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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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From: Justin C	12/21/2009 1:45:04 PM
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They All Own It Message 26192792 On the floor of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, among the cagier and more effective Republicans, uttered a final thought in his fiery denunciation of the health-care bill: "All it takes is one. Just one. One can stop it — or every one will own it." Every one of the Democrats who voted in lockstep for cloture after 1 a.m. now owns the health-care bill. Each of the senators up in 2010 becomes the decisive vote. And each of them up in 2012 as well. In each and every race, this vote will be one of the top, if not the top issue, and voters enraged by one or another of the bill's provisions (e.g., abortion subsidies, the violation of Obama's pledge not to tax families with income less than $250,000, the slashing of Medicare) will get to register their disapproval. As McConnell pointed out dryly, "But make no mistake: if the people who wrote this bill were proud of it, they wouldn't be forcing this vote in the dead of night. … The final product is a mess — and so is the process that's brought us here to vote on a bill that the American people overwhelmingly oppose."

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