Robert Byrd

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• Representative Democracy vs. the Senate filibuster

  
  Tony's curricublog — Authority: 109
  In his Washington Sketch column Monday, Dec. 21, Dana Milbank writes about “An ugly finale for health-care reform”:At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon — nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively clinch the legislation’s passage — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) went to the Senate floor to propose a prayer. ...
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• Christmas Gifts

  
  Lahdee's World — Authority: 117
  Christmas Gifts for everyone! I’m first, of course.Lahdee – A Senate healthcare bill. Sure it’s not everything a liberal Democrat would like to see, and sure it doesn’t include a public option or removal of monopoly protection for insurance companies and sure the mandate gives it all away, but it’s moved out ...
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• ABC Touts Robert Byrd Dedication to Health Care Champion Kennedy

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 817
  On ABC’s World News, anchor Diane Sawyer took the time to devote an entire story to 92-year-old Democratic Senator Robert Byrd’s vote for the Democratic health care bill, which the West Virginia Democrat dedicated to former Senator Ted Kennedy, whom the ABC anchor described as "health care champion Ted Kennedy." ...
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• VIDEO: 28 Seconds of Notable Moments During Health Care Vote

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 657
  By GottaLaff Talk about an emotional roller coaster: During Thursdays vote Senate vote, Majority Leader Reid could be heard voting no before correcting his vote to aye. Smiley face. Sen. Byrd from West Virginia remembered his former colleague Ted Kennedy. "This is for my friend Ted Kennedy: Aye!" Tears. ...
  3 days ago

• Teabag Christians pray for death

  
  lovable liberal — Authority: 133
  Listen carefully (around 0:15) and you will hear that this prayer group prayed for Sen. Robert Byrd to die so that the current tepid health insurance reform wouldnt pass a procedural vote in the Senate. The caller explicitly states that they got the message from wingnut Sen. Tom Coburn to hold their prayer vigil: ...
  3 days ago

• Senate passes historic, if diluted, health reform bill

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 616
  WASHINGTON– Senate Democrats on Thursday approved the best health care reform bill they could manage: a sweeping $871 billion proposal designed to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and slow the growth of runaway costs. It was at once a monumental achievement, which if signed into law would ...
  3 days ago

• Recapping the Senate Health Care Vote: Confusion, Lollygagging and More

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 538
  Actual fact: The U.S. Senate has not held a Christmas Eve vote since 1895 , when Senator Byrd was serving his first term. Also, the Democrats have been trying to pass health care reform through the Senate since forever. Also, last night Sarah Palin offered these inspiring words and, uh, letters : c tomrrws ...
  3 days ago

• Senate passes health bill

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 469
  December 24, 2009 BREAKING -- Senate passes health bill At 7:16 a.m., the Senate passed on a 60-39 party line vote a sweeping health care bill that will tighten insurance regulations, provide insurance for 31 million more Americans and cost $871 billion over the next decade."This is for my ... Hot Air » Top Picks ...
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• Byrd: He Who Has Health Has Hope

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 789
  Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) issued the following statement following final Senate passage of health care legislation: "An Old Arab proverb says, He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything." "I believe these words to be true. Such words have driven me throughout my long career to improve the ...
  4 days ago

• BREAKING: Senate Passes Reform

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  The U.S. Senate has voted to pass the most ambitious piece of domestic legislation in a generation--a bill that will extend insurance coverage to around 30 million Americans, strengthen insurance for many more, and begin to refashion the American medicine so that it is more efficient. The vote took place a little ...
  4 days ago

• Senate Passes Historic, If Diluted, Health Reform Bill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) (WDCpix) Senate Democrats on Thursday approved the best health care reform bill they could manage: a sweeping $871 billion proposal designed to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and slow the growth of runaway costs. It was at once a monumental ...
  4 days ago

• Open Thread: The Senate Votes on Passes Its Health Care Bill

  
  Swampland — Authority: 725
  Im up early this morning to watch the coverage of the Senate vote on health reform. Capitol Hill looks so festive that I am a little sorry that I didnt make it up there to see it in person. Vice President Biden just arrived to preside in his capacity as president of the Senate, though [...]
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• Livin’ On a Prayer: Please God Let Robert Byrd Die So We Can Bury Health Care With Him

  
  Democralypse Now — Authority: 127
  Remember Sen Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) uplifting holiday message instructing everyone to pray for some dumb Democrat (that old bag Robert Byrd should do) to drop dead, or at the very least, get mangled in some freak accident so as to miss the early morning procedural vote on health care, thereby leaving the Democrats ...
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• Was C-Span Caller A Prankster -- And Has He Done It Before?

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 789
  Yesterday, the blogosphere was abuzz with a caller to C-Span who was quite alarmed while speaking to Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), wondering if his prayers to strike Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd dead had instead hurt Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, whod missed a morning procedural vote on Health Care Reform. Weve found some ...
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• Video: C-SPAN caller asks Sen. Barrasso if he prayed “hard enough” for Sen. Byrd to die

  
  Mofo Politics | Hoping Obama Fails — Authority: 497
  Abraham: We got our vigil together and took sen. coburn’s instructions and prayed real hard that Sen. Byrd would either die or couldn’t show up at the vote the other night. how hard did you pray, because I see one of our members is missing this morning. Did it backfire on us? Did one of our members die?
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• Spiderman 4 preview: Who Would Jesus Whack?

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 510
  Remember the scene in Spiderman 3 when Eddie Brock (played by Topher Grace) goes to church and prays that God will kill Peter Parker? That probably got a laugh out of most viewers because, well, how over-the-top preposterous is it to pray to God to kill someone you don’t like? Jesus us a god of love, isn’t ...
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• Harry Reid Forgets Democrats’ History

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 435
  In light of Senator Harry Reid implying that the Republican party defended slavery, I’m republishing my review of Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past , by Bruce Bartlett: “[V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat.” On December 5, 2002, ...
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• Tea Partier Calls C-SPAN, Worried His Prayers For Byrd To Die Got Inhofe Instead

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 789
  Think Progress makes a great catch on C-SPAN this morning: Someone calls in while Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) is answering the lines, practically in tears because Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) missed this mornings procedural vote on health care. He was apparently concerned that -- after following Sen. Tom Coburns (R-OK) ...
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• Its a Senate, Not a Hospice [The Olds]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  Some people are upset that the Republicans are forcing poor Sen. Robert Byrd (Invalid-W.V.) to actually show up and vote on the healthcare bill. We hope they drag him bodily to every roll call vote...
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• Robert Byrd’s Death Seemingly Wished For By Tom Coburn

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 160
  The Huffington Post On Sunday afternoon, Sen. Tom Coburn ( R-OK ) appeared to propose a prayer for Robert Byrd’s ( D-WV ) death so that health care reform would not pass. Dana Milbank reports at the Washington Post: At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon — nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively ...
  5 days ago

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