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.

If this isn’t a “Let them eat cake” moment, there never was one…

Nancy Pelosi was positively giddy while walking through the protesters today on the way to the Capitol.

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

CBS is reporting that Barack Obama has been watching college basketball and filling out his bracket…

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And now we learned that Michelle Obama and kids are seeing a Broadway show…

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While, outside, the American people are telling them “No!”

And those who can’t be in DC have been calling Congress at the rate of 100,000 per hour!

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“Let them eat cake!”

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?

The McClatchy DC bureau is reporting that health care protesters at the nation’s capitol shouted racist obscenities at members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.Protesters also shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, spat on at least one black lawmaker and confronted an openly gay congressman with taunts.

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But that may or may not be true.  If it is, it is a disgrace and does a huge disservice to the Kill the Bill cause.

Which leads me to believe that those responsible, if it happened the way Lewis describes, are members of the left, engaged in Alinsky style attacks to discredit the grassroots movement.

Mark Williams has posted two videos of the incident, neither of which show anyone yelling anything sounding like any racist slur…

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The Politico has obtained a memo discussing the Democrats’ plan to introduce legislation later this year–at a $371 Billion price tag–to repeal annual Medicare payment cuts to doctors.

The reason this was left out of the current bill is simple…if it were in this bill, they couldn’t cite it’s deficit neutral nature.

“Most health staff are already aware that our health proposal does not contain a ‘doc fix.’ … The inclusion of a full SGR repeal would undermine reform’s budget neutrality. So again, do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative. Instead, focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered.”

“As most health staff knows, leadership and the White House are working with the AMA to rally physicians for a full SGR repeal later this spring. However, both health and communications staff should understand we do not want that policy discussion discussed at this time, lest (it) complicate the last critical push to pass health reform.”

Developing…

Basically this memo shows that the CBO scores are bunk because the Dems’ intention is to add $371 billion…

Click Here to read the memo.

Read–Politico

Read–Hot Air

UPDATE:  The CBO has stated that the Medicare fix included in previous bills, and that the Democrats have conspired to add later this year, will push it into the red.

The bill would no longer be deficit neutral.

It would be $59 billion in the hole.

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Apparently there must have been a devastating earthquake in Hawaii that flew under everybody’s radar…

*Back to Reality*

There was an earthquake in Hawaii that killed two people…in 1975.

I can hear it now, Media Mutters will scream about how he meant to say “tsunami” caused by the earthquake in Chile…or Haiti, or someother place…but misspoke because he was so livid with the line of questioning from FoxNews’ Bret Baier…

Here’s the text:

Fox News:

OBAMA: I am certain that we’ve made sure, for example, that any burdens on states are alleviated, when it comes to what they’re going to have to chip in to make sure that we’re giving subsidies to small businesses, and subsidies to individuals, for example.

BAIER: So the Connecticut deal is still in? OBAMA: So that’s not — that’s not going to be something that is going to be in this final package. I think the same is true on all of these provisions. I’ll give you some exceptions though. Something that was called a special deal was for Louisiana. It was said that there were billions — millions of dollars going to Louisiana, this was a special deal. Well, in fact, that provision, which I think should remain in, said that if a state has been affected by a natural catastrophe, that has created a special health care emergency in that state, they should get help. Louisiana, obviously, went through Katrina, and they’re still trying to deal with the enormous challenges that were faced because of that.

(CROSS TALK) OBAMA: That also — I’m giving you an example of one that I consider important. It also affects Hawaii, which went through an earthquake. So that’s not just a Louisiana provision. That is a provision that affects every state that is going through a natural catastrophe. Now I have said that there are certain provisions, like this Nebraska one, that don’t make sense. And they needed to be out. And we have removed those. So, at the end of the day, what people are going to be able to say is that this legislation is going to be providing help to small businesses and individuals, across the board, in an even handed way, and providing people relief from a status quo that’s just not working.

BAIER: OK, the Florida deal, in or out?

OBAMA: The Florida deal —

BAIER: Paying for Medicare Advantage, exempting 800,000 Floridians from —

OBAMA: My understanding is that whatever is going to be done on Medicare is going to apply across the board to all states.

Barack Obama, in a stunning example of his frustration with the Bipartisan health care summit, said that he didn’t count his time because he’s the President.

Check out the video here.

The Man-Child is so frustrated with the whole thing.  This has backfired the most stunning of ways.

He accused Eric Cantor of using props and theatrics by using the text of the bill.

Obama is so frustrated, he has had to resort to calling the very subject of the summit a prop.

How much do you want to bet Bami finds some way to worm his way out of continuing the dog and pony show?

Drudge is reporting Obama’s healthcare plan:

BACKDOOR FIX: ‘Funds will be transferred to the Social Security Trust’ if necessary…
PRESIDENT’S ‘HEALTHCARE’ PROPOSAL SUMMARY USES WORD ‘TAX’ 35 TIMES…
‘Increase in Fees on Brand Name Pharmaceuticals’…
Broaden ‘Tax Base for High-Income Taxpayers’…
Orders ‘Comprehensive Database’ On Health Claims…
FORCED: ‘Raises percent of income assessment that individuals pay if they choose not to become insured’…

This, as the Daily tracking poll was just released…

Approval Index: -19

Strongly Approve: 22%

Strongly Disapprove: 41%

Total Approval: 45%

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And, as you can imagine, the CPAC straw poll had Obama’s approval rating at 2%.

The problem with Obama’s plan is that the Americans don’t want it.  Sure, he’s having a sham-sit-down with the Republicans, but in order for it to be truely bi-partisan, they essentially have to start over.  Will that happen?  I don’t think so.

The Weekly Standard holds a similar opinion,

“It is now clear that the “summit” the president has called for February 25 is not intended to consider different approaches to health care financing, but rather to create an illusion of momentum that might just lull disoriented congressional Democrats into ramming the health care bill through the budget reconciliation process.”

Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are so entrenched in the current bill.  Those agents of government greed cannot save face with the American people.  It’s too late for them.

Reid said, “We’re going to have that done in the next 60 days.”

UPDATE:  The White House said that if the GOP doesn’t cooperate with their sham bipartisan meeting, they’ll go nuclear.

The nuclear option would allow the bill to be passed with just 51 votes.

The bipartisan option is a total sham to get the GOP to become the fall guy when the American people go nuclear.

The White House is looking for someone to blame when the American people throw everyone and everything under the bus in November.

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UPDATE:  Does Obama endorse the Louisiana Purchase?  It seems so.  From the Hill:

“Obama’s bill, however, does not specifically remove $300 million of Medicaid funds pegged for disaster relief for which Louisiana is the only state eligible.”

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Barack Obama made an unexpected appearance at the White House Press Briefing this morning.

A reporter told Obama that small businesses can’t anticipate the future, they can’t anticipate future costs and taxes, and because of that uncertainty, they are not hiring.

O-man said that the problem is with loans…

Check out the exchange and my analysis after the jump…

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