If we are 60 votes short on healthcare in House, who are the 100 Dems against it?

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Wednesday July 15, 2009 · 2:56 PM PDT

2009/07/15 · 14:56

According to today's article in the Hill, Democrats appear to be about 60 votes short of a passing a public option healthcare bill in the House. http://thehill.com/...

The question is, who are those 100 House Dems that are willing to deny millions healthcare coverage and possibly endanger the Democratic majority in Congress in 2010? I have been looking through my almanac of Congressmen and I have found a 39 members where it would make sense for them to oppose it, by looking at their previous voting records and political makeup of their districts.

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Monday July 13, 2009 · 9:06 PM PDT

2009/07/13 · 21:06

There is a key special election to fill a state House seat in Alabama tommorrow or today depending on when this is read. The seat was held by a Democrat who was forced to step down because of ethics issues. Democrats hold a 62-43 majority in the chamber and Republicans are looking to finally take over control in 2010 and they believe that taking Alabama's 6th state House district is their first step in doing so. The Republican candidate is Phil Williams(http://www.leftinalabama.com/diary/4254/house-district-6-phil-williams-falsely-accuses-jenn y-askins), who has been plastering the district with yard signs and even has rented some billboards for the campaign.

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Sunday July 12, 2009 · 10:28 PM PDT

2009/07/12 · 22:28

This new article written by Stu Rotherberg regrading health care should scare many of us. http://www.rollcall.com/...

He writes about how Republicans are seeking to "alter" the reform debate by finding ways to "derail" any Democratic plan. He mentions that Republicans are going to again attack the plan as "risky" and an "experiment" and will seek to reassure Americans that they have their own plan by using vague, feel good language like "protecting doctors from expensive lawsuits", "cutting Washington bureaucracy to create "big" healthcare savings". If Democrats let Republicans use this as their plan for healthcare, they should be sued for political malpractice. This purposely vague language is yet again a coverup for what Republicans really want to do, and that is keep the current system the way it is.

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Saturday July 11, 2009 · 2:06 PM PDT

2009/07/11 · 14:06

One of the biggest mistakes that Obama and Democrats are making right now is the promising of health care reform. Yes, it would be a wonderful thing to have. However, we have been defeated on this issue every time we tried to pass universal healthcare in the past. The problem is that the insurance companies have too much power in Congress and many Democrats who would be vital to reform need these contributions from the insurance lobby to get reelected. In short, any health care plan that could hurt insurance company profits is likely a non-starter.

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Thursday July 09, 2009 · 9:00 PM PDT

2009/07/09 · 21:00

A new Rasmussen reports poll show that Republicans are now trusted more than Democrats on eight out of ten key issues. The most striking as that Republicans have gained a 46%-41% lead on the key issue of the economhttp://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/trust_on_issues/trust_ on_issuesy.

This is probably the first time since 1980's that Republicans were more trusted than Democrats on the economy. Republicans are even trusted by a 42%-37% margin over Democrats on Social Security, even ater Republicans attempted to gut the system and surely will if they gain control of Congress.

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Wednesday July 08, 2009 · 9:21 PM PDT

2009/07/08 · 21:21

There is one man that is responsible for the collapse of our economy and his name is Henry Paulsen. Paulsen was a $30+ million a year CEO for Goldman Sachs later appointed by George W. Bush as Treasury Secretary who purposely allowed rival company Lehman Brothers, which was the lifeblood of our banking and financial system to collapse in September 2008. It is clear that Paulsen had a vendetta against Lehman CEO Dick Fuld. http://www.newsweek.com/...

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Tuesday July 07, 2009 · 1:41 PM PDT

2009/07/07 · 13:41

With unemploment at 12% by election day 2010, Democrats suffered their worst defeat since 1994, losing 44 House seats and making Eric Cantor speaker of the House, losing five Senate seats, making it impossible to stop a Republican filibuster, and losing 11 governorships for just a paltry 17 governors nationwide compared to Republicans mammoth 32. Democrats also lost 400 state legislative seats and key chambers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Iowa, and Wisconsin, putting Republicans in control of redistricting for the 2011 census.

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Monday July 06, 2009 · 6:39 PM PDT

2009/07/06 · 18:39

Since Obama's inauguration , the unemployment rate has gone from around 7.5% all the way up to 9.5%. It is certainly not his fault, but people are starting to get very impatient with him. This rate can go higher until around October and then it has to start going down if Obama and Democrats want to get through the 2010 elections alive. The stimulus passed was WAY too small and it is almost certain that we will not be able to pass another one. If unemployment continues to rise to 10%, 10.5%, 11% into 2010, Democrats may as well start retiring so that they wont have to face the voters.

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Friday July 03, 2009 · 8:14 PM PDT

2009/07/03 · 20:14

It appears that the recession is hurting Democratic governors very badly accross the nation and are jeopordizing Democrats current majority hold on the governorships nationwide. Bill Ritter of Colorado, Deval Patrick of Massachussetts, David Paterson of New York, Jon Corzine of New Jersey, Ted Strickland of Ohio, and Jim Doyle of Wisconsin are all either only running even with or trailing their Republican opponents. This could mean that after 2010 along with likely losses of open races in Tennessee, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma, that Democrats could be down to a pathetic 18 governorships after the 2010 elections, a net loss of 10 seats.

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Wednesday July 01, 2009 · 6:20 PM PDT

2009/07/01 · 18:20

A race that Republicans really want to win this year and will crow about until the cows come home if they do is the New Jersey governor's race. The Northeast is an area that Republicans have been nearly shut out of over the last few years and are looking at this race for a rebirth. New Jersey is a state that leans strongly Democratic, going for Obama by 57%-42% and John Kerry by 53%-46%. Republican US Attorney Chris Christie holds between a six and 10 point lead over Corzine. If Christie wins this race, you know that Republicans will hold him up as a model for the resurgance of their party in 2010.

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Monday June 29, 2009 · 6:47 PM PDT

2009/06/29 · 18:47

Tommorrow, there will be a special election to fill the state House seat left open by Democrat Charles Young. The district is district 82 located in the center of Lauderdale county (http://www.cmpdd.org/Demographic%20Data%20Charts/House-2002-map.jpg). I am almost certain the district has a black majority because it was held by a black Democrat for two terms by very large margins. The race to replace Young is between Democrat Wilbert Jones and Republican Bill Marcy. Republicans may have been smart to put up a black candidate in a district like this.

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 3:27 PM PDT

2009/06/23 · 15:27

I have been quite worried lately that we will fail on healthcare reform just like in 1993-1994 and will not get another chance at it for another 20 years. People are expecting healthcare reform and if Democrats fail to deliver, they are in for a world of hurt in 2010. Hopefully Obama and Emanuel are telling all of the weak kneed Democratic Senators the consequences of not getting a healthcare reform bill passed with a strong public option this year. Democrats will have NOTHING to run on in 2010 if they dont pass a strong reform this year.

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