So if you can't beat them with the facts, sling mud that's irrelevant. That's what Mr Reid from Nevada did on the Senate floor today. Chastising the Republicans for what he said was their call to "slow down" he compared it with to civil rights/slavery and women's right to vote.
Will this kind of rhetoric get any Republicans to vote the Democrat's way? Will it sway moderate Democrats to abandon their committments to refusing tax payer dollars for abortion? Will it convince anyone that a public option is in the country's best interest?
Amendments to the bill keep coming up and getting defeated. Yesterday the Ensign Amendment - putting limits on lawyers' fees on contingency cases - failed. Even the Lincoln Amendment, proposed by a Democrat, failed. It would have limited the ability of insurance companies to deduct executive pay from their taxes. That was a move designed to punish the private insurance sector and pave the way for a total government takeover of the insurance industry. Surprised the Dems could not get that one passed.
Here's the clip of Sen Reid's lame argument:
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Looks like the Greg Amendment also failed with only 43 votes. This amendment would have guaranteed any savings made from cutting Medicare would not be spent on new programs. Instead it would be doing the obvious: reducing the cost of an entitlement program and saving the taxpayers dollars.
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