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Damn it.  They said 9PM earlier today.  No wonder the fucking bill took a year: Nobody on the Hill can schedule for shit.

May have to stay up for this one.  Figure I can go one day on three hours of sleep.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 06:00:54 PM EST
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Yeah, happy for a change that I'm west coast.  Usually things are happening in the morning before I get up.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 06:22:31 PM EST
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I know that feeling.  
by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 06:55:23 PM EST
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"Fucking Bill?"  Jeez the SocialistNaziPinkoCommieDFHs are legislating EVERYTHING!

:-)

Apparently one hour of debate time is taking two hours.

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 06:42:58 PM EST
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I think they're voting on some procedural issues and then the reconciliation bill first, too.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 07:48:22 PM EST
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LOL

You can be assured they are voting on "some procedural issues."

I do grant the House is better about ramming through to getting around to the vote than the Senate.  

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 07:58:17 PM EST
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They just passed the roll call on the rule (whatever the hell that means), according to Boo.  224 Yays.  Generally my understanding is that's a pretty good indicator of how the final vote should come down.

So we'd do a little better than we'd need to if that were the case.

I've little doubt Pelosi planned that out to allow some of the Dems in more vulnerable seats to vote against it.  That's probably why they put up with Stupak's bullshit.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 08:12:09 PM EST
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The full House has to vote to accept the Rules Committee's recommendation for the Rules of Debate for the Bill under consideration as binding.  In other words, they just agreed how they are going to go about talking about talking about the HCR bill.

And I have no idea why I know that and how and when I learned it.

A Roll Call vote means they all had to stand up, on the record, and publicly 'fess up how they voted.

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 08:33:15 PM EST
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:D

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 08:40:26 PM EST
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LOL

BTW, I was sorely tempted to write:

ATTN: Drew Jones

on our census form envelope before mailing it in.  

I refrained.

Cuz I'm turning into a wuss.

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 08:44:14 PM EST
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Dude!  Don't do that.  You're gonna get me sent to Gitmo or a black site or the NEA.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 08:54:48 PM EST
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Oh fuck, you're right.

Can some gnome please delete and remove it?

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 09:00:51 PM EST
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LOL

It's on the Intertubez during my off-hours, so we're good.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 09:08:07 PM EST
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...adding: I was joking about sending to Census form to my attention.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 09:08:47 PM EST
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That's kind of you but ...

Given what I know "things" - keeping it vague (I know "things") - I'd feel better if this whole thing was deleted.  

Like ASAP

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 09:17:20 PM EST
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Nah, you worry too much.

By the way, not sure if you follow them, but The Great Orange Satan's -- Kos, not Boehner -- Twitter feed is full of lulz from all the big bloggers sources tonight.  Highly entertaining.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 09:48:25 PM EST
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Sat down in my comfie chair and woke-up an hour later.  You know you're getting old when ...

Thanks for the pointer, those are good.

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 10:47:47 PM EST
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