CNN reporting

[dgibby]

that Harry Reid has pulled Bernie Sanders' amendment. Bernie is NOT happy!

[still_one]

1. I suspect reid will be pulled in 2010 /nt

[Parker CA]

2. Reid pulled it?? I heard Sanders withdrew it on his own. Wow.

[dgibby]

3. I don't know.

Rick Sanchez just reported that Reid pulled it.:shrug:

[Parker CA]

4. Unbelievable. Makes more sense now that Sanders is taking every minute available to him to

speak about the truths and details of his bill.

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. Here's why:

At approximately noon today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took to the Senate floor to introduce his single-payer amendment. The amendment is 767 pages long. In an attempt to delay and disrupt the Senate debate, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) demanded that the Senate clerks read the entire bill.
<snip>
The move by Republicans pushed back scheduled votes on other time-sensitive bills, including funding for the military. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said, “This is a strategy by the Republican leadership which not only endangers the passage of health care reform, it endangers the enactment of the Department of Defense appropriations bill.”

After two and a half hours of obstruction, Sanders relented and withdrew his amendment. Noting the serious crises that confront the nation, Sanders delivered an impassioned address, stating, “The best the Republicans can do is try to bring the United States government to a halt by forcing a reading of a 700 page amendment! That is an outrage! … It is wrong to bring the United States government to a halt.”
http://thinkprogress.org/

Sanders pulled it because the R's were demanding the reading which would take 12 hours.

[dgibby]

6. Thanks!

I figured there was more to it, but didn't know what.

Wonder how many people died while Coburn was screwin' around? What a pos! And to think he's a doctor.

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. I'd rather go to Dr. Buzzard. nt

[dgibby]

9. You and me both.

Meet up in the Garden of good and Evil at midnight! Be there!:evilgrin:

Maybe that's what we need to do. Enlist the services of Dr. Buzzard. He might not be able to fix health care, but he sure could make a lot of evil people really sick!

[Are_grits_groceries]

12. I'm there.

A cure or a curse or both works for me!

[grantcart]

8. I wish they would call their bluff

[dgibby]

11. Me too, but it won't happen.

Obama wants this "late term abortion" of a bill passed before Christmas.:sarcasm:

Also, there is no requirement that Senators have to speak during a filibuster. All they have to do now is just not show up.

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