According to the Daily Kos, Spratt has the ability to ram the Democrats’ health care bill through the House and then the Senate using a procedure called reconciliation, which is shielded from any filibuster attempt.  Would ole Bubba risk his own political hide and screw the people of the Fifth District in order to appease Nancy Pelosi and our radical out of touch president?

If you have a package of changes that fit under reconciliation that you think will pass both houses — and that’s what House, Senate and White House negotiators were working on in late December and early January before the Massachusetts special election — you take those changes, write ‘em up, hand ‘em to the Budget Committee chair — that’s John Spratt (D-SC-05) — and let him hold onto them for a little while.

Next, you dust off H.R. 3200. Remember that one? Not H.R. 3692. That was the bill the House ended up passing. But H.R. 3200 was actually the omnibus bill dishcharged from the Budget Committee in October, consisting of the three committee bills the House worked out in July, and send that to the floor.

Then Spratt goes to the Rules Committee and says that H.R. 3200 is the reconciliation bill the House was instructed to prepare by the Fiscal Year 2010 budget resolution, S. J. Res. 13, and when it comes to the floor, he’d like to be allowed to offer a manager’s amendment consisting of the text of the changes you handed him before. The Rules Committee says OK, and you’re on your way.

The House begins consideration of H.R. 3200, Spratt offers an amendment in the nature of a substitute that has all the agreed-to changes in it, the House passes it and sends it to the Senate. Then the Senate moves it under their own reconciliation procedures, and either agrees to it in which case it’s done, or amends it and the two houses look to move to a conference on it — though it makes the most sense to try to settle things beforehand so the Senate will be satisfied the first time around, too.

That’s mechanically what it would take to get a reconciliation bill done.

Daily Kos

Dozens of protesters camped outside of John Spratt’s Rock Hill office yesterday protesting his folly in support of the failing Obama-Pelosi agenda.  The protest seemed to mostly center around Spratt’s support for the deceptively named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  It will only be affordable for the 10% of Americans that will get free health insurance funded by a massive increase in the health insurance premiums of the 85% of us in this country already insured.

Oklahoma Democratic Congressman Dan Boren told the Tulsa World that he believes his party will lose plenty of seats in this year’s elections because of the bad economic agenda they have pursued in Congress.  He cites specifically the health care bill and Cap and Trade, both destructive pieces of legislation that Congressman John Spratt voted for.  When members of Spratt’s own party are speaking out about the horrible agenda they have pushed, how can we the voters of the Fifth Congressional District allow Spratt another two years in Congress to make more of the same mistakes?

Call To Action: Citizens Health Care Rally – Tuesday, January 12th at Noon

Congressman John Spratt Health Care Rally

Please come join three conservative organizations as we unite to oppose the Leftist Government takeover of our Health Care System supported by Congressman Spratt.

What:
Citizens Health Care Rally

When:
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 12:00 Noon

Where:
Congressman John Spratt Rock Hill Office
201 E. Main Street
Rock Hill, SC 29730

Event Sponsors:
We The People / SC District 5 Patriots / 5th District Republican Parties

At a City Club breakfast this morning in Rock Hill Jack Spratt made quite a perceptive observation.

Responding to opponents unhappy with more government intervention, Spratt noted the ways Washington is already involved in health care, from Medicare and Medicaid to health care for veterans. An estimated 46 percent of all health care costs are paid by federal and state governments.

“Folks tell me they don’t want medical care made in Washington,” Spratt said. “I understand the sentiment. Here’s the reality: The federal government has a huge stake in health care already.”

The Herald

It doesn’t even occur to ole Bubba that all this Federal involvement in our health care system might be the big problem.