Why is there VERY LITTLE outrage from the GOP about the Senate Bill........

[KansasVoter]

Hmmmmm......wonder why?

Because they are terrified about it passing?

Because they know it will destroy the private insurance industry?

Because they are tired of fighting us and just gave in?

Or maybe because they know they won the battle and any real HCR has been removed from the Bill. There is NOTHING in this bill for them to worry about!

The GOP is the enemy and when the enemy is not throwing a fit about this Senate Bill then you know it is a weak one!

Pathetic. We worked our asses off in 2008 for this piece of crap.

[dflprincess]

1. They are claiming they will do everything they can to block it

but either way they win as they'll be able to point at the scam and remind the public that they never supported it.

[wndycty]

2. Oh there is outrage. . .not sure if you saw yesterday's press conferences. . .

. . .however its being drowned out by the Democratic civil war.

[FreakinDJ]

3. It contains several "Poison Pills"

No Public Option

Taxes Union Health Benefits

No Import Drugs....

The list goes on


1 thing for sure - it guarantees the GOP at least 6 Senate seats in 2010

[dkf]

4. Why should they be outraged we are putting them back in power?

If I were a republican I would be celebrating my return to power.

[jenmito]

5. What are you talking about? The Repub. outrage is alive and kicking! n/t

[Parker CA]

6. You must have missed the GOP complaint parade yesterday tearing this thing apart. They hate it. nt.

[griffi94]

because they know

it will pass without a single gop vote and that the odds of it doing any real good are nil, and the odds of it being a huge gift to the insurance industry is likely and that when the mandates kick in and 70% of voters are outraged about it they can run on having opposed it.
for the gop this is the gift that keeps on giving

[blueworld]

7. They don't understand it & won't bother to read it

They only focus on the parts about gonads, reproduction, sex lives & abortion. If you want to get their attention, you have to post the info on the boobs of some prostitute, in a public restroom or under a picture of Jesus.

They're also probably waiting for Rush & Beck to tell them what they should bluster about next.

[ShortnFiery]

8. It's a Win-Win for the GOP if this TRASH passes. The Insurance Cartel wins and the Democrats LOSE.

Yet, the PAID OFF corporate democrats continue to be tone deaf.

This is not going to turn out well. However, it's time to be patient: NEVER AGAIN will I vote for another two-faced corporate democrat. No WAY! NO HOW! No matter how many intimidate me - It. Won't. Happen. :grr:

[treestar]

9. Of course there is

To you it seems more important that people be unhappy than that anyone get health coverage when they don't have it. Let's make sure the insurance company executives and Republicans suffer, that is far more important!

But they do suffer! Insurance companies do not want more regulation and don't want the extra 30 million customers and have to deal with the government about them.

Republicans hate anything that gets the government more involved. They are the ones who should be screaming about the mandates. That destroys "freedom to contract" and take money from those who earned it to spend it on those who didn't (always wrong to a Republican).

[FrenchieCat]

10. They are screaming, but the Left is screaming louder.....for once.

Why should they need to make asses out of themselves,
when they can just sit back
and watch us do it instead?

Remember, this was the party that was on its way out,
till Democrats started splintering demanding the perfect,
or nothing.

[jenmito]

11. Unrec. I don't understand how this OP gets recs. when it's a simply false post.

:eyes:

[Armstead]

12. The good ones got tired of fighting and gave in

Sad but true.

Realizing they were up against the brick wall of the Corporate Wing of the Democratic Party, and were never gong to win BECAUSE OBAMA has joined that wing, they gave in.

I feel sorry for them (and us).

[jenmito]

13. For all of you giving reasons why there's "VERY LITTLE outrage from the GOP about the Senate Bill.."

you obviously haven't been paying attention. There is a LOT of outrage from the GOP. They started with their little hissy-fit press conference yesterday as they were making the clerk read an entire amendment.

[Parker CA]

15. It's becoming futile, Jen. I'm with you though.

[timeforpeace]

25. Futile, and irrelevant. Dems own it.

[jenmito]

26. And the GOP DOESN'T own it. They're against it despite what the OP says.

[Ozymanithrax]

14. Well there are some, such as Senator McConnell who are pissed...

From the Lonely Conservative:
Senate Health Care Cloture Vote is Sunday Night/Monday Morning – Updated
But McConnell probably doesn't count.

Conservatives will vote against this bill en mass. They oppose it through ideological belief in the wonders of capitalism and because the Health Care industry doesn't want it. Hell, they oppose it because their boss, Limbaugh, says that Health care costs go up with the government interferes.

If Limbaugh hates this bill, there is indeed something to like about it.

50+ million people need help now, not when Democrats write a perfect bill and manage to elect perfect representatives.

I am a proud incrementalist...

[Ozymanithrax]

16. More Republican complaints over the bill...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7281179

[Vidar]

17. It's what they wanted & they didn't even have to vote for it.

[dave29]

18. "Ben Nelson threw unborn babies under the bus"

sure... they are not outraged.

[babylonsister]

19. GOP vows fight as White House defends health bill

GOP vows fight as White House defends health bill
AP


WASHINGTON – The White House and its Senate allies defended a final push for historic health care legislation Sunday as outflanked Republicans pledged a fight to the end. A dead-of-night vote neared in a frenzy one GOP lawmaker said lacked "legislative sanity."

Republican Sen. John McCain, President Barack Obama's opponent in last year's election, said there was probably nothing to keep Democrats from passing the bill by Christmas Eve.

Still, he said, the GOP would not relent in the battle for public opinion.

"We'll fight the good fight. We will fight until the last vote," said McCain, R-Ariz. He said the political climate under Obama has become more partisan than ever.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091220/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul

[DCBob]

20. McCain: GOP can't stop health care

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas. “We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we must look back and say we did everything to prevent this terrible mistake from taking place.” Democrats recently reached a deal with hold out members of their own caucus to cobble together the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill - and McCain, in response to a Wallace question, said there’s “probably not” anything the GOP can do to block the bill.

more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/1209/McCain_GOP_cant_stop_health_care.html

McCain is pathetic.

[Phx_Dem]

21. You're kidding, right? McConnell said this morning it was the biggest

disaster ever to befall this country, of some such bullshit.

Whatver.
:rofl:

[Garam_Masala]

22. Me thinks GOP 'wants" us to pass this bill because

they think it will help them in November 2010.

[AVID]

23. Is this how you judge legislation? Wow. Here's another simpleton question.

Why are 60 senators - left, center, and I - ALL voting for it?

Answer that to off-set your own inane question.

[Mass]

24. Could he be because DU has been too busy in circular firesquads to care about the GOP.?