{"id":1418,"date":"2009-11-18T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:08:37","slug":"gregg-says-yes-graham-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2009\/11\/18\/gregg-says-yes-graham-says-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Says Yes, Graham Says No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Senate Democrats will eventually cobble together the 60 votes they need to pass their version of healthcare reform with a public plan intact, one top Republican lawmaker acknowledged Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will &#8220;shop the votes&#8221; he needs to bring the bill to the floor and end debate when the time arises, and his efforts should again prove successful once the chamber considers a healthcare conference report&#8221;,  Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) told CNBC last night.<\/p>\n<p>Read More&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/68079-gregg-senate-democrats-will-pass-healthcare?page=2#comments\">Gregg: Senate Democrats will pass healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, according to Senator Lindsey Graham:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe it because, number one, moderate Democrats, red state Democrats are not going to vote for this bill in the Senate just like they didn&#8217;t vote it for it in the House.<\/p>\n<p>There was a reason that you had a 40-seat democratic majority and the bill passed by two votes. Moderate Democrats, red state Democrats ran away from this bill like it was the plague.<\/p>\n<p>$1 trillion dollars of new spending, $500 billion in new taxes, $500 billion-dollar cut in Medicaid for seniors, on top of that, the government option &#8212; it was a bill written by liberals for liberals, and moderate Democrats ran away from it like it had the swine flu.<\/p>\n<p>When it gets over to the Senate, it&#8217;s going to meet the same fate.<br \/>\n It&#8217;s going to die because needs 60 votes to get the bill through the Senate. Joe Lieberman has promised to filibuster any bill with public option because he knows as I know that if you have the public option private sector insurance companies will go out of business. Nobody can compete with the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,573927,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g12:r3:c0.413356:b28926446:z10\">Graham: Health Care Bill Has &#8216;Snowball&#8217;s Chance in Hell&#8217; in Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Gregg also warned: &#8220;My guess is, they&#8217;ll be able to pass something, and it will be very, very expensive and add a lot to our debt,&#8221; the New Hampshire Republican said, noting that Democrats are likely to allege the bill is &#8220;paid for [but] most of the pay-fors will never come to fruition.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looks like if passed the damage done by this bill will be irreversible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Senate Democrats will eventually cobble together the 60 votes they need to pass their version of healthcare reform with a public plan intact, one top Republican lawmaker acknowledged Monday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will &#8220;shop the votes&#8221; he needs to bring the bill to the floor and end debate when the time arises, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}