@DavidCornDC 5 yr old gdaughter born w/Transposition of Great Vessel heart pre-existing cond ACA will cover for life pic.twitter.com/qWxk5APrUm
— Lawrence E. Gasch (@larrygasch) October 16, 2013
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60 y/o friend with diabetes got Silver plan for $69/month and is no longer tied to hated job for insurance.@DavidCornDC @PolitiFact
— smileycreek (@smiley_creek) October 16, 2013
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@DavidCornDC @PolitiFact that’s funny, my premiums will be going from $1500 all the way *up* to $600.
— Kevin (@politicalnutz) October 16, 2013
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My neighbor, 2 heart attacks , 50 yrs old 350/ month, couldn’t get insurance before so he’s stoked!!! @DavidCornDC @PolitiFact
— June (@Today_June_says) October 16, 2013
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@DavidCornDC Our family of 3 w/2 full time employed adults & a 15yo r fully covered thru @WAplanfinder no way we could afford previously
— JS Martin II (@JSMartinII) October 16, 2013
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@DavidCornDC My mom is 63 pays $1800.00 per month now. With ACA will pay $350.00 with better coverage and lower deductible.
— Smokin Jay (@SsMokinJay) October 16, 2013
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@DavidCornDC family of 4 we are paying $1500 a year now w will be paying $975
— BJ Gutierrez (@bjthemole) October 16, 2013
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And these are just from today – lots more:
@DavidCornDC TL is full with AMAZING #Obamacare stories. The self defeatist “Liberal” media can go to hell.
— BWD (@theonlyadult) October 16, 2013
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Meanwhile, live streaming from the Senate:
And at C-Span
The Obama Diary 
Me
Congrats, GG.
Thanks NCLB 🙂
Very, very nice to see you, NCLB! {{{NCLB}}} And near the top of the podium too! Sweeeet! 😀
Hey vc, nice to see you!
😀 Was working my way back to harass your soul – how’s life?
Yes, you!!!! Helloooooooo GGail!
Good byeeeee Chipsticks! I’m on my way out the door. It’ll be another hour before I get back online – by then you guys will be at least three Posts from here 😀
😆 See ya in a bit GGail!
Hi GGail! Congratulations!
Hi Everybody!
Good Evening TODVille,
Thank you Mr President for staying strong .
Oh sure, NOW when I’m getting ready to go home….I land on First!
Actual news……….thank you for this respite, Chips. Much needed perspective of what really matters!
Congrats GGail
patty murray speaking now on cspan2
This is great Chipsticks. We can also check out the OFA site – they have hundreds of testimonials. Whoever it is over at CBS that can’t find any positive stories can go deep sea diving without a snorkel.
So Chips Chica, is the first teddy bear washed, dried, and ready for cuddling?
Thank you Chips!
Senator Reid is rolling ….
Senate is now moving to a vote on cloture:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Congress-Expected-to-Vote-on-Senate-Debt-Ceiling-Agreement-Tonight/10737442041-2/
Relieved and excited that Congress is finally going to take the worry and fright off the backs of Americans tonight.
The truth is – the Senate did that weeks ago when they passed the Clean CR. All this drama has been for nothing.
I may mock Wayne Rooney, but this is just awesome. Just for you, Chips.
😆 The boy’s a genius!!!!!
FORWARD
Reading some of those tweets, my first question is – where did those people get money to pay close to, or over, $1000 monthly for health insurance, PLUS their regular monthly living expenses? Many Americans must have been really, really, really well-paid!
Consider this: Medical expenses are the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US!
Hi there, Hopefruit!
I first came face to face with that bizarre notion years back when my offspring was doing his 3-month stint in the NICU. I was reading up on the ups and downs of prematurity. To say I was shocked speechless was to put it mildly. I couldn’t imagine going through the stress of hanging out at the side of your child’s incubator day after day, night after night while worrying whether you would have somewhere to take him/her if s/he made it through. And this was happening in the ‘greatest country on earth’! To this day I still don’t understand what it is about having access to healthcare that brings about such vehement opposition in so many Americans.
Yup, It really is shocking, isn’t it? That’s why many countries like India and Costa Rica have “Medical Tourism” to help US patients lower their costs of otherwise expensive medical/surgical procedures.
/not at all humorous/ One could say it really is part of US ‘exceptionalism’!
I also think there is another reason that the GOP will NOT try any stunt for the Jan 15 CR deadline: The SOTU will be right around the corner (tentatively set for Tuesday Jan 21) – and you don’t want PBO having to give a prime time address about the GOP’s bad behavior for all to see and hear!!!!
I don’t know about that. It depends on how wounded they feel and how much power the tea baggers still hold.
It may not necessarily stop them but I think it will be a huge deterrent.
Jay always pull out his positive ACA stories and shut the naysayers down. Love all of these positive stories.
He was terrific today COS, listed out one wonderful story after another.
I LOVE JAY CARNEY.
Ha!. LP 😀
LOL, A4alice! I saw that tweet this morning, and had to add a pictorial reference!
Cloture invoked ….
Had to share this on facebook and let my rightwing friends have a double dose of the real world today. First their party is basically, I feel, guilty of treason for playing with the debt limit and shuttering the gov’t. then the GOP has to fold like cheap lawn chairs. Only accomplishment seems to be making the R’s even less popular (hard to do). Then, this con’t good news from people elated to be able to save so much money on their health insurance. (or even obtain at all in the first place).
I am so proud of our guys, both nationally and here at home in MN (for the most part). Feels good to be moving forward again, even if we are still dragging along all that GOP dead weight behind us.
It seems everyone who has plotted against this President has ended up destroying themselves somehow.
Conservatives are really angry at McConnell for his earmark, but it’s for ObamaCare for Kentucky! He’s being hit from the right by Tea Party in the primary and will run against a good Democrat. I wonder if he’s trying to be in the middle since Dem Gov Bashear has made ObamaCare so successful in KY and has been on a lot of talk shows. We’ll see. A good result of McConnell doing this is that conservatives are going to hear even more about ObamaCare.
http://www.senateconservatives.com/site/post/2312/mcconnell-deal-includes-kentucky-kickback
….The McConnell-Reid bill not only funds Obamacare and suspends the debt limit, it ALSO includes a provision in Section 123 that increases the authorization for the Olmsted Lock in Kentucky from $775 million to nearly $3 billion.
It’s the Kentucky Kickback.
In exchange for funding Obamacare and raising the debt limit, Mitch McConnell has secured a $2 billion earmark…..
Now this girls latest post in Politico. 44 says the WH is drawing down its forces in Iraq.
They are ?
Is she stupid?
Go look if you think I am kidding ?
Would you believe a ball bearing rolling around in a empty cigar box? 😀
Ha!
@Taniel
Marco Rubio votes “no” to the Senate deal. He joins: Cruz, Johnson, Lee, Roberts, Cornyn, Heller, Shelby, Vitter, Risch, Rand Paul, Crapo.
My GOP senator Coats said Aye. I called, emailed and tweeted. He’ll be hearing more from me. Bwhahahahahh!!
@Taniel
GOP Ayes: Alexander, Ayotte, Barrasso, Blunt, Burr, Chambliss, Chiasa, Coats, Coburn, Cochran, Collins, Corker, Flake, Fisher, Graham, Hatch
Hoeven, Isaakson, Kirk, McCain, McConnell, Moran, Portman, Wicker
And Coburn ? Where?
That was for cloture. They are voting on the bill now.
The stories of real life furloughed workers, heartbreaking and infuriating….. Hopefully this shameful episode will be over tonight and won’t be repeated!
watching cpsan2
The president did on Friday.
PBO apologized to the country a week or so ago. Was Todd asleep?
POTUS said there were NO WINNERS and that the American people have suffered.
I corrected her
https://twitter.com/Jovie46955305/status/390626946847371265
#SoEffingFired!
Senate vote on the bill underway
The polls have just closed in New Jersey.
Wooot!
What’s up with the NJ voting?
Polls just closed, so I guess the precincts will be reporting their returns soon.
Okay. We aren’t getting a whiff of news here in Chi-town.
You can follow the live poll data here
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/10/booker_vs_lonegan_county-by-county_voting_results_in_us_senate_election.html
Thanks. Between you and the Lootenant I’m in the mix.
You’re welcome Sailor – anytime! That’s what TOD is all about 🙂
Aye. For true.
Poll tracker – sorry it’s politico but it’s easy to follow …
http://www.politico.com/2013-election/results/senate/new-jersey/
Thanks Doc.
I favorited my own tweet, doggone it!
Lots of R yes votes …
@Taniel
The polls have closed in #NJSen. Follow Cory Booker and Steve Lonegan’s results here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2013/by_county/NJ_Page_1016.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS …
I’ll just sit here and embrace myself….LOL. These races make me highly nervous. Not a fan of Booker, but we need him to win this.
Yes, we do. I’m wondering how soon he would be sworn in. Maybe this week!
81 yes 18 no — bill has passed
81 ayes, 19 nayes passed the Senate
Frank Thorp V @frankthorpNBC 1m
18 NOs Senate Bill
Coburn
Cornyn
Crapo
Cruz
Enzi
Grassley
Heller
Johnson-WI
Lee
Paul
Risch
Roberts
Rubio
Scott
Sessions
Shelby
Toomey
Vitter
Surely, Rubio does not plan to run for President. He is not presidential material anyway.
The voters in those states need to stop foisting their asshole senators on the rest of the country. Democrats in those states need to wake the hell up and get busy NOW getting a coalition together to get them out of office. I know in Texas they could manage to turn that state blue. There are enough Latinos there that can be registered to vote and taken to the polls. Enough is enough.
No surprises here. They’re all Looney Tunes.
Looks like McConnell got some federal bucks for his home state, but this infrastructure project benefits Illinois and Tennessee as well.
But if we vote Dems into House next year, we can have an Infrastructure Bank created that will address the many worthy causes across the country in need of repair.
“The provision would steer $2.918 billion in funding to the Army Corps of Engineers for the Olmsted dam and lock project on the Ohio River, and would benefit Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois.”
AP count as votes come in for NJ Special Senate election http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/10/booker_vs_lonegan_county-by-county_voting_results_in_us_senate_election.html Booker currently 51-46 w/ <0% reporting
Conference resolution for reconciliation of Senate and House budgets with a report due 13 Dec 2013.
and we have a handy list of the rethug perps who voted against re-opening the government.
POTUS to speak at 8:15 tonight
Senator Reid and other leaders live on CSPAN http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
Senator Schumer is really pissed ….
I love seeing Senator Schumer’s anger and disgust with the extortion tactics in the House. I think any Democrat who gets near a camera/microphone should parrot exactly what Senator Schumer said. Keep repeating over and over again that a rump group in the House simply cannot be allowed to take hostages for partisan political game. That’s not how a democracy is suppose to operate. And I just want to kiss Majority Leader Harry Reid. He has been solid as a rock from day one.
‘silver lining–reckless politics of brinksmanship has reached its peak.’ schumer
Heads up:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/16/heads-up-president-obama-statement/
Reid speaking
Senator Reid is really a very funny guy – re: the breakfast between Ryan and Senator Murray tomorrow morning to move the Conference forward he says ‘they’re going to go to Tortilla Factory for their breakfast’ 😀 😀 😀 😀
thank you so much for these positive Obamacare tweets. am spreading the word