http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul
Quote:
WASHINGTON – Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.
"This is what change looks like," Obama said a few moments later in televised remarks that stirred memories of his 2008 campaign promise of "change we can believe in."
Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House on a 219-212 vote. Republicans were unanimous in opposition, joined by 34 dissident Democrats.
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Now that they have passed health care, they need to expand the numbers of health care recipients by passing amnesty. This way, the Dems will bolster their chances of holding the Whitehouse in 2012 with all the new 'voters' with all the healthcare they deserve.
Perhaps BHO's move to approve the extentions on the Patriot Act (
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_patriot_act)was an act of self defense. Because he knows he might just have enough resistance between the tea partys and the immigration issues that he will have to circle the wagons.