1st it was by the August recess. Now they're sayiing Xmas.

Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:51 AM
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1st it was by the August recess. Now they're sayiing Xmas.

Should we wait to see whether we get an actual pony or one with faux cotton fill and a nylon faux fur coat. And an inability to eat actual oats.

What're you thinking we're gunna get?

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:55 AM
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1. Schedules always slip...

And that is only in one direction...

Later, later, later...

We will get the bill passed.

Patience...

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The Straight Story

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:57 AM
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4. Hey, You didn't start your reply with 'My Dear'

:rofl: How you doing Peggy? Weather out your way holding up well (know you had storms out that way recently)?

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:59 AM
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5. My dear Straight Story!

Actually, if you keep track (lol) I normally only do that in the Lounge!

I'm well, thanks!

We're holding up well...the storms are gone. The rain was gentle and much needed!

Now it's summer again......

:rofl:

:hi:

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:55 AM
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2. Uh, they've always said by xmas.

End of the year, actually. But xmas is good enough for government work.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 04:58 PM
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10. Uh ... define "they"

I recall a lotta chatter about the August recess.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Mon Oct-19-09 05:00 PM
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13. The White House. Congressional Dems.

The idea was always to begin starting vague discussions before the August recess, take the August recess and talk to constituents (town hall meetings), then come back and hammer out a bill by the end of the year.

There was some blather on DU about cancelling the August recess so a bill could be written and voted on in August, but I didn't think anybody actually took it seriously.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:16 PM
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19. You're wrong

Google "vote before august recess" and you'll read a story of a moving target initially overpromised. I'm not big on posting lots of links no one follows, so I won't. They're there. The first page of hits lists all the stories about them backing away from a vote before the recess.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:19 PM
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20. "sweeping health care reform... by the end of the year."

Rahm Emmanuel.

July of this year.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE56M0HE20090724

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scheming daemons

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:33 PM
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23. There you go... using facts again

silly Syrup...

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:39 PM
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24. You said white house and congress.

You point only to Rahm.

Forget it.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:40 PM
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25. Rahm speaks for the White House.

:shrug:

But whatever floats your boat.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 07:08 PM
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27. yes, i know

the original statement to which I replied was far broader.

But you stick with your posse.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Mon Oct-19-09 07:19 PM
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28. Here's one from Pelosi. Early August.

http://blog.taragana.com/n/pelosi-visits-denver-clinic-says-protests-wont-derail-health-care-overhaul-132995/

But stick with your fail.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 07:23 PM
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29. Well, by early august, they had already changed course.

Your turn

(hint: "august recess")

And that refers to the month, not your view of yourself.

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LibDemAlways

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Mon Oct-19-09 12:57 AM
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3. I think Santa is going to be very very generous to the

insurance companies. The rest of us will get the equivalent of a lump of coal, and the bill requiring us to pay for it.

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pnwmom

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Mon Oct-19-09 01:04 AM
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6. Are we there yet, are we there yet?

Patience, grasshopper. Getting a few hundred people to agree on several hundred pages of big and little details isn't an easy or a quick thing.

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saracat

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Mon Oct-19-09 01:15 AM
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8. Funny.They were quick enough with the Patriot Bill!

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SidneyCarton

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Mon Oct-19-09 05:08 PM
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17. Fascism is fast, democracy is slow and convoluted.

Such is the nature of things.

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Sparkly

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Mon Oct-19-09 08:00 PM
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30. And so many other things!!!

It's amazing what a majority can do.... :shrug:

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 04:58 PM
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11. I'm not a grasshopper

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sandnsea

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Mon Oct-19-09 01:14 AM
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7. Maybe we should say "public option"

And rally around all the Democrats who are fighting for the public option, and dispense with all the useless complaining and negativity and see how that works out.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 05:00 PM
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12. Define "public option"

Do that, and you'll be the first one to do so.

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Fumesucker

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Mon Oct-19-09 04:13 AM
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9. Remember TARP?

Proposed on Sept 19, 2008, enacted Oct 3, 2008

I can tell you what we aren't going to get..

A cigarette afterward.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Oct-19-09 05:02 PM
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15. Yeah ...... I'm guessing no group sing on the Capitol steps, either.

Was it good for you?

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Fumesucker

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Mon Oct-19-09 11:22 PM
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31. It was so good the *neighbors* had a cigarette.. n/t

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slipslidingaway

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Mon Oct-19-09 05:01 PM
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14. A weak "public option" and individual mandates. n/t

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SidneyCarton

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Mon Oct-19-09 05:07 PM
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16. I'm thinking that the point is to get it done.

This was the 800-pound gorilla in the room that no one has managed to bring to heel since 1947. It wasn't going to go down fast or easy, and anyone who thought differently were bound to be disappointed.

I see some form of HCR getting passed before the end of the year, it will not be what we want, it will be a first step, which after 62 years, is an achievement in and of itself.

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inna

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Mon Oct-19-09 05:10 PM
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18. doesn't really matter since the "deform" doesn't kick in until 2013, anyway. nt

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cherokeeprogressive

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:20 PM
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21. Here's what the Finance Committee filed today.

1502 pages. I guess time will tell.

http://finance.senate.gov/press/Bpress/2009press/prb101909.pdf

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spanone

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:22 PM
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22. dunno

Edited on Mon Oct-19-09 06:24 PM by spanone

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Mon Oct-19-09 06:48 PM
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26. "What're you thinking we're gunna get?"

screwed.

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