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Anyone who has followed Ahn Cao knows that he is not going to vote for a pro-abortion bill. Stupak was the only reason he voted for it the first time.
The idea that he would vote any other way on a bill that was ambiguous about abortion was simply uninformed.
Update: Of course I just might be a sucker.
I just finished reading Steve Eggleston’s post here concerning what constitutes when a bill passes and when not:
Allow me to translate that for you – as of right now, the ONLY court-acceptable evidence that an “enrolled bill” actually passed Congress, or was even introduced into either House of Congress, is the signatures of the Speaker of the House and the Vice President (or presumably the Senate President Pro Tempore) on said “enrolled bill”. That’s right – a troka of the Speaker, Vice President and President have had the power to unilaterally enact law regardless of the other 534 members of Congress and indeed the Constitution for the last 118 years.
I turned on Rush he is pointing out what I’ve said before. Once the Senate bill is “deemed” passed nothing else matters. The president will sign it and anything else you do won’t mean spit.
Take a Bow Steve.
Question: DaTechGuy, why aren’t you talking about the various whip counts.
All of the whip counts are guesses, they have been all over the map. You have a better chance of getting your entire bracket correct in March Madness than to get an accurate whip count.
I still don’t think it is going to pass. Until the vote actually takes place that can’t be confirmed, so I’m not going to play guessing games with numbers. However I will point to Robert Stacy McCain’s American spectator article comparing this push to the end of Animal House:
Even then, Scott Brown was driving his Dodge truck through the snow en route to the Jan. 19 Senate victory that most political observers at the time believed was the final death-blow to this unpopular legislation. Could there be a more decisive electoral verdict than for a Republican to be elected in liberal Massachusetts on a promise to stop the health-care bill?
Well, the voters be damned.
He concludes thusly:
At this point, however, the arguments for passage resemble another Animal House scene, with Obama in the role of Otter when he announces, “I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” It remains to be seen whether House Democrats will supply Bluto’s famous answer: “We’re just the guys to do it.”
It’s an amazing thing to watch people walk off a cliff while insisting that they will fall up.
Who knew that Sen Blutarski was still in Congress?
…on Morning Joe at 8:06 a.m.
“Our long national nightmare as commentator’s is nearly over”
The argument is being made that this has to be passed to save the Obama administration. It can’t be allowed to fail etc etc etc… Robert Stacy McCain gave a hint to what I’m thinking in the Spectator:
“They’re obviously not doing this for policy reasons,” one GOP operative who worked on the Brown campaign said last night. “This is political, but nobody can figure out the politics of it.”
Administration arm-twisters are reportedly telling House Democrats that the bill, once passed, will magically overcome the unpopularity that has hitherto plagued it, and that by November voters will forget the extraordinary machinations by which Pelosi accelerated her legislative Deathmobile up to “ramming speed.”
Allow me to explain the politics of it:
It has become totally impossible for even the Mainstream Media to portray this administration as anything resembling a success. The president has failed on GITMO, failed on Don’t ask don’t tell, failed on Cap and Trade it has played the political game like a bunch of; dare I say it, Bush league players. The smartest guy in the room can’t nail two boards together to build legislation. He is so desperate that he consented to a FOX interview which was an unmitigated disaster.
The White House is channeling Count Rostov from Tolstoy’s War and Peace: “Why they’re shooting at me, Me, whom everyone loves!“.
This is the thing that the White House finds intolerable. Nothing else matters. We have a narcissist in the White House who has for his entire career been told how special he is. He is the poster child of our esteem culture.
If this bill passes the story on every MSM outlet will be about the Obama victory, about how the White House succeeded, about how the president still has it. About the president’s place in history. It will be as if it was January of 2009 all over again. The media desperately wants to write this story, the media who went all in on “Fluffy Hussein” as my brother calls him wants to believe that all that glittered was in fact Gold. The last few months have challenged their assumption not only of the administration but of themselves. It HAS to be expunged by victory.
This vote isn’t about healthcare, it isn’t about polls, it isn’t about the midterms, it is about an insecure man who wants the media to say nice things about him again and an insecure media that wants to be able to say them with a straight face.
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