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Senate Dems moving ahead on crucial health vote

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Friday, November 20, 2009 -
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders are looking ahead to a crucial test vote on health care amid indications the rank-and-file will stand together Saturday to give them the support they need.

Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, said today that leaders weren’t assuming anything and were working to bring the caucus together ahead of Saturday’s vote to begin debate on their health overhaul bill.

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EmptyPockets1
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If this gets through by one vote the injustice will be beyond belief and MA will have played a part becsue of the criminal actions taken to fill Fat Teddy seat!!!!!!!!!!
 
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trout4me
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Blanche appears ready to vote herself out of office, just as that Congresslady in PA did when she switched and gave Bill Clinton the vote he needed to get a tax increase passed.
 
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Boffo22
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We'd better hurry and pass it, after all we have over 12 million illegals that need free healthcare
 
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heynow
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if it passes harry truman would be happy
to long in coming
 
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radicalreign
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I am beginning to believe that the more traditional way to depose tyrants may become America’s destiny once again. Where reason ends violence begins! You know...When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it!
 
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No Caligula has the Roman guard doing his work again...
 
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