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You are here: Home / Politics / Voting has begun

Voting has begun

by DougJ|  March 21, 201010:37 pm| 95 Comments

This post is in: Politics, Good News For Conservatives

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The vote to concur with the Senate is open. 184 yeas so far. I’ll tell when it hits 216.

Update. Just hit 216.

Update. Passes 219-212.

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95Comments

  1. 1.

    Scott Parkerson

    March 21, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    Those bastards in the dem nay slot are going to find themselves in some pretty crappy committee jobs.

  2. 2.

    eastriver

    March 21, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    I have wood. Is that so wrong?

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    March 21, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    Where do I go to sign the petition to get CSPAN to play the theme from _Jeopardy_ during moments like this?

    -dms

  4. 4.

    demo woman

    March 21, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    Hello, Once again thanks for all your work. The tubes are slow so if you put up an act blue page tonight, can you also put one up tomorrow when the system works a tad faster.
    Stevens was right!

  5. 5.

    slag

    March 21, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    Why does it take 15 minutes to press a button?

  6. 6.

    Jeffro

    March 21, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    Or just crappy jobs, period.

  7. 7.

    mai naem

    March 21, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    You just have to watch Fox to see exploding heads to know that 216 has been reached.

  8. 8.

    mr. whipple

    March 21, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    C’mon. I’m having a spaz!

    VOTE YOU DUMMIES!

  9. 9.

    curious

    March 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    good grief. vote yea already.

  10. 10.

    Violet

    March 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    Jeez, this is tense. Time is counting down.

  11. 11.

    Mwangangi

    March 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    211…

    + (pending)

  12. 12.

    PeakVT

    March 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    209 @ 3:25 to go! (Note to self: remember to breathe.)

  13. 13.

    mandarama

    March 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    I can’t even watch the real thing happening. I’m just hitting “refresh” here. I’ve probably said it more times than Edwards said “son of a millworker,” but both of my parents died young with no health insurance. I’ve waited a long time for this day to come!

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    March 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    211 yeas. Oh so close.

    -dms

  15. 15.

    SGEW

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    Even tho’ we knew the votes were there, this is still kinda tense, isn’t it?

    There we go: past the 216 mark. Phew!

  16. 16.

    maody

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    Y A Y

  17. 17.

    mr. whipple

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    Who gets #216?

  18. 18.

    curious

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    hells yeah!

  19. 19.

    El Cid

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED

  20. 20.

    Violet

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    Yes We Can!

  21. 21.

    Ming

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    Yes!

  22. 22.

    pikhoved

    March 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    Awsome

  23. 23.

    DanF

    March 21, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    Yes!!!!

  24. 24.

    dmsilev

    March 21, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    216

    Health care, in some fashion, has now passed.

    -dms

  25. 25.

    PeakVT

    March 21, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    Win.

  26. 26.

    Violet

    March 21, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    I think I can finally breathe! I’m so excited, I can hardly stand it! Woo hoooooooooo!

  27. 27.

    curious

    March 21, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    so cao is officially out? finally? i mean as a congressman?

  28. 28.

    Genine

    March 21, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    219! Yes!

  29. 29.

    mr. whipple

    March 21, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Those 34 poopheads that voted no: it ain’t gonna help ya. You had a chance to be on the right side of history.

  30. 30.

    Anonsters

    March 21, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Boner done gone and flipped his wig:

    http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/boehner-can-you-say-this-bill-was-written-openly-hell-no-you-cant-video.php

  31. 31.

    TR

    March 21, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Woofuckinghoo!

  32. 32.

    Mark S.

    March 21, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Who are the two Goopers who didn’t vote?

  33. 33.

    Tattoosydney

    March 21, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Woo!

  34. 34.

    Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

    March 21, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    WOO HOO!

    You heard it here first.

  35. 35.

    sistermoon

    March 21, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Who wants to chip in on Rush’s ticket to Costa Rica?

  36. 36.

    lamh31

    March 21, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Yep Cao is out!

  37. 37.

    mandarama

    March 21, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Holy crap. I mean, HOLY CRAP. I may actually cry now.

  38. 38.

    robertdsc

    March 21, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Yay!

  39. 39.

    eastriver

    March 21, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Merry HCRistmas, one and all. Hey, General, go down to the corner and buy me the biggest HCRistmas turkey you can buy. I want to celebrate.

  40. 40.

    Sasha

    March 21, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    OK, who are the 34 “Nays” that need to be primaried?

  41. 41.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 21, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Oh, thank god! Now, what the fuck is the next bill?

  42. 42.

    Evil Bender

    March 21, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    It is time for a happy dance.

    Snark can wait for tomorrow morning.

  43. 43.

    South of I-10

    March 21, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Y’all are making me feel all hopey/changey here. Apparently everyone in the country is trying to access BJ right now – so slow!

  44. 44.

    geg6

    March 21, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    Motion to recommit and then the sidecar. Almost there.

  45. 45.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 21, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    Now for the senate blood match that will make today seem like tea with the friekin queen. But netherwell this fucker is law. Good job democrat CC;ers. You got off the mat and gave us imperfect HCR, but 32 million souls will get health care, and those with it are more secure, whether they know it now or not.

  46. 46.

    Sir Nose'D

    March 21, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    2500 mg of potassium cyanide used to be my long-term health care “plan.” It was brilliant–it would have prevented my family from going bankrupt to delay my inevitable death. Now what I supposed to do with them?

  47. 47.

    Comrade Kevin

    March 21, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    I can hear the wails of the teabaggers! What sweet, sweet music.

  48. 48.

    williamc

    March 21, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    We did it! I can’t believe its finally over.

    Congrats everyone, its drinking time.

  49. 49.

    demo woman

    March 21, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    The tubes are slower now than on election night..

  50. 50.

    meander

    March 21, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    Thanks to a little noticed provision in the bill, after the president signs the bill, all anatomy textbooks in U.S. medical schools will be replaced by Mao’s Little Red Book, and all drug reference guides will be replaced by Das Kapital.

    OK, the excitement is making me a little giddy. I had the good luck of turning to CSPAN right at the end of the vote (which went only 15 minutes, not like the 3 hours of the Medicare Part-D vote),

  51. 51.

    eemom

    March 21, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    holy shit……what is this Michigan fuckwad up to?

  52. 52.

    FormerSwingVoter

    March 21, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    SUCK IT, YOU TEABAGGING BASTARDS!!!

    FSV +7

    (don’t judge me, i have off tomorrow)

  53. 53.

    kay

    March 21, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck:

    Do I have to worry about the motion to recommit the Democrats didn’t read?

  54. 54.

    Adrienne

    March 21, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    I love that the moment they hit 216 the Dems starting chanting “Yes We Can!” on the House floor.

    Now the Repubs are trying to get us to add an abortion poison pill to our own bill that they won’t vote for… And this asshole Dem, Pitts from PA, needs to go away and die if he can’t stop lying.

  55. 55.

    mr. whipple

    March 21, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    @eemom:

    This is the scary one. This must go down, and too many 9087wits on the dem side voted no last time.

  56. 56.

    Nellcote

    March 21, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    WTHell are the goopers talking about regarding abortion in this bill? It feels like they’re talking in a different language but using english words. Bizarre.

  57. 57.

    low-tech cyclist

    March 21, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    Fireworks courtesy of Ludwig van Beethoven!

  58. 58.

    dmsilev

    March 21, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    What’s the over/under on the number of times that these twits will say “abortion”?

    -dms

  59. 59.

    Andre

    March 21, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    @Sir Nose’D:

    2500 mg of potassium cyanide used to be my long-term health care “plan.” It was brilliant—it would have prevented my family from going bankrupt to delay my inevitable death. Now what I supposed to do with them?

    You’ll be lowering the overheads of setting up all those death panels, of course!

  60. 60.

    Chuck Darwin

    March 21, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    Steny Hoyer is actually looking sexy at this point.

  61. 61.

    Nellcote

    March 21, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    Wow! Stupack stands up to defend the dems agains gooper abortion bs.

  62. 62.

    dmsilev

    March 21, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    Ah, so the price of Stupak’s voting in favor is that the rest of the Democratic Caucus has to fellate him in public.

    -dms

  63. 63.

    eemom

    March 21, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    OMG……Stupidpak to the rescue.

  64. 64.

    demo woman

    March 21, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    @FormerSwingVoter: fyi.. although I only had three glasses of wine, I listened to Abba’s waterloo 7 times.

  65. 65.

    Three-nineteen

    March 21, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    I cannot listen to Stupak again.

  66. 66.

    South of I-10

    March 21, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    These old fucks need to step the hell away from my uterus.

  67. 67.

    AkaDad

    March 21, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    That hopey changey thing seems to be workin’ out pretty well.

  68. 68.

    Luthe

    March 21, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    They must have given Stupak some *good* ego stroking, because he’s on the floor telling the GOP to STFU about the motion to recommit.

  69. 69.

    Adrienne

    March 21, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    I love that the moment they hit 216 the Dems starting chanting “Yes We Can!” on the House floor.

    Now the Repubs are trying to get us to add an abortion poison pill to our own bill that they won’t even vote for… And this asshole Dem, Pitts from PA, needs to go away and die – without his cushy gov’t healthcare – if he can’t stop lying.

  70. 70.

    Annie

    March 21, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    @eemom:

    I hate to say it, but he done good.

  71. 71.

    Comrade Kevin

    March 21, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    The little Balloon Juice web hamster is running as fast as he can, but he’s having a hard time keeping up.

  72. 72.

    curious

    March 21, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    is it “in the middle of the night” yet? just wondering how much longer the republicans plan to delay voting so that that choice phrase can be bandied about mtp and accompanying tv spots.

  73. 73.

    demo woman

    March 21, 2010 at 11:07 pm

    Stupak actually talked about life and not fetuses, I’m shocked.

  74. 74.

    dmsilev

    March 21, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    Looks like party unity is quite a bit stronger on these procedural things. Only a handful of defectors so far.

    -dms

  75. 75.

    lamh31

    March 21, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    CNN reporting that someone on Repub side shouted out “baby killer” to Stupak

  76. 76.

    IndyLib

    March 21, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    Hallefuckin’luja!!!

  77. 77.

    lamh31

    March 21, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    Now of course John King trying to pardon the GOP.

    DICK!!!

  78. 78.

    Dave C

    March 21, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    How long before somebody creates a mash-up video featuring Boehner yelling, “Hell No You Can’t!” and Obama/crowds of people responding with, “Yes we can?”

  79. 79.

    suzanne

    March 21, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Oh my God. It passed.

    I think I just came.

  80. 80.

    Annie

    March 21, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    @suzanne:

    I think it was a collective come…

  81. 81.

    AkaDad

    March 21, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    @suzanne:

    Obama’s package had the same effect on me.

  82. 82.

    Annie

    March 21, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    @AkaDad:

    LOL. Perfect response…

  83. 83.

    Anonsters

    March 21, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    @Annie:

    And just think of the multiple orgasms we could have had had there been a public option, or the tantric bliss of single-payer……..

  84. 84.

    SGEW

    March 21, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    Now, now. There’s gushing over politics, and then there’s . . . well . . .

    You know, I’ll just stop there.

  85. 85.

    Annie

    March 21, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    @Anonsters:

    Don’t tease….

  86. 86.

    Comrade Kevin

    March 21, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    Here’s the vote breakdown.

  87. 87.

    Anonsters

    March 21, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    @Annie:

    :D

  88. 88.

    Adrienne

    March 21, 2010 at 11:24 pm

    I love that the moment they hit 216 the Dems starting chanting “Yes We Can!” on the House floor. I’mjussayin.

  89. 89.

    FormerSwingVoter

    March 21, 2010 at 11:27 pm

    @williamc:

    It’s not over. The teabaggers will be back for financial regulation, immigration reform, DADT repeal, tax code reform… This is the first step. But it’s a good one.

  90. 90.

    suzanne

    March 21, 2010 at 11:30 pm

    @AkaDad:

    Obama’s package had the same effect on me.

    Once you go black…
    ;)

  91. 91.

    Annie

    March 21, 2010 at 11:31 pm

    @Comrade Kevin:

    Which democrats were “nay?” If they think they are “saved” or “born again,” they need to think again…They underestimate progressives…

  92. 92.

    Comrade Kevin

    March 21, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    @Annie: The Democratic No votes are the ones not in italics on the No part, at the bottom of the page.

  93. 93.

    Nutella

    March 21, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    Some of the crazy Christianists were complaining that having this vote on a Sunday (and in Lent!) was sacrilegious.

    Rush Holt has an article over at HuffPo reminding us all that the last time Congress met to vote on a Sunday was in 2005 when they voted on the federal government taking over Terry Schiavo’s health care from her doctors and family.

    Worth remembering when we hear a Republican claim to be against government controlling health care decisions.

  94. 94.

    Comrade Kevin

    March 21, 2010 at 11:44 pm

    @Nutella: If they were so offended by having to work on Sunday, they could have stayed home, and not voted.

  95. 95.

    Blaine Whipple

    March 22, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    I agree with mr. whipple about the “poopheads.”

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