Displaying 271 To 300 Of 485 Comments Health Care Bill Clears Senate Test Thanks. 🙂 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 10:34 am You’re welcome. 🙂 Thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate it. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 10:21 am Thank you so much, sweetie. 🙂 That really means a lot to me. *HUGS TIGHT* » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 8:17 am Mitch McConnell is a grinch! » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 7:03 am Senator Byrd arrived this morning with everyone else to cast his vote. He was in a wheelchair, which is how he’s getting around these days. Despite the complaints from Republicans in the senate about having to show up so late and during such miserable weather, I have yet to read an account of Byrd voicing any complaint. He celebrated turning 92 on November 20th. He’s the longest serving senator in United States history. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 5:54 am http://hotdogandfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mr-turtle.jpg Compare the picture to the image of McConnell in the youtube clip. The resemblance is hysterical! » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 5:07 am
» Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 4:53 am Markos on Meet the Press: Progressives and the political landscape » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 4:34 am Yes, I do. I’m an INFP also. 🙂 I never thought you were blowing me off. In fact I didn’t mean to imply that I was just trying to get you to email me. 😛 It was just the quickest and easiest answer I could come up with. Hehe. I used to write my own too, but I couldn’t remember the code for the tags. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:58 am You might enjoy reading this, Khirad. Why I Still Believe in This Bill » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:37 am < blockquote > T E X T < / blockquote > Whoot! I got it to work. 😀 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:32 am email me madefortv@origingpoint.com 😐 I can’t actually reproduce it without looking up a few things – hard to explain. Also, I believe it’s in the FAQ. **UPDATE** nvm 🙂 I looked up how to make the < and >. Go me! ::dances:: » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:27 am From Politico: Victoria Kennedy at Senate: “I feel fantastic” Moments after the vote, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry embraced her on the third floor off the chamber. “I’m so happy for you,” Kerry said, hugging her. “I’m so happy,” Kennedy said. In the reception room off the chamber, which became the site of an impromtu celebration, Kennedy stood in what was effectively a receiving line, getting hugs from Sens. Barbara Mikulski, Chris Dodd, and others. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:18 am From Politico: Stupak aims to sink ‘unacceptable’ abortion compromise » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:09 am From Talking Points Memo: One Premium, Two Checks: How Abortion Will Be Paid For Under The Nelson Compromise But what he did get might still draw the ire of pro-choice activists and legislators. According to a senior Senate leadership aide, under the Nelson compromise, “[i]ndividuals receiving subsidies will have one premium that they pay with two distinct transactions.” Put another way: If you’re buying insurance with help from the government, and the policy you want to buy covers abortions, you have to write two checks (or authorize two credit card transactions, etc.) for your plan. If the plan costs $1000 a month, and the insurer plans to sequester $50 to put into a pool that covers abortions, you have to make one payment of $950 and a separate payment of $50. So far, leading pro-choice Democrats in the Senate say they can abide by that. Here’s Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Patty Murray (D-WA):
We said all along that we wanted to ensure there was a firewall between private and public funds — this compromise achieves that. And we said we would stop Stupak — which we did. Let’s be clear — we were both much happier with the Capps language and the language in the underlying bill. But compromise was necessary to get a health care bill for the American people, and this compromise achieves that.
We know that Republicans are already gearing up their opposition to the compromise on pro-life grounds. And Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) may be gearing up to oppose it. But what will other pro-life and pro-choice Dems in the House say? We’ll let you know as reactions crystallize.
» Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:05 am The 7 Mountains of Influence In Culture and Why You Should Be Concerned Thank you, Sue. This is very informative. It’s also quite sobering. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 3:23 am Senate Reaches Health Care Reform Agreement 🙂 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 5:07 pm There » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 4:37 pm 😀 *HUGS TIGHT* » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 4:22 pm This one is particularly disgusting to me. From Think Progress: » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 4:18 pm I know this isn’t what you asked for, but I thought I would offer it to you just the same. I’m sorry it falls short. 😐 Why I Still Believe in This Bill … » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 4:10 pm Cher, this is the best one I can think to offer you. Why I Still Believe in This Bill I found it to be helpful and informative. I’m not fully comfortable with the current bill either. Mind you the article does say many of the same things you’re saying, and thus it agrees with Howard Dean that this bill needs to be improved.
Progressives have good reason to be angry. Yet we should harness our anger to fix the bill–now and every year from now. The current bills in Congress do too little to help Americans immediately; their main actions are delayed for years. If and when legislation passes, progressives should demand immediate concrete actions to make the promise of a reform a reality more quickly and more effectively. So a bill must pass. Yet it must be a better bill that passes. And it must be understood by the President, the Congress and every American as only a step–an important but ultimately incomplete step–toward the vital goal that the campaign for the public option embodied: good affordable health care for every American.
» Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 3:59 pm I’ve been bugging Reid’s office about this for weeks. I would contact my own senators, but they are GOP obstructionists: Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback. 😐 My district’s Congressman isn’t any better either – Todd Tiahrt. I’m a little blue island amidst a sea of red. 😛 btw – Cher, you really are inspiring. 🙂 Your posts do wonders for me. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 3:53 pm I was really moved by it. It honestly brought me to tears. Thank you so much for that last link! It’s got a PDF of Manager’s Amendment. I’ve been wanting to find a PDF of it. I find them much easier to read rather than scrolling through an online version. I didn’t even think to look there for it. That’s a huge help in trying to study it closer. Awesome! Thank you so much nellie. 🙂 You made my day. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 3:40 pm If it’s still not working then we might as well just leave the URL out. The AP is rather particular about using its articles and reporting without first obtaining permission. There may be a reason I can’t link to it. I’m not sure how that would work exactly, but there are plenty of network admins who are far smarter than I. 😉 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 3:35 pm That’s cool. 😉 I have another URL that might do the trick. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 3:31 pm From The Nation: “Health Care Reform is Not Reform if it Denies Women Coverage” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continued his health-care-by-the-holidays rush Saturday, and he was having some tactical success. But Reid and the Democrats weren’t winning any friends among the broad base of voters who support reproductive rights. In order to secure the critical 60th vote needed to advance the compromise legislation he wants to see the Senate pass before Christmas, Reid agreed to amend the legislation to include severe restrictions on access to basic health care for women. That concession brought Senator Ben Nelson, a socially-conservative Democrat who is closely aligned with the health-insurance industry, on board — meaning that Reid should have the 60-member Democratic caucus united in time for critical votes that begin early Monday morning. If all Democrats vote for the bill that Reid finally finished reworking on Saturday, it will clear any hurdles erected by the 40-member Republican minority. To get Nelson’s vote, Reid had to agree to restrict the availability of abortions in insurance sold in newly created exchanges. …continued at The Nation » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 3:28 pm From The Associated Press* via Yahoo News: Neb.’s Nelson sees backlash on health reform plan *The Associated Press frown upon posting their articles without permission. Thus, I’ve only given the link. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 3:20 pm http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/G/-/3/lieberman-vs-hcr.jpg » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 1:33 pm I gotta learn how to embed video other than youtube. 😐 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 20, 2009 @ 1:27 pmComments Posted By Scheherazade
by Jacob S. Hacker
Ted Kennedy made health reform a lifelong cause, and after he died this year, Democrats frequently invoked him for inspiration. His wife, Victoria Kennedy, watched the Senate health reform vote from the gallery.
An aide to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) coordinated opposition to the Senate health bill
In the House health care bill, consumers who receive federal premium subsidies would be forbidden from buying any insurance policy that covers abortion. That provision–the so-called Stupak amendment–threatened to blow up health care reform. Originally, it’s the language Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) wanted to see in the Senate health care bill. In the end, he didn’t get that.
We said we would not accept language that prohibited a woman from using her own private funds for her legal reproductive health care — this compromise meets that test.
As weak as it is in numerous areas, the Senate bill contains three vital reforms. First, it creates a new framework, the
“I know this is hard for some of my colleagues to accept and I appreciate their right to disagree,” Nelson said of the anti-choice language. “But I would not have voted for this bill without these provisions.”
The question now is whether supporters of abortion rights can — or should — back a bill that not only disrespects but disregards a woman’s right to choose.
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