I hate it when I predict something successfully. On several of the blogs that are friends of CH 2.0, I conjectured that the “No vote today” was merely a ruse, and the vote would proceed. It struck me as a misdirection, or just to keep opposition off balance. Unfortunately, I was correct, and the single payer plan passed this evening. I’ll get more into the details over the next few days, but here’s my initial reactions.
1. It’s not over yet. The senate must now pass something. It is currently thought that the Senate will not be able to pass a bill with a public option, but that remains to be seen.
UPDATE: Sleep always gives one perspective. I fear that the Libs in the Senate may be emboldened by the win in the house and do the nuclear option.
2. The single payer plan, (the public option) in this plan will not kick in until 2013. However, many of the other parts of the plan will cause premiums to sky-rocket. Again, more on this as time wears on.
3. Some blue dogs think they have a win with the “no funding for abortion” amendment to the bill. I would predict that there will be ways found around this. Also, litigation may be used to facilitate publicly funded abortions. They may have left the bills wording sufficiently vague to allow a activist judge rule for abortion on demand, on your dime. The pro-abortion folks aren’t going to stay under the bus. We’ll have to wait and see.
4. The lines have been drawn more sharply than ever before. We have to remember this as time wears on. As people start to feel the pain of higher premiums, remind them of who exactly did this, and that it will only get worse once the government takes it all over.
This was a loss, don’t get me wrong, but it isn’t over yet. Obama has carefully set the start of the public option for after the 2012 presidential election. That way the fail that is to come will not occur until he is a lame duck, should he win in 2012. That gives us a window of opportunity to kill it before it breathes. An abortion, if you will…the only one that I would approve.
Consider this an open thread.
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I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom. 
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This is awful news. I suggest we start a page that shows each and every Congressman that voted in favor of this bill. Then I further suggest we let them know that we WILL be working to get them unseated.
This is an absolute nightmare. I hate liberals and RINO’s.
You make a very good point about the timing of the implementation of some of this legislation. I have felt for a long time that we have much more to fear from a second Obama term than we do the first term. If he wins a second term, he will not have to worry about getting relected and I believe he will step up the timetable of his agenda.
Also, if it is so important that this health care reform package pass, then why are they waiting so long before it actually goes to work? If our country is so desperate for health care reform, why not implement it much faster?
@LD…I listen to Mark Levin’s radio show almost every day. He has interviewed Congresswoman Michele Bachman R-MN more than once and she has related this story more than once, as well:
It would seem that upon his first few days in office, Obama held a meeting with the Republican leadership in both houses and essentially said that he would prefer to be a one term President who gets his agenda passed, than a two-termer who does not. And I understand that he actually used the word “agenda.”
He is a disgrace to the office, to the country and most of all, to the American people. Many voted for him because of party affiliation, but also a vast number voted for him because he campaigned as a moderate. He has really turned his back on all those people.
I agree with Don particularly. He’s going to puch all sorts of radical crap through. Then, as most government programs are, they’ll be impossible to get rid of. If they get health care done and signed, we’re going to have a hell of a time getting rid of it.
We might have to take legal actions to get as much of it destroyed as possible. Cloward-Piven could work for us too!
I’m sorry I didn’t come by last night. I was livid. Now I’m just numb. Thanks for the humor blog nomination (I saw they hit the site today), but, really, it ain’t even close to good.
Doc
Dr. Dave, you are quite deserving. I rate that by how many times a particular blog has caused coffee or soda to come out of my nose. You win hands down!
I visited the site of the sole RINO to vote for Pelosi Care and he has disabled his email link.
What a coward.
Anh “Joeseph” Cao, R-LA
Another RINO for the unemployment line.