Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

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But you can knock-up your side squeeze and pay her off with government and extorted money and gain stature in the black community!

palin was knocked up and on welfare before todd was forced to marry her ass.

Good family values was passed down to her daughter.

The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”

I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)

Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.

How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.



Here’s the incredibly complicated language:







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All 58 Senate Democrats and two independents voted to advance the bill. All 39 votes in opposition were cast by Republicans. GOP Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio was the only senator not to vote. Montana Sen. Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who has labored on health care for more than a year, flew in from his home state on a government plane for the vote and was returning afterward to be with his ailing mother.

While timing made Landrieu and Lincoln the final two Democrats to announce their intentions, Sen. Paul Kirk of Massachusetts had a clear claim as the 60th vote.

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The 60-39 vote cleared the way for a bruising, full-scale debate beginning after Thanksgiving on the legislation, which is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it, crack down on insurance company practices that deny or dilute benefits and curtail the growth of spending on medical care nationally.

THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE: $300 MILLION FOR MY VOTE

Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.

On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state.

And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the financial "fix" she had arranged for Louisiana. "I am not going to be defensive," she declared. "And it's not a $100 million fix. It's a $300 million fix."

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There are a lot of blacks in Louisiana.

The problem for the Louisiana ditz is the people there elected a staunch CONSERVATIVE Governor and are seeing what a real CONSERVATIVE can do about blatant corruption and economic issues!
She was in trouble before this and she is dead meat now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Bob H:
The 60-39 vote cleared the way for a bruising, full-scale debate beginning after Thanksgiving on the legislation,... which is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it,Or don't want it or have the coverage they want/need.. crack down on insurance company practices that deny or dilute benefits and curtail the growth of spending on medical care nationally.and what does all this savings cost the taxpayers??

LMAO...The only thing you pasted that didn't contradict itself was the first sentence…

How the he11 do you curtail the growth of spending and save money by getting the insurance companies to stop denying or diluting benefits?? Seems to me if you force someone to spend money doing something it would >>>INCREASE COSTS<<< Is this some of that fuzzy math that I'm unaware of??

Damn no wonder this country is in such terrible economic trouble...

phuking libs..

Dave

What a bunch of homophobes in the New York legislature. They defeated a bill today that would have legalized queer marriages.
The left-wing supreme court there will no doubt step in and deny the will of the peoples representatives one more time!!!!!!!!
I'd say gays and lesbians are in big trouble on this issue if they can't get it passed in the liberal holy land!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Bill Koski:
What a bunch of homophobes in the New York legislature. They defeated a bill today that would have legalized queer marriages.
The left-wing supreme court there will no doubt step in and deny the will of the peoples representatives one more time!!!!!!!!
I'd say gays and lesbians are in big trouble on this issue if they can't get it passed in the liberal holy land!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey bd, the old man sures worries about gays and queer's.

Why do you think that?

Democrats to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash

In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections.


“We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told POLITICO Wednesday. And the Maryland Democrat confirmed that the anticipated increase could be as high as $1.8 trillion — nearly twice what had been assumed in last spring’s budget resolution for the 2010 fiscal year.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30417.html

ONLY TWICE WHAT HAD BEEN ASSUMED BY THE GOVERNMENT?????????????????????????????????
They'll never make it, the deficit last month was $120,000,000,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5,000 earmarks in the latest appropriation bill, in 2006 the socialist dokies faithfully PROMISED to END EARMARKS????????????
WHAT HAPPENED?????????????????????????

“We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills,”

Max Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.

Max Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise



The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.

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Poor 'ole dingy harry on the Senate floor whining about Glenn Beck and RUSH goading Mitch McConnel to embaress dingy harry!
NEWS FLASH dingy, you do an excellent job of embaressing yourself and the people of Nevada, nobody has to help you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills,”

Private Sector Jobs Decline, Government Jobs Increase

CNSNews.com) – The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday that America’s unemployment rate is the highest since 1983, but while most of the job losses have been in the private sector, public sector jobs – including jobs in government, education and health services – continued to increase.

Experts have suggested that to accomplish the goals set out in the budget, hundreds of thousands of workers will need to be added to the government’s payroll. Independent estimates set the number of new workers needed at 100,000, while the conservative Heritage Foundation said the number could be as high as 450,000.

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See if you can spot the Bush years
http://www.businessweek.com/th...a_lost_decade_f.html

How far below the ZERO parallel has the line gone since May of 2009, on the cowardly 0boy's watch???????????????
Half a mil every month for 10+ months now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did they lose track of last month, 400,000, or was it 800,000 unemployed, to reduce the unemployment rate from 10.2 to 10%??????????????????

1.5-2%

http://www.businessweek.com/th...10-year_private.html