As I got up this morning to check my email for the last time before I head down to LA on a very educational band tour (with an all day stop at the happiest place on earth), I was shocked by all the articles on my news feed, saying that the House of Reps needs to vote again.

"During an all-night voting session, two points relating to student loans were found to violate Senate procedure..."

is what one aide to Senate majority leader Harry Reid said about it. The whole thing was only 16 lines out of the entire 2700+ page health care bill, and after staying up all night, they finally found it.

"Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said more than 10 Democratic politicians had reported incidents since Sunday's vote, some of which he described as "very serious"."

This part is sad people. There is too much hate (it is a strong word) around this bill already, like on Sunday, when the House voted on this the first time, people were spitting on Emmanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), yelling racial slurs at members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and anti-gay slurs at openly gay representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.). This bill is good, why can't the republicans see that and stop their "constituents" (people who watch Glenn Beck) from openly showing why the Republicans are loosing support. If they ever want to win back the house or the senate, the Republicans need to cut ties to the extremists, like Beck and Limbaugh. They also need to educate themselves, because according to a new Harris poll that was talked about on a blog I read (sometimes) the results of witch are still making my head hurt:

• 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.
• 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
• 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
• 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
• Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

 They are right about one thing, the Antichrist is among us, but they are looking on the wrong side of the political spectrum, it's Glenn Beck. Who else would call Jesus a Nazi?

    Democrats are planning to have the big vote on this controversial health care bill sometime next week. President Obama even delayed his trip to the south east in order to make sure this thing gets passed.

I’m delighted that the president will be here for the passage of the bill, It’s going to be historic. And it would not be possible without his tremendous, tremendous leadership, his persistence, his concern for the American people, always guided by his statement that we will measure our success by the progress being made by America’s working families.”

This is what Nancy Pelosi said to reporters earlier today as she found out that Obama will be staying for the vote. Let's hope they can actually get this thing done and move on to some other topic like the torture debate like in the post right below this one about the topic.

The House late last night, an unusual move for them, passed the new health care bill. At over 1900 pages it will cost us taxpayers about 1.2 trillion dollars, more than the bailout even. The new bill passed even without support from 38 fellow democrats. This landmark new bill will be th e largest expansion of health care since the creation of medicare in the 60's. This new bill will make health care affordable for 96% of the population if it is passed in the senate, let's hope it is.

Even though Harry Reid came out the other day saying "The Public Option is back!" some people are still divided on the issue, even the democrats. Some democrats of all people are still wondering if this is the best idea to bring it back to the table. Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, said this on the issue,

" I Don't Know. I Don't Know. I Don't Know" "I just really don’t know"

Baucus says this because in the first place, he spent months trying to get a bill through to the senate without a public option because in his mind he didn't think that it would get the 60 votes needed