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ObamaCare Repeal Bill Gets 245 Votes; ObamaCare Passage Only Got 219 Votes

Posted on | January 19, 2011 | 11 Comments

Philip Klein points out this fact at The American Spectator. As an indicator of majoritarian sentiment, I’d say that’s a pretty good argument for Republicans to push for a vote in the Senate.

Also: Three House Democrats — Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Mike Ross of Arkansas and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina — joined all 242 Republicans in voting to repeal ObamaCare. We’re waiting for Steve Cohen to denounce these Democrats as Nazi stooges. Maybe DailyKos can target them in next year’s primaries.

Strangely enough, 10 Democrats who voted “no” on passage in 2009 also voted against repeal, which gives the GOP ammunition against them in the next election cycle: If you wouldn’t vote to pass it, why won’t you vote to repeal it?

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  • Joe

    Okay, I do not want to be a glass half empty guy, but this is not such great news. Obamacare passage on November 7, 2009 was actually 220 (219 D and 1 R) for it and 215 againt (176 R + 39 D). Then the GOP picked up 63 House seats in 2010. So why isn’t the vote against Obama care something like 278 against? Who switched? Undoubtably a number of Democrats did, but only 10? These numbers do not make sense if only ten democrats swtiched. How many abstained? And who?

    I want names.

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  • gg

    How many abstained? And who?
    I want names.     ~Joe

    What you want to make a hit list?
    Don’t buy bullets, take your pills.

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  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    Why did you have to bring violent language into this discussion, GeishaGirl?

  • Anonymous

    Of course you think others are considering violence. You’d have the entire conservative movement shot if you had the authority to order it, wouldn’t you?

    You’re a despicable excuse for a human being, gg.

  • Dan

    To answer Joe: the bigger change is that many Democrats who voted against the first bill also lost their seats in the 2010 election anyway. I’ll save the thoughts on what else about Obama’s agenda they supported, and conjecture about whether they only voted no because they had enough votes already and were in hotly contested districts or simply didn’t do enough to stop it (thus could still lose to very anti-bill contenders), for someone else to make. Overall I still think it’s good news to outdo the first bill, even if it’s because of a big election win and not concerned democrats reaching across the aisle.

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  • Anonymous

    Well I know Heath Shuler (NC-D, 11th District), a “Blue Dog” who voted against the bill, even though he liked parts of it, now has voted against repealing it, becasue (this is a quote) it would be immoral to repeal it.

    See Stacy? It all makes sense.

  • Anonymous

    Well I know Heath Shuler (NC-D, 11th District), a “Blue Dog” who voted against the bill, even though he liked parts of it, now has voted against repealing it, becasue (this is a quote) it would be immoral to repeal it.

    See Stacy? It all makes sense.

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