Votes Still Not There: Why We Will Win

The latest at FDL has it 203-Y, 211-N.

Bloomberg suggests Obama Care is six votes short.

But here's what you also have to think about and Congress should realize, too - they likely won't. The Democrats are going to be decimated in the fall. Don't kid yourself. If passed, every ill-conceived notion in this bill will become known. It always plays out that way. We may not even know the worst of it, yet. And the nation has already turned away from the dilettante in the WH.

Then there are the many legal challenges. Point being, even if they get the votes, and they may not, the battle is far from over and the people and momentum will remain on our side. The GOP, not the Democrats, will control the House and perhaps even the Senate after November.

Obama blew everything he had just getting elected. From the day he took office he has done nothing but watch his ratings go down. As with Carter, and given national and international events, all the talk in the world will not be able to turn that around.

This battle would go on, even if passed. And every day we, not them, gain more and more influence and power. Democrats will be paying for this for longer than they can imagine. And we will be here to make sure Republicans hold their feet to the fire.

The American people are going to win this fight, just as they have won every battle in which they were directly engaged since our founding. Time is on our side, not theirs. We want to beat it this weekend, so do not even think of standing down. But come what may, we will win in the end. We the people always do. And we are the people, now. The Democrats are the party of big government and ultimately socialist schemes. And the price they are going to pay for that is unmatched in our political history.

You may be feeling tired just now because of this long, tense battle. But when the clouds clear and the next American political narrative forms, we will prevail. We're on the right side, not them. Don't forget it.

Comments

[southdakotaboy]

There was a poll conducted by some students in Hanson County South Dakota a couple of weeks ago. One of the questions they asked was about Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. In the last election she carried Hanson county with about 55% of the vote. In this poll she only got about 42%. Now I don't think this was a very scientific poll, the way I heard it they asked anybody over the age of 18. On the other hand they asked about 10% of the whole county's adult population.

Take of it what you will.

[DH]

Thanks for the pick-me-up. This has to fail.

[Fuzzy]

Okay. I'm a little choked up reading this, but THANK YOU. It's exactly the rallying cry we need just now. Yay you! And yay US!! We will prevail, we will.

[Elmo]

I been soyfing duh innernets all morn. And the vibe I'm getting is the Dems just don't know/haven't figured out ... they've lost. Can't see the writing on the wall .... and are approaching that concrete edifice at warp speed (scotty).

It really has been a while since them wee widdle bubbles carressed dees lips/snout .... fook, gunna be great!

http://www.schramsberg.com/images/bottle_blancdenoirs.jpg

[USMC]

Hot damn, Dan I think there's a Marine in you trying to come out! LOL!

Way to stay tough. I'm seeing too much "woe is me!" crap from the right.

[Lightwave]

Indeed. THEY NEVER HAD THE VOTES. Sunday will be a disaster for them.

In the end, I'm betting the Dems are too spineless to oppose the American people. The smart ones...well, they've retired anyway. They know the Republicans will pick up dozens of seats in November.

The scared ones will vote no. They know a yes vote will cost this country TEN million jobs, easy.

A yes vote scenario would put us over 15% unemployment. You will have riots in the streets as health care costs simply destroy America's small businesses. It's too horrible to consider.

But I take solace in knowing that this will fail in the end on Sunday. I take even more solace in knowing every yes vote will be gone by January 2013.

[Elmo]

Via Drudge:

http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0310/EXCLUSIVE__Democrats_plan_doc_fix_after_reform.html?showall

"EXCLUSIVE -- Democrats plan doc fix after reform

Democrats are planning to introduce legislation later ... that would permanently repeal annual Medicare cuts to doctors, but are warning lawmakers not to talk about it for fear that it will complicate their push to pass comprehensive health reform.

Democrats removed the so-called doc fix from the reform legislation last year because its $371-billion price tag would have made it impossible for Democrats to claim that their bill reduces the deficit. Republicans have argued for months that by stripping the doc fix from the bill, Democrats were playing a shell game."

[Jazz]

I could not agree more with this post. If I might offer two thoughts (and I apologize in advance for length):

1. Current Congressional procedural anomalies aside, there has ALWAYS been a close, acrimonious divide in American politics. The harkenings to the more civil days gone by are the conjurings of people ignorant of history. Remember the Tories in the American Revolution and their allegiance to the Crown? They were a significant portion of the population, and their undeclared sympathizers brought the Tory numbers even higher. (Recall that a liberty-minded public prevailed over the Tories, too.) Also, spend some time reading historical issues of the Congressional Record: There's acrimony aplenty - and even Congressional chamber violence, if you look (there's an incident where one Senator clubbed another over the head with a fire iron, and several more accounts of fisticuffs breaking out in chamber). So the idea that current passions are unprecedented and deviate from some mannered norm holds no water. While I know this wasn't really even addressed in your post, it gives context to our current landscape.

2. More directly to this post, I think this Health Care debacle might be the greatest gift to American conservatism in the last 100 years. Over the past eight decades, Americans have seemingly become immune to the subtle tactics of incrementalism that the left has employed to hijack our country. Many of the miniscule advancements of liberal causes went unnoticed precisely because they were so minimal. The great gift of the health care plan is that it accelerates the incrementalism and reveals the leftist agenda for what it is: A big, steaming pile of liberty-sucking septic effluence.

Why is this so great, though? First, this whole stinkpot endeavor has damaged the Democrat brand for the independents and, I believe, for a fair portion of Democrats who lable themselves as more centrist than progressive. I am convinced this process will cultivate a substantial number of Howard Sterns ("I'll never vote for another Democrat in my life..."). And it's only going to get worse if this thing passes. I suspect Dems will have a hard time getting elected to township dog-catcher jobs, let alone anything more substantial. Second, I believe there are a host of Constitutional challenges to this atrocity, and I don't think the Supremes will be reticent about taking up those challenges. The Justices, in fact, may get a chance to do so quickly if the State AGs now promising to sue the fed actually follow through with the urgency they're projecting. This HC bill is gonna fall harder than a rotton redwood.

America is going to be better off for this fight. I think of the current battle like surgery - we go through a bit of pain to get better. America needs to excise the boil of progressivism right now, and progressives have done us the favor of setting the time and place for battle AND shooting themselves in the foot, hand, head, and groin before the fight's even started. It's still going to be some work, but we conservatives will prevail, progressivism will take a HUGE hit, and a bit of quietude will return to our hearts and souls. Don't curse the night - dawn is coming!

[Reaganite Republican]

RIGHT ON Dan Riehl!

The Democrats will never be trusted with the purse strings again after this- all they had to do was bring in qualified experts and rule from the Center-Left... but NO, they had to have their freaking revolution.

And history doesn't typically treat failed revolutionaries all too well, lol

[Jazz]

BTW, Dick Morris says the Dems don't have the numbers, either.

[Peggy]

Dan,

I just realized it today that we have been headed toward a civil war for some time. Maybe we have already been in one, we just didn't know it. I am not talking about guns and bloodshed here, but its a civil war nonetheless between two entirely opposed visions of what America is and should be. We are in fact in a fight to the death so to speak. This is by no means the final battle but it is certainly the most important one so far.

Now that I know, I almost feel a sense of relief. We know who the enemy is. They have taken off their false masks and are revealed for exactly who they are. These are people who are going to decide what is best for us whether we like it or not.

But even if they win this battle, they are not going to win the war. If they thought that the Tea Partiers were angry before, THEY HAVENT SEEN NOTHIN YET. We should not give ANY quarter to anyone who votes yes for this travesty, not to any Democrat or anyone who supports them or joins with them in advancing this European statist dream.

I do NOT want to be like the rest of the world. I will not be absorbed into the socialist Borg. I will not submit!

Like you I was an Independent in the classic sense before this. Not particularly identified with either party, Likely to go either way. Now I am a radicalized Independent. I am spitting mad and unlikely to vote for anyone with a shred of loyalty to the current Democratic Party. And until it becomes an entirely different party I will not change my mind. If that means that the Dem party must be completely changed or else be ruined, then so be it.

The day that our representatives blatantly and baldly IGNORE the people and pay more attention to voices inside that f-ing echo chamber called Congress, is the day that it is so on like these people simply cannot imagine! That day has come.

[gary gulrud]

"I will not be absorbed into the socialist Borg."

I hope I feel like you two come Monday--feeling a little whipped now with Stupak dealing and all.