The Senate on Wednesday voted down a repeal of President Obama’s healthcare law in a 47-51 party-line vote.
The vote came two weeks to the day the Republican House voted 245-189 to repeal the law, and just days after a federal judge ruled Obama’s signature legislative achievement is unconstitutional.
In a sane world, this would end the issue once and for all.
les
Still fighting reality, eh, John?
Bulworth
How terribly not bi-partisan of all the Senate Democrats to vote in lock unison opposition to the GOP’s very bipartisany repeal attempt.
Also, too, even “moderates” Snow and Collins voted for repeal? Sigh.
Steve L.
“In a sane world, this would end the issue once and for all.”
Keep dreaming, Obot.
piratedan
well I thought that TRMS had a nice segment the other day about the culture wars and drove the point home that we should simply ignore what the Republicans say that they are going to do and pay better attention to what they are actually doing. Boiling it down to, “we’ll say anything to get elected, so we can get back to furthering our own agenda”. She blithely noted that the first bills introduced by the new Congress have nary a single solitary thing to do regarding jobs and the economy.
Poopyman
In a sane world, the South losing the Civil War would have ended that issue.
I’ll leave you to connect the dots.
arguingwithsignposts
Way to go Joe!
Dave
@Bulworth:
Snowe is still laboring under the delusion she will survive a Tea Party challenge in the GOP primary next fall if she tacks right hard enough.
gene108
It’s been 57 years since Brown v. the Board of Education became settled law and you still have cases about school assignments and how they impact attempts at desegregation.
Other than not re instituting slavery, there doesn’t seem to be much settled law out there.
WyldPirate
just getting started. The Rethugs will keep chipping away at ACA until it is gone and profits maximized for the insurance industry, big pharma and the docs who buy their vote.
It makes me laugh hearing our press corpse titter on about “corruption” in the Middle East governments. Those clowns are amateurs when it comes to having their vote bought compared to our pols.
gene108
@piratedan:
Bull-hockey.
Passing the Repeal of the Job Killing Health Care Law Act had everything to do about jobs. It’s in the title of the bill :-)
JPL
OTSane World I report you decide..Washington Post journalists have been arrested in Cairo.
Bulworth
@gene108: also, too, time to repeal the Voting Rights Act
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020301509.html
SpotWeld
There is no reality.. only Insano.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
Finally, they’ve dropped the “forcible rape” nonsense from that forced birth bill they’re trying to pass.
Davis X. Machina
@Dave: Snowe’ll cruise to re-election as an indy with the help of the same voters who’ve delivered every other time — Democrats.
You don’t win your races 70%-30% with just R’s and I’s.
Safest seat in the Senate. Snowe is who Lieberman wishes he was.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people): They will, however, continue to forcibly rape the country.
Dave
@Davis X. Machina: Not exactly. We have closed primaries here. The Tea Party is running the GOP show here. She could easily lose the nomination. And that would create an interesting scenario.
General Stuck
Just wait till Senator Paul shows up in a Toga, sucking grapes on the Senate Floor.
artem1s
but, but, the GOP engineered A SWEEPING, MANDATE DRIVEN VICTORY IN 2010! THEY HAVE 41 VOTES IN THE SENATE! Isn’t that a filibuster busting majority for the Tea Party movement?
Ailuridae
@Davis X. Machina:
If she gets bounced off the R primary (and she will) she can’t run I right? Am I remembering that wrong?
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@Barb (formerly Gex): Too true. Sigh.
Why isn’t any news reporter calling the Repubs out on the fact that they’re not even pretending to do anything about jobs?
Poopyman
Oh, and
No.
SATSQ, of course.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
You run this blog, this blog that does nothing but point out the world’s endless stream of insanity, and you raise the possibility of a “sane world”?
I’m worried about you John.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@Poopyman: You make a sadly excellent point.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
@Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people):
IOKIYAR?
gene108
@Bulworth:
The one thing that scares me if the Voting Rights Act gets thrown is the return of literacy tests. Poll taxes are illegal via Constitutional amendment, but the same isn’t true about literacy tests, which are only illegal because of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
I bet money, if the law is struck down there will be a return of literacy tests to keep the poor, who are usually less well educated, from voting.
gbear
@Bulworth: maybe we should be celebrating the face that ALL the democrats stuck together on this vote. Isn’t that kind of a rare and wonderful thing? I can’t remember any senate votes in the last couple of years that didn’t have a renegade democrat or two.
Zifnab
In a sane world, it never would have come up. McConnell knew he didn’t have the votes. This is pure grandstanding.
I guess now we get to find out how enthusiastic the independents are going to be about getting round-the-clock repeal talk for the next two years.
Bulworth
@gbear: absolutely. Even John’s Senator Shotgun voted against the Repubs.
Bulworth
I don’t doubt it for a minute. The teatards are already making voter suppression a major plank of its return to the 19th century program.
Davis X. Machina
@Dave: No it wouldn’t. She’d get on the ballot as an I in a heartbeat — she won’t wait to lose the primaries, she’s too savvy for that.
As it is, Maine came within 7000 votes of its third independent governor in 30 years this fall, Perot finished ahead of Bush pérè here in ’92, a Green/independent (Rensenbrink) finished Joe Brennan’s career, as a spoiler, giving us Collins in the process…they’ll send Snowe back as an I, no problem. Like I said, she routinely draws about 40% of the registered Democratic vote.
If she is still an R come the primary, it’ll mean the Tea Party nonsense has burnt itself out. If she’s not re-elected, I’ll eat my hat. We’ve tried every damn thing to beat her, and nothing works.
Maude
@gene108:
There goes the Republican Party, right out the door. Have you had a gander at those tea partiers?
Shalimar
In a sane world, my camel wouldn’t be beating people up in Cairo. Bad camel.
Tsulagi
You still have this belief we’ve seen Peak Wingnut. Nah.
Next up will be repealing single components of ACA like the mandate. Crazy Eyes Bachmann would probably compare that to repealing DADT. Then no funding for subsidies to purchase insurance. And on and on trying to knock out legs from under ACA. They ain’t gonna let this end.
Quaker in a Basement
In a sane world, this would end the issue once and for all.
OK. Does this have something to do with us?