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News Alert: Senate Democrats Likely to Drop Medicare ExpansionWe sit, idly by, as snipers riddle the Health Care Bill!
The Republican’s minority of 40 senators, with the help of the systematic sniping of minorities of 1 or 2 Democrats on different objections, are holding together to block movement of the Health Care Bill toward enactment. It must really inflate the ego of those individuals to know they have the power to single-handedly stop the train.
How long must we tolerate the filibuster rules that require a super majority of 60% to move legislation forward for either an up or down vote? I guess I don't understand the procedures and protocol that require a super majority for passage of some bills. It is easy to see the benefit of delaying final voting on bills to assure adequate time for research and debate. But, surely there must be a way to limit how long that tactic can be maintained.
The only beneficiaries to this system are those who have blatantly misrepresented portions of the bill. Those half truths and misrepresentations have been maintained by the irresponsible public media and the prolific email forwards that continue to infect the common sense of the public.
This, nearly, 2 1/4 century old experiment in democracy is about to fail through utter exhaustion and frustration. The lack of fiscal responsibility, moral ethics, and individual commitment is taking its toll.
Published December 14, 2009 by Ken Poland |
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Comments (1)
> The lack of fiscal responsibility, moral ethics, and individual commitment is taking its toll.
Thank you, Ken, for articulating what many of us feel.
Posted by Tellie Meninger
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December 15, 2009 6:25 AM
Posted on December 15, 2009 06:25