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View Poll Results: How are you celebrating the Senate's passage of their Healtcare Bill?
High fives! Lots of cheering 7 21.21%
Calling everyone I know and celebrating loudly on the phone 1 3.03%
I hosted a party and we watched C-SPAN and then popped the bubbly like it was 1999 1 3.03%
Quietly celebrating it in my own way, to myself 5 15.15%
Other 19 57.58%
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-21-2009, 07:41 AM
 
Location: South Fla
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Health-care Bill Clears Senate!

washingtonpost.com

Not completely home yet, but one major hurdle cleared!

High five everyone! High five!
Yes lets party that we are about to be paying higher taxes, have less money in our pockets. That healthcare is now going to cost more.

Way to go that is something to dance about
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Old 12-21-2009, 07:51 AM
 
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It is a good step toward a bill that will help most Americans.
"Most Americans" did not need help with their health care, except to get government out of it and thereby reduce health care costs. While some Americans will be helped by this bill "most Americans", roughly 85% who have insurance, will get royally scr*wed. The ones who will be helped without doubt are the Dems who just added another dependent constituency to their base.
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:02 AM
 
Location: Colorado
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I'm dancin' in the street! I can't wait to pay higher premiums! Yay!
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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There is no need to celebration the bailing out of insurance companies and Big Pharma.

A lot of the help for the uninsured won't kick in until 2012, 2013 but hopefully this bill won't pass or it will be repealed.
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Old 12-21-2009, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Washington DC
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First bite of the apple. After 2010 midterm elections with 61-62 democratic votes in the Senate, we'll pass the stuff the Joe and Ben blocked this time around.
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Old 12-21-2009, 09:19 AM
 
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First bite of the apple. After 2010 midterm elections with 61-62 democratic votes in the Senate, we'll pass the stuff the Joe and Ben blocked this time around.
Obviously, you're in la-la land.

Not a snowballs chance in hell that Democrats come out with 61 or 62 votes after the midterm.
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Old 12-21-2009, 09:21 AM
 
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Tom Coburn is a filthy, nasty, hateful piece of slime. A rotting corpse of any stripe is a better human being than him.
I love liberals when they get angry.
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Old 12-21-2009, 09:23 AM
 
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Healthcare Winners:

The Insurance Comapanies
Big Pharma
The Hospital Corporations
Mary Landrieu
Ben Nelson
One unknown state is receiving $100 million for a "health care facility"
Vermont and Massachusetts got $1.2 billion in Medicaid money (see how easy it is to buy of a socialist)

Healthcare Losers:

The American middle class.

Hey Democrats, that includes you. Proud of your government?
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Old 12-21-2009, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Here
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Thanks! And bless Senator Byrd, the strength of that man getting in to vote at 92 during one of the worst snowstorms DC has had in like forever! Mr. Byrd, with his under-insured and uninsured constituents' interests no doubt giving him the strength to get there and stand with his party!
Yes. What amazing strength! They rolled the zombie in so he could vote. He probably had zero idea where he was or what the hell he was doing. The fact that people like this can retain their seat is absolutely disgusting.
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Old 12-21-2009, 11:16 AM
 
Location: OCEAN BREEZES AND VIEWS SAN CLEMENTE
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I'm dancin' in the street! I can't wait to pay higher premiums! Yay!

cowboyxjon; ummmmmmmmmmmmm so excited my stomach is in knotts, and my acid reflux going crazy, so excited about higher premiums! yea.
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