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October 8, 2009
Hugh Hewitt: 'A "Yes" Vote On Cloture Crushes Medicare and American Medicine'
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Hugh Hewitt writes:
Eight Democratic senators stand between the Medicare and the destruction of the senior health care program as well as the ruin of American medicine generally. These eight know the stakes and have written Harry Reid to demand that the Democratic leader slow down the jam down so that they and the public know what they are voting on and what it will cost. They have asked for at least 72 hours and a CBO estimate for any Obamacare bill before a final floor vote occurs, as well as 72 hours and a full CBO score before any vote on a future House-Senate conference report occurs.Take the time to read it all, then contact all the Democrats on Hugh's list. As Hugh suggests, tell them that if they vote yes on any cloture, you will help fund their next opponent and do whatever it takes to defeat them at the polls when next they stand for re-election.These demands are a dodge because any of these eight have the ability to enforce any amount of delay they want via a refusal to vote for cloture whenever that debate-limiting motion is put forward by Reid.
To review: The Senate's rules provide that it requires 60 affirmative votes to pass a motion ending debate on any legislative proposal. Thus if even one Democrat refuses to go along with this Obamacare jam down that will devastate Medicare, the entire bill halts until and unless that Democrat is satisfied it is a good idea. Thus every Democrat has the individual ability to demand a serious, careful debate and serious, careful budget impact analysis.
Some Democrats hope to protect themselves against the people's fury at the polls in November 2010 by voting for cloture and then voting against passage, but that won't work in this hyperattentive new media age.
A vote for cloture is a vote for everything in the Obamacare package that would end up on the president's desk. Everyone knows this, but some Democrats hold out hope that their genuine responsibility for Obamacare will be obscured by various posed votes. In this sleight-of-hand they hope to be helped by Manhattan-Beltway media elites that will do what they can to obscure accountability on the cloture votes ahead.
But the clear truth is that a vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare, and not just its ruinous impact on Medicare for seniors and medicine generally but also for the trickery that is obscuring the real and vast costs of the bills and the refusal to allow the American people the opportunity to see and read what it is they are being obliged to sacrifice their health care and benefits for.
If you're a senior, or plan to live long enough to be one, your life could very well depend on stopping Obamacare. Without a doubt, Medicare and American medicine as we now know it most definitely depends upon stopping it.
Posted by Richard at October 8, 2009 10:50 AM
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