Do you have a link for the 25 firm no votes? I would like to see that list.

Whip those votes.
Whip it good.

I received an e-mail from Organizing For America today asking me to immediately call my Blue Dog Democrat's D.C. office to urge his support for the health reform bill.

My Congressman is Rep. David Scott (D-GA13). I spoke with his staffer, Arthur, and expressed my support for the bill. I asked the staffer how Congressman Scott plans to vote. He said that Scott hasn't made his decision yet, and that he's waiting to hear from more constituents. Unbelievable.

Anyway, I told Arthur that I was aware that, as a Blue Dog, Congressman Scott is concerned about deficit reduction. So am I. I explained that a vote for health care reform with a robust public option is a vote for deficit reduction -- according to the CBO. Therefore, I would not accept deficit reduction as an excuse for voting against the public option. Arthur urged me to pass that information on to my friends and neighbors. Consider it done.

If you live in a Blue Dog's district (or even if you don't), it's important that you call him or her right now and tell them that a vote for health reform with a public option is a vote for deficit reduction -- and that you expect support for the bill when it comes up for a vote.

(202) 224-3121

Make sure they take down your name and zip code.

Go!

Any Democrat who votes against the bill should be committing political suicide, especially if they're giving half-assed reasons like "the deficit" as an excuse.

I've long thought that there should be a basic set of requirements to hold national office -- things like, you know, knowing the Pledge of Allegiance and having read the Constitution, perhaps even having an IQ in the upper double-digits.

Dreams. It's good to have them.

Anyone else find it amusing, and disturbing, that the man who wants to be the next Republican Speaker of the House doesn't even know the preamble to the constitution, or thinks it's the preamble to the Declaration of Independence?

Talk about your Idiocracy.

No mention that after once again promising a vote on the Weiner Amendment (single payer), it has once again been pulled?

...and House Republicans may use various parliamentary tactics to stall, pushing off the vote.

Oh, please by all means dither and stall some more. It's only 123 American lives that are lost each day you motherfuckers put this off. But that's no problemo when you're a group of insurgent freedom fighters busy saving America.

Guess we'll see whether or not my prediction about no vote being taken by the House is going get put to the test.

Still thinking that it's not going to happen. Jim Geraghty at the campaign spot over at NRO writes:

"House Republicans note, "As of today, at least 69 Democrats have expressed opposition to the Speaker’s health care bill."

The Democrats have 258 seats and Cantor said no Republican will vote for the bill. Pelosi can lose 40 and still have a bare 218-217 majority. Which 29 are going to have their arms twisted the most?"

If no vote takes place, then Obamacare truly is as dead as Ted Kennedy and will very soon be quickly buried.

Honestly, no one knows what's in the language of the bill.

It's not on line.

If you find it on line (disproving my source link), please let me know. I looked for it on the House web page, but could not find it.

If no vote takes place, then Obamacare truly is as dead as Ted Kennedy and will very soon be quickly buried.

Then you can do 122 dance steps every day, one for each American who died that day from lack of health insurance.

And you assume that you'll never be one of them.

Let's just get it fucking done, you know, like you being in the majority and like representing those who gave you a majority in the first place, mkay? Like, Oh my God WTF already!

If no vote takes place, then Obamacare truly is as dead as Ted Kennedy and will very soon be quickly buried.

Gawd, political disagreements aside, you are a rude f*cking jerk. Although something tells me that you'd only say things like this in an anonymous forum like this, that you probably are a creepy, friendless introvert in real life.

Health care is going to pass and if you find it so offensive that everyone should have affordable coverage maybe you should voluntarily give up your health insurance and refuse any and all medical treatment for any illness or ailments. In fact, that's what all conservatives should do if they have principles-- go galt on health care!