dismantling of this great nation.
A friend of mine just told me that a friend of hers had a son die in Afghanastan last Friday.
If the GOP doesn’t stand up, and quick, they will have let this boy, and the hundreds of thousands who have gone before him die in vain, because our country will be gone.
tigerlily on December 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM
THIS.
Keep your powder dry, GOP.
fossten on December 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM
The dems have their 60 votes lined up. It’s a wrap in the Senate. Obstructionism at this point would be counterproductive.
It’s time to concentrate on what’s going on in the House.
RushBaby on December 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Agreed. Just posted that we have to look to the House, and the Senate.
Also, I wouldn’t use the word obstructionism when describing what we are trying to accomplish, which is to save the Republic.
The left knows the power of words very well, and obstructionist is their word for what I would call an heroic intervention. I am sure other readers could come up with even better descriptions of what needs to be done to stop the madness.
tigerlily on December 22, 2009 at 7:10 PM
It’s
timepast time for a new senate majority leader.petefrt on December 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Allah-
You’re sure mentioning Ace a lot these days in your posts. Hmmmm
I_C on December 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Heh, not to mention a new minority leader.
petefrt on December 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Alrighty, then.
KittyLowrey on December 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I did not click on the video above, but I assume it was the same quote I heard on a radio news update where Queen Barry declared that he, uh, was willing to uh, make the sacrifice to delay leaving for his Hawaiian vacation to make sure he can be around to be of assistance. What a frickin creepshow. The POS pines that he will delay his tropical holiday while the serfs out here are bearing through the sacrifices made necessary by him and his minions. Most oligarchs do think that way though. This stuff used to make me angry. Now it just makes me cry.
Cornhusker on December 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM
As one of of those “high dudgeon” Redstaters, we’re not angry because McConnell is passing up opportunities to be petty and spiteful. We’re angry because McConnell let the whole process get this far.
Erick Erickson, Redstate’s lead writer, has been pretty clear with his criticisms:
Precious opportunities to derail this legislation have been lost. We may have lost our best chances to kill this legislation.
THAT is why Redstaters are “in high dudgeon.”
smagar on December 22, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Ed and I talked a little about this after the show today, and my feeling is simply this: it’s the principle of the thing.
If you say you’re going to do everything possible to delay this bill as long as possible, then you don’t go home early. If the bill is truly as bad as we all think it is, and they keep telling us it is, then you don’t go home early. Moreover, what was the point in holding out until Christmas Eve if you were willing to go home early?
If it is truly the futility of stopping the bill, then when Nelson gave up the 60th vote, they should have just stopped stalling and gotten it over with.
Further, what sounds more appalling to a voter? A vote early Christmas Eve morning (when most of us still are working anyway) or a vote when most of the rest of us are at home having Christmas Eve dinner?
I would rather people were picking up their Sat/Sun papers with headlines about this vote happening as they were distracted with Christmas dinners rather than hoping they’re going to bother catching the news on an extremely hectic day, which even if they see it is no doubt going to be framed with the “Republicans Cave” angle instead of the “Awful Bill Forced Through On Christmas Eve” angle.
CrankyTRex on December 22, 2009 at 8:04 PM
In all fairness to Senator McConnell lets remember that since Specter switched parties and Norm Coleman lost every Jewish Senator is a Dem. I think its 11 or 12 of the 60. What do they care about Christmas Eve?
Dennis D on December 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Meaning what, exactly? That we can never complain if McConnell is less than effective as a Minority Leader, because, hey, he’s a Minority Leader!
Republicans should be crude and discourteous, because this is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill. They should delay and obstruct every procedure, because this is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill. They should deny Christmas to a thousand families because this is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill. They should make every day until it fails a day of stress and strife, because it is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill.
A couple weeks of that, people may get the message that Republicans seriously consider this an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill, something extraordinarily bad as evidenced by the sacrifice of holiday time and sleep.
Instead, the Senate GOP made clear to the working American who has maybe 10 minutes for news, that whatever is in the law, it isn’t so bad that its opponents in the GOP won’t skip work for a hot meal and some family time. Oh well. Those crazy bastards in Washington with their overheated rhetoric.
Chris_Balsz on December 22, 2009 at 8:11 PM
So, this is the party that is going to sweep into office and reverse and repeal everything Comrade Chairman Obama has done?
We be forked.
Dave R. on December 22, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Allahpundit rolls over on cue…
While a gesture may only be symbolic, symbolic gestures are often necessary and important. But, hey, you’re a RINO to the core. Please just join the other side already.
Blake on December 22, 2009 at 8:45 PM
There’s nothing wrong with you that a personality couldn’t fix.
When you’re dying, be sure to let us know. We wouldn’t be able to tell the difference otherwise.
What’s the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a dead crr6 in the road?
No skid marks in front of crr6.
Why have scientists started using crr6 in lab experiments?
There are some things even rats won’t do.
SagebrushPuppet on December 22, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Actually, I think it suggests that darwin thinks you’re a Commie.
SagebrushPuppet on December 22, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Old, weak, frail Robert Byrd got out of his sick bed in a snowstorm in the middle of the night to cast his vote.
Mitch and his Republican “band of brothers” will fight valiantly to the end (8am Thursday) sustained by nothing more than a continental breakfast and a second cup of coffee!
President Barack Obama is gonna roll these guys time and again over the next three years.
chumpThreads on December 22, 2009 at 9:22 PM
McConnell is a freakin’ lightweight. One of the reasons that the right side of the senate is so impotent. He needs to be flushed!
ultracon on December 22, 2009 at 9:32 PM
12/21/2009. R.I.P McConnell’s political career.
uknowmorethanme on December 22, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Let me attempt a historical parallel here. If George Washington’s troops had suggested that he delay crossing the Delaware River by eleven hours during the evening of Christmas Eve, 1776, a resounding surprise victory over the Hessians still would have occurred, right?
McConnell: “I have not yet begun to fight (because I have no idea how to fight)!”
ya2daup on December 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Republicans should be crude and discourteous, because this is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill. They should delay and obstruct every procedure, because this is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill. They should deny Christmas to a thousand families because this is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill. They should make every day until it fails a day of stress and strife, because it is an evil, corrupt, unconstitutional bill.
+1000000000 Thank you, Chris.
tigerlily on December 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Oh, man up for God’s sake. You can neither fix stupid, nor should you accept responsibility for stupid’s mistakes.
ya2daup on December 22, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Chris_Balsz on December 22, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Credit for the copy in my post at 10:56 P.M.
tigerlily on December 22, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Like I’ve said elsewhere, I eagerly anticipate the day when BleedsBrains and that other liberal idiot come here and b*tch because it’s so hard to get a doctor or their paycheck is half of what it was in 2008.
Almost as much as I anticipate the day we elect some politicians with b@lls who will use this legislation for its primary purpose: toilet paper.
Note to you liberals: if your idiotic reps set the precedent that rules don’t matter, don’t expect conservative administrations to play nice in the future.
englishqueen01 on December 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM
McConell looks and acts like a befuddled pelican. Someone needs to retire the old fart and replace him with someone that has some balls and is not afraid to break eggs.
The half assed attempt being made by Republicans to kill this bill is starting to make me suspect they secretly support it and/or stand to gain something from it. I’m just not seeing serious conviction out of any of these clowns, other than DeMint.
Sugarbuzz on December 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM
The fact that this entire bill, from it’s inception in the collective pea brain of the liberals is unconstitutional, seems to make no difference, or even matter to a certain crowd of dim bulbs posting here.
You probably balked, and kicked as we’d heard, when Bush was president, that Bush was planning a take over, and was going to declare himself a life appointment as president.
Well here we are. Tyranny reeks all over this bill. Reid plans on seating himself permanently, and that doesn’t seem to bother you a bit. Which confirms for me, what I’ve suspected. The fact that you have not one iota of a problem with this tells me you’re proud communists, masquerading as Democrats.
Time to come out of the closet, and voice your love for all things communist. Oh, and don’t forget to thank those folks out there, whose money you’ll be living off of. Morons.
capejasmine on December 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
There’s a lot of reasons to be pissed at the GOP leadership, but this aint one of ‘em.
Captain Kirock on December 22, 2009 at 11:48 PM
So the GOP rolled over and played dead once again so the communists oh I mean democrats could make it home in time for Christmas. I didn’t think that the communists celebrated Christmas…
And we certainly wouldn’t want to inconvenience those GOP senators any with delaying tactics to hold the wholesale sellout of our country with a bill that cannot be reversed. No that sounds like way too much work..
I say run them all out of office on a rail and screw the GOP. Its time for them to man up or its third party time. And don’t tell me that the third party will kill our ability to get conservatives elected. We are in the shape we are in now because we compromised with these clowns and look what it got us.
We want to go home for Christmas.. Soon there won’t be a Christmas…
MikePappas on December 22, 2009 at 11:51 PM
I remember when Vince Lombardi told his players the same thing…looks like we lost so we might as well call it a game.
I remember a number of military leaders telling their men the same thing…like General Anthony McAuliffe
McConnell, if he was anything like the General would have answered the same way…Nuts…sometimes people are looking for a leader, and if you “go home” there is no leader…
right2bright on December 22, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Work you BASTARDS
Mr. Grump on December 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Surrender. Pure and simple. As for those who are touting the bad weather — if safety is a concern then Dingy Harry has the ability to move the reading to after the holidays if unanimous consent were withheld. Safety would be in Dingy’s hands, not the GOP’s.
When they tell you to hold that hill, they don’t care how you do it, but you do whatever is necessary to slow the enemy down. And this is nothing short of overt revolution by the marxists in congress. The GOP was running low on ammo, saw that it was getting cold and decided to pack it in, letting the Dems over-run their position.
AZfederalist on December 23, 2009 at 12:18 AM
We have been bombarded all day in Louisiana with massive ad buys on the local Fox affiliate. They are playing two or three in a row, thanking Mary Landrieu profusely for saving poor people.
Paid for by – get this – something like (fine print is quick and hard to read) – “Health Care Reform by Consensus”
The latest ad, a few minutes ago, ends with big, bold points:
“NO GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER”
“NO INCREASE IN MIDDLE-CLASS TAXES”
“NO INCREASE IN THE DEFICIT”
How can we fight this when massive ad buys are spreading this baloney?
The only way not to do the above is to dismantle the military or Medicare. I can’t think of any other way – aside from setting the currency printing presses on hyperdrive.
Which is it – are they lying in those three points, or not telling us where they’ll get the money?
cane_loader on December 23, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Mitch McConnel is an Ayatollah and he stopped being able to “get it up” many years ago. We’re going to replace his ass.
Jim DeMint is the real leader of the opposition in the Senate – or … he SHOULD BE.
HondaV65 on December 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM
No one’s buying those ads.
The GOP candidate (Christy) for NJ Governor was heavily outspent by what’s his name and the state was bombarded by Obama himself. Didn’t matter – because the left has lost it’s credibility with Americans.
And so has Mary Landrieu – especially here in Louisiana – no one’s buying her crap anymore. She’s gone next election – unfortunately five years away – but she’s gone.
HondaV65 on December 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Americans don’t want this bill. Americans don’t like this bill. Washington has stopped listening to us. But we’re paying attention, and 2010 is coming.
- Sarah Palin
publiuspen on December 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM
It strikes me that maybe the strongest thing on our side is that fact that doctors live all over this country and have families and friends. And I find it hard to imagine that the majority of doctors supports this.
Maybe word-of-mouth from doctors all over America will finally get through to people who are confused by all the B.S. being thrown around by the Obamabots. Maybe the ads won’t work. My own orthopedist has said he’s retiring if this becomes law. He’s had a good career, and he refuses to participate in this mess.
cane_loader on December 23, 2009 at 12:49 AM
New ad just came on. This one says
“LOWER THE DEFICIT BY $130 BILLION”
Great sleight of hand. It may lower the deficit for one year through an accounting trick (like collecting premiums for 3 years up front?) – but how many folks watching understand that it will make the debt skyrocket to a disastrous level? Maybe 2% of people?
These misleading ads are a disgrace. My mission if health care comes up during Christmas is not to try to explain the whole thing -just maybe to focus on that one lie – the “lower the deficit” lie. Folks need to understand that they’re being directly lied to with the ads. Then they can figure out the rest.
cane_loader on December 23, 2009 at 1:08 AM
the one should have an extended vacation in hell. What a worthless turd; totally impossible for me to express my level of hate and loathing!!!
jgdp on December 23, 2009 at 1:29 AM
I just did some Christmas shopping and visited a mall kiosk calendar store selling an obama page-a-day calendar…should be called the obama lie-a-day calendar; the perfect gift for every cretin who voted for this debacle!!!
jgdp on December 23, 2009 at 1:34 AM
Perhaps Allahpundit should consider buying a bridge I’m thinking of selling….
Intrepid on December 23, 2009 at 4:10 AM
Yes, because CHRISTmas is just soooo important to these atheist progressives.
Dr. ZhivBlago on December 23, 2009 at 4:47 AM
I could care less whether lawmakers get home to see their kids and grand kids for Christmas. They are supposed to serve the people yet they are forcing a bill on the people that a majority do not want. Why should I care whether they are able to celebrate Christmas or not?
Hera on December 23, 2009 at 5:04 AM
Geeeze.
Have a nice Christmas Mitch.
stenwin77 on December 23, 2009 at 6:28 AM
Last possible day is NEVER. I would have liked to see them delay long enough that Harry Reid missed Christmas with his family. Criminals like that should be in jail or at a minimum Dulles Airport for Christmas.
highhopes on December 23, 2009 at 6:43 AM
Or the conservative that wants to rub it in to the idiot relative who still has an Obama bumper sticker on their car.
highhopes on December 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM
It was this same weak knee, pandering attitude that lost the last elections a laid the groundwork for this liberal fascist takeover of the country. if these people don’t learn how to fight and sacrifice we’ll never see the end of this disaster.
rplat on December 23, 2009 at 6:58 AM
spot on!
cmsinaz on December 23, 2009 at 7:02 AM
WTF way to hang tough Mitch! And you have to wonder why the GOP was voted out of majority. Get a pair of balls man show some fight..Jeez
shov74 on December 23, 2009 at 7:08 AM
MM…gotta love her!
cmsinaz on December 23, 2009 at 7:27 AM
Exactly the point I made earlier.
When you’re in a war to save the republic you don’t take a time out. Politics is a street fight. Anybody doesn’t know that needs to stay indoors away from windows.
In a street fight you fight to win and you don’t quit. Mitch, like a lot of the GOP dipsh!ts are too affable by far. I don’t enjoy spelling out the hard cold dirty reality of politics but some one apparently has to provide the clues.
Mitch, you sir are an idiot. Find a street fighter.
dogsoldier on December 23, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Jim DeMint is looking better and better. Also John Cronyn. I like Mitch but he is far too accomodating of the enemy party to be the pit bull that is needed. We, in fact, need somebody who will take a gun to a snowball fight.
highhopes on December 23, 2009 at 7:44 AM
Smart decision. The public has little patience for petty politics.
AnninCA on December 23, 2009 at 7:49 AM
And even less patience for legislation forged out of bribes, lies, and liberal dogma. Harry Reid, his corrupt party, and the filthy liar in the White House still don’t realize the firestorm they have started. The enemy party might force through socialized medicine on a strictly partisan vote but there will be massive casualties if they decide to do so. I look forward to the body count and will be just as gleeful as the Dems were everytime a new milestone was reached in Iraq.
highhopes on December 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM
add mccain to the mitch group
cmsinaz on December 23, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Notice how she didn’t say Republican or GOP. She gets it…
dtestard on December 23, 2009 at 8:07 AM
By all means, let’s not delay the big “O”‘s Hawaiian vacation. What an inconvenience and what a magnanimous gesture to delay a mega-thousand dollar Air Force One jet ride to the tropics. Or the legislative knuckle-heads who’d rather go home than do what’s good for the country. Very sneaky ploy by the sleazy dems but then again they’re good at this kind of emotional torture. This whole thing is starting to take on the appearance of a sham anyway. This internal “bickering” by the democrats is pretty much all for show. It’s been a done-deal from the beginning. And the republicans had better start fortifying those backbones because they’re our only hope and this is getting very scary, Mary!
mozalf on December 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Why yes. It does almost seem that way, doesn’t it?
SagebrushPuppet on December 23, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Jim DeMint is looking better and better. Also John Cronyn.
SagebrushPuppet on December 23, 2009 at 8:11 AM
yepper
cmsinaz on December 23, 2009 at 8:12 AM
Here. Allow me to repost with the quotes in the right place:
I don’t know about DeMint, but Cornyn voted for TARP and to confirm wonder-boy tax cheat Timmy Geithner. Cornyn is not to be trusted.
(There. Muuuuuch better.)
SagebrushPuppet on December 23, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Actually, McCain makes Mitch McConnell look like Lee Atwater. Mitch accomodates the wishes of the enemy party. McCain spends his time crafting legislation like the amenesty bill that was gift to liberals. McCain and his shadow (Lindsey Graham) have no place in the real GOP.
highhopes on December 23, 2009 at 8:13 AM
tigerlily on December 22, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Point well made for application.
Rushbaby, though the 60 are lined up, never cave in prematurely as the harassment from the public can YET bear sway over time given the power of attrition. Holding Democrats together over an extended period leaves that much more time for each Democrat to start bickering over not getting enough bribe for their vote to go along. The rush for a vote is based upon that Majority fear, of another Democrat changing sides–even changing party affiliation as occurred this week.
I’ve argued previously with progressive young law types over the effectivity of holding the line vs. their giving up because they’ve already determined it too difficult to win. The progressive rebuttal was to equate holding the line with charging into a suicidal attack, which is not correct, the obvious differentiation apparent to any astute person.
Whenever making a blind judgment, I place my bet on Ace rather than Allahpundit. Evidently Powerline has more on this as well. So I’m out of here to go see.
The public has NO patience for lies.
Democrats have no tolerance for rule of law, evidence of fraud and corruption, and Congressional Protocol respecting political opposition.
maverick muse on December 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM
SagebrushPuppet on December 23, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Cornyn also nominates RINO names for GOP endorsements based upon the country club decision of who fits in with the Washingtonian crowd, posing that premise as “electability”.
maverick muse on December 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Vote on that crap sandwich early,
Merry ChristmasHappy Holidays from the National Socialist Democrat PartyInsert witty screen name here on December 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM
This is Great news! You real americans will get your Obamacare a few hours early! Enjoy and have a blessed Christmas! This will be the gift that keeps on giving!
simplesimon on December 23, 2009 at 8:56 AM
And wait to see what else they spring on Christmas Eve! Like they have been doing every Friday all year, they’ve got some news to sneak out that they don’t want to get too much publicity, and the communist media shall oblige.
Cybergeezer on December 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Whats the point? seriously Allah?
Our soldiers overseas arent going to be home for christmas.
At all.
The Senate Republicans should not have relented. If this is as big a fight for liberty as they would have us believe they should have forced the Dems to fight for every inch of ground.
It amounts to an 11 hours gift to those that want to nationalize the healthcare industry.
Thune on December 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM
I don’t understand all this “We must be Polite Gentlemen” crap in the Senate. The Republicans are pushovers.
Mitch McConnell is acting like Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson who shut down America’s efforts to break the Japanese and German diplomatic codes before WWII on the grounds that “gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail”.
Uniblogger on December 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM
The GOP senate. As predictable as a French surrender on a warm spring afternoon.
Fletch54 on December 23, 2009 at 9:22 AM
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