Well, the Democrat’s health care bill passed.

Roll Call as soon as I get it…if Republicans get their way…

Chanting “Yes we can!”

219-210

I’m willing to bet that the Stupak group was the deciding factor.

It seems that Senate Republicans have found a provision in the current health care bill and in the Congressional Budget Act that makes the current bill ineligible for the reconciliation procedure.

Drudge initially reported:

FLASH: Senate Republicans found a provision in the new House health care bill that likely makes it ineligible for expedited ‘reconciliation’ procedures in the Senate. Dems refused to meet with GOP and Parliamentarian…. Developing….

He then linked here to a document released by Senate Republicans regarding the issue.

It seems that because there is a change to the Social Security Act–under certain legal restrictions–the use of reconciliation can not be used.

What it looks like is that Republicans have called out Democrats regarding the issue, but have been met with silence.

If the link is still dead, here is the text:

Breaking: “Fix” Bill May Not Advance In Senate

Senate Democrats Refuse Bi-partisan Meeting With Parliamentarian Until After House Votes

WASHINGTON DC – Senate Democrats have balked at a bi-partisan meeting with the Senate Parliamentarian to discuss a rule violation that could doom the entire House reconciliation proposal.

DON STEWART, McCONNELL SPOKESMAN: “Republicans have been trying to set up a meeting with Senate Democrats since yesterday to discuss this fatal point of order but have been met with nothing but silence. We suspect Democrats are slow walking us so as to have the House vote first. Since Senate Democrats refuse to meet with us and the Parliamentarian, we’ve informed our colleagues in the House that we believe the bill they’re now considering violates the clear language of Section 310g of the Congressional Budget Act, and the entire reconciliation bill is subject to a point of order and rejection in the Senate should it pass the House.”

BACKGROUND

DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP RELEASE: “The Congressional Budget Office estimate of the health care legislation shows an increase in Social Security revenues… CBO projects that the resulting increase in wages will generate $29 billion in additional FICA contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund.” (“Health Care Reform Update,” Office of Rep. Steny Hoyer, 3/21/10)

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT: “LIMITATION ON CHANGES TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget agreed to under section 301 or 304, or a joint resolution pursuant to section 258C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that contains recommendations with respect to the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the Social Security Act.” (Congressional Budget Act Of 1974, Sec. 310g, P. 31)

UPDATE:  AllahPundit reports:

“The point of this move, of course, isn’t actually to derail the reconciliation bill in the Senate, it’s to frighten House Dems who are voting tonight that they might end up with Reid’s bill without a fix and therefore they should rethink their vote while they still have time.”

Stupak is going to vote Yes on the health care legislation.

He and Obama met to hash out details.

Obama won his vote.  Obama will sign an executive order disallowing public funded abortions…

Here’s the executive order that passed Obamacare via FoxNews.com:

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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ENSURING ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ABORTION RESTRICTIONS IN THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (approved March ¬¬__, 2010), I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Policy.

Following the recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“the Act”), it is necessary to establish an adequate enforcement mechanism to ensure that Federal funds are not used for abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered), consistent with a longstanding Federal statutory restriction that is commonly known as the Hyde Amendment. The purpose of this Executive Order is to establish a comprehensive, government-wide set of policies and procedures to achieve this goal and to make certain that all relevant actors—Federal officials, state officials (including insurance regulators) and health care providers—are aware of their responsibilities, new and old.

The Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to the newly-created health insurance exchanges. Under the Act, longstanding Federal laws to protect conscience (such as the Church Amendment, 42 U.S.C. §300a-7, and the Weldon Amendment, Pub. L. No. 111-8, §508(d)(1) (2009)) remain intact and new protections prohibit discrimination against health care facilities and health care providers because of an unwillingness to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.

Numerous executive agencies have a role in ensuring that these restrictions are enforced, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Section 2. Strict Compliance with Prohibitions on Abortion Funding in Health Insurance Exchanges. The Act specifically prohibits the use of tax credits and cost-sharing reduction payments to pay for abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered) in the health insurance exchanges that will be operational in 2014. The Act also imposes strict payment and accounting requirements to ensure that Federal funds are not used for abortion services in exchange plans (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered) and requires state health insurance commissioners to ensure that exchange plan funds are segregated by insurance companies in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, OMB funds management circulars, and accounting guidance provided by the Government Accountability Office.

I hereby direct the Director of OMB and the Secretary of HHS to develop, within 180 days of the date of this Executive Order, a model set of segregation guidelines for state health insurance commissioners to use when determining whether exchange plans are complying with the Act’s segregation requirements, established in Section 1303 of the Act, for enrollees receiving Federal financial assistance. The guidelines shall also offer technical information that states should follow to conduct independent regular audits of insurance companies that participate in the health insurance exchanges. In developing these model guidelines, the Director of OMB and the Secretary of HHS shall consult with executive agencies and offices that have relevant expertise in accounting principles, including, but not limited to, the Department of the Treasury, and with the Government Accountability Office. Upon completion of those model guidelines, the Secretary of HHS should promptly initiate a rulemaking to issue regulations, which will have the force of law, to interpret the Act’s segregation requirements, and shall provide guidance to state health insurance commissioners on how to comply with the model guidelines.

Section 3. Community Health Center Program.

The Act establishes a new Community Health Center (CHC) Fund within HHS, which provides additional Federal funds for the community health center program. Existing law prohibits these centers from using federal funds to provide abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered), as a result of both the Hyde Amendment and longstanding regulations containing the Hyde language. Under the Act, the Hyde language shall apply to the authorization and appropriations of funds for Community Health Centers under section 10503 and all other relevant provisions. I hereby direct the Secretary of HHS to ensure that program administrators and recipients of Federal funds are aware of and comply with the limitations on abortion services imposed on CHCs by existing law. Such actions should include, but are not limited to, updating Grant Policy Statements that accompany CHC grants and issuing new interpretive rules.

Section 4. General Provisions.

(a) Nothing in this Executive Order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) authority granted by law or presidential directive to an agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This Executive Order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This Executive Order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Queen Bee Nan laughs while walking through "Kill the Bill" protests...

UPDATE: So…the executive order restates current law?  If someone is reading this and knows a little more about it than I, please inform me.

But it all may be for nothing…Dems ignore potential derailment of reconciliation ability…

UPDATE:  Barack Obama said he would only sign the executive order after passage of the health care bill…

huh…

Do you think he will sign it?

This seems to be a trending topic among the State Run Media…  Remember when CNN used skewed poll numbers?

Well, in the latest WaPo/ABC poll, 33% of those polled were Democrats, and only 20% were Republicans…

           Democrat  Republican  Independent
10/18/09      33         20           42

And here is the fuzzy question in question…

8. Would you support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance

plan to compete with private health insurance plans?

           Support      Oppose
10/18/09   57           40

The only problem with that question is that private insurance can’t compete with the government.  It isn’t possible.  It is fundamentally not possible.

The government does not need to make a profit.  They don’t have overhead, they don’t have to meet a budget.  They have the power to tax.  Private insurance does not have that power.

Oh well…I guess the Liberal Media can continue to be the lap dogs of the Government as opposed to the guard dogs for the people.

Read–Hot Air

Check out the video here.

Here’s what’s going on here.  These youths from Ron Clark Academy are on the set of CNN, singing a song for health care reform to the tune of Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA.”

According to these youths, the reason there isn’t bypartisan support is because of Joe Wilson…

I don’t really know what to say about it…

This is absolutely insane.

The Politico is reporting that Senator John Ensign received a handwritten note from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief Tom Barthold saying that “if there is a willful failure to file, pay, maintain appropriate records and the like…the taxpayer may be charged with a misdemeanor with a penalty of up to $25,000 and not more than one year in jail.”

Umm…hello?!  If you don’t have health insurance, you may be fined and go to jail!

Check out the note after the jump…

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Ladies and gentlemen, CNN’s section on healthcare reform interviewed a gentlemen from Portland Maine.

Joe Ray owns a fish and shellfish company and has seen his sales jump 30% in this economy…obviously he’s doing something right…

“‘I think I’d rather just be left alone,’ Ray said. ‘Just pay my bill and try to deal with it that way.’
A fiscal conservative, he has a simple view of President Obama. “Right now, he is just spending, spending, spending, and I just hope it helps the country,” Ray says.

Hey, fiscal conservatives!  You have a simple view of Barack Obama…But, in this situation, a simple view is all you need…

Read–CNN

But is that the whole story?

Alan Colmes is reporting that the CNN poll shows the speech was a success…

CNN says that Obama’s health care numbers jumped 14%…

But let’s take a look at the results…

Click here to read the full results…

You’ll see that they polled nearly twice as many Democrats as Republicans…

$750 for individuals; $1500 for families.  Oh, and if you’re successful–as in 3x the poverty line, $950 for individuals; $3800 for families.

Will Obama be in favor of Sen. Max Baucus’ plan?  As a candidate, he opposed mandatory health insurance and issuing taxes to punish those without health insurance…

Average Americans will be furious.  Average Americans will continue to protest.

Folks, this is not about insuring everyone’s health, this is about the systematic take-over, buyout, or forced-bankruptcy of private industry.

Remember when Barry wanted to bankrupt the coal industry?

Or when he bought General Motors?

Yeah.  Barack Obama is his name, Fascism is his game.

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Yes, folks.  A supporter of Barack Obama’s fascist, socialized health care plan bit off a protester’s finger.

There was a rally in support of healthcare reform last night…and I think it may have been MoveOn.org people…more on that later…

One of the supporters confronted a 65 year old man who was protesting healthcare reform.

The supporter and the protester got into a fist-fight which ended when the supporter bit off the protester’s finger.

The man’s finger was reattached at an area hospital, and he was sent home that evening.

Read–Yahoo! News