Another Victory!

[Guest oldfella]

Gun Owners Win the Opening Battle on ObamaCare!

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert

8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151

Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408

http://gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm

Friday, October 23, 2009

Congratulations!

You have stymied the shady tactics used by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi to try to pass the ObamaCare bill and -- in the opening salvo of the battle -- you blew them out of the water.

Gun Owners won a huge vote Wednesday in the Senate.

As you remember, the ObamaCare bill would dump your gun-related health data into a federal database. It would also put your (government mandated) insurance at risk if you keep a loaded gun for self-defense.

But there was a problem: The anti-gun health bills cost too much, and Obama had promised to pass a bill which would not raise the deficit by "one penny."

So what Obama, Reid, and Pelosi did was to try to pass a separate bill (S. 1776) which would fund the anti-gun ObamaCare bill by raising the deficit another $247 billion dollars.

But, they would argue, because S. 1776 was a "separate bill," the ObamaCare bill itself would not raise the deficit.

In a Senate not known for morality, this rose to a level of sleaze and corruption that embarrassed many Democrats, in addition to all Republicans.

With gun owners responding vigorously to our alerts on this issue, the motion to invoke "cloture" (or shut off debate) on the bill failed by a 47-53 vote -- 13 votes short of the 60 votes the anti-gun socialists needed.

The victory on S. 1776 means that it will be much harder for Obama, Reid and Pelosi to pick up the somewhat fiscally-minded Blue Dog Democrats they so desperately need to get their anti-gun ObamaCare legislation passed.

So congratulations! It is true that this is only the first battle... but, if we continue battering Congress as we have, it will be the first of many victories.

To see the official listing of how each Senator voted, you can go to http://tinyurl.com/ykb6kjb.

But in the meantime, pat yourself on the back for a job well done... and have a great weekend!

[Guest SUNTZU]

Good news!

[Semiauto]

Swine

[Guest oldfella]

Swine

[Guest jackdm3]

Swine? Where? 'cos I'm all about the pig. I know Strick is, too. My gawd, I'm hungry!

[Guest canynracer]

MMmm....bacon

[Chief07]

Good start. Keep the pressure on Congress.

MMMMM Bacon rocks!

[Guest SUNTZU]

Swine

Swine? Where? 'cos I'm all about the pig. I know Strick is, too. My gawd, I'm hungry!

MMmm....bacon

He hasn't even met me! I'm just big boned! I thought personal attacks weren't tolerated!!!11!!one!!eleven

[Guest KarlS]

Good news like this needs to be heard more often!

[memphismason]

!!!11!!one!!eleven

That is awesome

[ftncityfatboy]

did somebody say squeal like a pig???

[Semiauto]

No offense to anyone here . . . "swine" refers to Pelosi. I'll be more descriptive next time. Sorry.

[Guest TurboniumOxide]

We all knew who you were referring to.

mmmm. sausage and bacon and eggs and cheese. Breakfast is my favorite meal.