Democrat Senator: I’m Willing To Lose Re-Election For Government Health Care

Proof • November 23, 2009

I’ve been saying that this is the Democrat attitude for a while now, but outside of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs saying it is true of Obama, this is the first time I’ve heard a Democrat say it in so many words:

This isn’t idle rhetoric. Senator Bennet is in trouble as far as polling numbers go, and if he votes for this very unpopular bill he’ll likely lose re-election.
And there are a lot of other Democrats in the same boat.
So why would Democrats continue to push through Congress a very unpopular bill that could well cost them their majorities? Or at least a good chunk of those majorities? Because once this bill passes it will never go away. It will be like Social Security and Medicare. Yet another entitlement program the spending on which grows faster than our economy and our wages that we somehow have to support anyway.
The Democrats view passing Social Security and Medicare as landmark accomplishments. They view passing this health care bill the same way. And as such, they’re more than willing to sit on the bench for a while in order to make passage happens.
So much for the will of the people, right?

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

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Great Americans! It’s about time politicians do what’s right, instead of doing what will get them reelected.
sayanything-4928

Oh ye of little faith….I have never seen the majority of Americans this angry! We have a constitution and the next set of legislators will follow it. Let’s start a fund to ship Dino and his idiot marxist friends to his favorite country…cuba.
lock’em’up

Bill Bennett )

he thinks Republicans will do the right thing. He should know better.

Democrats won’t pass this. It isn’t a good enough bill. It sure got the discussion going among moderates and liberals though. It got the imaginations of the republicans going too.
sayanything-9974

I guess to the Dem/Libs of the US, passing more bad legislation is ‘doing the right thing’. Most Americans would have no problems with improving health insurance. The government take over of the system will not be an improvement. Doesn’t it send up any red flags when they refuse to answer specific questions, end of life counseling, fines and imprisonment for non-compliance, monthly abortion fees. Spending more in a time that we have no money is a fools arguement. Only the Dem/Libs and rationalize more spending when are broke. How about a tax credit for medical expenses, interstate competitiveness for the insurance dollar, medical savings accounts. Passing bad legislation is not the answer – it is and has always been the problem. I sure hope the bill is defeated but we are still able to help out all of those elected officials with the desire to sacrifice thier career.
Doug

Now children…behave.
Anon

If this passes, cannot people sue the government for forcing them to buy health care insurance, it being unconstitutional? Come one guys and gals, think ahead. It’s either active, nonviolent resistance or John Galt retreat. Ideas, anyone?
sayanything-106

As voters we would be very happy to send these clown home to retirement. Where is this buffoon from?
sayanything-4204

Finally….a democrat that is not lying when his lips are moving………an enigma within an enigma

but as one sits and watches this go down, with polite talk from the majority of the loyal opposition….I really wonder if the American people have not been sold out by both parties except for a few that will shout out “you lie” and or the Michelle Bachmans et all, those with vehmenent opposal.

The Senate Republicans had the opportunity to force a full reading of the Senate’s proposed health care bill so that every bit of the 2,200 pages would be made public by the reading, and so the people could become much better informed about its contents before it is passed…if it is passed. It had the opportunity to really hold the Democrats’ feet to the fire over this abominable excuse for legislation that is being crammed down the throats of a majority of Americans who want no part of it. if nothing else, this delaying tactic would’ve served to cause more focus on those who were about to vote “Yes” to move this bill from Committee.

The Republicans decided that they wanted to go home for the Thanksgiving recess of the Senate more than they wanted to fulfill their obligations to those who elected them to serve in the Senate
sayanything-7715

I heard discussion on Bill Bennettâ€™s show that since funds are extracted for several years until actual healthcare occurred (2013) . That if the majorities were swung the other way (60 vote cloture for republicans) in the next two elections, it could be ended and the money collected up until that point, could be applied to the deficit or returned in the form of tax rebates.
sayanything-6955

I fear Dorgan and Conrad look at this the same way, its their holy grail.
sayanything-4416

We far outnumber you. Your view of the world is so limited you think your little bitter sore loser crowd is bigger than reality says it is.

The majority want health care reform. Republicans will suffer for blocking it.
sayanything-4416

Hopefully we’ll be giving lots of end of life counseling to the old people who vote republican and tried to block health care reform. Lots.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

That would be a nice scenario (an ideal one would be a killed bill), but I’m not sure we could count on the Republicans having the clout to roll back this health care bill once they got majority.

And I’m not sure we could trust them to use the money for deficit reduction.

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