Comments on: While Republicans Delay, 3 Deaths Per Republican Senator Per Day http://www.1115.org/2009/10/19/while-republicans-delay-3-deaths-per-republican-senator-per-day/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: sarabeth http://www.1115.org/2009/10/19/while-republicans-delay-3-deaths-per-republican-senator-per-day/comment-page-1/#comment-174673 sarabeth Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:54:27 +0000 http://www.1115.org/?p=10829#comment-174673 Oh dear, did I do something wrong by accusing Republicans of embracing the strategy that they themselves announced they were embracing? “Delay, define and derail” wasn’t my phrase or <i>Roll Call’s</i>. It was the Republicans’ own gleeful description of what they wanted to do. Republicans said they <i> wanted</i> to delay the healthcare bill. It seems perfectly legitimate to point out what that delay costs the American public. As for how the Republicans could delay anything when Democrats “had a veto-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House” (perhaps you mean filibuster-proof?), for starters they delayed by dragging out debate in the Senate using every single delaying procedural trick ever invented. By filibustering every single filibusterable motion, by insisting on the full thirty hours of debate before every single cloture vote. There was also the interminable charade of pretending to negotiate with Max Baucus for months over the summer. Republicans have never tried to deny that they delayed the healthcare bill as much as they possibly could. It's totally disingenuous for you to pretend that the poor lambs couldn't possibly have caused any delay. Oh dear, did I do something wrong by accusing Republicans of embracing the strategy that they themselves announced they were embracing? “Delay, define and derail” wasn’t my phrase or Roll Call’s. It was the Republicans’ own gleeful description of what they wanted to do.

Republicans said they wanted to delay the healthcare bill. It seems perfectly legitimate to point out what that delay costs the American public.

As for how the Republicans could delay anything when Democrats “had a veto-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House” (perhaps you mean filibuster-proof?), for starters they delayed by dragging out debate in the Senate using every single delaying procedural trick ever invented. By filibustering every single filibusterable motion, by insisting on the full thirty hours of debate before every single cloture vote.

There was also the interminable charade of pretending to negotiate with Max Baucus for months over the summer.

Republicans have never tried to deny that they delayed the healthcare bill as much as they possibly could. It’s totally disingenuous for you to pretend that the poor lambs couldn’t possibly have caused any delay.

]]> By: James Nuziard http://www.1115.org/2009/10/19/while-republicans-delay-3-deaths-per-republican-senator-per-day/comment-page-1/#comment-174669 James Nuziard Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:09:11 +0000 http://www.1115.org/?p=10829#comment-174669 I didn't read this until after the passage of the healthcare bill, but your article accused Republicans of delaying. Tell me, what it is that Republicans were even able to do to delay. You guys had a veto-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House. How did Republicans delay? I didn’t read this until after the passage of the healthcare bill, but your article accused Republicans of delaying. Tell me, what it is that Republicans were even able to do to delay. You guys had a veto-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House. How did Republicans delay?

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