Over the last six years, so many Americans have focused on how awful ObamaCare has been for the country that the intriguing story of how it came to pass in the first place has been all but forgotten.
In the Spring of 2009 the Democrats (and two Independents) were one vote shy of the 60 votes they needed to pass the Affordable Care Act — better known as ObamaCare — with a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate.
But the Democrats had tricks up their sleeves. Longtime Republican Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector jumped ship over to the Democrats giving them the 60th vote they needed. But an act of fate would drop them back to 59 when Massachusets Senator Ted Kennedy passed away and Republican Scott Brown shockingly won the special election to take his senate seat.
Not so fast. The Democrats called for a vote on Christmas Eve, mere weeks before Brown would take office, and the Democrats rammed the vote through with Kennedy’s interim Democrat senator. The bill they passed that Christmas Eve hardly even resembled the one narrowly passed by the House previously.
And now we learn that “Dirty Harry” Reid and the Democrats are up to their old tricks — this time regarding Antonin Scalia’s empty seat on the Supreme Court. To learn on how they plan on forcing a SCOTUS vote, continue reading on the next page:
Idiot old fart retire
Scrum bag needs to be put in jail & throw key away.
Reid is not an American he is a communist, he does not represent the people what a crook!
At what point are Americans going to realize you are controlled like dictator country.
Dementia.
Picture him with a SS uniform he looks like a Gestopo at Buchanwald .
Amen Jane……!!!!
Gawd is that old fkr ever going to die?
THIS OLD SLOBBERING FOOL I THOUGHT HE WAS RETIRING HE WILL DIE IN CONGRESS CREATING ALL THE PROBLEMS HE CAN THIS IS A GOOD REASON WE NEED TERM LIMITS
Another betrayer from too much politics. Get the old goat out.